IT’S time for our country’s hard-working and silent majority to take back control of the green agenda and for the Government to make meaningful changes to its plans to reach net zero.
For too long, hard-pressed families and businesses have been shut out of the discussions around the environment, climate change and pollution.
Disruption by the likes of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil have dominated media coverage, while for decades politicians have embraced the language of green campaigners by introducing targets and taxes.
Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem ministers in successive governments have pledged to meet targets, often without clear plans on delivery.
Worryingly, a lack of attention has been given to the impact these policies will have and, as a result families, businesses and motorists have been caught in the crossfire.