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Politics: UK general election. Which parties offering the best 'Green' policies?

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    It seems Labour have gone all out on this one and got serious commitments to getting energy efficiency, renewable generation and cleaner transport up and running.
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      CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2019
     
    Isn't the answer the Green party? (I speak as a brexit voter)

    For myself, I don't trust whatever Boris or Jeremy say.
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    I guess I was thinking of the one with the most chance of getting into power in some way.

    I'm similarly not keen on either but there's several key areas that attract me to Labour , one being it's environmental policies.

    ( i speak as a remain voter that thinks we should have Brexit :bigsmile:)
    • CommentAuthorvord
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2019 edited
     
    I was chatting at lunch with a collegue about an idea to knock down my house and sell the plot to developers in order to get from a D to a B on the energy chart. My collegue refused to accept my point that you can ignore the environmental impact of constructing a new 4 or 5 bedroom executive home, and just be pleased by the warm glow you get by saving £200/year in energy.

    It frightens me that people are takling about throwing hundreds of billions into green stuff. Ultimately most money goes into energy use at the end of the day. I've not found a party that seems to think about that sort of thing. It's all way hey lets solve the problem by increasing consumption.

    (Speaking as someone who is destitute as nobody in the UK is going to give me work until the B word is over and done with. Currently I'm flying a lot to get work and that's not good. It's all nonsense!)
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2019 edited
     
    Since I heard that Swinton say 'We are the party of Green Capitalism', my lifelong nicey tendency towars the Libs vanished for good. Cons the pillar of cluelessness of course.The Greens in that uncomfortable position of moderating their radicalism as the faint temptation of some actual power approaches.

    Labour going in exactly the opposite direction. After the false dawn of Ed Milliband, the best Env Sec that never was, Labour's young smarts, writing books like
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fully-Automated-Luxury-Communism-Manifesto/dp/1786632624/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=FALC&qid=1576014681&sr=8-1 and
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-We-Have-Your-Attention/dp/1847925405/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=now+we+have+your+attENTIon&qid=1576019339&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&sr=8-1
    have by far the best grip on the future, if anyone can. That future includes, but is far from limited to, the fullest embrace, by any power-serious party perhaps worldwide, of Thunberg's message - 'Listen to the Scientists'.

    Certainly, Labour has the most ambitious Green programme in UK, plus for me, it's embedded in a future-looking radicalism that's not only far wider than just 'Green', but is just a whisker away from actual power.

    For Lab, the prospect of power is because of increased radicalism, whereas that same prospect for the Greens depends on toning it down.
    • CommentAuthordickster
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2019
     
    I voted Brexit (prefer to vote every 4-5 years and retain some semblance of democracy, rather than not being able to vote at all for the similarly power hungry bosses of Europe).

    Will vote Green Party again, in the hope that they grab a few seats and might hold a decisive position post election.
    • CommentAuthorphiledge
    • CommentTimeDec 11th 2019
     
    Posted By: vordMy collegue refused to accept my point that you can ignore the environmental impact of constructing a new 4 or 5 bedroom executive home, and just be pleased by the warm glow you get by saving £200/year in energy.

    It's all way hey lets solve the problem by increasing consumption.



    Assuming your colleague knows your house, I think he was right not to accept your point- its increasing consumption to solve a problem.
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    Excuse me for being cynical, but the "B" thing has over-ridden everything this election, so all the parties have been promising anything and everything knowing that they'll wesel out of it if they have to.
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      CommentAuthorfostertom
    • CommentTimeDec 13th 2019
     
    All a bit academic now.

    from Matthew Goodwin, 'a politics professor who specialises in explaining the rise of populism':
    "Labour's problem is that it's breaking into 3 parties (1) liberal degree-holding Brahmin Left, (2) dwindling blue-collar, socially conservative Traditional Left, (3) students + ethnic minorities".

    Only (3) put 'Green' policies as integral with, inseparable from social and economic. To (1), 'being electable' makes 'Green' highly optional, and also sidelines the future-aware bits of social and economic.

    UK's only hope to get a grip has failed, till (3) come of age - 25yrs? That's too late to make what's left of UK a player in re-greening humanity, unless XR and its successors continue to pull rabbits out of hats.

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