Every Conservative leadership hopeful skips key climate briefing from Sir Patrick Vallance

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  1. To be fair it’s “normal” at times like these for senior politicians to neglect their actual jobs and spend all of their time on party political matters. I don’t think it is significant they the particular thing they missed was about the climate.

  2. I know this is not a popular view here but the Boris government has some positive climate achievements: the Agriculture Act, the Fisheries Act, and the Environment Act, the plans to phase out petrol cars and a boom in offshore wind. The latest CfD auction proved the support in numbers too

    More could be done to stop fracking initiatives and to support insulation programs – and for Boris to be a determined ruler rather than a twat. But there is a sizeable part of the Tories that are not big climate supporters, so it can get worse

  3. 70 MPs total attended. I’m not surprised that they were busy getting support for their leadership bid, considering the deadline is today, what’s more shocking is how few MPs were there at all.

  4. Because they’re not trying to gain any support from a general voter base but rather just a specific tory audience – and Tories do not give a shit about important things, just culture war and making more money. It would probably genuinely hurt their chances to attend something like this.

  5. Should immediately disqualify them all but their all too busy perfecting their culture war nonsense and planning how they’re going to personally profit from fucking over the country for another few years.

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