Climate change policy

[RobinBHM]

What is my opinion based on? Well for starters working for myself and being in business since the 1960s gives me a decent grasp of business economics and economics as a whole.

What is your opinion based on which says that you are correct and I am wrong?
How many successful business ventures have you undertaken in the past 50 years that would qualify you to criticise my opinions?

I don't need facts and figures to predict for instance that many part time jobs are going to disappear because of Starmer and his bunch of clown's latest taxation changes.
He's no friend to the part time worker and Starmer's taxes have just made the jobs of those in part time work right now more vulnerable simply because many employers will simply not be able to afford to employ them. You couldn't make it up with this lot, they get worse by the hour.

Tony, thank you for reply, but I was wondering on what basis you think net zero policies will massively increase costs

it will ultimately come at great cost to the ordinary people of this country

If I read your post correctly, it’s seems your belief is not based on “facts and figures”

You say your opinion is “based on working for yourself”, So I guess you mean you opinion is based…on your own opinion.

I appreciate your answer, personally I prefer to use data, evidence, research, scientific studies.

 

[Fergie 307]

What is my opinion based on? Well for starters working for myself and being in business since the 1960s gives me a decent grasp of business economics and economics as a whole.

What is your opinion based on which says that you are correct and I am wrong?
How many successful business ventures have you undertaken in the past 50 years that would qualify you to criticise my opinions?

I don't need facts and figures to predict for instance that many part time jobs are going to disappear because of Starmer and his bunch of clown's latest taxation changes.
He's no friend to the part time worker and Starmer's taxes have just made the jobs of those in part time work right now more vulnerable simply because many employers will simply not be able to afford to employ them. You couldn't make it up with this lot, they get worse by the hour.

Did you forget what the question was?
You certainly haven't answered it.

 

[Blackswanwood]

Did you forget what the question was?
You certainly haven't answered it.

I think Tony has confirmed it’s simply his gut feel but not being one to miss an opportunity to have a general moan about the government is now conflating climate change with NI changes.

 

[selectortone]

Did you forget what the question was?
You certainly haven't answered it.

Tony asks a lot of questions but never responds to any of the many reasoned answers people spend time writing, except with insults. Ladies and gentlemen, we are being trolled.

 

[Blackswanwood]

But once upon a time mummy did not have to go to work and spent her time bringing up the kid or kids and would sit down and watch childrens Tv with them and then the Tv went off and you went out and played with real friends or walked down the shops with mum as dad used the car for work and mum did not drive. Now seems like they are driven everywhere and get ignored to much.

Where will it all end …I even saw a woman driving a bus the other day

 

[Fitzroy]

You say your opinion is “based on working for yourself”, So I guess you mean you opinion is based…on your own opinion.

I appreciate your answer, personally I prefer to use data, evidence, research, scientific studies.

There are plenty of studies on the cost to reach net zero, and commentary on those studies, a couple of links below. The cost is not as abhorent as one may imagine, but there is still a cost. Most of the studies point out that the cost associated with catastrophic climate change would be orders of magnitude greater and support the spend based on avoiding this scenario, the challenge being if the world does not all act then we won't avoid the downside.

My personal view is that much of the world won't act sufficiently until things are really bad resulting in social unrest etc etc and then action will be taken. Energy prices always rise during times of global unrest and having control of our own energy security is as much a driver over the next 20years as climate change.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/paying-net-zero
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminsti...hing-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-the-evidence/

 

[Noel]

Where will it all end …I even saw a woman driving a bus the other day

I can tell you worse than that. My doctor is a, a, a...not a man. A woman, a female. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

 

[RobinBHM]

There are plenty of studies on the cost to reach net zero, and commentary on those studies, a couple of links below. The cost is not as abhorent as one may imagine, but there is still a cost. Most of the studies point out that the cost associated with catastrophic climate change would be orders of magnitude greater and support the spend based on avoiding this scenario, the challenge being if the world does not all act then we won't avoid the downside.

My personal view is that much of the world won't act sufficiently until things are really bad resulting in social unrest etc etc and then action will be taken. Energy prices always rise during times of global unrest and having control of our own energy security is as much a driver over the next 20years as climate change.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/paying-net-zero
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminsti...hing-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-the-evidence/

great, thank you, those links were very interesting.

I think I pretty much agree with you: the world wont act sufficiently fast until things are really bad.

I personally wonder whether the real pain will come from migration on a scale that dwarfs the current movement of displaced people.....just imagine the Daily Mail headlines then!

 

[Blackswanwood]

I can tell you worse than that. My doctor is a, a, a...not a man. A woman, a female. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

You’re confused … it must have been a nurse …

We’d best stop this as Chat GPT doesn’t do eye rolling

 

[Spectric]

Where will it all end …I even saw a woman driving a bus the other day

Blame the uk economy, it shows we must be worse off now than years ago because our money is not worth as much, remember it is not what you earn but what it can buy that matters.

 

[Blackswanwood]

Blame the uk economy, it shows we must be worse off now than years ago because our money is not worth as much, remember it is not what you earn but what it can buy that matters.

Or perhaps we’ve emerged from the dark ages and started to recognise that women can drive and go to work just as successfully as men.