BBC celebs are telling us that the BBC costs only 43p a day but less well off households are going to need that much and more to pay for Tory energy policies. This underscores the necessity to be rid of the BBC. It should be noted that the people complaining about BBC cuts are the same people who organised an advertising boycott of GB News. It's your right to choose they have a problem with. They're all for screen diversity but not diversity of views. They have no intention of allowing an open and frank debate about Net Zero.

That said, neither does the Conservative Party. Though the PM is on a charm offensive, announcing a budget freeze for the BBC, and an as yet unspecified military role for patrolling the borders, the Tory party is still hell bent on Net Zero and the PM's latest woes have not caused him to reconsider this act of economic suicide. Moreover, the Tory party has only 19 declared opponents of Net Zero. More than half the parliamentary party supports this ruinous agenda. They're not only not going to solve the energy crisis. They're falling over themselves to make it worse.

In other news, the Defence Minister, James Heappey, has told the Commons that the Royal Navy and Royal Marines will not be used to push migrant boats back in the Channel. We are then left to wonder what it is they do intend on doing.

Meanwhile, researchers over at the Met Office have published a report on what would happen if the government tries to make the economy greener by decentralising all key sectors and letting businesses take control with incentives and fewer regulations. They say:

While this would initially be seen as a pioneering way forward, society would soon be dominated by business and political elites that curtail welfare policies and exclude the majority of a disengaged population, the report says.By 2080, in this scenario, a rich elite has privatised the NHS and introduced military conscription to deal with criminality and social unrest, and “society is more divided than ever”. Conversely, in the scenario in which the UK makes a “societal shift towards more environmentally sustainable systems”, researchers believe poverty will be “eliminated”. This would also involve rejoining a “progressive and expanded EU”.

We are quite used to absurd prognostications from the Met Office and academia, none of which turn out to be true, falling comfortably into the genre of "Project Fear", but here their predictions are really just a declaration of their own prejudices. Yet another branch of the establishment has fallen to institutional capture.

Elsewhere in the news we see the BBC News at 10 report on Texas siege - in which a rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage in their synagogue - managed not to mention antisemitism once. The FBI have commented that British passport holder Malik Faisal Akram who took hostages in a Synagogue in Colleyville Texas have admitted "the Jewish community was targeted." It was an anti-Semitic terror attack. Akram was shot dead. He was active member of the Labour Party in Blackburn.

This should come as no surprise to anyone. Pakistan is currently a global exporter of antisemitism which festers and foments in the mosques of Britain. The establishment covers this up in much the same way it does the industrial scale child grooming. In recent months, French authorities have inspected 99 mosques suspected of promoting separatist ideology. 22 of them have now been closed. But there is no sign this government will take the growing threat seriously. The Conservative Party is still in a state of denial while the Labour party embraces it. Consequently, antisemitic attacks and islamist atrocities on British soil will become a regular facet of British life.

The point here is that it's going to take much much more than Johnson's witless tinkering to bring Britain back from the brink. We need a government capable of taking firm action in the face of establishment wailing. Increasingly "Operation Red Meat" looks to mean a morsel laced with sleeping pills thrown over the fence to distract the Dobermans while the thieves help themselves.

It would seem that the main difference between Labour and the Tories is one of attitude. The destination is the same either way. Labour doesn't want to defend Britain and the Tories simply can't be bothered. They would rather allow Islamist atrocities and child grooming than face allegations of Islamophobia. They would rather see the nation slide into fuel poverty than take on the green blob. The would rather fill up every hotel and guest house with illegal immigrants than go to war with the NGOcracy.

The Tories will always follow the path of least resistance to avoid the wrath of polite society. Scratch away the cosmetic brexity façade of the Tory party and it's essentially the same pack of rudderless liberals who'd feel more at ease in a Tory-lib coalition government. Not one of their promises is bankable.