JoNova » British people are fed up with paying more to “combat climate change”

By Jo Nova

The latest Times polling shows British people have had enough with paying more for electricity bills, taxes and meat in order to change the weather.

Fully 87% said they would not be willing to pay more for domestic electricity or heating bills. 70% said they didn’t want higher taxes, and almost the same number didn’t want to pay more for meat or dairy either.

In a democracy, these would be the easy winners. Rarely on key topics are numbers so far above 50%. Yet somehow, some way, the UK conservative party completely missed the big 80:20 issues and lost the election, and then the Australian conservatives did too.

The EV thrill is over for the British:

The biggest mood shift was away from electric vehicles, and in polling terms, it was seismic. Sometime in the last four years nearly a quarter of Britons changed their mind about whether the government should ban petrol and diesel cars. Between 2021 and now polls shifted from 51% supporting the idea (what were they thinking?) to 58% oppose.

Australian politicians should note how brief the infatuation with EV’s really was. Enthusiasm might be over here before it even starts.

Revealed: Global warming exaggerated, say soaring number of Britons

The number of Britons who think the dangers of global warming have been exaggerated has jumped by more than 50 per cent in the past four years, new research for The Times reveals today.

One in four voters now believe that concerns over climate change are not as real as scientists have said, amid growing public concern at the cost of the government’s net zero policies.

Four years ago climate change was identified as the fourth most important issue facing the country ahead of immigration and asylum, education and crime.

Now climate change has fallen right down the list of the public concerns while there has been a marked increase in climate scepticism.

On EV’s the pendulum has swung:

The Times

The Money question: Which if any of the following would you be willing to see increase in cost in order to combat climate change?

Hands-up?! Who believes in climate change?

Somehow 59% of people still say they “believe” in climate change, but the question has become a mindless cheerleading chant. What does it mean to “believe”? Only 16 per cent of voters said they would be prepared to pay higher gas bills to encourage the switch to electricity. It means nearly half the country were able to say “yes they believe in climate change” and also tick the box “‘Not willing to pay higher gas bills”. Perhaps they think mankind is doing something to the climate, but either they like the warmer weather and don’t want to solve climate change, or they don’t believe their gas bill will achieve anything.

Or, perhaps they just know they are supposed to say “I believe in climate change” even if they don’t. It’s become a mantra.

REFERENCES

The Times — Revealed: Global warming exaggerated, say soaring number of Britons

Yougov poll results: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/TheTimes_Results_250604_w.pdf

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Eurotrack_ClimateChange_Apr25_w.pdf

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