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Post by jonksy on May 5, 2024 5:58:39 GMT
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Post by Pacifico on May 5, 2024 6:49:30 GMT
What to expect if Labour win? ... looks like more economic decline.. Labour is plotting to introduce new net zero laws that will force big companies and banks to limit their carbon footprint to comply with UN climate goals.
The new laws planned in the event of a Labour victory would legally oblige directors to publish their company’s carbon footprint every year. They would also have to show that their business’s policies were compliant with the UN Paris climate treaty signed in 2015, under which the world agreed to try to limit temperature rises.
The treaty was agreed between governments but Mr Miliband wants the obligations it enshrines to also apply to FTSE 100 businesses including energy producers like Shell and BP, significant energy consumers such as Easyjet and major supermarket chains Tesco and Sainsbury.
Perhaps more importantly, he also wants it to apply to the banks and financial institutions that lend to all businesses. It could potentially mean companies could only get loans if they were “climate compliant.”
A green taxonomy is a system for deciding if an investment is sustainable or not, using thresholds and targets to assess activities and assets to see if they meet objectives on greenhouse gas emissions and sustainability.
It implies Labour would want financial institutions to apply such criteria in all lending and other activities.
Dr Ian Hurst, an associate research director at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, an independent research centre, said such policies would impact the UK economy, reducing GDP by around 0.6pc and productivity by 0.1pc and potentially creating stranded assets in the energy sector.
He said: “Most of this will be borne by the energy intensive companies unless they invest in carbon capture technologies. Studies have shown that climate measures need to be implemented globally to prevent disparate country impacts and have an actual impact on emissions.
“So this does have the risk of adversely constraining UK companies if the measures implemented far exceed competitors’ own measures.”
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Post by sheepy on May 5, 2024 7:04:38 GMT
Let me see the country will be terribly run by the same establishment while it hoovers up anything that is left in the plebs pockets while covered by many layers of bureaucracy followed by much unrest and like British Leyland will finally collapse into obscurity, while the plebs show a desperate need for something that actually represent them, which they will never get from a fixed system.
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Post by jonksy on May 6, 2024 13:36:44 GMT
Well, at least they have publicly stated what they truly stand for, and that doesn't include caring for their local community, nor caring for the UK as a whole. This should be a boost to the tories.......They have no right to demand anything. They were elected by their communities to do what councillors do! It is not about religion or bowing to their demands! The '18 DEMANDS' Muslim Vote group issued to Keel after dozens of pro-Gaza activists were elected to councils across UK - from cutting military ties with Israel to 'ensuring insurance quotes don't cost more for someone called Muhammad' The Muslim Vote also called for Sir mossie bum licker to recognise a Palestinian state www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13386393/Muslim-vote-list-demands-Keir-Starmer-Labour-Gaza-Palestine.html
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 6, 2024 13:59:35 GMT
So Labour are going to trash the economy, as usual.
Quelle surprise.🙄
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Post by ratcliff on May 6, 2024 14:16:49 GMT
How so? - if the number one issue for Tory voters is immigration then fixating on the price of potatoes is not going to convince people to vote for the party. It's not just traditional Tory voters you need to appeal to to win elections. You need Conservative voters to turn out to vote which will happen if a conservative government (little c , centre left) listens to them and takes notice instead of dismissing members as irrelevancies Sunak was talking the right talk last week about issuing vouchers to welfare scroungers and tightening down the criteria all the allegedly mentally disabled who now get a free ride because opening the gas bill supposedly gives them the vapours or some such other rubbish. But its just talk - action is needed now One comment made me think - I fully understand that disability handouts are there to fund the extra costs involved with the disability involved - apparently this is even paid to those who are too anxious/scared to leave the house - what possible extra costs does someone who does not go past their front door possibly incur? There are no special clothes /travel/food/social/laundry/entertainment/health etc costs involved with this so called 'disability'' so why the hell is there a handout paid? That should immediately be scrapped .
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Post by Pacifico on May 6, 2024 15:01:03 GMT
But its just talk - action is needed now Trouble is that we are beyond that now. We have had 14 years of the Conservatives promising to implement conservative policy and every year it just more Liberal/Labour crap. People are no longer listening.
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Post by ratcliff on May 6, 2024 15:29:37 GMT
But its just talk - action is needed now Trouble is that we are beyond that now. We have had 14 years of the Conservatives promising to implement conservative policy and every year it just more Liberal/Labour crap. People are no longer listening. I agree , issuing a green paper now to tighten up on benefit spongers is a waste of time. It's far too late . If it had been done years ago , by now benefit spongers would have been issued with restricted vouchers and those with so called ''anxiety'' on seeing a gas bill or being told they aren't owed a living, told to pull their socks up and get a job.
