[ritchiebaby]

Now this is only my personal opinion, but I think we are far too obsessed with trying to get the better of Nature. A complete waste of time,as nothing will work to any great extent.

Flooding? We are wasting money by spending billions of pounds on flood defences in certain areas. It only moves the flood waters to further downstream and somebody else gets flooded. And we're still planning to build thousands of new houses on flood plains. There's a clue to potential problems in the name. We should be building basic housing away from the danger areas instead and moving people away from the flood plains - a far better use of money..

Climate change? Again we are wasting our efforts in banning the sale of coal and wet wood, as it only affects the ordinary population NOT THE RICH BUSINESSMEN. We are targeting meat eaters and cattle farmers, as it only affects the ordinary population NOT THE RICH BUSINESSMEN. We are going ahead with Heathrow expansion and HS2, not because it benefits the ordinary population BUT THE RICH BUSINESSMEN.

Electric Vehicles? We are far behind in upgrading our National Grid network to cope with future demand. Last year the Grid went down because of an overload in current (sorry) demand, not future increased demand. Surely we must have charging points at every house within the next 20 years. Plus charging points at public parking spaces in every town. It won't happen because it would benefit the ordinary population NOT THE RICH BUSINESSMEN. They will get preferential treatment yet again.

Gas Heating? It's been announced that gas heating will be banned for NEW BUILD houses from 2025. Considering the pathetic, totally inadequate numbers of new houses being built, this is virtually meaningless. What about the millions of existing houses using gas heating/cooking. There's no mention of that of course.

We need action, we need it fast and we can use the bottomless pit of money set aside for vanity projects. Get it done, Boris.