With all appropriate respect this omits crucial elements.
A. EHRC guidance has to be laid in parliament for 40 days (equality act 2006, s 14). It is not some conspiracy to circumvent scrutiny.
B. An EHRC code is not law it is a code of practice. It changes no law.
C. The current
@Wass2020@ianssmart That's what is thought too.
He was obviously incapable of being a threat to them, he was bleeding and telling them he'd been stabbed, yet their immediate priority was to cuff/arrest him. No real attempt to check whether he'd been stabbed, just lifted his pullover a little.
@safepassageint@NicolaSturgeon Poor choice. She failed at everything she touched, including failure to look at embezzlement, even though many people warned that money was missing.
I’m starting to worry that the Labour Energy team can’t read.
This is not a report about jobs that only exist because of Net Zero.
A sizeable chunk of the jobs included are ‘waste and recycling’ and nuclear power. To state the obvious, we had those before Net Zero.
They aren’t explicit, but they appear to also include burning trees at Drax, which nobody thinks is green but which our Net Zero legislation forces us to do.
It also includes water monitoring and soil restoration - again, nothing to do with Net Zero.
It includes jobs which are not strictly a result of Net Zero, but ‘are not in conflict with it’ - for example, solar panels on roofs, or engineering consultancies. But again, there is no evidence that these jobs would not exist regardless. China, the world’s largest polluter, and the US, which doesn’t have a net zero target, have an abundance of clean tech jobs.
The problem is not clean tech, it is legislation which forces you to pick decarbonisation *when it does not work for the economy or living standards*.
If industries are paid through extremely expensive subsidies on everyone’s energy bills, of course they will be raising private capital - it’s a rent seekers’ paradise - but is that positive for the economy overall?
This is almost as bad as their ‘independent evidence’ that Clean Power 2030 would cut bills, which also turned out to be pure garbage.
For all of those repeating the Labour lines, please at least do the basics of reading the report.
The report explicitly says it is not the view of the CBI.
It was in fact funded by a green lobby think tank backed one of Labour’s biggest donors: Quadrature Capital.
How convenient that it says what Ed wants it to.
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War tends to result in death, injury and displacement. Just like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that the UK was involved in. I seem to recall that Labour was in government and very keen to be involved in those wars, despite the casualties and displacement.
It's as if the government thinks we are all suffering from amnesia and that we don't notice the hypocrisy.
1/ Five people resigned from SNP financial oversight in three months, all citing the same obstruction. John Swinney said he didn't understand why. He's now First Minister.
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