Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-kemi-badenoch-pledges-scrap-uk-climate-law-conservative-party/
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party has pledged to ditch the U.K.’s flagship climate law if they get back into government, in the latest signal that the party is firmly walking back on net zero commitments.
If you are going to try to out-farage the farage party, you might as well go all in on the cartoon evil, I guess.
The thing is it won’t work. Every time the conservatives echo reform talking points Farage just goes even more extreme, he doesn’t actually have to worry about any of his policies being even remotely workable, or indeed even physically possible, he just has to yell louder than the conservatives.
The Conservatives still exist?
I’d quite like to scrap Kemi Badenoch.
Another Farage puppet
She is just there to make the tories look even worse so Farage has less competition in the next election
Thing is I read recently that the thing people like the least about Farage is his ties to the fossil fuel industry, so this seems a strategically poor thing to copy.
I don’t think people will be particularly fond of him turning out to be a Russian spy either.
While I wish Labour were further from the Conservatives and Reform on immigration and trans rights, this is one serious difference between the parties that really matters.
Fortunate that the government actually seems to care about climate pledges, energy independence, and reforming planning permission in a way that allows for easier building of climate infrastructure.
The conservatives have never been particularly good for the country but lately they’ve gone completely bonkers. Who do they think these kind of policy measures are appealing to? The closed-minded idiots that used to like this kind of thing have all gone over to reform now. So they’ve decided that they now need to make sure they alienate their remaining voters.
Could this be the party desperately seeking to replace revenue streams as donors abandon them en masse?
Bassman27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What a cunt
Unquote0270@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
A massive one.