“We’re not offering any comment on that issue”. What Do the Tory Leadership Contenders Say About Sustainable Transport?
“We’re not offering any comment on that issue”. What Do the Tory Leadership Contenders Say About Sustainable Transport?
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Transport represents 30% of the UK’s energy consumption. Understanding Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss’s plans for sustainable transport and mobility is a key part of understating the country’s plans to reach NetZero, overcome the climate emergency and mitigate the Energy Crisis.
Now last i checked tories want everyone to drive everywhere.
So they are the last people to even want such thing.
yeah I don’t want to talk about the incident with the goat and the bottle of vodka
Liz Truss flew by private jet for an overseas visit (cannot recall where). So no wonder a desire not to raise the issue.
“The WWF estimates this investment could create 230,000 jobs in green transport. UK green exports could grow from £5 billion to £80 billion by 2050 if the UK positioned itself as a leader in the market . As Conservatives, interested in economic growth and job creation, such investment should be championed by Truss and Sunak.”
Yet the Conservatives are not interested in radical (i.e new) sustainable transport policies.
Its almost like they are in the pocket of the fossil fuel lobby and will happily see the UK burn, the economic benefits go unrealised and the epidemic of respiratory disease go unchecked – so long as those sweet donations keep coming in.
To use the language of the right, I wonder who are really the “traitors” and who are really the “patriots” in this argument.
Yesterday I did some research into retrofitting my existing bike with an e-bike motor.
Give or take, £800. Minimum.
The bike is 25 years old and cost that new.
I *want* to cycle more, but I’m fucked if I’ve got £800 to make it easier.
It’s not even that hard.
Fund public transport and build cycle lanes.
Done.
It just doesn’t speak to the backwater Tory voter who classify car ownership as a mark of achievement and see anything else as a personal attack.
That says a lot about their plans for public transport though. It shows they have no plan to invest in it and will make sure it stays at pitiful levels to ensure the UK remains car-dependent as long as possible.
Translation: Fuck off, you pissants. Drive. Everyone else should drive so we can shut down the train and bus networks and sell it off to our mates.
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I would be very surprised if they had anything to say that isn’t fucking us over.