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Labour vs Conservative Manifesto Pledges on the Environment: Spot the Difference

by Ben Pile
14 June 2024 7:00 AM

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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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Looks like a reasonable analysis. But where do the proposed policies come from? A group of Permanent Secretaries and a club of professional organisations and one or two royalists perhaps? After all, whichever party provides the Ministers, they will have a job to change the minds of a department.

I wonder if anyone wants to gamble on the turnout, outside the constituencies that will make the headlines in the usual media, such as Clacton.

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Grahamb
Grahamb
1 year ago

Anyone who has done anything other than politics in their life is mostly gone from these parties. The theoretical politician with no grounding of logic and experience is going to cause havoc on this and so many other points. Quite scary.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Grahamb

The professional Group Think people. They all sit in a room discussing turbines, solar panels, smart meters, heat pumps and electric cars and not one of them will dare to say “Eh excuse me but storms, floods, droughts, and wild fires are not getting more intense or more frequent. Is all of this astronomical spending in the trillions on all of this stuff really necessary in such a short time scale or is this really not about the climate”? ——–Can you imagine the uproar this would cause? But that never ever happens and none of the Group Think people would ever dare say anything like that because they know they would have to explain to their wife over tea why they couldn’t keep their bloody mouth shut and why they might not be able to pay the mortgage now.

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Grahamb
Grahamb
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

I genuinely believe they are not capable of independent thought, let alone acting on it. Studying an irrelevant art discipline before being professional politicians does not prepare you for real world decisions. Their only skills are never answering a direct question and being both sides of the point/argument if said topic is remotely controversial. They are parasites on society with no value and no skills to add.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Grahamb

wink

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Even GBN is part of this Psyop….This morning in their News Bulletin they reported on a ‘Heatwave in Greece’ could reach 43 degrees. I’m sure that is pretty normal in the Med. I have been to three Greek islands and was always baking hot. What I mostly remember is the people selling stuff in the beach “Asda price” always waited till the women got their tits out.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

For almost every claim of unprecedented changes to climate all you need to do is look at historical records and see there is nothing at all unusual about current climate. I recall all the hullabaloo about freezing temperatures in Texas, I think about 2 years ago but when I checked historical data I saw many similar events over the last hundred years. The public have short memories and only think in terms of how long they have lived and what they remember.

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Robin Guenier
Robin Guenier
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

It’s worse than that varmint – much worse. What one of them should be saying is “Er … excuse me, but why are we doing this at all? Most large non-Western countries – the source of over 75% of the dreaded emissions – are not bothered about it. And we are the source of less than 1%. So what’s the point?”

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Robin Guenier

Oh because we’re leading the way on the Global stage. Not like they really care and would carry on doing what they do anyway. But if c02 was the threat that they are proclaiming, then surely they should be stopped.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Robin Guenier

Oh there is a “point”. It is just that it has nothing to do with climate and never did. It is about control of the worlds wealth and resources, and the mentality of the WEF/UN is that the lifestyles of the prosperous west are too high, or as they like to call it unsustainable. The climate is just the plausible excuse they use to lower our standard of living in line with their globalist commie agenda.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

All the manifestos are meaningless. Our self-appointed lords have no legal obligation to enact any of their pledges and, unless it fits into their plan, not yours, they have no intention of enacting any of their pledges. Surely everybody understands that?

I see the DS, like all media voices – even, I notice, the supposedly cynical ones – are working very hard to push the ballot box. The system needs you at the ballot box. But if you can see the spell that’s been cast, you’ll understand the reality is that you have three choices, and only one of them is your choice: 1) choose your favourite player within the system, 2) reject the choice of players the system has given you, 3) reject the system.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

3

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WithASmallC
WithASmallC
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

It fills me with huge regret to come to the conclusion that, like MAk, I agree with option 3. But when I ask myself why I have been driven to this nihilism, I can only ever reach one reason: the covid scam. How did the ballot box help you with the lockdowns? Where was democracy then? My vote and my autonomy of choice can be utterly trampled over at any time. That’s why I’m done.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  WithASmallC

There are two candidates standing where I live whose parties unequivocally reject lockdowns and “vaccine” coercion. Of course they won’t get elected, and you may say that even if they did, they would say one thing and do another, but I will be voting for one or the other of them.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Manifestos are just a game of political poker. ——-“I will stop the boats” —–“Ok I will see you on the boats and raise you 100 billion on saving the planet”——-“Ok I will stop the boats and save the planet and create 5 million new highly skilled jobs” ——–Ok I will not only stop the boats and save the planet and create 5 million well paid jobs, but I will cut income tax to 10% and give everyone a Carribean Cruise and years supply of Free Wind”—————-It is utterly PATHETIC

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Monro
Monro
1 year ago

‘Energy prices in the U.K. have been rising no less inexorably since the 1990s thanks to renewable energy policies and the Climate Change Act 2008, the failures of which the manifestos show zero interest in.’

Yes, and in so much else that is stuffed up in the status quo

Blair’s Britain:

Human Rights Act 1998

National Minimum Wage Act 1998

Health and Safety at Work Act 1999

Hunting Act 2004

Climate Change Act 2008

Health and Safety at Work Act 2010

Equality Act 2010

Coming back to a town near you again, shortly, because the Conservatives have done very little about anything useful……….

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

Exactly correct, and prices were rising way before anything happened in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine just gave some camouflage to the Greens, and it deflected the public’s attention away from the Net Zero policies of pricing us all out of using energy, which is what the Green Agenda has always been about, with climate as the plausible excuse that does not stand up under even the slightest bit of scrutiny. But ofcourse Mainstream News scrutinise NOTHING.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Net Zero was in all their manifestos. They are all batting for the same eco socialist pretend to save the planet team, so there isn’t a cigarette paper between their policies. Sunak thought he was puling a fast one on voters with his cute little knocking back of a few bits and pieces of the scam back to 2035. But to an antelope there isn’t much difference between a leopard and a cheetah, it is just that the cheetah might catch them faster, but the antelope is going to be dead no matter what, just as the public are going to be impoverished no matter what.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

They hardly ever mention Lockdowns like it was just a blip, or a splash out on a Saturday night. Another think they keep the public in the dark about is the death of the petrodollar.

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Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
1 year ago

Love that picture

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