Yea, if you are dying in a fire, jump out the window and hope you learn to fly... Or put your effort into fighting the fire instead of giving the fire more oxygen
I think a more apt metaphor would be that the tories are on fire, so they throw a piece of burning material elsewhere starting another fire then go look that fire is worse than the one I’m currently on
I sense a return of the fear that Reform UK (who are to all intents and purposes climate change deniers) hope to split the Conservative vote and this 'initiative' is the Conservative's attempt to prevent that happening.
It's the same for all politicians. Tell me the last time the UK TRULY had a party that were there for the people. Some guy called Socrates was very clear about this right from the start, democracy will likely end up in demagoguery, and people will just start what you want to hear, not what is good for you. Can you imagine some dude from 2000+ years ago knew exactly where we are heading?
I speak conservative. Here's some translations. Sunak: "We have decreased emissions the most, in the G7!" (because people are now too poor to heat your homes) Sunak: "We have decreased food waste drastically!" (by forcing nurses to make use of food banks, which now have less fresh produce wasted) Sunak: "Our economy is doing great!" (our donors are efficiently capitalizing on the impoverishment of the nation!)
What utter bollax. Nurses using food banks because they spend too much on wine and make up. People like you are giving the lazy and the stupid a good excuse to plead poverty.
I speak lefty "instead of achowledging britains progress with the green transition i will just accuse Britain of being a poor backward place and the statistical improvements in emissions over the past 10 years are simply down to the evil tories doing evil things to the poor"
"We have decreased emissions the most, in the G7!" (because people are now too poor to heat your homes)" Wasn't that the whole point of green agenda in general?
As a South Korean looking at the UK makes me less miserable. There exists a country with a similar population and GDP per capita PPP with just as incompetent people in power, on the other side of the world. The idea that some other country is just as messed up as mine is slightly comforting.
South Korea is a million times better than 90% of the UK. The population are far nicer . I'm sure your government annoys people but they're incomparable
@@user-op8fg3ny3j I think he's talking about the rise of the far right in europe... In Spain, Sweden, the Tchech republic, Germany, and most notably, Italy...
Exactly my thoughts. When you have the likes of Truss, Braverman, Rees Mogg and Patel supporting something (all of whom need consigned to the political waste bin), you know damn well that it's a shoddy, ill-thought out and not fit-for-purpose policy.
@@themills23 not when 'Worzel Gummidge' is supported by 99% of the scientific community, who state that existing policies, let alone a diluting of them, are not nearly sufficient to reach net zero targets. Not to mention the broad political consensus (save for the right wing faction of the Tories) and the majority of the public, based on the polls, who think greater action is needed.
When you find out 1 in 5 Tory MPs are landlords - including several cabinet members - that one "common sense" approach was to make tenants pay high heating bills rather than force landlords to actually pay anything for 'their' passive income does indeed make sense.
@@Jay_Johnson Indeed, if they can't afford to appropriately maintain their properties, maybe they should give up their Netflix subscriptions and daily lattes?
Yet....they'd be finished still, no? I thought the govt changed the tax rules so landlords can't make anywhere near as much money. Most ones I see are selling up as a result (I'm being thrown out of my rented place as a result, as are most people I know etc. as all landlords are selling). So I dunno man - house energy efficiency thing seems to be a drop in the ocean and they are all still selling for now (yes it's been one day) think it's the tax thing
1 in 5 tories are landlords? Is that referring to party members or voters? Do you have a link for that study and how does that compare to other party membership?
I watched kemi badenoch go on a media tour about this and it was just disgusting. She’s not driven by misplaced goodwill, she’s not even motivated by evil! It’s pure greed and selfishness. She’s making peoples lives worse and she doesn’t give a flying fuck.
Trust me mate she's my local MP everyone hates her even the conversatives, she was put into are constituency because its such a safe seat. She doesn't care about the local community at all just her polical ambitions. I hate her with a passion
I sincerely hope this gamble fails. The U.K. needs change, and the tories have exhausted any sort of competency. 13 years on and there isn’t the faintest hint of statesmanship from any one of them. The recent 3 administrations have made the U.K. an embarrassment on the world stage. I hope voters will see through Sunak’s banning of policies that neither the government or opposition are pushing for. I may be incorrect, but was it not the case that the tories made expanding ULEZ a part of the TFL bailout?
Johnson was all about "world leading" and our environmental policies were something he could legitimately make world leading. Same with help for Ukraine He may actually care about Ukraine and the environment... I guess we'll never know. But we do know he cares about being the best at something so he likely was motivated to do this correctly
Boris Johnson is a political mastermind compared to the shared braincell of Truss, Braverman and Sunak. At least he had some diplomatic tact on the international stage
Recent results from a local By-election in Colchester, Essex - the area in question is fairly well off and was the result of a Labour resignation: Libs 563, Lab 447 and Tories 417. Labour shouldn't assume their path to victory is guaranteed and the Tories are toast. What we really need is for Starmer to accept the inevitable and work with the Libs to get rid of the Tories for a generation.
They already are doing this on an informal basis. Generally, they are not standing constituencies in each others' target Constituencies, save for about three where it is competitive between the two parties.
Tories are now struck between either appeasing Red wall or Blue Wall. And most probably they would anger both the constituents resulting in a red sweep in north and yellow sweep in South
@@nathangaytano1431I personally think there would be a three party system by the end of this decade similar to Nordic countries. Reform would take in the hard core Tory members and Labour working class. Lib Dems would take moderate Tories and would become classic European Centre Right Liberal and Labour would take in the more left wing part of Lib Dems.
@@nathangaytano1431 It's clear people don't like the Tories. People don't like Labour. You've not been in power for ages. So a reasonable alternative and its over for Labour and the Tories. However the problem remains. Socialist pension debts can't be paid and there's no capitalism, no capital, to pay the debts. It's austerity
@@arpandas2243 Nordic countries don't have a three party system though, it's just proportional compared to the UK's first past the post system that inevitably leads to a two party system.
