Britain Slouches Towards Net Zero Bethlehem To Be Reborn Or 'Justly Transitioned' Or Greatly Reset
If Labour get in - which looks depressingly almost certain - that slouching will quicken to a hurried stumble.
The General Secretary of the TUC is obviously hoping for that to happen:
The UK is in danger of being left behind in the global race to decarbonise the economy with potentially disastrous consequences for jobs and communities, according to the TUC’s general secretary.
In an interview, Paul Nowak said the UK was “limping towards a green future” and he called for a “national collective effort” involving employers, workers and the government to ensure a quick and fair transition to a net zero economy.
“All of our unions are signed up to delivering net zero … from schools to hospitals to the steel industry, our members are working day in, day out to make sure this transition happens and is done in a way that is fair and just,” he said.
We’re “limping towards a green future” according to Nowak. He wants to see it accelerated and obviously hopes that Starmer’s Labour party in government will step on the gas - or should that be crush the gas underfoot in favour of unleashing a beautiful Green utopian, sweet smelling, ‘clean’ and sustainable rose garden. I say former Great Britain, the originator of the Industrial Revolution, the moderniser of international trade and the nation which lit the blue touch paper for democracies worldwide, is slouching towards a totalitarian, hellish and brutal Net Zero Bethlehem in order to be reborn, justly transitioned or greatly reset - take your choice.
Nowak said anti-union laws and a culture among employers of keeping trade unions and workers at arms length were making it difficult to organise in the fast-growing wind and solar industries.
But he said there were signs that Labour was developing a more coherent net zero strategy, linking a new deal for workers to trade policies and industrial strategy. Starmer is expected to make highly skilled green jobs a central plank of his clean energy pitch later this month, though Labour has been criticised for scaling back plans to borrow £28bn a year to invest in the transition.
If Labour get in they will decimate what’s left of the British economy and manufacturing industry in their ideological quest to single-handedly ‘save the planet’ from an imaginary climate emergency. Those mythical ‘Green jobs’ will fail to materialise, just like the promised thousands of jobs in the wind farm industry. According to Nowak, there is a “global race to decarbonise”. No, there isn’t. In truth, a few former leading industrial western nations are locked into a net zero death spiral to see who can be the first to completely destroy their economies and industrial base, whilst China, India and Russia laugh their socks off. At the moment, it looks like Germany is in the lead, with Britain a close second, and the US catching up fast. But don’t count Australia out, or Canada. They could still topple the odds-on-favourite at the finishing line.
It’s kind of like the Wacky Races. “Do something Mutley!”
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Yes, no matter how bad the tories are, I still fear Labour and Starmer getting as they will be much worse on all fronts, and we will have less time to create alternatives...