If he did this for votes, it isn’t working…
Rishi Sunak scraps home energy efficiency taskforce
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66900999
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tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Every single time the Tories do anything nowadays it’s always for some fucked upreason, and it’s always blowing up in their gourmless faces.
Not only are they completely evil and self-serving, but they’re also mind numbingly stupid.
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 1 year ago
My sister lived in Ireland and in London, she rented in many places and not one place was properly insulated or had properly sealed windows. You blew hundreds of pounds every month heating the place and it just leaked out of the windows and walls.
It makes sense because many of the buildings are decades or centuries old so no modern insulation is built in and likely no building standards existed when some were built.
They need to retrofit insulation into houses or demolish buildings and replace them across their entire country to increase energy efficiency. It should be govt funded for the people not for rich landowners.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
Fuckiing hell
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This year a BBC investigation found six out of 10 recently inspected UK rental homes failed to meet a proposed new standard for energy efficiency.
The minister said the ideas and discussions that had come from the group had been “hugely valuable in supporting the ambition to reduce total UK energy demand by 15% from 2021 levels by 2030.”
In response, energy analyst Jess Ralston told the BBC: “The gas boiler and petrol car phase-out weren’t set to have any impact on cost of living for struggling families for more than a decade, but insulation programmes could have a more immediate impact, yet the prime minister ditched that policy last week and now the government seems to be turning its back on experts and ideas that could help boost energy efficiency.”
“Experts like Citizen’s Advice are clear if you want to bring down bills you do energy efficiency, you help people to stop wasting heat through rooves, windows and walls.”
The group also said the government “could have easily replaced Alison Rose, there are lots of business people who feel they have a stake in how homes can be improved.”
But Labour’s shadow net zero secretary Ed Miliband said the change of direction showed Mr Sunak “doesn’t give a damn about the climate crisis”.
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Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
This is the opposite of what is needed - we need a Green New Deal specifically aimed at those in fuel poverty to bring down their bills. It would have the knock-on effect of creating skilled jobs and bringing down the price of home improvements for everyone through economies of scale.
It looks like this and the insulation decision just put money back into rich people’s pockets, so I suppose that’s Tory’s operating as usual.