Meat is saved!!

I’m all in favour of slapping a hefty tax on meat consumption. But there was never any official plan in the UK to introduce such a tax. Having said which, Rishi Sunak yesterday announced in his big ‘watering down climate change’ commitments speech that he had ‘today’ scrapped plans to tax meat—along with a few other non-plans which he also had claimed to single handedly scrap. Well, I would like to see the PM’s missive, to whom in the UK government it may concern, ordering them to stop a meat tax. Of course there won’t be one, since nobody was working on it. (Apparently the idea was floated two years ago but had an internet life of about three hours.) Is there anything more irritating than being lied to? Yes, there is. It’s being treated like fools who can’t distinguish between patronising shite and a billionaire politician’s efforts to persuade us he’s being honest. Doesn’t he realise that Bing/Chat GTP is on our side and can refute his nonsense immediately?