The High Price of Political Correctness

​Cop26 and the government's new climate action plan flatter to deceive

Instead of a genuine discussion on climate action, Cop26 is playing host to political opportunism and guff. The war on carbon is as phoney a war as they come. Tackling climate change should be part of every government’s key policy over the next decade, but how credible can recent events in Glasgow be when two of the largest carbon emitters, China and Russia, fail to attend?

​How genuine is Boris Johnson, the host at Cop26, who in 2015 spoke of climate change as "primitive fear"? In 2019 he referenced demonstrators as "uncooperative crusties" who should stop blocking the streets of London with their “heaving hemp-smelling bivouacs.” Given the mess of Brexit and the UK's on-going threats to abandon the Northern Ireland protocol, which it agreed late last year, the public need little reminding about taking political promises with a pinch of salt.  ​

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