@@legomovieman2 So why has all of government, civil service, Labour, Tories SnP, Welsh nationals gone full authoritarian and fascist? The answer is they are very very scared. So why are they scared? They know what's coming. They have run up 2.4 trillion in borrowing 16 trillion in pension debts with zero assets to pay EU, losses on insurance, damages for NHS injuries, damages for false imprisonment, unpaid wages, nuclear clean up, unpaid invoices ... all extra on top. So how do you try to pay that debt? Austerity. That's the only way. Problem is austerity on that level will not be tolerate. So what does the public do? Well look at Khan's extortion. Public have decided no and a small number have taken direct action. Even I have this morning put a small spanner in his plans by costing him about £100. For all the people to whom he has sold the information or have access to it, again they will get costs imposed. The law's a bitch when you use it. So they are very very worried the public find out and blame them. Consider the inevitable. Zero state pensions. Public sector pensions cancelled. How many of the victims there are willing to take things into their own hands, given they have no money, no food, and deal directly with politiicans? That's why they have moved to facism.
There is not necessarily a consensus across the political spectrum that these are bad policies. The scrappage scheme in London sounds relatively underfunded compared to Bristol, for example, but still, I think it is relatively controversial to unilaterally declare this a bad policy. A few hundred votes would have changed the Uxbridge and South Ruislip's election. @@lewis123417
Tories not bothering to talk about NHS, kids’ education, personal finance and cost of living - that’s all fucked by 13 years of “me, me, me and my mates”. So cheer us on for stopping the meat tax or 7 bin bollocks. Truly unpleasant people.
the beauty of 2050 target is that the government can just keep kicking the can down the road, until it reaches the government in 2050, they will then blame the previous government.
Nobody is, unless they are nuking China (and Indian and many others). It is simply not possible for the UK (or even Europe as a whole) to compensate for their massive CO2 emissions. This should be fairly obvious…
"we are not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people" I feel like those are two different statements, first "WE are not going to save the planet" and "saving the planet is not the REASON we are going to bankrupt the British people, WE are going to do it but not to save the planet" She just saved time and oxygen by condensing them into one.
Did you overthink that statement because of a bias? It's a relatively sensible statement. The best thing to do, however, would be to scrap "Net-Zero" altogether.
@@BradTheThird are you going to be hurt directly by the immediate effects of climate change? I assume no, meaning you do not foresee the urgency of fixing this problem that took us 150 years to break and will take us 150 years to fix, cramming for it the night before the test doesn't save the people dying year after year. As far as my original comment goes, yea I just think the Conservatives are evil, I'm not disguising that, if they all ceased to exist instantly... Well you have seen the end of the Star Wars movies when the Emperor is thrown into the power core I assume, the dancing, the music, the HAPPINESS of regular people.
I feel like the UK is finally coming to an end.. Just like how the Portuguese were a globe powerhouse, then they lost their empire, then they lost their world influence, and now they're nothing on the world stage. I feel like the UK is finally reaching the point where they're becoming irrelevant on the world stage, and their influence on the globe is dwindling..
Worth saying they have not yet changed the cap on new boilers (still 30,000 households per year). Which is madness and will be a huge bottle neck. They may as well have increased the grant to a million pounds.
They had introduced a new policy instead. They were going to force boiler manufacturers to fund grants for heat pump installs instead of using taxpayer money to do it. The government set a required % of installs to be HPs (4% in the first year, increasing each year). Each HP installed generates a credit. For every 24 boilers (first year) you need 1 credit. Boiler manufacturers have to buy credits from HP installers if they don't manufacture heat pumps themselves. Buying the credit subsidises the HP install. Market forces sort out how much the credit costs and therefore how big the subsidy is, in order to get enough members of the public to have HPs installed to generate enough credits to fulfill the % requirements that year. The net effect is boiler installs cost 200 more to subsidise HP installs by 5000, with boilers getting slightly more expensive each year, gradually making them less and less popular until by the time the ban comes in 2035 no one wanted a boiler anyway. The government doesn't set how much the subsidy is, only what the outcome has to be, so they can push the blame for rising boiler costs onto the industry. It's a pretty good way to smooth the phase out of boilers without costing any taxpayer money.
This will not appeal to the younger voter, that are the voters of the future, the older Con's voters will not be around long, so will need the younger voters. The LibDems lost a lot of young voters when they went back on their pledge to remove student's loans. Hopefully the same thing will happen to the Tories.
@@richardjames3022you are forgetting one thing, the older people get, the more likely they are to vote conservatively. This is normal because it is in their interest. Wait until you have to pay half your income to the tax man so the lefties can house junkies and wasters.
Hes right most pressing issue: gender indocrination by woke! Trans people make immigrants violent burn down money high inflation rates! But they wont tell you that in BBC...
I'm a MSc renewable energy and the biggest lie in the energy transition is that it's a net-cost for consumers. Due to solar projects planned here in the Netherlands as compared to projected cost of production, we will in 2030 pay €117 *a year* on energy as a result of the compounding innovation in solar-PV increasing yield and decreasing costs. We only need an upfront investment which is being used for political purposes.
If he wants to give the Tory’s a fighting chance at the next elections he needs to go farther with rolling back the stupid net zero. Start build ing nuclear power stations now and carry on until we have an excess of power then we can start selling power to Europe instead of importing power. Until them we build gas power stations them we use British Gas from the North Sea or from fracking. Cheap reliable power and gas will in bring in investments.
The only reason Land Rover Toyota and the like are for the relaxed policy is because they are miles behind in automotive development. They basically still in the storage.
If anyone is confused about whether Sunak's revised policy is good or bad, just look at the MPs that are supporting it. That tells you everything you need to know.
Vote Labour and get ULEZ in every Town, 20mph speed limits all across the UK, millions more immigrants and much higher taxes to pay for them, whats not to like ?
Let's play Richie's reality politics your hard earned savings - GONE your council houses - GONE your job security - GONE your health care - GONE your safe schools - GONE your clean beaches - GONE "This government will not help YOU, the British people, what - so - ever!"
The 2030 electric car target was impossible and stupid. How do you expect them to install enough car chargers on roads like the A9 in 7 years. When they have failed massively to duel it. If they really wanna make a difference, ban all cruise ships in British ports. Literally no justification for that level of pollution to go on a holiday which is actually just a floating germ hot pot with screaming kids.
Smacks of desperation, he's been advised to create Net Zero as a wedge issue. Sunak should've made this announcement in Parliament, all to avoid scrutiny of course .
0:13 the reason this frustrates businesses for dummies: it shows the government to be unpredictable in their plans where they want to be able to rely on the government being stable and consistent.
Just because you can legally buy ICE cars doesn't necessarily mean automakers have to offer them . Likewise just because only EVs will be available doesnt mean anyone has to buy them , and could just keep buying second hand ICE for decades . The date change is pretty much irrelevant, people will buy what they buy .
