https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/government-should-shift-support-from-the-arms-trade-to-renewables/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:54:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/government-should-shift-support-from-the-arms-trade-to-renewables/#comment-963388 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:54:47 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=136105#comment-963388 Actually, we need to throw our weight behind boosting nuclear generation capacity, especially via small modular reactors (which will be faster to deploy) and breeder reactors (that can turn nuclear ‘waste’ into practically inexhaustible supplies of energy). Renewables such as wind and solar PV simply won’t cut it, as Germany’s experience has amply demonstrated.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/government-should-shift-support-from-the-arms-trade-to-renewables/#comment-963351 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:02:54 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=136105#comment-963351 It would seem we can move forward and create a better Britain, with more for the few whom do deserve more

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/government-should-shift-support-from-the-arms-trade-to-renewables/#comment-963348 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:41:14 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=136105#comment-963348 David more or less says it succinctly and to emphasise the point Labour needs to put it all in a new transformative industrial strategy. We could begin by reversing the Tory policies on onshore wind, the Green Deal ( a programme of insulating older properties), the fuel escalator, solar micro-generation ( the FIT has been terminated) and so on. Let’s have a dramatic change to opposing Runway 3 at Heathrow and abandoning HS2 in favour of investment in railways throughout the UK.

]]> https://leftfootforward.org/2019/04/government-should-shift-support-from-the-arms-trade-to-renewables/#comment-963189 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:26:32 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=136105#comment-963189 Yes, indeed, if Government is serious about tackling Climate Change. Also, the Government needs to divest from fossil fuels and invest in Renewables which would provide more jobs than in the Fossil Fuel/Shale Gas and Nuclear Energy Industries as well as target Financial Institutions and Corporations to do the same. At the moment, the Govt Policy is to give preferential treatment and tax breaks to the Oil, Gas and Nuclear Sector while scrapping financial support to the Renewable Energy Sector.

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