Remainers, lockdowners and greenies are all basically the same people. They all have the same basic demand… that we all unquestioningly go along with whatever’s been decided for us without our input or consent.

Veterans of the culture wars will know this all too well. Every issue is split right down the middle where there’s no room for nuance where even the slightest scepticism has you branded a “denier/racist”. There is no point is entering any debate because those who’ve decided which trench they live in are not going to be persuaded of anything.

In every case the demand from the left is not that we consider a body of evidence. Rather, any disagreement or refusal to go along with what we are told is somehow a moral failing. The agenda has already been decided, you don’t get a say, and to take issue with any of it is career suicide if you want to climb the greasy pole in media and politics. This is ultimately why everything has to crash and burn before anything improves. Nobody in the establishment dare go against the grain. Not even the PM.

We don’t yet know what Johnson’s shuffling of deckchairs will do policy wise but if you were hoping the man might take a hint and maybe try some conservative policies, the signs are not good. The PM has just appointed Andrew Griffith as his new policy chief. His previous role? The UK’s official Net Zero Business Champion.

All the same, the green lobby on Twitter has convinced itself that Johnson may row back on Net Zero. They’re worried. It’s amazing how a government subsidy scheme creates evangelical advocates.

One thing you notice about these green NGOs and lobby groups on Twitter is they’re all fronted by telegenic PR girlies (of both sexes) who have no idea of the practical realities of what they propose – and never bother to check how their ideas panned out in the past. They propose heat pumps as though it’s grand solution that will revitalise the economy and create jobs. But they said that about rooftop solar panels – which turned out to be a giant expensive failure – and twenty years later, nobody bothered to replace the subsidised ones.

Heat pumps will play out just the same. Middle class property millionaires will take the bung from the government to install a heat pump but that’s as far as proliferation will get when they’re badly installed and home owners are bogged down in legal action against installers. The government will want to expand the programme for houses that really aren’t designed for them, don’t have the space, and then less well off people will be lumbered with a box of mechanical problems and a cold house. They’ll end up using expensive electric radiators from B&Q.

Then the green lobby will say they don’t work because we haven’t spent enough on insulation, where again their solution is simply not appropriate for UK housing stock – ie terraces designed around a chimney. That will then cause major damp problems.

One by one the practical difficulties will mount up, saddling people with debts to sort it all out – only they can’t get a new gas boiler so their only option will be electric storage heaters they can’t afford to run. The only people who will do well out of it are cowboy builders who don’t know how to properly site or install heat pumps, who will then vanish into the woodwork, leaving homeowners high and dry. Them and the ambulance chasing lawyers.

The transition to electric vehicles looks like a similar disaster in the making. Nobody serious thinks there is a realistic chance of transitioning in time to meet the 2050 target, and unless the public sees a real benefit in them, it won’t happen at all. EV’s have a projected life of only eight years and are typically about 20 to 30 per cent heavier than their petrol or diesel counterparts. When you add in the costs of infrastructure, the numbers don’t add up. A petrol Mondeo run for twenty years will have a lower carbon footprint.

Similarly, the Daily Mail recalls the dash for diesel. It began more than 20 years ago when the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced a new car tax system favouring vehicles with lower emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Diesel cars tend to be more fuel-efficient with lower emissions, and Mr Brown hailed them as the greener and cheaper option. Over a decade and a half, the number of such vehicles on British roads quadrupled. What didn’t emerge until much later — although it was no secret in the motor industry or among government officials — was that diesel cars also emitted greater quantities of other pollutants, nitrogen oxides and particulates that damage air quality and human health. But that, at the time, was considered “climate leadership”.

The Mail also notes that a study by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that almost all electric car subsidies go to the wealthiest 20 per cent, for whom the purchase of an extra car is no great sacrifice. In addition, 90 per cent of electric car owners also have a fossil-fuel vehicle they use for longer journeys.

Meanwhile, the Guardian reports that new greenfield housing developments are locking residents into car dependency, making everyday journeys impossible without a vehicle. The group Transport for New Homes (TfNH) visited 20 new housing developments in England, finding that while those on urban brownfield sites generally lived up to sustainable transport pledges, greenfield sites were often far from shops and amenities, without public transport, cycling links or even pavements, and the homes themselves were seemingly designed around car parking.

We might venture there would be less demand to move away from cities were they not turning into overcrowded multicultural slums with bad schools, grooming gangs, drugs and crime. It’s as though the government should focus on doing what people actually do want, and get a grip on immigration.

And that really is the thing isn’t it? Nobody asked for a Net Zero green energy transition. Nobody is asking for heat pumps or electric cars. If there were an organic demand they won’t need subsidies amounting to tens of billions. What people actually want is an affordable decent sized home in an area that isn’t derelict, a job that pays enough to raise a family, a commute that doesn’t suck up every free hour and every penny of disposable income, and a half way functioning healthcare system. Net Zero is very much the preoccupation of the politico-media class based on their naïve utopian fantasies.

But like the EU project, Net Zero is their agenda, their grand plan, and their gravy train. What the public wants or needs doesn’t come into it. They’ll do it to us whether we want it or not, even if it means driving us into poverty.

Boris Johnson shouldn’t need advisers in Number 10. His advice should be from the electorate. Deport illegals, secure the borders and scrap Net Zero is all the advice he should need. That could very well save his ailing premiership – but he’s not the one in control. The green blob and the NGOcracy are calling the shots and the people have no champion.