I think Labour will likely water down their proposals. Lets be real, if Starmer found out kicking your granny up the backside would win over a few tory voters, he'd do it in a heartbeat. Fingers crossed they stay strong though.
Toyota are years and years behind everyone else in electrification, hence their liking of the plan, JLR ( an Indian company) have just received several hundred million pounds of tax payer money so they aren't going to complain.
Regardless of your stance on the 'net zero' debate, who's going to tell the US, India and China to stop? As it is, China is building coal powered stations like there's no tomorrow, so regardless of 'our' target, nothing will change except a lot of people getting very rich at our expense 🙄🤬🖖
I'm an American and even I know Ulez is unpopular and most working folks hate it! I'm no climate change denier, however I'm not an alarmist about it. Shooting ourselves in the foot economically isn't going to help us deal with this problem. The simple fact of the matter is, Renewable energy isn't where it needs to be because battery storage isn't up to task to handle grid scale demand. And this is an area in politics where I'm super White-pilled because of awesome channels like Undecided with Matt Ferrel, and Real Engineering. They've both talked extensively about the things smart people all over the world are doing. Literally the smartest people on the planet are tackling this issue, and even then it's a nut that hasn't been properly cracked. So that means that in the meantime, we can't electrify everything we use hydrocarbons for just yet. Energy still comes from coal in most places, and EV batteries are full of rare earth minerals that are even more atrocious for the environment. Green policies like these are only sweeping the dirt under the rug. The fact of the matter is we just need to be patient and instead of stripping the petroleum powered mechanisms we have now away from people, we need to incentivize alternative methods that make sense. Making the earth greener shouldn't mean people go hungry, cold, and suffer.
The car industry has already made their 10 year plans to transition to EV. So now they either have to rework those plans while fearing that a future government will reinstate the 2030 deadline which they then won't meet. or continue with their 2030 plans and risk losing market shares to other auto makers who continue making gasoline powered cars until 2035. Is it too much to ask governments to stick with long-term policies instead of using these issues as political footballs?
Nothing is achievable once you start moving the goalposts and the Tories are well adept at moving the goalposts in their neverending "jam tomorrow but never today"
If a 1/5 of households will be exempt for the gas boiler change ... their bills will be huge as they will have to pay for the entire gas grid .... good luck with that ?
rational decision.. we should have a debate on the current net zero plan.. all cards on the table and then Brit electorate decide. The chaos around this is the fault of those who set net zero targets without properly assessing feasibility... too desperate to be world leaders ... but you have to be able to bring the electorate with you on anything you do. Plus some of these london politicans totally lost the plot saying things like "poor people dont drive so it wont affect them". and then other silly unrealistic statements like "we want to get everyone on their bikes or walking to work" .. just out of touch.
@@glyndavies5479 you mean it didnt go as you wanted? people voted for brexit for a variety of different reasons.. it caused chaos.. but the chaos was already building anyway.. which is why it was called. Blame major/Blair. They pushed too hard.. without them we'd likely have had Norway deal or something similar.
@@jeremymanson1781 not sure UT will let me post links these days. You'd have to scroll through GB news video on the issue and you'll see one where they bring on a policy maker.. recent vids.
@@joecater894 'GB News' is an oximoron. I would need a less dodgy source than that. And even if someone did say those dumb ass things then, unless they were someone significant, why pay them any attention? I too can say stupid things - but why would anyone care what I say?
Sorry but the general public are more concerned with the cost of living and how they are going to make ends meet rather than net zero actions. We need to get real and anything that is going to put an extra cost burden on the general public is not only unfair but also unrealistic.
Exactly, they also failed to mention the world leading companies, like the largest car company in the world Toyota are hailing this move. They've been telling us for years this will happen, same will happen to the 2035 ban.
You've been gaslit into thinking this is going to save you money and it's not... The whole point of the 2030 ban rather than leaving it to 2050 was to make it so that the wealthiest who can afford new cars would have to go green. The poorest in society don't buy new cars... by the time you get to 2050 there will be plenty of cheap second hand electric cars available. The later the ban on new cars is bought in the more expensive it will be to go green in 2050. It is a simple supply and demand equation. The demand is set in stone for 2050, so get the supply up as high as possible before that date to bring costs down.
"We still expect to meet Net zero by 2050... because Labour will probably be in power for the next decade or so and are more likely to stick to their green commitments than we are."
You stated at 7:30 that the Labour Party hasn’t been drawn on stating it’s position on Heat pumps. They have. Off the top of my head Thangam Debonaire sheepishly confirmed on Question Time that Labour would match the Conservatives on that policy. Aka they won’t reinstate the 2030 deadline. There was also another MP on Sky News who admitted the same thing to Jayne Secker the morning after the speech.
Some questions.. Now that the non-existent 7 bin law has been abolished can I get rid of my 5 non-existent bins ? Now that the imaginary meat tax has been abolished, can I imagine I'm saving money on buying meat ? Now that the fictitious law forcing me at gunpoint to replace my perfectly working gas boiler and petrol car has been cancelled, can I continue using them like I was anyway ?
Labor trying to portray themselves as the “pro-business party” in this scuffle is wild to me. Ambitious and unreasonable 10-year plans are somehow business friendly moves, while the more moderate, reasonable target delays are deemed “chaotic” and “anti-business”. What a quixotic country the UK is.
6:33 The automakers that are supporting the change are more than late regarding the EV transition, so indeed, it is "pragmatic"... for them. The key point is that without any more reason to invest in UK for EVs and batteries, automakers will rather invest in Europe to avoid the complex logistic of building cars on an island and the brexit mess. Too bad for UK jobs.
Tories love selling off the future for a few oldies. Worst thing is, think it might work. My parents love this despite actually having an electric car 😂😭
every person in the UK knows the UK is not ready to implement any of these measures for net zero. People cannot afford to heat their homes, how they are going to switch to electric and heatpumps in the middle of the cost of living crisis? Russia meanwhile burns billions of tons of gas in the field with zero concern about the environment just so it doesn't go to Europe while you're going to sit in the cold with paper straw and cry why you can't afford anything because of measures that were way too much to start with.
@@jonsmith5058 there will be no kids future if we all going bankrupt by a bunch of ridiculous measures that doing exactly nothing on the scale of our planet.
