Why has Rishi Sunak U-turned on the UK’s net zero pledge? Lewis explains | The News Agents
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Rishi Sunak hastily announced he was reversing many of the policies helping the UK to become net zero by 2050. Why? Lewis Goodall explains.
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Rishi Sunak and his Honest Debate on 7 Deadly Bins.
Global race is the key point. Looking backwards helps no-one in the short or long term.
It's just red meat for his followers… look at the selected "media"
His father in laws shares must have gone through the roof. Only reason hes in the UK IS TO BLEED IT DRY. NEVER EVER TRUST A TORY. GREEDY GREEDY SOULESS VERMIN
The runt needs to go. I realise the second word of the previous sentence is misspelt, but I thought it best not to correct it. It functions adequately regardless.
Is this his other pledge along with the other five he made, that's disintegrating in front of his eyes. The Tories have to go, roll on the Ballot box.
Another multi-millionaire who thinks he will be immune to climate change. Whilst the plebs suffer, they can jet to an area less affected, or run air-conditioning that plebs cannot afford. If food becomes more expensive it has less impact overall on their wallets.
Nasty little man.
They have no money
What I think is bonkers is he is saying long-term decisions but then changing the long term decision that where made. Also he said you cant just have slogans which makes me hope for no more "stop the boats"
BP and Shell are getting their money's worth.
The word PLONKER comes to mind!
Great to see Sunken Sunak is racing ahead to create a country with no future. What a horrible short sighted man.
👑👑👑How come these three so-called "News Agents" – King Jon, Queen Emily and Baron Lewis – never engage with the public direct, but instead shield themselves behind the medium of the podcast? They so wanted to free themselves from the shackles of BBC impartiality to be able to speak their minds! But they are too self-important to converse with the riff-raff that is LBC's listenership!
He U-turned because he doesn't want poor people like me to get a £60,000.00 loan for a new Car and a new heat pump ( I will vote for action man Keir if he gives me £60,000.00)
How can you stop someething that never existed
Parliament should hold an inquiry into what sunak just said as its completly false and is lying to mps as well as the public
Even george useless said they wernt gov policy on channel 4
Probably because he has finally realised his source of cash and power are broke and cannot afford his plans. If we had been in the EU it might not have been this bad, we would have been 5…10% better off as a nation. Our markets would have not simply evaporated. We would not face tariffs to export to Europe, our nearest neighbours. Even then a huge amount of people could not have afforded to insulate homes not designed for modern insulation, or to fit inappropriate heating solutions like heat pumps to homes unsuited for them. As for buying electric cars? They are £20k overpriced for most people, and with the shortcuts in design on Chinese models, I am just waiting for one to brew up on a motorway filled with other EV's. The sight of a dozen or so ablaze would be an interesting sight.
It is all political, Sunak could not care less about net zero.
In just the past thirty years we have lost 69% of our wildlife. The planet is dying. The future is frightening – rising temperatures, rising sea levels, millions of people to be displaced, food shortages, possibly leading to even more wars etc. Politicians over this entire period have consistently sided with the fossil fuel lobbyist and have failed their current and future citizens. The ruling elite have zero interest in saving the planet and will continue to exploit it in pursuit of profit, even if that means the planet and its life forms dying out…. Direct action by those wanting to save the planet is now the only option……..
This should have gone through Parliament. That's where we are represented.
Tories becoming more and more antidemocrats every day.
Reaching net-zero earlier means we spearhead the tech industry on net-zero.
A bit of effort today to reap the benefits tomorrow.
Sunak is a rich boy, an investment banker. Doesn't know about business. Only short-term speculation.
Not surprised that the cabinet paper leaked to the media. There are so many eco fanatics in government that it is paralysed by Group Think. Encouraged by the media led by Sky News which has promoted a certain line on climate change I am not surprised.
Nice to see Sunak sign up to electoral suicide
Just think who has the money to buy EV's have 2nd cars and only 1 parent working and yet he's going to stiff traditional Tory middle class voters by not implementing charging infrastructure and that's ontop of RAAC and increasing their taxes for the pleasure of doing nothing
I can explain his U-turn better than that. a) Uxbridge gave him a sniff and b) he's got big buddies in the fossil fuel industry: where a) + b) = Occam's Razor.
Trying to appeal to the same cave dwellers who grunted for Brexit.
I bet Starmer follows.
EU will follow…Germany has a lot to lose.
So what , there are other problems in this country. Rishi is smart .
I think there’s more to it than just politics. To really make net zero work, they’ll have to tax wealthier people harder, the £billions that are squirrelled away in tax havens that should be invested in our net zero ambitions is astonishing, we’ve had brexshit to stave off European legislation for the really wealthy, now they’re risking the planet to keep their £billions out of reach.
There’s got to be change, us at the bottom have NO money left to squeeze……..
Ummm wasn't net zero a 2050 target? Just certain plans to come into force in 2030.
Guess this was something the media are missing.
The tories have nothing left but lies to try and blind the gullible little britain supporters. Charlatans and losers.
He hasn't U turned. He has suggested a postponement of some of the rules that are impoverishing ordinary people.
He’s a coward
He has no policies, only pledges
The only thing Sunak and his friends have had to rejoice about since he took over as PM is the fact that his party did not lose the Uxbridge seat and he believes that the Ulez scheme was the main reason that happened. So he knows that opposing policies like that are going to be popular among some Tories when he stands before them at the Party Conference in a couple of weeks time. Remember, he was not the party members first choice to succeed Johnson so now he needs something/anything to bolster his position in their eyes, or so he seems to think.
They are actually drilling less, because they are getting less profit for every unit they take out. There will come a time when it's not viable for oil companies to drill for oil. That's why they are trying to make maximum profit now, hence prices not going back down to what they were. Oil isn't the problem, the fact that we won't be able to get it without exorbitant prices is the problem. We need something to replace it, but not because of CO2.
Sunak has to keep the Fossil fuel lobby on side, after all BP is a family business! Odious little man.
So pleased i didnt vote Conservative. What a terrible lot they are. Out of touch just doesn't cover it.