Fuel crisis
SIR Keir Starmer believes the test of a government is how it handles a crisis — and we’ve witnessed a few of those.
So far, he’s failed miserably to deal with the challenges of inflation, illegal migration and war in the Middle East.
Next up is the cost-of-living pain caused by the Iran conflict.
The Government simply cannot repeat the massive bailouts of previous years — we already have a welfare bill that is out of control, and crippling levels of national debt.
What the PM must do, though, is scrap the plan to whack up taxes on families and businesses whenever they use a car, van or lorry.
There are 30million people feeling pain at the pumps, with petrol prices up 7p a litre in the past fortnight and diesel costing an extra 16p.
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The Government’s plan to phase in an extra 5p per litre of fuel duty would clobber both drivers AND the wider economy, which is already flatlining.
Sir Keir insists his “first instinct” is to help keep living costs down. He should prove it by axing the September rise.
Two-faced Ed
THE duplicity of eco-zealot Ed Miliband knows no bounds in his Net Zero crusade.
The Energy Secretary wants us to fit expensive heat pumps to keep us warm, but only last year it was revealed taxpayers are footing the bill for a gas boiler at his constituency home.
Now we learn he’s hired a new Permanent Secretary who uses oil central heating.
With green fanatics, it’s always a case of “Do as I say, not as I do”.
Mad for mullahs
IT WAS billed as a peaceful protest but was nothing less than a celebration of murder and hatred.
Thousands gathered in London yesterday in support of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Are these gullible Lefties — punk rapper Bobby Vylan among them — aware the regime hangs gay people from cranes and slaughtered 30,000 of its own people who dared to demonstrate?
Stop genocide, they cried, in support of murderous mullahs who want to wipe Jews off the face of the Earth.
These dopey dupes stretch British tolerance to the limit.
Chocs wahey!
AMID the gloom of rising food prices, there’s some sweet news on the horizon.
Many Easter eggs will cost less this year because of a supermarket price war.
Only two years ago, experts warned the era of low-cost chocolate was over after failing cocoa harvests caused a shortage.
It offers hope that one day more goodies will be cracking value at the chick-out.