Hello Jack, you look good without glasses too! If we really are gearing up for a campaign (and more tldr campaign explain videos yay) please can we have more of a focus on other parties as well? xxxx
2035 is already the deadline for the whole of the EU (which Tory-skeptics are usually falling over themselves to praise) and many US states, so our 1% of global emissions being a bit higher for five years is going to make an unmeasurably miniscule impact on "Saving The Planet", even if you believe in this stuff. There is no way on Earth that we were ever going to have a remotely viable EV infrastructure, and the upgraded grid and power-generation needed to support it, by 2030, and frankly, I'm not betting much of my own money on 2035.
We are a bit of a shit country if we couldn't do that in 11 years, it's not like it's next year. It's not just about dropping behind in emissions, dropping it now is causing us to fall behind in competitiveness, technologically and business wise, which is why so many businesses are upset by this announcement. We are becoming a laughing stock, supposedly one of the richest countries in the world and we are stalling based on ideological principles of a super rich PM while other countries are getting ready to overtake us as we dawdle.
@@swanchamp5136 Yeah, but we're not "dropping behind" are we? We're only adopting the same date as everybody else, which surely makes life EASIER for these international corporations.
@MrHws5mp the international companies with factories in the UK are some of the ones complaining about what Sunak just proposed. It's going to make it more difficult to trade internationally if the standards with our country and ones we want to trade with do not match. We could also have been at the cutting edge of battery technology but it's being abandoned by this government right at the start of an EV revolution and China is more than happy to take that business from us as they are steaming ahead with their battery factories and tech. I swear the Tories won't be happy till we are back on steam power and sending children back into cotton Mills to crawl under dangerous machinery for tuppence a month.
@@swanchamp5136 And some of the other international companies with factories in the UK are saying they support it, so I suspect the net opinion is neutral at worst. The ones who are complaining are the ones who uncritically believed in 2030 when it was announced, and the ones who support the latest change are the ones who took one look at 2030 back then and said (like me), "nah, bollocks, that's going to get pushed back in a few years' time". How is it going to make it more difficult to trade when two of the biggest markets, the EU and the USA, are going for 2035 as well as us? There's no 'standards' issue: just a timing issue and this change puts us more in step with other countries time-wise.
They'll definitely lose if they let things play out naturally so taking a risk does make some sense
Yea, if you are dying in a fire, jump out the window and hope you learn to fly... Or put your effort into fighting the fire instead of giving the fire more oxygen
I think a more apt metaphor would be that the tories are on fire, so they throw a piece of burning material elsewhere starting another fire then go look that fire is worse than the one I’m currently on
@@Provenom100 oh that's exactly what they are doing, not even a metaphor
I sense a return of the fear that Reform UK (who are to all intents and purposes climate change deniers) hope to split the Conservative vote and this 'initiative' is the Conservative's attempt to prevent that happening.
@@jeremymanson1781Sunak saved the tories with this move
If Liz Truss agrees with your plan, it's time to rethink your plan.
To be fair Boris disagrees and Truss agrees… so your argument can work both ways 😅
lol
It's always about getting re-elected, never about what they actually intend to do.
They're Tories , they intend to do nothing and charge you for it .
Well..... it's sorta the same thing really. What they intend to do is get re-elected.
True but I wish they'd thought about this before they signed up to various international agreements.
Intend to do 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's the same for all politicians. Tell me the last time the UK TRULY had a party that were there for the people.
Some guy called Socrates was very clear about this right from the start, democracy will likely end up in demagoguery, and people will just start what you want to hear, not what is good for you. Can you imagine some dude from 2000+ years ago knew exactly where we are heading?
I speak conservative. Here's some translations.
Sunak: "We have decreased emissions the most, in the G7!" (because people are now too poor to heat your homes)
Sunak: "We have decreased food waste drastically!" (by forcing nurses to make use of food banks, which now have less fresh produce wasted)
Sunak: "Our economy is doing great!" (our donors are efficiently capitalizing on the impoverishment of the nation!)
What utter bollax. Nurses using food banks because they spend too much on wine and make up. People like you are giving the lazy and the stupid a good excuse to plead poverty.
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@@aldercones I have been waiting for them to make this claim about care homes after slaughtering them during covid.
I speak lefty "instead of achowledging britains progress with the green transition i will just accuse Britain of being a poor backward place and the statistical improvements in emissions over the past 10 years are simply down to the evil tories doing evil things to the poor"
"We have decreased emissions the most, in the G7!" (because people are now too poor to heat your homes)"
Wasn't that the whole point of green agenda in general?
As a South Korean looking at the UK makes me less miserable. There exists a country with a similar population and GDP per capita PPP with just as incompetent people in power, on the other side of the world. The idea that some other country is just as messed up as mine is slightly comforting.
South Korea is a million times better than 90% of the UK. The population are far nicer . I'm sure your government annoys people but they're incomparable
We will struggle together ✌️
Yeah and would be better if fascism wasn’t raising from the west and I don’t mean only Russia
@@ThePatxiao wdym?
@@user-op8fg3ny3j I think he's talking about the rise of the far right in europe... In Spain, Sweden, the Tchech republic, Germany, and most notably, Italy...
The list of supporting MPs said it clearly.
Exactly my thoughts. When you have the likes of Truss, Braverman, Rees Mogg and Patel supporting something (all of whom need consigned to the political waste bin), you know damn well that it's a shoddy, ill-thought out and not fit-for-purpose policy.
Yeah agreed, but is that balanced out by having Worzel Gummidge taking the opposite view?
@@themills23 not when 'Worzel Gummidge' is supported by 99% of the scientific community, who state that existing policies, let alone a diluting of them, are not nearly sufficient to reach net zero targets. Not to mention the broad political consensus (save for the right wing faction of the Tories) and the majority of the public, based on the polls, who think greater action is needed.
That's not me supporting Johnson btw, absolute pathological liar
Many Conservative MPs in 2015 hated the idea of an EU referendum.....
To be fair to Sunak, he has saved less well off families a lot of money by abolishing a meat tax that never existed.
his party is the reason they are poor
@@memelord9232 Labour will be the reason they get even poorer.
@@jjefferyworboys8138- Just like from 1997-2010 when the economy performed the best since the 50s .
Well at least I don't have to continue using the seven bins that I don't have.
