Delingpole: To Survive, Britain’s Conservatives Must ‘Get Rid of the Green Crap’

By Paul Homewood

h/t Robin Guenier

Besides the Brexit Party, one of the big winners of the European Parliament elections — in Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK — were the Greens.

There’s a lesson buried in this story — but it’s not what you might think. And it’s definitely, definitely the opposite of the conclusion being drawn by the Conservative Party.

In the Conservative mindset, green issues are one of those politically neutral, morally and socially positive causes you can embrace without betraying your principles or alienating your base.

This delusion is widespread, as we can see from the number of Tory leadership candidates who have decided to campaign on a green-friendly platform. Rory Stewart, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Matt Hancock, even the hard-headed and supposedly right-wing Dominic Raab have all, with varying degrees of canting enthusiasm, mentioned environment and climate change among their urgent priorities.

And every time they do so, it simply confirms to me how unfit they are to rescue the Conservative Party from the doldrums let alone lead Britain to a bright, post-Brexit future as prime minister.

How many times do I have to explain this? The Greens are not caring, nurturing saviours of the planet. They are Watermelons, green on the outside red on the inside. If they genuinely cared about nature they certainly wouldn’t push such environmentally damaging schemes as industrial wind turbines or biofuels. For the Greens, environmental issues are merely a convenient, fashionable, and cuddly mask to disguise their aggressively anti-capitalist, anti-growth, anti-human, redistributive, big-government-heavy agenda.

For a Conservative candidate to embrace even a fraction of the Greens’ agenda is about as ludicrous and suicidal as coming out for the nationalisation of industry or higher taxes or a clampdown on free speech.

Read the full article here.

As I’ve often commented, a lot of folk are enthusiastic about saving the planet until it starts to cost them money.

Politico have an interactive tool on their website, summarising the issues that most concern voters.

They are, in order:

Immigration
Terrorism
Economic Situation
EU Countries Finances
Unemployment

https://www.politico.eu/interactive/european-elections-most-important-issues-facing-the-eu/

You can have a play with it, but climate change only seems a concern in Scandinavia, for some reason.

In the UK, less than 10% even rate it in the top two issues:

By contrast, immigration rates at over 30% in most states. (Ironically, the UK is near the bottom the list, despite Brexiteers regularly being dismissed as racists).