Build Back Butter? Boris Govt Pushes Carbon Taxes on Meat and Dairy
The British government may seek to impose carbon taxes on the food industry which could see the price of meat and dairy climb even further.
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The British government may seek to impose carbon taxes on the food industry which could see the price of meat and dairy climb even further.
Now the scale of these rises has been thrown into sharp relief by the public’s advocate think tank the Tax Payers’ Alliance, which catalogued every tax change since May 2010. Changes to tax levels took place a remarkable 1,651 times in that period but remarkably considering Conservative promises, 1,034 — or 63 per cent — of those were actually rises. In all tax has gone up, on average, once every three days for over a decade, the Daily Telegraphcalculates. Underlining the disconnect between Conservative rhetoric and Conservative delivery, the TPA noted: The 2019 Conservative manifes...
11 Feb 2021 Just weeks after controversy raged over useless government food handouts for poor children, an opportunity has arisen: buy the tons of quality English cheese languishing in warehouses after the Westminster-imposed hospitality shutdown and post it directly to people in need. With the United Kingdom approaching the first anniversary of its coronavirus lockdown, the hospitality industry — the fleeting ‘eat out to help out’days aside — remains in a state of stasis, if not outright collapse. This has meant a huge hit on the suppliers to those customer-facing businesses, partic...