Jeremy Corbyn did a shadow Queen's speech yesterday. I was pleased that he had this to say:
And Labour will ban fracking, roll out a street-by-street insulation programme and fit solar panels on 1.75 million roofs, double large-scale solar, remove barriers to onshore wind and ensure every single new house built is a zero carbon home.
I think he's been reading the Green New Deal Group's 30 million more efficient priorities by 2030 plan.
We need that commitment. It does not solve the climate crisis. But it will help, a lot.
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Good news.
Corbyn has really frustrated me – still does.
But all those who say that he is a threat or who won’t work with him etc., need to know that he was not responsible for this:
http://blog.spicker.uk/poverty-is-killing-babies-in-england/
I’ll remind folk that Paul Spicker is no raving left winger – he is a measured blogger, a welfare expert and fair in his assessments of issues even if you do not wholeheartedly agree with him.
Given this and the appalling record of the Tories from 2010, just what is it about Corbyn are we supposed to be scared of and just how could he make things much worse?
I haven’t got a clue by the way.
I know Danny Dorling who made the suggestion that there were excess deaths
I think Danny was right
I bet he has.
But you won’t find Danny being interviewed on the BBC who prefer some renta-gob instead who ums and ahs about it. I can’t remember his name but he is either from Oxford or Cambridge and he was on More or Less on the BBC Radio 4 recently.
All I could say was ‘Where’s Danny – I wonder what he would have to say about it?’. There was no debate. The renta-gob just seemed to poo poo it unchallenged in my view.
Danny Dorling
Yes this certainly is a great improvement on Labour’s policy stance on climate change.
They need to add a policy to reduce air transport and stop the expansion of Heathrow and other airports now to be really credible.
Are you sure it was Danny on the radio Richard? I swear that’s not the name I heard.
Not sure…
I heard some of it too. The R4 website says it was Prof Mike Murphy (?) of the LSE. The conclusion was that the figure was plausible and although Austerity was probably to blame for some deaths it was not possible to say how many.
DD wrote a piece on “additional premature deaths” a couple of years ago: http://www.dannydorling.org/wp-content/files/dannydorling_publication_id6301.pdf
Thank you Graham – I would still liked to have seen if Danny Dorling had a view on Murphy’s response which seemed to me to be lack-lustre with no sense of outrage which there should be.
Love to think The Labour Party have understood the existential threat from species extinction and climate chaos. Sadly where it matters, Labour controlled council despite declaring a climate emergency and zero carbon by 2030, nothing in practice happens. Business as usual got us where we are, business as usual will not solve it.
Labour still believe in the fairy tale of perpetual economic growth and trickle down macro economic policies. They are unable to understand that democracy is broken, as proved by the brexit debacle, and they will not promise proportional representation or a constitutional convention.
I had to go out to an out of town shopping centre yesterday to return an item for my son.
We got there at about 11:00 and it was heaving – the car park was full and the roads were bedlam around the immediate area. I was looking at the cars (including mine) and thinking ‘How an earth are we going to change this lot?’. The out of town shopping centre deal is a car deal – no doubt about it.
We were in traffic jams during most of our trip. Next time I’m going further North and using the train. It is the last time I’m going there.
BUT guess what they were doing? They were extending the car park. Yes. Making the car park bigger. And the bit of the new car park they had just built was already full!!
We stopped off at lunch at a well know burger joint just to get out of a traffic queue that had gone on forever – a new site next to a new housing development. We don’t eat at these often BTW but we just had to get out of the bloody car. It had car parking and the drive through was busier than the restaurant!! All I could see were SUV’s – many of which were brands that did not conform to EU emission standards according to Which magazine.. The burger joint’s business model was car-based too.
A lot of businesses are going to be threatened by car reduction strategies.
Look – I’m not saying it’s useless (my 14 year old son with whom I had a debate thinks it is until I told him that oil stocks WILL run out at some time) – all I’m doing is trying to ensure that we square up to the task – really take it on and come up with solutions that take out the threats.
I’ve also been thinking about Labour’s ‘ For the Many, not the Few’ mantra.
If we are honest, it is no different in its effect than Farage winding people about immigration or Turkey or George Osbourne banging on about those still in bed to those who are going to work.
All of these examples just seem to set one group in society against another do you not think? All the Right has done, is done what the Left has been doing. It’s not very imaginative or new – how can it lead to a better future?
Labour – and the Left generally – would be better pointing out time and time again about the lack of real democracy in this country – from the Privy Council downwards and the effects of austerity and how it all leads to an unfair society (not unequal which I think people accept – but unfair – something I’m sure is still uniformly disapproved of).
I had a remarkably similar experience y3este3rday – except my son is 17 and we had a coffee locally, and not a burger….
But the traffic was dire here too
………..well good for you for not having a burger – mind you I recall that your problem is biscuits!!!
Buns….
Always buns….