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A landmark bill that would make the UK’s climate and environment targets legally binding seems doomed after government whips ordered Labour MPs to oppose it following a breakdown in negotiations.

Supporters of the climate and nature bill, introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage, say Labour insisted on the removal of clauses that would require the UK to meet the targets it agreed to at Cop and other international summits.

Although it is a private member’s bill, more than 80 Labour MPs, including several ministers, had publicly signed up to support it.

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Labour are pursuing a growth model for the economy and now that other countries are starting to 'free' themselves from environmental comittments in favour of growth it would put the UK at a competitive disadvantage. I don't think much growth will happen though, so we'll be sacrificing the environment on a false errand. We're going to continue to invest in low or non-existant taxes for the wealthy and the financial industry and inequality and poverty are going to increase. Nobody will care about the environment because they will either be a) too poor or b) making too much money from exploiting it.

If Reform are smart enough to pivot to an 'eat the rich' attitude in a second Labour term I think they'll have it.

The Labour leadership thinks they've won a big mandate but all they have done is run a smart election strategy. They have aligned themselves with free market economics at probably the worst time history. They learnt from the Corbyn election campaigns but not from the Tories failure in office and I think they (and us) are going to pay for it big time.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Good analysis.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's everybody's excuse worldwide.

Once one started ignoring the rules, every other followed suit, because, "omg, unfair advantage". It's maddening.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Aka 'race to the bottom'...