A Telegraph piece by Nick Gutteridge is worth skimming through, it paints a picture of a government already drowning in the deep, deep waters between rhetoric and reality. A picture of a government which shows early promise of being famously incompetent.
The gaping void in Starmer’s agenda exposed by Labour’s first month in power
“Have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately”, Sir Keir Starmer promised the nation as he delivered his first address as Prime Minister one month ago.
In an unusually sombre speech for a leader who had just achieved a historic landslide, the Labour leader acknowledged that voters had become “weary” of broken promises...
“Have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately”, Sir Keir Starmer promised the nation as he delivered his first address as Prime Minister one month ago.
In an unusually sombre speech for a leader who had just achieved a historic landslide, the Labour leader acknowledged that voters had become “weary” of broken promises...
Net Zero
Questions abound on the achievability of Ed Miliband’s plans for Net Zero, in particular his pledge to both decarbonise the UK’s energy grid and ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. The Conservatives had planned to decarbonise the grid by 2035, and pushed back the ban on selling fossil fuel vehicles to the same year.
Even the Tony Blair Institute, the think tank set up by the former Labour prime minister, has warned that Miliband’s relentless drive to renewables “could increase energy costs”.
Questions abound on the achievability of Ed Miliband’s plans for Net Zero, in particular his pledge to both decarbonise the UK’s energy grid and ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030. The Conservatives had planned to decarbonise the grid by 2035, and pushed back the ban on selling fossil fuel vehicles to the same year.
Even the Tony Blair Institute, the think tank set up by the former Labour prime minister, has warned that Miliband’s relentless drive to renewables “could increase energy costs”.
Words which are as evasive as its founder, but we may assume that even the Tony Blair Institute knows that Net Zero will increase energy costs. Increased energy costs are designed into the policy, as is abject failure.
4 comments:
It must be tough... 14 years of Opposition when you could say anything you wanted without being held responsible for 'delivery' and then suddenly you are expected to convert high-minded bunkum into a 'plan'.
I'd have some sympathy if it was not for the splashback we are going to suffer.
DJ - they seem to have been under the impression that opposition was more than a rhetorical game and given the chance they could achieve what they implied. Ed Miliband seems to think so. It's odd.
"Even the Tony Blair Institute" is a phrase absolutely loaded with significance.
I like this bit, too:
"the new Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, appears to have baulked at following through on the measures, which were heavily criticised by disability charities."
They've been seen off by voluntary organisations set up to help people with mild anxieties.
Sam - yes, it must be galling to encounter early opposition from those who were supposed to be aligned with Starmer's vision. Maybe it didn't occur to him that they don't know what his vision is and if he'll have the same vision tomorrow.
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