1. Today the Tories unveil their new policy: ripping up the commitment to net zero by 2050. Kemi Badenoch, with no evidence, claims "it can’t be achieved without a serious drop in our living standards or by bankrupting us." What the evidence shows is the opposite. We can't prosper without it. 🧵
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I am as leftist and green as they come but I think she is correct. Not about the conclusion that we need to drop net zero but about the basic fact it will not be achieved without very drastic changes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGGOjD_OtAM&pp=0gcJCU8JAYcqIYzv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJslrTT-Yhc
Hanging onto a fossil fuel model is economic madness, nevermind the obvious environmental cost
“the current rate of CO2 (and therefore temperature) change
is unprecedented in almost the entire geological past.”
https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/policy/Statements/Geological%20Society%20of%20London%20Scientific%20Climate%20Change%20Statement%202020.pdf?la=en
Even with so little parliamentary power, she has the power of the press
This is pure desperation from someone who is clearly out of her depth. She’ll be gone within a year, but I fear by that time the Tories will have amalgamated with Reform.
Drive to the gym is the key living standard they are trying to protect. Keep everyone away from you with glass and metal box around your body. #CarsKill
Starmer’s government has taken the crown and surpassed the savagery of his predecessors
Reading your post I find myself thinking of lettuce, I’m not sure why.
The Govt created the gilt market, the Govt sustains the gilt market - in what world do the gilt markets tell the Govt what to do? They dump gilts - the Govt buys them back. As the dr said: “currency issuer.”
#MMT
Gilts drop, the BoE buys them and GBP stays strong? Does BoE buy GBP? If so with what?
There is no world in which a currency or Government is immune to markets unless it desires a DPRK style Government & economy.
Floating currency. Show me the data to back up your claim that giving professional gilt sharks a smacking has any long-term effect on Forex.
This learned helplessness has to stop.
The BoE buying gilts would be QE -> inflation.
Inflation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_sterling_crisis
The current rabid mutation is an entirely different beast.
Suicidal, bereft of conscience and beyond reason.
May whatever nature creates after us be smarter.
Oh look there’s a flying pig
After all, it worked in the US
Are we making EVs anymore or not?.
Musk only backs parties that will kill net zero for him to accelerate his Mars fantasy. So far: Trump, Reform UK, AfD.
Will she outdo Rupert Lowe MP in sycophancy?
Ask Badenoch if she will give Musk sovereignty of Mars.
See this article. ⬇️
https://youtu.be/h1jOqyjcO4g?feature=shared
See Nicholas Stern saying that .
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-hijacking-republicans-to-control-entire-us-government/
Their standard of living will drop. They may go bankrupt.
You and me? We'll have smaller bills and a planet more amenable to life.
Musk only backs parties that will kill net zero for him to accelerate his Mars fantasy. So far: Trump, Reform UK, AfD.
Will she outdo Rupert Lowe MP in sycophancy?
Ask Badenoch if she will give Musk sovereignty of Mars.
in fact
doomed
Who in our political and media world will take on the 55 Tufton Street monied manipulators?
All of Truss's nightmare time in power was down to them,
and their unexposed lying lobbying has been increasing for decades...
Neither does luring Con voters into believing their falsehoods count as public opinion. It is disinformation, and should be treated as such.
No, Kemi, they are not kisses. Ironically, you just scored net 0%.
Cheers for pointing out a self-interest group who appear to be vaguely aligned with sustainable sense for all of us, for once.
My hope is all spent, we're *never* going to fix this.
https://t.co/I66epNmEVM
https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/press-releases/deloitte-research-reveals-inaction-on-climate-change-could-cost-the-world-economy-us-dollar-178-trillion-by-2070.html
The EU countries will continue and then there's a growing industrial and economic power, China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewable_electricity_production
One of those forces is simple commercial and economic reality - renewables are cheaper.
UK CO2 emissions have more than halved since the 1970s, despite the fools
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom