Rishi Sunak considers weakening key green policies

[Chomper Higgot]

Upsetting a major Tory donor, not  a wise move Rishi:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/23/major-tory-donor-says-he-will-not-back-sunak-due-to-green-u-turn-madness

[James105]

Here is some perspective on how little (whatever the UK does) in this regard actually matters:

 

 

The UK could go back to the stone age, ban all cars/planes/factories, reduce life expectancy to 30 years old and it still wouldn't make hardly any difference.   

 

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions#co2-emissions-by-region

[Chomper Higgot]

20 minutes ago, James105 said:

Here is some perspective on how little (whatever the UK does) in this regard actually matters:

 

 

The UK could go back to the stone age, ban all cars/planes/factories, reduce life expectancy to 30 years old and it still wouldn't make hardly any difference.   

 

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions#co2-emissions-by-region

So you accept yet another example of the UK relinquishing any kind of moral authority on the world stage?

 

While ignoring investment in green technologies:

 

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/NEW-INVESTMENT-IN-RENEWABLE-ENERGY-BY-COUNTRY-AND-ASSET-CLASS-2016-AND-GROWTH-ON-2015_fig8_318987792

 

[steve187]

On 9/20/2023 at 9:10 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

Nobody voted for Sunak to be PM.

 

Insulation, heat pumps and more efficient gas boilers are cutting people’s energy bills.

the British public never vote for the PM.

[richard_smith237]

Just now, steve187 said:

On 9/20/2023 at 5:10 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

Nobody voted for Sunak to be PM.

 

Insulation, heat pumps and more efficient gas boilers are cutting people’s energy bills.

the British public never vote for the PM.

Technically no... However, every voter knows who the leader of the party of the constituent MP they are voting for is.... and this will influence their decision. 

 

Thus - the British Public do also vote for the PM in a round about way.

[richard_smith237]

38 minutes ago, James105 said:

Here is some perspective on how little (whatever the UK does) in this regard actually matters:

 

 

The UK could go back to the stone age, ban all cars/planes/factories, reduce life expectancy to 30 years old and it still wouldn't make hardly any difference.   

 

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions#co2-emissions-by-region

Exactly... and while the nation (UK) places a financial chokehold on itself it achieves insignificant environmental gains. 

 

Everyone wants cheap, buys from China, China's economy booms, Chinese businesses infiltrate our countries, China takes over, China is laughing as they bank more power while refusing to kneecap itself in the same manner the West has. 

[steve187]

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

Technically no... However, every voter knows who the leader of the party of the constituent MP they are voting for is.... and this will influence their decision. 

 

Thus - the British Public do also vote for the PM in a round about way.

but they change like the weather

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, steve187 said:

the British public never vote for the PM.

No, but they vote for a party in the knowledge of who the PM is.

[youreavinalaff]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

No, but they vote for a party in the knowledge of who the PM is.

Correct. Whatever party one votes for in the next election, everyone knows, or should know, that Rishi Sunak is PM.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 2023 by youreavinalaff

[Chomper Higgot]

28 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

Correct. Whatever party one votes for in the next election, everyone knows, or should know, that Rishi Sunak is PM.

 

 

 

 

Well he is at the moment.

 

But there’s something else, parties are elected on their manifesto.

 

People who voted Tory voted for the party manifesto, regardless of who eventually gets to be PM.

 

Sunak is performing multiple U-Turns on the manifesto on which the Tories were elected.

[youreavinalaff]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well he is at the moment.

 

But there’s something else, parties are elected on their manifesto.

 

People who voted Tory voted for the party manifesto, regardless of who eventually gets to be PM.

 

Sunak is performing multiple U-Turns on the manifesto on which the Tories were elected.

I doubt many voters vote entirely because of manifesto. There are a lot of other reasons people vote the way they do.

[vinny41]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Well he is at the moment.

 

But there’s something else, parties are elected on their manifesto.

 

People who voted Tory voted for the party manifesto, regardless of who eventually gets to be PM.

 

Sunak is performing multiple U-Turns on the manifesto on which the Tories were elected.

I don't think people take much notice of the manifesto they tend to look at the alternatives if you don't vote tory 

In the 2019 election the alternatives were

1) Jo Swinson - Cancel Brexit

2) Jeremy Corbyn

 

The Tory could have had a blank  manifesto and people would have still voted for them if it meant stopping Jo and Jeremy entering no 10

[Chomper Higgot]

8 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:

I doubt many voters vote entirely because of manifesto. There are a lot of other reasons people vote the way they do.

Yes some people will always vote for a political party, others might vote because they fancy the candidate, or despise the opposition candidate.

 

Nevertheless, political parties stand for election on the basis of their manifesto.

 

The Salisbury-Addison Convention is founded on the principle that the Government’s manifesto has been given legitimacy by voters and hence shall not be challenged by the House of Lords.

 

Sunak is setting up for yet another U-Turn over H2S to Manchester and with it another abandonment of ‘Leveling Up’.

 

A double U-turn and betrayal of those ‘borrowed red wall votes’.

 

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

9 hours ago, vinny41 said:

I don't think people take much notice of the manifesto they tend to look at the alternatives if you don't vote tory 

In the 2019 election the alternatives were

1) Jo Swinson - Cancel Brexit

2) Jeremy Corbyn

 

The Tory could have had a blank  manifesto and people would have still voted for them if it meant stopping Jo and Jeremy entering no 10

Regardless, the Government’s manifesto is what provides legitimacy to Government policies, refer above.

[vinny41]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Regardless, the Government’s manifesto is what provides legitimacy to Government policies, refer above.

