Green ambitions. UK govt planning to cut funding for GB Energy, the state-owned company set to drive renewable energy. Cut from £28bn to £15bn to £8.3bn to ?? Another win for fossil fuel companies. Manifesto pledge?? How long will Ed Miliband remain in the cabinet? - ThreadSky

premnsikka.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Green ambitions.

UK govt planning to cut funding for GB Energy, the state-owned company set to drive renewable energy.

Cut from £28bn to £15bn to £8.3bn to ??

Another win for fossil fuel companies. Manifesto pledge??

How long will Ed Miliband remain in the cabinet?

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josgallacher.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don’t think the PM would risk having Ed Miliband on the back benches. There are already too few who believe that the incumbent can win a second general election.

oldmanrambling.bsky.social•1 day ago

Starmer never honours his pledges. Sorry, that should read: Starmer always breaks his pledges.

janemick.bsky.social•1 day ago

while spending £-billions on carbon capture!
Bloody insane!

ferrickbrick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reeves is bloody stupid, or too scared to actually make any move that corporate interests would oppose. We need a chancellor for all society not just the few st the top.

botrange694.bsky.social•1 day ago

All Labour pledges were about gaining power.... that's all.

Keeping their promises wasn't important... see Grangemouth, waspi women, no austerity under Labour.... winter fuel allowance...

I didn't trust them at all but being worse than Tories... unbelievable.

robin4fun.bsky.social•1 day ago

How about getting rid of that stupid £22B carbon capture scheme that's doomed for failure 😕 🤷‍♂️

mary4future.bsky.social•1 day ago

Absolutely!

bridget1965.bsky.social•1 day ago

As well as the nuclear ones.

clearlight.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s successfully giving £22b to needy oil companies

bettinastruff.bsky.social•1 day ago

I heard he's soon going to be replaced by 'Petie'.

ukverified.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why not cut the budget for carbon capture instead?

anthonyf272.bsky.social•2 days ago

Time to have a look at this which apparently is a waste of money.

https://business.itn.co.uk/uk-announces-22-billion-investment-in-carbon-capture-and-storage/

tomhickmore.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is fuelled by economic ignorance!

zetkin.bsky.social•1 day ago

Big Oil still had the ability to effortlessly outbid any other consideration. I wonder how many people realise how long we have lived in a world dictated by their corruption?

connorcdc.bsky.social•1 day ago

His patience must be thinning, and I really don’t blame him. He was always facing an up hill battle with someone like Reeves intent on solidifying the neoliberal status quo of business as usual and growth, growth, growth.

peterwelsh68.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm too polite to describe the type of sandwich Ed Milliband is having to eat at the moment.

Surely gardening leave awaits him although that might be considered off brand for this eco illiterate Labour govt.

runningpast.bsky.social•1 day ago

He really ought to resign

cjhartnell.bsky.social•1 day ago

that is terrible news😦

eerkeboiten.bsky.social•2 days ago

More obvious and productive cut would be to carbon capture plans, if Milliband is the genius behind that we would actually be better off without him.

scotland50.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sad but true.

It was a lie when the Labour government announced it and it is a lie today.

Skeleton staff in Aberdeen with the British government promising lower energy bills before the election while increasing them after the election.

Starmer is simply a poor imitation of Trump.

amoonshot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Starmer's Labour are a neo liberal party. Very similar to the Tories. They refuse to tax passive income the same as working income. That's not Labour. Taxing extreme wealth would solve so many problems, including this one.

mostlyharmle55.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very worrying although have to point out that £8.3bn is the capitalisation of GB Energy and £15bn is the total budget including things like the desperately needed Warm Homes Plan - so as it stands the budget is still £15bn at the moment

stravaiginboy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another promise shelved. The party of the working class kneels to the corporations. Labour are dead.

safcdave.bsky.social•1 day ago

Labour have been so disappointing since coming to power. I had high hopes for them but they are just being Tories lite

joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the thing that is always trotted out by Labour when you say that Labour is a huge disappointment and is simply following prior Tory policies. Now even this flagship is being cut to oblivion

zegthedalek.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Rachel Reeves's master plan is to put £billions today on a Tory win at the next GE. With the odds she'll get she'll clear the national debt overnight.

sandratofriends.bsky.social•1 day ago

Prem, Scots were saying from its announcement it was a dud, it was only ever born for votes, it was never going to happen. It's a few offices within an office block. It was supposed to be Aberdeen based, then it was mostly moved to Manchester after Liebour got them votes. 🤔

crosstherubycon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Everyday another Labour disappointment. Green jobs, green energy, green investment are critical.

saintthejase.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Starmer is a cop, and cops lie all the time.

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