{"id":60676,"date":"2025-07-23T09:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60676"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:41:38","slug":"two-ex-deputy-pms-turn-on-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60676","title":{"rendered":"Two Ex-Deputy PMs Turn on Net Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-60677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Two_Ex_PMs_Against_Net_Zero.jpg\" alt=\"Two Ex PMs Against Net Zero\" width=\"851\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Two_Ex_PMs_Against_Net_Zero.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Two_Ex_PMs_Against_Net_Zero-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, two former Deputy Prime Ministers, Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack, have fired the shot that may finally bring down the biggest political fraud of our time: Net Zero.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce has called the push for Net Zero a lunatic crusade. McCormack says it\u2019s dividing families and tearing the regions apart. They\u2019re both right. And they\u2019re both done pretending this globalist climate fantasy is in Australia\u2019s national interest.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s call it what it is. Net Zero is economic self-harm dressed up as virtue. It\u2019s a $9 billion-a-year shakedown to appease the climate priests in the UN and the WEF, while you cop the bill through soaring power prices, vanishing jobs, and hollowed-out towns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationfirst.substack.com\/p\/two-ex-deputy-pms-turn-on-net-zero\">https:\/\/nationfirst.substack.com\/p\/two-ex-deputy-pms-turn-on-net-zero<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, two former Deputy Prime Ministers, Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack, have fired the shot that may finally bring down the biggest political fraud of our time: Net Zero. Joyce has called the push for Net Zero a lunatic crusade. McCormack says it\u2019s dividing families and tearing the regions apart. They\u2019re both right. And they\u2019re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Ex-Deputy PMs Turn on Net Zero&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60678,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60676\/revisions\/60678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}