I am not aware of any Law that states that can you provide a link please thanks

[Chomper Higgot]

29 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

I am not aware of any Law that states that can you provide a link please thanks

It’s not a law is the Salisbury-Addison Convention, as I stated earlier.

 

It never ceases to amaze me how little folk know about how their own Government functions.

 

Perhaps past time for the UK to introduce Civics as a mandatory lesson in schools.

 

 

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldconst/28/2804.htm

[youreavinalaff]

4 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s not a law is the Salisbury-Addison Convention, as I stated earlier.

 

It never ceases to amaze me how little folk know about how their own Government functions.

 

Perhaps past time for the UK to introduce Civics as a mandatory lesson in schools.

 

 

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldconst/28/2804.htm

Anyone can hide behind the use of the internet and pretend to know it all.

 

Others have better things to do.

Edited September 25, 2023 by youreavinalaff

[Chomper Higgot]

8 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

Anyone can hide behind the use of the internet and pretend to know it all.

 

Others have better things to do.

Oh look, another personal attack.

[youreavinalaff]

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

Oh look, another personal attack.

No. Sorry, but it's not all about you.

[Chomper Higgot]

2 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

No. Sorry, but it's not all about you.

Indeed it is not.

 

Feel free to get back on topic and off personal attacks.

[youreavinalaff]

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Indeed it is not.

 

Feel free to get back on topic and off personal attacks.

I'm quoting existing posts. 

 

I cannot be off topic unless........

[vinny41]

23 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s not a law is the Salisbury-Addison Convention, as I stated earlier.

 

It never ceases to amaze me how little folk know about how their own Government functions.

 

Perhaps past time for the UK to introduce Civics as a mandatory lesson in schools.

 

 

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldconst/28/2804.htm

so not law attached more of a  agreement between tories and labour 

as shown from your link

It did not involve either the Liberals or unaligned Peers. We therefore reiterate that we have not felt bound by this convention, as we were not party to it.

and shown here

Liberal Democrat dissent in 2005[edit]

After the Labour general election victory in 2005, the Liberal Democrats indicated that they did not feel bound by the Salisbury Convention as a result of decreasing voter turnout, the low share of the vote received by the Government, and the changes to the composition of the House of Lords introduced in 1999 by the Labour Government.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Convention#:~:text

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, vinny41 said:

so not law attached more of a  agreement between tories and labour 

as shown from your link

It did not involve either the Liberals or unaligned Peers. We therefore reiterate that we have not felt bound by this convention, as we were not party to it.

and shown here

Liberal Democrat dissent in 2005[edit]

After the Labour general election victory in 2005, the Liberal Democrats indicated that they did not feel bound by the Salisbury Convention as a result of decreasing voter turnout, the low share of the vote received by the Government, and the changes to the composition of the House of Lords introduced in 1999 by the Labour Government.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Convention#:~:text

Strawman alert, I never said it was a law. 
 

And no not an agreement between Tories and Labour but a long standing Convention between the House of Lords and the Government of the day.

 

The Liberal Democrats, who have never won an election, might not wish to be bound by the S-A Convention, but it’s not for them them to implement, it is implemented by The House of Lords in deference to the elected Government’s Manifesto.

[vinny41]

10 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Strawman alert, I never said it was a law. 
 

And no not an agreement between Tories and Labour but a long standing Convention between the House of Lords and the Government of the day.

 

The Liberal Democrats, who have never won an election, might not wish to be bound by the S-A Convention, but it’s not for them them to implement, it is implemented by The House of Lords in deference to the elected Government’s Manifesto.

Keir Starmer: I will abolish House of Lords to ‘restore trust in politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/19/keir-starmer-i-will-abolish-house-of-lords-to-restore-trust-in-politics

 

Looks like House of Lords days are numbered if Labour win next General Election

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, vinny41 said:

Keir Starmer: I will abolish House of Lords to ‘restore trust in politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/19/keir-starmer-i-will-abolish-house-of-lords-to-restore-trust-in-politics

 

Looks like House of Lords days are numbered if Labour win next General Election

Maybe they are, maybe they are not.

 

Meanwhile Rishi is U-turning again and shedding more Tory donors:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/24/tory-donor-threatens-pull-funding-sunak-scraps-northern-hs2-rail-line

[JackGats]

Meeting emission objectives = closing our 2 last coal power plants while China connects a new one to the grid EVERY MONTH.

[vinny41]

23 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Maybe they are, maybe they are not.

 

Meanwhile Rishi is U-turning again and shedding more Tory donors:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/24/tory-donor-threatens-pull-funding-sunak-scraps-northern-hs2-rail-line

Maybe Rishi is catching the U turn bug from the King of U Turns Keir Starmer

What are the main U-turns Labour has made under Keir Starmer?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/04/u-turns-labour-keir-starmer-tuition-fees-income-tax

[Chomper Higgot]

31 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

Maybe Rishi is catching the U turn bug from the King of U Turns Keir Starmer

What are the main U-turns Labour has made under Keir Starmer?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/04/u-turns-labour-keir-starmer-tuition-fees-income-tax

A bit of a false equivalence.

 

Starmer hasn’t written any policy commitments into a Manifesto,  presented it to the electorate and win an election on that manifesto.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

33 minutes ago, JackGats said:

Meeting emission objectives = closing our 2 last coal power plants while China connects a new one to the grid EVERY MONTH.

More whataboutary.

 

 

 

 

[vinny41]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

A bit of a false equivalence.

 

Starmer hasn’t written any policy commitments into a Manifesto,  presented it to the electorate and win an election on that manifesto.

 

 

You mean he wasn't aware of the 2019 Labour manifesto It must have been an interesting campaign in his Constituency when Labour presented the 2019 manifesto, next you will be telling us that he said nothing to do with me guv I didn't write any of the policy commitments