@@jjefferyworboys8138 there's really not much poorer we can go after the last 13 years
When you find out 1 in 5 Tory MPs are landlords - including several cabinet members - that one "common sense" approach was to make tenants pay high heating bills rather than force landlords to actually pay anything for 'their' passive income does indeed make sense.
We need to eliminate the unproductive classes. Landlords need to get a job
@@Jay_Johnson Indeed, if they can't afford to appropriately maintain their properties, maybe they should give up their Netflix subscriptions and daily lattes?
@getnohappy I don't like Mao, but he definitely was right regarding landlords
Yet....they'd be finished still, no? I thought the govt changed the tax rules so landlords can't make anywhere near as much money. Most ones I see are selling up as a result (I'm being thrown out of my rented place as a result, as are most people I know etc. as all landlords are selling).
So I dunno man - house energy efficiency thing seems to be a drop in the ocean and they are all still selling for now (yes it's been one day) think it's the tax thing
1 in 5 tories are landlords? Is that referring to party members or voters? Do you have a link for that study and how does that compare to other party membership?
Imagine watching Liz "Human-catastrophe" Truss nuke herself from the sidelines...and then taking her advice a year later. Madness.
Genius 5D chess move from Rishi I'm sure
that was a year ago already???
One should never underestimate a tory's ability to do the wrong thing
I watched kemi badenoch go on a media tour about this and it was just disgusting.
She’s not driven by misplaced goodwill, she’s not even motivated by evil! It’s pure greed and selfishness.
She’s making peoples lives worse and she doesn’t give a flying fuck.
Kemi is a massive PR disaster
Trust me mate she's my local MP everyone hates her even the conversatives, she was put into are constituency because its such a safe seat. She doesn't care about the local community at all just her polical ambitions. I hate her with a passion
I sincerely hope this gamble fails. The U.K. needs change, and the tories have exhausted any sort of competency. 13 years on and there isn’t the faintest hint of statesmanship from any one of them. The recent 3 administrations have made the U.K. an embarrassment on the world stage.
I hope voters will see through Sunak’s banning of policies that neither the government or opposition are pushing for.
I may be incorrect, but was it not the case that the tories made expanding ULEZ a part of the TFL bailout?
It’s ok I wouldn’t expect an investment banker to understand climate change or takings preventative measures to stop something awful
Rishi has done the impossible, making Boris sound like the sensible man in the room.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, It's s shame there's so many broken clocks in the conservative party.
Exactly. Boris Johnson was the greatest prime minister we ever had.
Johnson was all about "world leading" and our environmental policies were something he could legitimately make world leading. Same with help for Ukraine
He may actually care about Ukraine and the environment... I guess we'll never know. But we do know he cares about being the best at something so he likely was motivated to do this correctly
Truss already did about three weeks after Boris was out
Boris Johnson is a political mastermind compared to the shared braincell of Truss, Braverman and Sunak. At least he had some diplomatic tact on the international stage
Recent results from a local By-election in Colchester, Essex - the area in question is fairly well off and was the result of a Labour resignation: Libs 563, Lab 447 and Tories 417. Labour shouldn't assume their path to victory is guaranteed and the Tories are toast. What we really need is for Starmer to accept the inevitable and work with the Libs to get rid of the Tories for a generation.
They already are doing this on an informal basis. Generally, they are not standing constituencies in each others' target Constituencies, save for about three where it is competitive between the two parties.
7 or 8 more prime ministers and the UK might find a keeper
Tories are now struck between either appeasing Red wall or Blue Wall. And most probably they would anger both the constituents resulting in a red sweep in north and yellow sweep in South
You are still stuck in 2 party land
The start of a new Party system with two new main parties and the Tories as the sometimes important 3rd party lmao
@@nathangaytano1431I personally think there would be a three party system by the end of this decade similar to Nordic countries. Reform would take in the hard core Tory members and Labour working class. Lib Dems would take moderate Tories and would become classic European Centre Right Liberal and Labour would take in the more left wing part of Lib Dems.
@@nathangaytano1431 It's clear people don't like the Tories.
People don't like Labour. You've not been in power for ages.
So a reasonable alternative and its over for Labour and the Tories.
However the problem remains. Socialist pension debts can't be paid and there's no capitalism, no capital, to pay the debts.
It's austerity
@@arpandas2243 Nordic countries don't have a three party system though, it's just proportional compared to the UK's first past the post system that inevitably leads to a two party system.
My issue with this is it sort of only undos what the Tories have done, ULEZ is similar where they rail against it despite introducing it.
and above all letting it continue.
@@Nickle314 But hey it's the most RIGHT WING party of all time r...right? I'm so tired of the British Uniparty.
@@legomovieman2 So why has all of government, civil service, Labour, Tories SnP, Welsh nationals gone full authoritarian and fascist?
The answer is they are very very scared. So why are they scared? They know what's coming.
They have run up 2.4 trillion in borrowing
16 trillion in pension debts with zero assets to pay
EU, losses on insurance, damages for NHS injuries, damages for false imprisonment, unpaid wages, nuclear clean up, unpaid invoices ... all extra on top.
So how do you try to pay that debt? Austerity. That's the only way. Problem is austerity on that level will not be tolerate.
So what does the public do? Well look at Khan's extortion. Public have decided no and a small number have taken direct action. Even I have this morning put a small spanner in his plans by costing him about £100. For all the people to whom he has sold the information or have access to it, again they will get costs imposed. The law's a bitch when you use it.
So they are very very worried the public find out and blame them.
Consider the inevitable. Zero state pensions. Public sector pensions cancelled. How many of the victims there are willing to take things into their own hands, given they have no money, no food, and deal directly with politiicans?
That's why they have moved to facism.
Says more about labour who are prepared to keep and defend bad tory policies which even the tories are abandoning
There is not necessarily a consensus across the political spectrum that these are bad policies. The scrappage scheme in London sounds relatively underfunded compared to Bristol, for example, but still, I think it is relatively controversial to unilaterally declare this a bad policy. A few hundred votes would have changed the Uxbridge and South Ruislip's election. @@lewis123417
Tories not bothering to talk about NHS, kids’ education, personal finance and cost of living - that’s all fucked by 13 years of “me, me, me and my mates”. So cheer us on for stopping the meat tax or 7 bin bollocks. Truly unpleasant people.
Love the clip of the cop petting the cat without hesitation
the beauty of 2050 target is that the government can just keep kicking the can down the road, until it reaches the government in 2050, they will then blame the previous government.
