"Options to recover the costs include transferring the levies directly to gas bills, or adding them to general taxation".
It's not going to get any more rational, you know?
"Moving the costs directly from electricity to gas will make the average fuel bill for a home using a gas boiler around £70 more expensive, according to analysis by consultancy Public First, but would make running a heat pump £200 cheaper than a boiler."
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Well, I'd stick with gas, then. It's still cheaper. Even if the arithmetic stinks like a rotting pile of fish heads.
I love the idea of a Conservative party thinktank calling itself "Public First" @PublicFirst_PF and yet finding ways to f*ck the public, rather than advising the government to drop #NetZero until the *PUBLIC* has given it a mandate.
You're ijuts, Tories. Where Labour leads...
... You follow.
They really are so f***king stupid.
They're trying to work out why heat made from electricity made from heat made from gas is more expensive than heat made from gas.
That level of stupidity, is why I am not taking for granted that the catastrophe they are setting course for will be averted by the expression of popular will.
The zombies that populate SW1 are immune to reason.
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"His comments come six months ahead of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, where he'll be addressing global leaders and key decision-makers, after being appointed People's Advocate for climate change."
"We help organisations understand and influence public opinion through research and targeted communications campaigns. And we help businesses craft policy ideas that Governments can realistically apply to difficult issues."
Instead of each party asking the public to lend their support for each of the parties' policies, the legacy parties have adopted a model in which they all agree on the policies, and then hire stupid PR firms to generate support for them, no matter what level of support exists.
But what's more interesting is why the last-remaining object of the Blair-era consensus is still intact.
While Blair and then Brown, and then Cameron were trying to build their projects on the Westminster consensus, to make climate change the dominant issue, the loudest voice from the public was the demand for the referendum.
There is no precedent for the deliberate immiseration of a population, such as that which is implied by #NetZero, without tanks and guns on streets, pointed at citizens.
Talk of using military 'intelligence' & force is about controlling domestic politics.