Then there is the attempt to drive behaviour towards ineffective, expensive and impractical heat pumps by taxing well tried and tested gas boilers out of existence. Try putting a heat pump in a terraced house in the cold north of England, even if people could afford it in the first place!

There is the absurdity of importing gas from overseas at high prices when we have ample supplies under our feet and accessible in Britain. The same applies to oil. Of course an expensive gas system would need to be maintained for when the wind is not blowing even if wind was anywhere near 100 percent of energy supply — it is miles off.

The forced scrapping of petrol cars in favour of impractical, very expensive and unpopular Electric Vehicles is another example of the almost religious status of “green”, but the Green Inquision takes no account of the terrible conditions inherent in mining minerals for batteries nor the challenge of disposing of toxic batteries.