Has it really taken this long for some MPs to realise that the government has declared war on the public and that there is going to be a response?

thesun.co.uk/news/15833895/…
There is precedent for this. After all, only last week it was made plain that bitterness about the 1980s industrial disputes had not yet entirely subsided.

Net Zero will be a more profound shock. And the battle lines may take longer to emerge, but won't favour the government.
By the '80s, the public had had enough of industrial disputes, and that worked in the government's favour.

But Net Zero is an attack on the public, not on special interests or trade unions that had overestimated their power.
The political establishment has identified itself as the enemy of the public. There is going to be a reply.
I wonder if the 'red wall' tory MPs had ever heard of Zac Goldsmith or John Gummer.

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They already knew this.

They knew this BEFORE #NetZero.

They believed that XR and the Climate Assembly would either i) change the public's mind, or ii) create an alternative 'democratic mandate' by proxy.
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But they represented nobody at all, other than about 3,000 weirdos.

They had been established to push Net Zero & Citizens Assemblies.
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