Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
Why the big conspiracy? You realise that getting to net zero costs a shit load right, and would hurt the poorest most?
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Thats balanced against the policy aims, but why do you have to see some kind of shadowy conspiracy in it?

Statement deems quite open to me. I can well understand why environmentalists don't like it but I can see where he is coming from especially when we have decarbonised faster than others
I wondered how long it would take.

Anybody with a brain can see through this from the tone of the speech itself and the circumstances sunak finds himself in. If you want to believe that politicians are virtuously floating through life doing god's work then you can, I think the evidence suggests it is a deeply cynical game and this move is no different.

And yes really honest and open to reel off a list of scary policies that don't exist and tell people he has scrapped them, really? That's the kind of fear mongering politics you want, and from an official televised Downing Street press conference? Demeaning the office doesn't really cover it but after the last few years nothing surprises me.

I think you accused me of being naive recently..