Hard-Left activists including Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion and the Young Communist League target the Conservative party conference

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Hard left activists trying to ambush! the Tory party conference 2023.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12582585/Hard-Left-activists-including-Just-Stop-Oil-Extinction-Rebellion-Young-Communist-League-target-Conservative-party-conference.html

Masked hard-Left activists were among hundreds of protesters who yesterday tried to ambush the Tory party conference.

Activists from the Young Communist League wore face coverings as they carried a red banner past the conference centre saying ‘Resist Tory Rule’.

Hundreds of trade unionists also marched carrying hateful banners saying ‘F*** the Tories: rebuild our railway’ and ‘Guy Fawkes had a point’.

Eco-zealots from Extinction Rebellion and protesters from offshoot Just Stop Oil also marched, as well as Bully XL dog owners who chanted: ‘Muzzle Rishi, not our dogs!’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12582585/Hard-Left-activists-including-Just-Stop-Oil-Extinction-Rebellion-Young-Communist-League-target-Conservative-party-conference.html

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Net zero isn’t act of economic harm, Theresa May says

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Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66988847

Former PM Theresa May has said the UK’s net zero target should be seen as “the growth opportunity of the century”, not an “act of economic harm”.

Mrs May said the UK had a chance to lead “the green revolution”, in a speech at the Conservative conference.

The former PM’s government passed a law that committed the UK to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

At a conference event, Mrs May said she did that “because climate change is the greatest threat to civilisation”.

But the UK’s approach to net zero has come under intense scrutiny since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an overhaul of some green policies last month.

The policy changes, including a delay to the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars, provoked a backlash, with the government’s climate change adviser saying the UK had “moved backwards” on net zero.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66988847

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Questions for climate denier and UK prime minister Rishi Sunak :: Question 3

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Image of InBedWithBigOil by Not Here To Be Liked + Hex Prints from Just Stop Oil’s You May Find Yourself… art auction. Featuring Rishi Sunak, Fossil Fuels and Rupert Murdoch.

As a competent adult and member of the human race there’s a responsibility on me to not feck it up for future generations – in this case not to destroy the planet, cause intolerable living conditions and drive the human race as well as many other creatures extinct. I know that the Conservative Party receives huge amounts from the fossil fuel industry and associated cnuts. Are you such a whore to this money that you’re willing to abdicate your responsibilities as an adult, a parent and prime minister?

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What Sunak and the Tories have done …

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What Sunak and the Tories have done is provide so many production subsidies to the oil and gas industry in UK that it is feasible to work otherwise useless reserves. The effect is to destroy the planet for the benefit of fossil fuel shareholders.

21/9/23 12.20 I’ll find some references that support this claim. Done see HERE: FFS: Huge Fossil Fuel Subsidies in UK and globally

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Dutch Climate and Energy Minister estimates NL’s fossil fuel subsidies at up to €46.4 billion a year, more than 4% of the Netherlands’ GDP. Campaigners call for phase-out plan

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Today the outgoing Dutch Minister for Climate and Energy Policy, Rob Jetten, published an analysis of the Netherlands’ fossil fuel subsidies, estimating these at between €39.7 and €46.4 billion a year, more than 4% of the Netherlands’ GDP. According to campaigners the analysis underlines the importance of an urgent phase-out plan, in line with the Dutch government’s long-standing promise to end these subsidies by 2025. 

Recent research by Dutch research and environmental organizations shows that this would allow the Netherlands to reduce its CO2 emissions by up to 20% by 2030, while creating space for innovative and sustainable businesses and freeing up billions that can be reinvested in climate justice and social protection measures. The conclusions of the impact analysis for companies of subsidy removal that were also covered in today’s government publication mainly emphasize the short-term impacts for a select group of large energy-intensive companies that run on cheap fossil energy. Researchers and campaigners say this is too limited a perspective and should not stand in the way of an urgent phase-out plan.

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