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This should have been the Lib Dem line.
11.03.2026 17:53
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This should have been the Lib Dem line.
This is daft, Ed.
I know it's local election season and you're hoping to win seats off the Tories.
But come on.
There was a public consultation and it's what the public wanted. I thought you were supposed to be democrats?
Clean energy is far cheaper AND safer than relying on fossil fuels.
Speeding up the transition is the best way to protect households from future price spikes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Or rather they pay some fuel duty, but not at the same rate as other drivers. As far as I can tell, the rebate rate for red diesel was not changed at the Budget in 2025.
Badenoch's performance at #PMQs was bad. But the most annoying thing was her claim that farmers are being clobbered by a fuel duty rise (that hasn't happened yet). Farmers use red diesel and so don't pay fuel duty.
Right. Time to get Beavers, Wild Cats and Lynx put on banknotes:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today we have published new analysis building on the Committee's advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget.
Our conclusions about the cost of decarbonising the UK and impacts on energy security were tested against different scenarios ⬇️
Read the full report here: www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
Also, not everything has to be political. We are allowed to have nice things, and this is a nice thing.
A better line would be "Labour are willing to put nature on our money, but they won't put our money on nature. The UK is missing 19 of 23 globally agreed targets for nature restoration. Nature needs more than symbolic gestures."
I think my favourite thing about this Reform stunt is how incredibly shit it all looks.
They've obviously been sold a great idea by an agency that just hasn't been pulled off well.
It's like what you'd get from an episode of The Apprentice.
In Reform UK we like to offer value for money, which is why we are spending all day on a gimmick intended to satisfy the people we care most about – the donors with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial who gave us £2.3m.
Looks like the Ed Stone. Unlike the Ed Stone, it's a promise that could not be kept.
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
Every country with reserves can make an argument that their production makes sense for their energy security and tax base. If they all keep trying to produce ever more fossil fuels then we’re looking at 4C+ of warming in the lifetime of people alive today and all the catastrophe that comes with it.
Always money for defence security threats. Never money for climate security threats e.g. the request for a $1bn UK investment in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
Or, as a former Foreign Sec told me, climate change is an important issue, but not an urgent one, so it rarely reaches my red box.
Meanwhile, the US and Iran are creating climate refugees right now as they bomb desalination plants.
And that request of $1bn for TFFF? It would fund US operations in Iran for one day.
Always money for defence security threats. Never money for climate security threats e.g. the request for a $1bn UK investment in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
Or, as a former Foreign Sec told me, climate change is an important issue, but not an urgent one, so it rarely reaches my red box.
The Hill United CEO: Airfare likely to rise as jet fuel prices surge United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby warned this week that soaring jet fuel prices tied to conflict in the Middle East could soon push airline... . 4 hours ago Aerospace Global News Airfares could rise as Iran conflict drives soaring fuel costs and flight detours Airlines face rising jet fuel prices and costly rerouting around Middle East airspace after US-Israel strikes on Iran, and may raise... . 1 day ago BBC Surge in jet fuel prices could push up air fares, analysts warn Disruption to supplies from the Gulf, in the wake of the US and Israeli air strikes on Iran, has pushed the cost of aviation kerosene up by... . 1 day ago Українські Національні Новини (УНН) War with Iran triggered a sharp rise in fuel prices in the US УНН Economy ✎ Gasoline prices in the US rose by 11% due to the conflict with Iran and oil at $90. This creates political risks for... . 15 hours ago Simple Flying Airfare Warning: United CEO Says Ticket Prices Will Rise ‘Quickly’ As Fuel Costs Skyrocket As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, airlines brace for the impact on their pocketbooks, with United CEO warning of rising...
Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS
Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history.
THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.
Right - I've got family in Blackpool and in North Notts who have voted all over the shop over the years, in protest or in hope from Cameron to Corbyn, Major, Kennedy, Clegg, Blair, Thatcher, Starmer. Truly floating voters who might go Green and waste their vote. But they will never vote Reform.
Right - I've got family in Blackpool and in North Notts who have voted all over the shop over the years, in protest or in hope from Cameron to Corbyn, Major, Kennedy, Clegg, Blair, Thatcher, Starmer. Truly floating voters who might go Green and waste their vote. But they will never vote Reform.
You can read a lot into and out of any one poll or by-election result and we should be careful of that. But this analysis from Leonie Cooper and Lisa Trickery certainly speaks to me. labourlist.org/2026/03/can-...
I should be a very easy voter to hold onto for Labour. But student loans are ridiculous, the cost of living isn't getting any better, the green stuff is good but feels constantly on the edge of being abandoned, and on values-based issues we drift ever further apart.
I starred school in 1998 and finished in 2011. My primary school, secondary school and sixth form all got new buildings, new equipment, and rising standards. Maybe there were dodgy PFI deals but ultimately I watched things get better for 13 years, and then for the next 13 years they got a lot worse
It's like it was New Labour policy to improve education, get 50% of people going to university, and create an enduring voter base for liberal and social democratic values. And then Brexit happened and they just completely forgot that those people who grew up under New Labour might be their new base.
Deluded. Labour lost about ten points during the course of the 2024 campaign. A strategic triumph it was not.
Members of Parliament confirm that we have a credible plan to cut emissions.
Net Zero can protect households and industries from high energy bills, and people and wildlife from the impacts of climate change. 🌍
Absolutely no perverse incentives that would just increase the number of legal challenges in this latest from Bright Blue.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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Even if Labour don't achieve 95% clean power by 2030, in 2029 we're going to be pretty darn close. Reform will have to change their tune when there's an actual existing renewables grid they have to work with. Or explain why they'll heap even more costs on billpayers by building new gas power plants.