Demo Derby
PITY the thousands of racing fans hoping to enjoy a day out at the Derby today.
First, they’ll have to battle their way across the country to Epsom amid a cruel and pointless rail strike.
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And if the horrendous motorway traffic can be overcome, it’s likely they’ll be confronted by animal rights activists.
Idiots from Animal Rising — close allies of those moronic stunt-pullers Just Stop Oil — are hellbent on disrupting one of the world’s most famous races.
There is one common goal that unites the anarchists and the union militants.
It is to come together to bring chaos to the country.
Ultimately, to try to force out a Tory Government.
Laughably, train drivers’ union baron Mick Lynch claims a year of strikes has been a success.
Yet he is no closer to a deal for his members.
All he has succeeded in doing is to cost the economy £1billion.
His strikes will have no effect other than to alienate his members from football fans rightly furious at the FA Cup Final being unnecessarily hit.
Lynch’s actions — like those of the eco-warriors and animal rights terrorists — have served only to turn the public against them.
Their race is almost run.
Police failings
ANOTHER terrible tragedy, another downright weird performance from the police.
The drowning of two children off Bournemouth beach is an incident that demands immediate explanation.
Yet briefings by Dorset Police failed in that task.
In a world of social media rumour and speculation, fast and accurate information from senior officers is vital.
Yet into a vacuum created by the force poured two days’ worth of wrong public speculation about jet skis and pier-jumping.
It is extraordinary that local Tory MP Tobias Ellwood had to come forward to urge fresh clarity on behalf of worried parents.
The scenes in Bournemouth follow the similarly chaotic dealings of Lancs Police over the disappearance of Nicola Bulley.
Riots also followed the confused police narrative in the aftermath of a suspected e-bike chase in Cardiff.
Urgent change is needed to restore trust.
How to switch
GOVERNMENT can’t solve climate change alone.
The only way is to get business and consumers on board, too.
Sales of electric cars have fallen since subsidies for buyers were withdrawn.
The answer is simple.
If battery-powered vehicles are cheaper, safe, reliable and can be quickly and easily charged, then customers will buy them in millions.
Interfering in the market doesn’t work.