Suella Braverman could have left it as "we are not going to save the planet".
Nobody is, unless they are nuking China (and Indian and many others). It is simply not possible for the UK (or even Europe as a whole) to compensate for their massive CO2 emissions.
This should be fairly obvious…
Also the King had yesterday labelled it our most existential challenge 😅
The King has a lot of whacky ideas
@@lewis123417
The king is whacky... but right wingers are downright psychos.
General Election now. The government is a mess.
1:30, love the officer petting Larry!
Boss Larry
"we are not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people"
I feel like those are two different statements, first "WE are not going to save the planet" and "saving the planet is not the REASON we are going to bankrupt the British people, WE are going to do it but not to save the planet"
She just saved time and oxygen by condensing them into one.
Did you overthink that statement because of a bias? It's a relatively sensible statement. The best thing to do, however, would be to scrap "Net-Zero" altogether.
@@BradTheThird are you going to be hurt directly by the immediate effects of climate change? I assume no, meaning you do not foresee the urgency of fixing this problem that took us 150 years to break and will take us 150 years to fix, cramming for it the night before the test doesn't save the people dying year after year.
As far as my original comment goes, yea I just think the Conservatives are evil, I'm not disguising that, if they all ceased to exist instantly... Well you have seen the end of the Star Wars movies when the Emperor is thrown into the power core I assume, the dancing, the music, the HAPPINESS of regular people.
Because that's what British did to other countries they colonised and destroyed their civilization
@@BradTheThird No it's not a sensible statement. It's an idiotic statement. Saving the planet has nothing to do with bankrupting the British people.
@@binduravikumar5102 And the Romans conquered the British - welcome to the world, enjoy your stay.
Basically, Sunak caved into the pressure from the ERG group, making him utterly more weak and spineless.
Why does he say Re-lack-shun?
You can’t tell me he pronounces ‘relax’ as ‘re-lack’.
I feel like the UK is finally coming to an end.. Just like how the Portuguese were a globe powerhouse, then they lost their empire, then they lost their world influence, and now they're nothing on the world stage. I feel like the UK is finally reaching the point where they're becoming irrelevant on the world stage, and their influence on the globe is dwindling..
Little dramatic mate, just aligning with the EU
@@AM2K2
Not dramatic, just the truth.
Small nations can't compete on the international stage anymore, especially not when they're terribly managed.
Well I've left the UK after so much disappointment so.....
Fired the starting gun for the next general election directly at his own foot
Worth saying they have not yet changed the cap on new boilers (still 30,000 households per year). Which is madness and will be a huge bottle neck. They may as well have increased the grant to a million pounds.
They had introduced a new policy instead. They were going to force boiler manufacturers to fund grants for heat pump installs instead of using taxpayer money to do it. The government set a required % of installs to be HPs (4% in the first year, increasing each year). Each HP installed generates a credit. For every 24 boilers (first year) you need 1 credit. Boiler manufacturers have to buy credits from HP installers if they don't manufacture heat pumps themselves. Buying the credit subsidises the HP install. Market forces sort out how much the credit costs and therefore how big the subsidy is, in order to get enough members of the public to have HPs installed to generate enough credits to fulfill the % requirements that year. The net effect is boiler installs cost 200 more to subsidise HP installs by 5000, with boilers getting slightly more expensive each year, gradually making them less and less popular until by the time the ban comes in 2035 no one wanted a boiler anyway. The government doesn't set how much the subsidy is, only what the outcome has to be, so they can push the blame for rising boiler costs onto the industry. It's a pretty good way to smooth the phase out of boilers without costing any taxpayer money.
This will not appeal to the younger voter, that are the voters of the future, the older Con's voters will not be around long, so will need the younger voters. The LibDems lost a lot of young voters when they went back on their pledge to remove student's loans. Hopefully the same thing will happen to the Tories.
We all know how much young people love voting
@@AM2K2 They are the future. Unfortunately you are correct, but they need to be encouraged to vote and so be represented, this will not help.
@@richardjames3022I'm one of them and vote whenever the opportunity is there, local elections, mayor elections, GEs (I vote in all of them)
@@richardjames3022 the most important contribution of Jeremy corbyn was to get young people into politics.
@@richardjames3022you are forgetting one thing, the older people get, the more likely they are to vote conservatively. This is normal because it is in their interest. Wait until you have to pay half your income to the tax man so the lefties can house junkies and wasters.
Sunak has said the election would be fought with culture wars (for obvious reasons). It worked in Uxbridge.
Hes right most pressing issue: gender indocrination by woke!
Trans people make immigrants violent burn down money high inflation rates!
But they wont tell you that in BBC...
They held on in Uxbridge as Brunel University was not in term time.
TLDR - Too Long and Didn’t sound Rational.
Congratulations on 700k subscribers!
I'm a MSc renewable energy and the biggest lie in the energy transition is that it's a net-cost for consumers.
Due to solar projects planned here in the Netherlands as compared to projected cost of production, we will in 2030 pay €117 *a year* on energy as a result of the compounding innovation in solar-PV increasing yield and decreasing costs.
We only need an upfront investment which is being used for political purposes.
If he wants to give the Tory’s a fighting chance at the next elections he needs to go farther with rolling back the stupid net zero. Start build ing nuclear power stations now and carry on until we have an excess of power then we can start selling power to Europe instead of importing power.
Until them we build gas power stations them we use British Gas from the North Sea or from fracking. Cheap reliable power and gas will in bring in investments.
They think that because of Uxbridge they can tell everyone they don’t need to use 7 bins to recycle, which was made up in the first place.
Guys, it's 'Keir', not 'Kier'.
The only reason Land Rover Toyota and the like are for the relaxed policy is because they are miles behind in automotive development. They basically still in the storage.
If anyone is confused about whether Sunak's revised policy is good or bad, just look at the MPs that are supporting it. That tells you everything you need to know.
Vote Labour and get ULEZ in every Town, 20mph speed limits all across the UK, millions more immigrants and much higher taxes to pay for them, whats not to like ?
Sunak’s policy change is about CO2 emissions related to global climate change.
ULEZ is about soot and NOx which form local health risks.
Let's play Richie's reality politics
your hard earned savings - GONE
your council houses - GONE
your job security - GONE
your health care - GONE
your safe schools - GONE
your clean beaches - GONE
"This government will not help YOU, the British people, what - so - ever!"
