Drill, baby, drill, reopen all our coal fields and start fracking again beneath the fields of Lincolnshire - Yorkshire Post Letters

As a former Conservative Party Election agent for this Normanton constituency, I never dreamed that I would be grateful to Tony Blair, the former leader of New Labour, for his opposition to Net Zero.

I am delighted to support him over his condemnation of the idiotic imposition of so called Net Zero on Great Britain by that other dyed-in-the-wool socialist. Ed Milliband, and his comrades, the environmental fanatics, who are prepared to see the British people freezing to death and impoverished as a result of their insane search for Net Zero.

As a farmer I have spent a lifetime growing food for people to eat at prices which ordinary folks can afford and all the while I have been reliant on the carbon cycle to produce that food.

The fanatics in the green brigades obviously do not understand the carbon cycle or if they do, they are willingly hoping to remove most CO2 from the atmosphere thereby restricting the production of food via the carbon cycle, i.e. CO2 plus sunlight on growing crops produces food in the form of glucose for all living creatures to consume.

Without an abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and chlorophyll in our crops, we could not exist and that is exactly what will happen if we listen to the green brigades and their mates.

Fortunately, even amongst the socialists, there are some like Tony Blair who realise the stupidity of this insane drive to Net Zero and the catastrophic cost to our country and every individual living here.

I hope Ed Milliband or someone in control of him and his idiotic ideas will be able to get that gas from the North Sea, dig up 500 years of the coal from beneath our feet and utilise the unlimited amounts of fracked gas under Lincolnshire, thereby putting £200bn back into our failing economy and keeping us all toasty warm this winter and in all future winters.

It is easy for climate fanatics on nice salaries and incredible government pensions to campaign for this lunacy, but they need to have a thought for the rest of us living on a meagre state pensions and trying to keep body and soul together whilst they spread their economic ideas, as though there were no effects on our poor state pensioners, freezing to death, simply because the cost of heating and food is more than they can afford and this idiocy is all due to the Net Zero fanatics and the green brigades.

Now would be a good time to open up all the oilfields in the North Sea, drill baby drill, as Donald Trump says, reopen all our coal fields and start fracking again beneath the fields of Lincolnshire. Let's get warm and rich once again and why not?