The Guardian Point of Climate Policy: Britain needs clean power, not cultural wars Editorial

toET Law of the Successful Climate Law in Britain so that we can burn more gas, lose investment and enjoy higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, this is the new energy strategy message from Kimi Padnosh. The conservative leader proposes the cancellation of 2008 Climate Change Law In favor of a plan to “extract oil and gas to the maximum”, and remove all the binding carbon goals legally. It is a monument as pragmatism. But it moisturizes in harming the ideological soul.

Britain’s energy problem is not its climate legislation, which he likes globally, supported industry and Backed By the audience. This country still depends a lot on fossil fossil fuels. Emissions are not the cause of high bills. They are gas prices, which rose after Russia invaded Ukraine. They put the United Kingdom electricity Prices. in EuropeThey do not do it – for this reason the bills are decreasing there. Instead, Mrs. Badnouch chooses to follow her Donald Trump In retreat from climate targets and seeing electricity prices in the United States, it does not decrease.

In Britain, the UK reform mimics in a race to the popular bottom. It is a cultural war trick – converting doubt into tribal identity. It is compassionate: a retreat from 17 years of conservative climate leadership. Former Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May was truly convicted of. This is not a pragmatic – it is to give up a successful industrial strategy, a gift for pollutants and a group trust. It breaks a rare consensus through parties that make Britain a world leader.

In contrast to the speech of the Labor Party Conference in Ed Miliband, which was delivered the day before the announcement of Mrs. Badnosh. The Minister of Energy provided a full defense of the green transition as an economic and moral important necessity. He said that clean energy is the basis for a new economy – built in the interests of working workers, with union jobs, lower bills and public ownership. The right -wing billionaires were called the road – especially Elon Musk – and threw the Green Labor Party agenda as a battle for the future against wrong information and few wealth.

The most important part of his speech was not about energy at all. He was his rejection Economy and austerity dumplingsTwin failure behind decades of recession. By doing this, use clean energy, not only as a climate policy but as a troop horse to turn deeper-planning subsequent social democracy. Mr. Miliband stadium went beyond cautious technocratic. It was a story about the interests of the economy, and hidden potholes in the current Orthodox Party of the Labor Party to grow.

The transition policy is difficult. Mr. Miliband did not explain in his speech how the Labor Party bears the costs of structural change, although on the sidelines of the conferences he was working hard to transform tensions with Workers unions In partnership. He still faces high bills in the cost of the living crisis. Building a clean energy system at reasonable prices must be the goal of the government – not only Mr. Miliband. Mrs. Badnouch’s ridiculous plan is anti -science and a reckless attempt to frame zero zero as a vice. In the era of irony, the technocratic technocracy will not win the hearts.

Mr. Miliband provided condemnation and hope. It can inspire speeches, but this is the delivery that keeps people next to. This is the test of Mr. Miliband – and Britain cannot afford failure.

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