It's too fucking cold to go to the beach anyway
At least no woke
@@mr.netflix9149
The 2030 electric car target was impossible and stupid. How do you expect them to install enough car chargers on roads like the A9 in 7 years. When they have failed massively to duel it.
If they really wanna make a difference, ban all cruise ships in British ports. Literally no justification for that level of pollution to go on a holiday which is actually just a floating germ hot pot with screaming kids.
Remember this. Sunak is taking a gamble to save his career. Even as the gamble threatens to undermine all our futures.
Meanwhile BP goes Brrrr
Truly despicable. Vote them out.
Great! Perhaps there is a future in which cars and warm homes are available to working people, not just the rich.
Will be lovely having that warm home as its flooded from the consequences of extreme weather patterns from climate change eh?
You mean a future with more affordable gas and petrol ? Good luck !
Smacks of desperation, he's been advised to create Net Zero as a wedge issue. Sunak should've made this announcement in Parliament, all to avoid scrutiny of course .
0:13 the reason this frustrates businesses for dummies: it shows the government to be unpredictable in their plans where they want to be able to rely on the government being stable and consistent.
Don’t know who can vote for Tories, there is basically zero merit and sense to re-elect them.
Relevant info starts at 1:29
Just because you can legally buy ICE cars doesn't necessarily mean automakers have to offer them . Likewise just because only EVs will be available doesnt mean anyone has to buy them , and could just keep buying second hand ICE for decades . The date change is pretty much irrelevant, people will buy what they buy .
I think Labour will likely water down their proposals. Lets be real, if Starmer found out kicking your granny up the backside would win over a few tory voters, he'd do it in a heartbeat.
Fingers crossed they stay strong though.
Toyota are years and years behind everyone else in electrification, hence their liking of the plan, JLR ( an Indian company) have just received several hundred million pounds of tax payer money so they aren't going to complain.
You know Toyota has an electric car and something called the C-pod, right?
@@Ag3nt0fCha0s 🤣🤣😂😂
Based Sunak, wish Canada would follow.
Regardless of your stance on the 'net zero' debate, who's going to tell the US, India and China to stop? As it is, China is building coal powered stations like there's no tomorrow, so regardless of 'our' target, nothing will change except a lot of people getting very rich at our expense 🙄🤬🖖
Revolution is needed to make the uk competitive again.
Yes, try to start one..
You lot could not start a lawnmower
phasing out Gas boilers? What are we going to replace them with.. Heat pumps just don't work in the UK
Ah yes, the clown brigade are in agreement
I'm an American and even I know Ulez is unpopular and most working folks hate it! I'm no climate change denier, however I'm not an alarmist about it. Shooting ourselves in the foot economically isn't going to help us deal with this problem. The simple fact of the matter is, Renewable energy isn't where it needs to be because battery storage isn't up to task to handle grid scale demand. And this is an area in politics where I'm super White-pilled because of awesome channels like Undecided with Matt Ferrel, and Real Engineering. They've both talked extensively about the things smart people all over the world are doing. Literally the smartest people on the planet are tackling this issue, and even then it's a nut that hasn't been properly cracked. So that means that in the meantime, we can't electrify everything we use hydrocarbons for just yet. Energy still comes from coal in most places, and EV batteries are full of rare earth minerals that are even more atrocious for the environment. Green policies like these are only sweeping the dirt under the rug.
The fact of the matter is we just need to be patient and instead of stripping the petroleum powered mechanisms we have now away from people, we need to incentivize alternative methods that make sense. Making the earth greener shouldn't mean people go hungry, cold, and suffer.
Could it have anything to do with the amount of land Lords in the commons and lords
1:29 ADORABLE KITTY CAT!
The car industry has already made their 10 year plans to transition to EV. So now they either have to rework those plans while fearing that a future government will reinstate the 2030 deadline which they then won't meet. or continue with their 2030 plans and risk losing market shares to other auto makers who continue making gasoline powered cars until 2035.
Is it too much to ask governments to stick with long-term policies instead of using these issues as political footballs?
Nothing is achievable once you start moving the goalposts and the Tories are well adept at moving the goalposts in their neverending "jam tomorrow but never today"
Excellent thumbnail
So THIS is the divider between perhaps decent conservative MPs and the absolute nutcases
Ex boris
Decent tories 😂😂😂😂 I just can't 😂
@@Soraviel Can't what? - half the country aren't decent people? - that says more about you than it does about Tories :)
@@Soraviel emoji emoji emoji emoji emoji
@dondoodat Great, countless of decent tories whether they are part of the leadership or the electorate. They make up more or less half the country.
The cons are toast
If a 1/5 of households will be exempt for the gas boiler change ... their bills will be huge as they will have to pay for the entire gas grid .... good luck with that ?
Love the guy at 1:33 petting the cat
Silly net zero policies should be cancelled all together, a lot of which are self harming nonsense
Talking about politics is like talking about when the wind will blow. It changes randomly all the time
Hilarious that a politician announcing policies says that it isn't political???
What's really funny is that he is citing the EU as a reason to update his net zero policies.
Lol can you read? That's not the reason for the update
The gas boilers delay is so stupid. Personally I already refuse to live anywhere still on gas, just get rid and be done.
"Not risk losing the consent of the public"... well, that's rich. He's implying that he has any consent left to lose.
So basically the car companies that build cars in the UK are happy those that don't build cars are unhappy. That should tell you something.
Pretty bold to assume he has a plan in mind.
rational decision.. we should have a debate on the current net zero plan.. all cards on the table and then Brit electorate decide. The chaos around this is the fault of those who set net zero targets without properly assessing feasibility... too desperate to be world leaders ... but you have to be able to bring the electorate with you on anything you do. Plus some of these london politicans totally lost the plot saying things like "poor people dont drive so it wont affect them". and then other silly unrealistic statements like "we want to get everyone on their bikes or walking to work" .. just out of touch.
I know, lets have a referendum, the last one went so well!
Who said that - links please.
@@glyndavies5479 you mean it didnt go as you wanted? people voted for brexit for a variety of different reasons.. it caused chaos.. but the chaos was already building anyway.. which is why it was called. Blame major/Blair. They pushed too hard.. without them we'd likely have had Norway deal or something similar.
@@jeremymanson1781 not sure UT will let me post links these days. You'd have to scroll through GB news video on the issue and you'll see one where they bring on a policy maker.. recent vids.
