Thread by @clim8resistance

Reminder of the government's absolute indifference to the costs of its policy ambitions, and its failure to scrutinise the green blob's promises.

Say goodbye to your car.

https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1224612356329787394

They have no clue what they are doing.

And now they will face calls to bring the new ICE sales ban in BEFORE 2030, and to ban older cars sooner, too.

thesun.co.uk/news/12774431/…

How do we know it will fail?

Because governments cannot make such a massive infrastructural change without f***ing things up. What else has it got right? Not HS2. Not Crossrail... Not nuclear power. The bigger the project, the greater the failure.

Moreover, between now and then, this is going to cause manufacturing and retail and service sectors MASSIVE upheaval.

The manufacturers have long business plans. They are going to be scrapped. No more R&D. No more factory building. Financial quagmire.

Here's the BMW Mini plant at Oxford, with other auto industries in the area. It's vast. 4000 people work in the factory, and 400 have just lost their jobs thanks to Covid19 policies. In 10 years time, Oxford will go from low unemployment to high unemployment.

Also on the site is Unipart, from the remnants of British Leyland, which is 3/4 worker-owned. It has 6,000 employees.

But for how much longer?

In 2030, we will still be not paying off the hundreds of £billions that @RishiSunak and the government spunked on ridiculous Covid measures.

I.e. 2030 is less distant in time than the 2008 financial crisis.

Remember "austerity"?

If there is any recovery between now and 2030, it will then be squandered by this vastly stupid Net Zero agenda.

Like millions of people, I depend on second hand, older, but serviceable cars. The most I ever spent on a car was about £1750. I have never been able to afford a new car. This market will disappear, because batteries will not survive long enough.

Public transport is more expensive than private car use. Loans are predicated on disposable income. But #NetZero is going to absorb all of that that *anyone* has in increased energy prices, mandatory housing retrofitting, and so on.