The two largest Westminster parties have published their election manifestos. How do they compare?
Whereas in the past, the preamble to claims made for urgent, far reaching and expensive climate policies were fire-and-brimstone climate rhetoric – there are only so many days/weeks/months to “save the planet”, etc. – both parties now struggle to find a new spectre to spook the voters with. “In the last few years, we have faced the greatest shock to our energy security since the 1970s,” explains the Conservative’s manifesto, referring to the War in Ukraine. “The damage done by 14 years of chaotic ‘sticking plaster’ policies was exposed when Putin invaded Ukraine,” counters Labour. “The cost of fossil fuel energy on the international market rocketed.” Both of these remarkably similar claims are a simple lie. As I have shown previously on the Daily Sceptic, gas prices on European markets began spiking long before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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