@@joecater894 'GB News' is an oximoron. I would need a less dodgy source than that. And even if someone did say those dumb ass things then, unless they were someone significant, why pay them any attention? I too can say stupid things - but why would anyone care what I say?
1:28 Casual police guard stroking cat
Sorry but the general public are more concerned with the cost of living and how they are going to make ends meet rather than net zero actions. We need to get real and anything that is going to put an extra cost burden on the general public is not only unfair but also unrealistic.
Exactly, they also failed to mention the world leading companies, like the largest car company in the world Toyota are hailing this move. They've been telling us for years this will happen, same will happen to the 2035 ban.
You've been gaslit into thinking this is going to save you money and it's not... The whole point of the 2030 ban rather than leaving it to 2050 was to make it so that the wealthiest who can afford new cars would have to go green. The poorest in society don't buy new cars... by the time you get to 2050 there will be plenty of cheap second hand electric cars available.
The later the ban on new cars is bought in the more expensive it will be to go green in 2050.
It is a simple supply and demand equation. The demand is set in stone for 2050, so get the supply up as high as possible before that date to bring costs down.
"We still expect to meet Net zero by 2050... because Labour will probably be in power for the next decade or so and are more likely to stick to their green commitments than we are."
You stated at 7:30 that the Labour Party hasn’t been drawn on stating it’s position on Heat pumps.
They have. Off the top of my head Thangam Debonaire sheepishly confirmed on Question Time that Labour would match the Conservatives on that policy. Aka they won’t reinstate the 2030 deadline.
There was also another MP on Sky News who admitted the same thing to Jayne Secker the morning after the speech.
WHEN THE GUARD PETTED THE CAT❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Some questions..
Now that the non-existent 7 bin law has been abolished can I get rid of my 5 non-existent bins ?
Now that the imaginary meat tax has been abolished, can I imagine I'm saving money on buying meat ?
Now that the fictitious law forcing me at gunpoint to replace my perfectly working gas boiler and petrol car has
been cancelled, can I continue using them like I was anyway ?
Labor trying to portray themselves as the “pro-business party” in this scuffle is wild to me. Ambitious and unreasonable 10-year plans are somehow business friendly moves, while the more moderate, reasonable target delays are deemed “chaotic” and “anti-business”. What a quixotic country the UK is.
Why can't car makers and energy companies carry on with thier plans anyway?
jack without glasses jumpscare right after ben without mustache jumpscare. Warn me next time
Love the thumbnail!
You know its a sound plan when liz trus supports it
Announcing policy when the House is in recess , the Speaker will be pleased.
Signs that a GE is imminent.
6:33 The automakers that are supporting the change are more than late regarding the EV transition, so indeed, it is "pragmatic"... for them. The key point is that without any more reason to invest in UK for EVs and batteries, automakers will rather invest in Europe to avoid the complex logistic of building cars on an island and the brexit mess. Too bad for UK jobs.
Tories love selling off the future for a few oldies. Worst thing is, think it might work. My parents love this despite actually having an electric car 😂😭
I'm an oldie and I absolutely loath it, as do a very large number of other sensible 'elderly persons'.
every person in the UK knows the UK is not ready to implement any of these measures for net zero. People cannot afford to heat their homes, how they are going to switch to electric and heatpumps in the middle of the cost of living crisis? Russia meanwhile burns billions of tons of gas in the field with zero concern about the environment just so it doesn't go to Europe while you're going to sit in the cold with paper straw and cry why you can't afford anything because of measures that were way too much to start with.
@@jeremymanson1781 well thank god for the few good ones!
Why do they love it? Do they not care about their kids futures? Thats really selfish…
@@jonsmith5058 there will be no kids future if we all going bankrupt by a bunch of ridiculous measures that doing exactly nothing on the scale of our planet.
A goal of net zero is stupid and unattainable.
The thumnail is really nice
Hello Jack, you look good without glasses too!
If we really are gearing up for a campaign (and more tldr campaign explain videos yay) please can we have more of a focus on other parties as well? xxxx
Take every thing that helps the public then dump the tories.
The irony is ulez has nothing to do with net zero emissions. It's all about public health or at least the health of Londoners.
2035 is already the deadline for the whole of the EU (which Tory-skeptics are usually falling over themselves to praise) and many US states, so our 1% of global emissions being a bit higher for five years is going to make an unmeasurably miniscule impact on "Saving The Planet", even if you believe in this stuff. There is no way on Earth that we were ever going to have a remotely viable EV infrastructure, and the upgraded grid and power-generation needed to support it, by 2030, and frankly, I'm not betting much of my own money on 2035.
We are a bit of a shit country if we couldn't do that in 11 years, it's not like it's next year. It's not just about dropping behind in emissions, dropping it now is causing us to fall behind in competitiveness, technologically and business wise, which is why so many businesses are upset by this announcement. We are becoming a laughing stock, supposedly one of the richest countries in the world and we are stalling based on ideological principles of a super rich PM while other countries are getting ready to overtake us as we dawdle.
@@swanchamp5136 Yeah, but we're not "dropping behind" are we? We're only adopting the same date as everybody else, which surely makes life EASIER for these international corporations.
@MrHws5mp the international companies with factories in the UK are some of the ones complaining about what Sunak just proposed. It's going to make it more difficult to trade internationally if the standards with our country and ones we want to trade with do not match.
We could also have been at the cutting edge of battery technology but it's being abandoned by this government right at the start of an EV revolution and China is more than happy to take that business from us as they are steaming ahead with their battery factories and tech.
I swear the Tories won't be happy till we are back on steam power and sending children back into cotton Mills to crawl under dangerous machinery for tuppence a month.
@@swanchamp5136 And some of the other international companies with factories in the UK are saying they support it, so I suspect the net opinion is neutral at worst. The ones who are complaining are the ones who uncritically believed in 2030 when it was announced, and the ones who support the latest change are the ones who took one look at 2030 back then and said (like me), "nah, bollocks, that's going to get pushed back in a few years' time".
How is it going to make it more difficult to trade when two of the biggest markets, the EU and the USA, are going for 2035 as well as us? There's no 'standards' issue: just a timing issue and this change puts us more in step with other countries time-wise.
Johnson may be using this as a pitch for the leadership after the election or failing that, a constituency that will have him.
When u r so poor u just need any car. Net zero is just another luxury tax.