Red toreis can't help but show their true colours at every opportunity..
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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For fucks sake...
Labour are pursuing a growth model for the economy and now that other countries are starting to 'free' themselves from environmental comittments in favour of growth it would put the UK at a competitive disadvantage. I don't think much growth will happen though, so we'll be sacrificing the environment on a false errand. We're going to continue to invest in low or non-existant taxes for the wealthy and the financial industry and inequality and poverty are going to increase. Nobody will care about the environment because they will either be a) too poor or b) making too much money from exploiting it.
If Reform are smart enough to pivot to an 'eat the rich' attitude in a second Labour term I think they'll have it.
The Labour leadership thinks they've won a big mandate but all they have done is run a smart election strategy. They have aligned themselves with free market economics at probably the worst time history. They learnt from the Corbyn election campaigns but not from the Tories failure in office and I think they (and us) are going to pay for it big time.
Good analysis.
That's everybody's excuse worldwide.
Once one started ignoring the rules, every other followed suit, because, "omg, unfair advantage". It's maddening.
Yeah. Aka 'race to the bottom'...
This completely defeats the point of having a second political party
brexit was enough proof those islanders are nuts
However, talks stalled over Labour’s insistence at removing the parts of the bill that would make it legally binding for ministers to meet the targets
What does "legally binding" mean in this scenario? If ministers fail to meet goals they are able to be protected? That seems unlikely.
What does ‘legally binding’ actually mean in practice? What penalties would be applied and to whom?