PRIME MINISTER SUNAK'S SPECTATOR EULOGY FOR LORD LAWSON MERCIFULLY OMITS MENTION OF HIS GLOBAL WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION, RECALLING INSTEAD THE LONG-FORGOTTEN REASON FOR HIS INORDINATE FONDNESS FOR FOSSIL FUELS.
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| GWPF cartoon by Josh |
"The memory of Nigel Lawson will always be a blessing. He was the embodiment of serious radicalism, a politician who changed Britain for the better – and for good.
When I became chancellor, I hung a picture of Nigel behind my desk in No. 11. It was a large photograph of him holding up his red Budget box... a reminder of the sheer amount of preparation, hard work and attention to detail that he had put in to get the party and the government into a position where it could do those radical things…
When he became energy secretary, he did not plunge into head-on confrontation with the National Union of Mineworkers
Rather, he began the policy of stockpiling coal which allowed the country to make it through the miners’ strike and to defeat Arthur Scargill’s anti-democratic approach.
Mrs Thatcher, Nigel and their allies turned the intellectual tide in this country." ..
