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Senior MP confirms Labour has dropped £28bn target for green investment
(www.theguardian.com)
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Yeah they've tapdanced round this for a while - it's been known for a bit that they were worried finances might not allow them to be too ambitious initially, they'll try and ramp up to it later when (or if) the economy improves. Unfortunately, that makes it a lot easier to keep pushing the targets back which waters the whole effort down.
Even the bastions of neo-liberal capitalism like the IMF are saying that the UK needs to significantly ramp up investment rather than stick to fiscal austerity. This is entirely a political decision because Starmer's labour are incredibly timid and paranoid that doing anything more than continuing the status quo with more competence will lose them their massive polling lead.
It won't lose them the lead though. That's why this decision has been unofficially leaked and denied for a while now. The Labour party have conducted polling in that time and seen that this decision doesn't really register for the majority of their voters. Not all of their voters but enough that they're confident in dropping this policy.
It's how all parties operate, you'll notice a pattern.
Ultimately Labour voters need to be a lot more vocal about not voting for Labour if they continue to abandon green policies. But maybe because of the disenfranchised nature of our politics or that they just don't give a shit about the environment they clearly aren't going to stop supporting Labour because of this.