Pay up, Britons: £1.5 Billion to the Third World for “Climate Change”
Exactly as the British National Party predicted would happen, taxpayers have coughed up a healthy £1.5 billion which is to be given to the Third World to “stop carbon emissions and protect themselves against climate change.”
The BNP has maintained all along that the facts behind climate change are still far too vague to draw any final conclusions.
Indeed, the recently revealed outright deception and lies practised by climate change proponents who blame industrialised nations’ “carbon output” for “climate change” has added fuel to the growing scepticism fire.
The BNP was the first political party to point out that “climate change” would be used as an excuse to create Third World “climate change refugees” and would also be used to sucker First World nations into handing over huge amounts of cash to the Third World.
Labour Party leader Gordon Brown has now announced that taxpayers “should be proud” of the fact that Britain is the single biggest EU contributor to the new global warming fund.
Despite Britain’s national debt ballooning to around £785 billion, Mr Brown and the climate change fanatics have allocated the £1.5 billion which will go straight into the hands of the Third World.
This amount is in addition to the £8 billion which Britain dishes out to those same Third World nations each year through the foreign aid budget.
Mr Brown’s announcement, made in Brussels at an EU leaders’ conference, means that British taxpayers will now pay 25 percent of the entire EU’s climate change fund. The payment forms part of a £7 billion-a-year global fund.
The British taxpayers’ contribution will amount to over £500 million a year, compared to France and Germany’s £400 million a year each.
Matthew Sinclair, research director at the Taxpayers’ Alliance, was quoted as saying that “Taxpayers are paying a fortune in green taxes and regulations that increase the cost of everything from turning the lights on to heating homes.
“The last thing they need is to see hundreds of millions spent bribing foreign governments to pretend they are taking the same expensive and ineffective measures.”
Meanwhile it has been revealed that the Mumbai, India, based Tata Group is set to make nearly $2 billion out of EU-funded “carbon credits” by closing the Corus Redcar steelmaking plant.
The Redcar closure will cost 1,700 jobs in Britain.
Half of the cash will come from “carbon credits” granted to Tata under the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Tata anticipates “saving” 6 million tons of carbon dioxide by closing the plant and not producing the plant’s capacity of 3 million tons of steel.
The 6 million tons of carbon dioxide is worth an estimated $130 million at current rates and possibly as much as $325 million at expected market levels.
The Labour Government announced last week that it would auction off rather than cancel the millions of carbon permits resulting from the closing of the Corus Redcar steel plant in January 2010.
* Without definite proof one way or the other over the entire climate change issue, the British taxpayers are therefore being called upon to lose their jobs, see their cost of living increase and hand out even more billions in “aid” to the Third World — just as the BNP predicted.
The BNP argues that before any steps can be taken, a full public debate between the proponents and opponents (which include thousands of respected scientists) needs to be held.
Currently the “debate” is all one-sided and the British public are being presented with a fait accompli without being given the facts.
* BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP is due to attend the Copenhagen Conference as part of an EU delegation this week. Doubtless Mr Griffin will be explaining this perfectly reasonable position to the media and other delegates during that conference.
