Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
Labour ‘unlikely’ to ever meet £28bn a year green pledge
Labour’s pledge to spend £28bn a year on its flagship green economic policy is unlikely to ever be met because of the state of the public finances.
Labour’s “green prosperity plan” promised to pour the money into climate-friendly investments every year until 2030 if it wins the next election.
But it was already watered down by the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves earlier this year – after she blamed that Tories for “crashing the economy”.
A problem with major political actors and their parties is how slow they are to catch on. This announcement may be a faint hint that the ludicrous nature of Net Zero is seeping into the swamp, but if so it has taken an absurdly long time.
Labour’s pledge to spend £28bn a year on its flagship green economic policy is unlikely to ever be met because of the state of the public finances.
Labour’s “green prosperity plan” promised to pour the money into climate-friendly investments every year until 2030 if it wins the next election.
But it was already watered down by the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves earlier this year – after she blamed that Tories for “crashing the economy”.
A problem with major political actors and their parties is how slow they are to catch on. This announcement may be a faint hint that the ludicrous nature of Net Zero is seeping into the swamp, but if so it has taken an absurdly long time.
5 comments:
Politics - the art of the possible. "What we'd like to do is completely impossible, but it won't stop us saying we would like to do it." They might as well promise fine weather and a visit from Santa.
S. Vega. Apart from Santa that is what they are promising.
Give us the money and no more floods, droughts, storms, hot summers or cold winters.
Ideal climate. Not to change ever again.
Trust us we are politicians and Science is on our side.
Aye, right.
Notice that none of these politicians ask us what Climate we would like, even though they claim that they can control that same climate.
You can never expect Greenies to have a commercial understanding of their crackpot issues - it's an alien theme to most of their idiotic ideals, most of which need the magic money tree to bail out their starry-eyed mistakes at every turn!
We'll find out when Labour get to Downing Street anyway, so let's enjoy life while we can!
They have the ideological vision of the anointed, so of course they are the slowest to catch on to reality. Likewise, it will take them another 50 years or so, to realise their imposition of comprehensive secondary education has been a disasterous failure.
Sam - politics seems to have become the art of the impossible and the major actors know it. Constantly offering party bags of goodies we pay for but never get to peep inside.
Doonhamer - yes, they always stop short of telling us about the climate they have planned for us. If we ask them about that, we'll be answered with a pitying sneer at best.
Scrobs - although it's possible that the permanent administration plus internal backstabbing will make mincemeat of Labour if voters are daft enough to vote them in.
Tammly - I agree, from what I see and hear, comprehensive secondary education has failed. It isn't comprehensive education. Stifling bureaucracy and pupil behaviour problems seem to be two big factors.
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