Quick thread to go with this blog. One of the defining features of the recent attacks on net zero is the failure to provide much in the way of detail on what they'd do instead. businessgreen.com/blog/4044475/s…
In that regard it's very similar to the attacks on red tape, which once you dig into the detail ends up with PM's waffling on about newts (Johnson) or voles (Cameron) and Ministers failing to find any regs that can be axed without significant economic damage or political blowback
The idea we should 'go slow on net zero' has the same lack of detail. The only tangible proposals I've seen are: 1) get fracking
2) axe green levies
3) scrap 2030 new petrol and diesel car phase out date
2) axe green levies
3) scrap 2030 new petrol and diesel car phase out date
But 1) involves an epic row with shire tories and won't do much anything to bills, 2) involves breaching contracts and scrapping energy efficiency schemes and will have only a marginal impact on bills...
And 3) would hamper a transition that is already well underway and delay the point at which households can slash their fuel costs.
More broadly, the vague desire to rethink net zero runs completely counter to global economic trends and levelling up desires, even before you consider climate risks. 
Worst of all, the whole thing is being sold on factual inaccuracies (check out @DrSimEvans latest heroic fact checking exercise) and the false premise that deprioritising net zero will solve a cost of living crisis and regional inequality.
A crisis, BTW, that at some point the party that has been *in charge for the past 11 years* may want to reflect on its role in fostering.
Meanwhile, the global trends these unnamed Cabinet Ministers choose to ignore will continue to accelerate, leaving the UK as an outlier and a laggard in the grand economic project that is already reshaping the 21st century. Why must they constantly talk Britain down?
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