ANDREW NEIL: Boris's woes are ancient history
In the space of an incredible 24 hours, all that was junked in Berlin in favour of a commitment to spend €100 billion more on defence by 2024, send lethal weapons to the Ukraine, and back tough financial sanctions. It has even abandoned the new pipeline, Nord Stream 2, built to pump more gas directly from Russia to Germany.
It is even more remarkable that it has happened under Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Germany's hitherto cautious new Chancellor, who is noted for his Hanseatic reserve The Greens are even talking about keeping open Germany's three remaining nuclear power stations, scheduled for closure later this year. In a very real sense, the stupidities of European energy policy — especially Germany's ruinous, trillion-euro green obsessions — made it possible for President Putin to afford the armaments he is now deploying to rain down bombs and missiles on Ukraine.
Sounds very communitaire to me, but the British political establishment has drunk so deeply at the Net-Zero teat that even Ukraine might not force a fresh look at shale.
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