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Post by andrewbrown on May 6, 2024 15:37:14 GMT
Trouble is that we are beyond that now. We have had 14 years of the Conservatives promising to implement conservative policy and every year it just more Liberal/Labour crap. People are no longer listening. I agree , issuing a green paper now to tighten up on benefit spongers is a waste of time. It's far too late . If it had been done years ago , by now benefit spongers would have been issued with restricted vouchers and those with so called ''anxiety'' on seeing a gas bill or being told they aren't owed a living, told to pull their socks up and get a job. I think that people are 14 years past the idea that the economic woes of the country are because of poor people. They swallowed that idea previously, but no more. Got to have a better idea than that.
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Post by Fairsociety on May 6, 2024 15:47:12 GMT
I agree , issuing a green paper now to tighten up on benefit spongers is a waste of time. It's far too late . If it had been done years ago , by now benefit spongers would have been issued with restricted vouchers and those with so called ''anxiety'' on seeing a gas bill or being told they aren't owed a living, told to pull their socks up and get a job. I think that people are 14 years past the idea that the economic woes of the country are because of poor people. They swallowed that idea previously, but no more. Got to have a better idea than that. Just laughing thinking if Labour win the GE and fuck up big time, how many years will they blame the Tories for their mess by the end of their term people will be on bended knees wishing for a Tory party.
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Post by ratcliff on May 6, 2024 15:50:50 GMT
I agree , issuing a green paper now to tighten up on benefit spongers is a waste of time. It's far too late . If it had been done years ago , by now benefit spongers would have been issued with restricted vouchers and those with so called ''anxiety'' on seeing a gas bill or being told they aren't owed a living, told to pull their socks up and get a job. I think that people are 14 years past the idea that the economic woes of the country are because of poor people. They swallowed that idea previously, but no more. Got to have a better idea than that. Poor people? Who said anything about poor people? Free money, free housing, free cars , free food , free council tax and free ''help'' to chat about their imagined mental issues if they want and to help them fill in the next claim form to get labels put on their kids so they get even more free money while they can laze around all day doing whatever they want on their vast tax free income ''packages'' They are coining it while laughing at those who work in private industry who are forced to fund them.
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Post by andrewbrown on May 6, 2024 16:12:38 GMT
Yeah. The fact that you think people on benefits are coining it in tells me all I need to know.
Basically it's a fiction. People believed it before, they're not so stupid now.
You honestly think that the economic woes of this country are because of people on benefits? 🤔🙄🙃
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Post by jonksy on May 6, 2024 16:24:36 GMT
Yeah. The fact that you think people on benefits are coining it in tells me all I need to know. Basically it's a fiction. People believed it before, they're not so stupid now. You honestly think that the economic woes of this country are because of people on benefits? 🤔🙄🙃 I would call £5 million quid a day a fucking big benefit Andy. And that is whith out the amount micron steals from the UK each day under false pretences and the cost of Interpreters etc etc...
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Post by ratcliff on May 6, 2024 16:29:04 GMT
Yeah. The fact that you think people on benefits are coining it in tells me all I need to know. Basically it's a fiction. People believed it before, they're not so stupid now. You honestly think that the economic woes of this country are because of people on benefits? 🤔🙄🙃 Did I post that? No? Well why try (unsucessfully ) to pretend I did so? I'm posting about the benefit spongers taking the p*ss who moan and contribute absolutely nothing As you are so very pro spongers of all ilks please tell me exactly what extra expenses are there to do with their imagined ''disability'' someone who allegedly never leaves the house incurs that justifies them continuing to take the p*ss and sponging off the taxpayer? Disability benefits are supposed to contribute towards those expenses involved in living with a ''disability'' - so what are these mystery ''extra'' costs if they never go out of the house ?
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Post by Pacifico on May 6, 2024 17:03:17 GMT
Trouble is that we are beyond that now. We have had 14 years of the Conservatives promising to implement conservative policy and every year it just more Liberal/Labour crap. People are no longer listening. I agree , issuing a green paper now to tighten up on benefit spongers is a waste of time. It's far too late . If it had been done years ago , by now benefit spongers would have been issued with restricted vouchers and those with so called ''anxiety'' on seeing a gas bill or being told they aren't owed a living, told to pull their socks up and get a job. But as we have seen - the Tories say one thing and do another. Taxpayers are shelling out £292million in disability payments to people claiming ADHD, while back in 2013 , when the scheme started , it was only costing £700K, a staggering rise of 41,000%. The payments are part of £5.1billion of public money given out last year in Personal Independence Payments (PIP) for mental health issues, compared with £34.4million in 2013. The great attraction of PIP is that it’s not means tested so claimants receive payouts regardless of income, savings or assets.
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