{"id":53973,"date":"2020-11-13T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=53973"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T09:23:11","slug":"the-governments-green-job-promise-is-completely-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/13\/the-governments-green-job-promise-is-completely-hollow\/","title":{"rendered":"The government&#8217;s green job promise is completely hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-government-launches-taskforce-to-support-drive-for-2-million-green-jobs-by-2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">government claimed<\/a> to launch a plan to deliver 2 million green jobs by 2030 yesterday. It said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UK government today (12 November 2020) set a clear ambition to create 2 million green jobs by 2030, launching a new Green Jobs Taskforce to set the direction for the job market as we transition to a high-skill, low carbon economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only funding mentioned that has been made available is just \u00a33 billion. That is \u00a31,500 for each new job they claim to want to create.<\/p>\n<p>I could spend hours discussing superficiality of this plan, whilst comparing it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/11\/labours-green-new-deal-is-a-good-step-in-the-right-direction\/\">with Labour\u2019s more comprehensive proposal<\/a>, and what is really needed, which would cost vastly more. But I doubt that further analysis is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a person on earth who thinks that a new job can be created in the UK for an investment of \u00a31,500. That is not possible.<\/p>\n<p>And by making such a ludicrous aspersions it is possible to see straight through the government\u2019s claim and commitment, which is completely hollow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government claimed to launch a plan to deliver 2 million green jobs by 2030 yesterday. It said: The UK government today (12 November 2020)<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/13\/the-governments-green-job-promise-is-completely-hollow\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,74,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-green-new-deal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}