This is surely true and deeply worrying given the opposition parties are similarly in denial. Tories and Reform will say they’ll ditch the costs of green transition, but a) they still have no plan for the other two costs, and b) there’s also the cost of climate adaptation and fossil fuel reliance.

This is mad. They've all gone mad.

A small number of individuals who were big in New Labour.

Does that mean that if we keep doing 3% a year then we're on for net zero in the 2040s? If only the second half was as simple as the first!

I spoke yesterday in the House of Commons about the Epstein and Mandelson scandal and how this is the moment when we should draw a line under a culture where talent or connections overrides bad behaviour, character or judgement

Months ago, I asked the Prime Minister a simple question: why did he keep backing Mandelson despite his Epstein links, and what leverage might the Trump administration have over him? Instead of answering, he waved it away.

What would be the cost to consumers of decarbonising UK food production? @zackleather.resolutionfoundation.org explains that even if all the costs were passed on to shoppers, it would increase food prices by less than 1 per cent – the equivalent of around 50p on a weekly shop.

Understandable why Mandleson is the focus, but this whole sorry episode should also be a wake up call for Labour about their approach to appointments from ambassadors, to Chairs of agencies, to SpAds. Loyalty is too often rewarded over competence. It's a system of patronage, at times even nepotism.

Almost like... if we listened to women (both the victims, and also the senior women in the Government who could see from a mile off the inevitability of how the decision to appoint Mandelson - despite what we *already knew* at that point - would all pan out), we wouldn't be here.

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The Times interview with Peter Mandelson is a masterclass in lack of self-awareness, but this quote about what it is precisely that makes very rich people so appealing to him is especially revealing.

Social media really has ruined Commons scrutiny in that nobody hunts in a pack anymore, it's just 'would the minister like to repeat his statement but for *my* Facebook clip' these days.

I'm guessing that the "Jes" in this message is that other moral paragon, Jes Staley, though I can't be sure. A Labour government minister, channelling the demands of his finance-bro chums. This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for.

Just one more try at a proper Brexit. Please man. Just one. I promise it'll work this time.

Very few transfers to Reform, possibly bodes poorly for them under a transferable vote system? That there's a limit to support and a unanimity against them. Maybe UK constituency elections should make the switch.

Is it best to be governed by a good man or good laws? Welcome back, Aristotle.

This is a brutal critique of where the government has found itself, and it’s very hard to argue with. Repeated self harming strategies that are unsurprisingly causing considerable harm. www.ft.com/content/1683...

Some opposed our work to put nature at the heart of London. I sincerely hope that David Attenborough’s ‘Wild London’ has changed their minds. We aren’t reintroducing beavers and white storks simply because a thriving natural world is better for humans, though it is.

Starmer's right - he's obviously read the National Security Assessment on ecosystem collapse. He'll definitely have talked about clean power, but I wonder if he raised efforts to end deforestation with Xi?

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

And don’t get me started on the Osborne decision to abolish maintenance grants. The poorest students now borrow the most, carry debt longest, and subsidise the richest families who can pay it off quickly. Sounds like a sensible tax system!

Starmer's right - he's obviously read the National Security Assessment on ecosystem collapse. He'll definitely have talked about clean power, but I wonder if he raised efforts to end deforestation with Xi?

Keir Starmer is as oddly surefooted internationally as he is directionless in domestic policy, his correct rejection of the silly "the UK must choose" takes - as a medium power in an inter-connected world sorry no - a refreshing change to drift elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

“There is one clear set of culprits as to how we got to this place.” “You’re bringing the stench with you.” As Suella Braverman bemoans “Britain’s brokenness” following her defection to Reform, does she know who's really responsible?

Everything about our reliance on fossil fuels makes life more expensive and our country less secure. Opposing renewables is unpatriotic and anti-working people.

Broke: Britain is a two party political system Woke: Britain is now a two bloc, multiparty system Bespoke: Britain is a one party system and that party is Nimbyism.

Climate change is an affordability issue. It has led to food costing £360 more for the average household Climate change -> more droughts -> lower harvests -> higher food prices

Fleur Anderson and Simon Hogg want lorries here every morning instead of school kids on scooters, dogs and ebikes. Easy to demand such horrors be visited on us from miles away in Putney, but wild to me that *anyone* local would get behind such a dystopian vision

Once again climate delayers on the right are forgetting about the existence of batteries.

This absolutely definitely wouldn't create some perverse incentives in policy making. No risks at all.

What I love about this is either you've seen the Trump post and a London mayoral candidate is tying themselves to a figure who is almost universally reviled in London OR you haven't and it reads as threatening to put London into an ice age

While MP's offices have limited resources to review all the emails they get the reality is people have very limited time to write an original letter, no matter how much they care about an issue. Many people don't even think it's their place to email an MP. Campaign actions help remove those barriers

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24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to vote Green or Lib Dem. 0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.

Farage claims Greenland would be better under US control, so much for all that talk about the importance of national sovereignty and self-determination www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Really odd response from DEFRA to this report that highlights the serious risk of ecosystem collapse. "risks such as adverse weather or disease do not affect the UK's overall security of [food] supply" is almost the exact opposite to the conclusions of the report. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lab to DK is a group twice as large as Lab to Ref (and losses to DK are often easiest to win back) Lab to Grn/LD is a group three times as large as Lab to Ref (and on multiple metrics this group looks more open to returning to Labour)

An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Not the biggest thing here - but hilarious that Canada is 'championing efforts to build a bridge between CPTPP and the EU'. And there were the Tories telling us we could only have TPP with Brexit.

This is a huge problem: humans are not wired to cope with this daily torrent of disgust & dismay. It's exhausting & unbalancing. It's tempting just to switch off the news. But that surrenders the political arena - & the lives of all those it affects - to the hooligans & vandals who are trashing it.

some background on Reform UK’s latest Tory defector www.ft.com/content/e5cc...

I do wonder how exactly the same group of people, just led by Nigel Farage (who let's face it is no spring chicken), think they would be able to deliver change the Rright can "believe in". Not least because quite a lot of them tried to do Reform/Faragism with Liz Truss, which went so swimmingly well

The intense incompetence & mental gymnastics needed to think doubling down on fossil fuels is the route to cheap energy will be the downfall of a Reform government. Did they pay no attention to huge cost of subsidising bills in 2022 because of gas prices? Do they really think fracking can solve it?

Jenrick's talking the country down. All while listing a litany of problems his Government created.

Which government that you were a Minister in for 6 years is responsible for all these terrible things Rob?

I remember in the 2015 election when Tory candidates were peddling the fiction that fracking would bring jobs to Blackpool. @samrushworthmp.bsky.social was the candidate. Blackpool & Fylde College built a 'national training centre'. The jobs never came. That must not be the story for renewables.

This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.

When I stop laughing I'll provide some insightful analysis.

Yes. One of my favourite energy efficiency stats is that 25% of UK economic growth between 1971-2013 was due to energy efficiency: ukerc.ac.uk/news/energy-... @jrbarrett.bsky.social