The wordle of David Cameron's 2012 conference speech.
Climate, carbon, environment, green… Where did those words disappear??
We’ll report on the corkers in Cameron’s speech shortly on Left Foot Forward; tweet #CamCorker with your suggestions.
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8 Responses to “Con 2012: Cameron’s speech: What happened to the “greenest government ever”?”
Newsbot9
The problem there being the critical housing shortage and an energy policy which amounts to a price escalator, which the Tories are downright encouraging (not that Labour did nearly enough about it themselves).
Nice to see that people from a particular political allegiance admit there was fault on both sides of the political spectrum. There are far too many occasions where I notice a large amount of amnesia in politics. I don’t know whether the Tories are encouraging a price escalator as you say, but they could still do better. If there was more funding available to support house building projects, then the country will be much better off.
Newsbot9
Both sides? No, that would require a party to the left. I’m a left winger, and neither centralist (trending right these days) Labour or the right-wing Coalition have any support from me.
And yes, the Tories are actively pushing, sadly, with things like their new council house sale schemes. Housing should be cross-party, but even Labour’s plans for house building schemes are side-thoughts, funded not from capital borrowing but from once-off windfalls…
(Council houses. 100k a year, 5 years, brownfield sites. Combined with rent caps and a tax on empty houses and empty brownfield sites…)
8 Responses to “Con 2012: Cameron’s speech: What happened to the “greenest government ever”?”
Newsbot9
The problem there being the critical housing shortage and an energy policy which amounts to a price escalator, which the Tories are downright encouraging (not that Labour did nearly enough about it themselves).
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Nice to see that people from a particular political allegiance admit there was fault on both sides of the political spectrum. There are far too many occasions where I notice a large amount of amnesia in politics. I don’t know whether the Tories are encouraging a price escalator as you say, but they could still do better. If there was more funding available to support house building projects, then the country will be much better off.
Newsbot9
Both sides? No, that would require a party to the left. I’m a left winger, and neither centralist (trending right these days) Labour or the right-wing Coalition have any support from me.
And yes, the Tories are actively pushing, sadly, with things like their new council house sale schemes. Housing should be cross-party, but even Labour’s plans for house building schemes are side-thoughts, funded not from capital borrowing but from once-off windfalls…
(Council houses. 100k a year, 5 years, brownfield sites. Combined with rent caps and a tax on empty houses and empty brownfield sites…)