This opinion article argues that Labour should support green policies for moral reasons, but the author also argues that Farage’s anti-green message is not what the public want. Apparently “68% of Farage’s constituents in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, declared themselves ‘somewhat’ or ‘very’ worried” about climate change.
The article links to this Bluesky thread from a pollster which is interesting:
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But it is the next brexit.
Dropping Net zero targets and the tech development behind it will fuck this country over massively just like how leaving the EU has.
I doubt it will be as bad as leaving the EU, but it could be.
Farages futures is one where Britain pays everyone else, instead of us, to use the technology they developed to combat emisstions, get extra EV range etc etc.
We have a simple choice with net zero, we can try and be the ones that sells everyone else the solutions they need to stop destroying the planet, or we could be the one that bankrupts ourselves buying those (arguable inferior too) solutions off everyone else.
I guess with Labour doing a decent reduction of mass immigration, Reform needs to be ready to spin up a second populist warfront.
Farage will have no trouble getting funding for his anti-environment nonsense, but the UK public will be harder to convince than they were for reducing immigration.
The Brexit guy is saying something is the next Brexit, to describe it as some kind of an unforced error, and a looming catastrophe.
I think I need a lie down.
Farage is opposed to net zero because it will make us less reliant on imported fossil fuels. Reduced global demand for fossil fuels is very bad for Russia’s balance of trade.
We’re rapidly letting it slip through our hands because of these right wing idiots, but net zero could (have) potentially be(en) the UK’s new Industrial revolution. Except this time we lead the way in saving the planet instead of destroying it.
Fusion power is the future. Excessive renewable power is the future. High tech energy storage is the future.
Not because I want it to be, because that’s just how it’s going to be
We can either be technological leaders in these areas, or we can be buying everyone else’s solutions instead of selling our own.
