Wednesday 20 September 2023
Headline writes itself shock
Politics latest: PM accused of 'electorally stupid' and 'environmentally damaging' weakening of green policies
An almighty row has broken out in the Conservative Party after it emerged last night that Rishi Sunak is set to delay net zero policies, including the switch to electric cars. Meanwhile, consultants and junior doctors are striking together in England for the first time.
Crikey, 'electorally stupid' and 'environmentally damaging' sounds bad. 'Who said it?' I unwisely asked myself.
Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's MP, was asked on Sky News if she thinks the prime minister's apparent backtrack on net zero is in the wake of the surprise Uxbridge by-election win due to backlash over ULEZ.
Ms Lucas replied that if that is the case, "he's wrong, that he's taking a huge gamble with the lives of people in this country, but also, crucially, in terms of people's livelihoods."
Ah - Dependable Caroline.
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Had you not told us it was Caroline Lucas, my guess would have been the Chinese political leadership.
There are some, perhaps many, Conservative MPs who are complaining too. But ordinary people, with no particular party loyalty, have tumbled to the fact that the Net Zero aims might be desirable but there has been sfa done to enable those aims.
Can the electricity network supply the increased amount of electricity to fuel EV cars and heat pumps? No. Can renewables alone generate enough power for Net Zero needs? No. Is there a crash project to produce enough nuclear power to provide base load power? No.
Not making fossil fuel cars or gas and oil boilers by fiat is not enough to drive the production and distribution of alternatives.
I welcome the small outbreak of common sense in easing the strictures of Net Zero - they were pretty arbitrary anyway. What we really need is a political party or consensus with enough grit and determination to enable necessary planning and delivery. I don't see any party capable of doing that at the moment. Even the Greens.
Napoleon is reputed to have said, "When the enemy is making a mistake, the last thing you should do is interrupt him". Ms Lucas should have encouraged Rishi to go much further and faster.
"the Net Zero aims might be desirable" oh no, they're not. Fraud from top to bottom.
Sam - you wouldn't have been far wrong though.
DJ - I'd say Net Zero should be dumped entirely as a UN power grab based on fraud. Won't happen though because it is too deeply embedded in vested interests and save the planet sentiment. Failure seems to be the only way out and if we can make that incremental we'll have achieved something.
decnine - but would Rishi take any notice of her?
dearieme - I agree, it's fraud.
TBW (Lucas) would say that. Perhaps Rishi has actually now caught up with more recent proper scientific findings that this nonsense is ridiculous, economically disastrous and unwarranted.
Ed - I imagine the economically disastrous aspect may be the main influence on Rishi and his advisors. Kicking the can down the road is better than nothing.
The Government should subside worldwide travel so that the plebs can see for themselves exactly the disastrous effects of Global Warming, Climate Change/Chaos/Armagheddon that the BBC, Royalty, Climate Scientists, etc. have observed and which has convinced them to forever forsake air travel, car travel, any form of heating, breathing out, anything that produces carbon dioxide.
I will pass.
Of course travel to China, Indonesia and India and other far Eastern nations will be forbidden.
Doonhamer - and it's a commendable sacrifice for the BBC, Royalty, Climate Scientists, etc to put off forsaking air travel, car travel and heating until they have solved the problem for us.
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