Rishi Sunak delays petrol car ban in major shift on green policies
Rishi Sunak delays petrol car ban in major shift on green policies
The prime minister claims the changes will support "hard-pressed families" but opponents accuse him of "selling out".
Really fucks me off that he's trying to spin this as "supporting hard pressed families". They've spent 13 years being the ones causing that "hard press", cutting benefits, cutting funding for services, etc. Someone needs to ask him why they suddenly care now.
How could Sunak "sell out" when he has no credibility to sell?
Scum
I was out all of yesterday and haven't had time to listen to the announcement but as I understand it this is the same target as the EU.
Is Sunak "scum" because he changed his mind or are the EU also "scum"?
Love the username BTW. Powerpuff Girls?
This is how you find out how much integrity a politician has.
A big "fuck the planet" sign would have been a better way to communicate it. Wankers.
Vile disgusting human. Things are going to ramp up now in terms of protest and direct action. People are going to become more extreme in their actions.
Unpopular Tory prime minister directing policy for future unpopular Labour party because he knows unpopular Labour leader won't reverse course from unpopular Tory party decision.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Shadow environment secretary Steve Reed said without the ban the UK would miss its target to hit net zero - this is the point at which a country is no longer adding to the overall amount of harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Mr Reed said the prime minster had "sold out the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st Century" for Britain "to lead the world in transition to well-paid secured new jobs of the green economy".
"We risk condemning people to many more years of living in cold and draughty homes that are expensive to heat, in cities clogged with dirty air from fossil fuels, missing out on the economic regeneration this ambition brings," Mr Norbury said.
Jaguar Land Rover, which announced hundreds of new jobs in the West Midlands a few days ago, welcomed the change, calling it "pragmatic" and adding that it brings the UK in line with other nations.
Elsewhere, Mr Sunak also suggested he would be "scrapping" a range of proposals which had been "thrown up" by the debate, including hiking up air fares to discourage foreign holidays and taxes on meat consumption.
Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme on Thursday, Mr Stark added that the committee had already advised the government in June that it "didn't look like we were on track" to meet 2030 emissions targets, before these changes were announced.
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WTF are you doing? 🤦♂️
Tbh you could see this coming, they haven't built nearly enough infrastructure to support EVs , their empty promises were very transparent