The government’s response to the Greenpeace stunt was disproportionate

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We are told that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Our indescribably stupid government sets its sights on staying in power while our planet burns (PA Wire)

I am completely in favour of Greenpeace’s shrouding in black of one of the prime minister’s homes in protest at his despicable anti-environmental actions. Nobody was harmed, nobody was deliberately intimidated.

They made this peaceful point at an empty house. I am thankful to such people for trying their best to highlight the suicidal stupidity of promoting policies that will accelerate the catastrophic destruction of the Earth and everything that lives on this jewel of a planet.

But what does environment minister Thérèse Coffey do in response? Why, she blacklists Greenpeace. On this crass, idiotic move, words fail me.

We are told that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Our indescribably stupid government sets its sights on staying in power (please God, no) while our planet burns.

I shall send Greenpeace a donation today as thanks for their brave efforts.

I urge Labour to have some integrity and sense and back to the hilt an all-embracing approach to halting the death of the Earth, saving our lives, and the lives of all the other innocent creatures we are killing with our greed and stupidity.

Penny Little

Oxfordshire

We need to start trusting the experts again

I am becoming increasingly appalled at the number of supposedly intelligent ministers who infer that highly trained and qualified people are telling lies. Fire and health and safety personnel have extensive qualifications and vast experience in assessing risks. What qualifications does Oliver Dowden have, if any, in these vastly complicated engineering fields?

If the Home Office had approached the relevant specialists at the inspection stage none of this fiasco would have been necessary (the failure to assess the viability of all the services to the Scampton proposal is another example of their incompetence).

The sooner there are major changes to the personnel who manage and run the government departments, the better it will be for us all.

David Angus

Eaglescliffe

More petulant behaviour from Sunak’s Tories

It’s hard to know what to say about yet another Sunak minister stamping their feet and saying they “won’t talk to you any more”. After a career of non-achievement, evasion and obstruction, Thérèse Coffey’s crowning achievement is an outburst of peevish, petulant playground non-politics of the impossible.

Pathetic. Has Ms Coffey understood the wisdom of “keeping your ‘enemies’ closer”, or has the wokeist euphoria gone to her head? The attitude revives the divisive scorn and contempt championed by the Brexiteer extremists prior to 2019.

Perry Gardner

Wolsingham

We should be proud of the Greenpeace activists

John Rentoul says the Just Stop Oil campaign cannot be compared to the suffragettes campaign, which regularly broke the law, and he is correct.

The suffragettes wanted a right that was then denied to most women, albeit unreasonably, throughout the world. Stop Oil is fighting for the right of humanity throughout the world to live safely on this planet and increasing the amount of oil which we can burn puts us all in danger.

The family was known to be absent and the only risk was to the activists themselves. If they were my grandchildren, I would be so proud of them.

Joanna Pallister

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