Andy Burnham’s ramblings before and after election are designed to create warm feelings. They are not thought through policy or a working plan to change government. He says former industrial areas have been neglected, their voices un heard. The truth is far worse than that. His political chum Ed Miliband has intensified the attack on…
Andy Burnham’s ramblings before and after election are designed to create warm feelings. They are not thought through policy or a working plan to change government.
He says former industrial areas have been neglected, their voices un heard. The truth is far worse than that. His political chum Ed Miliband has intensified the attack on UK industry and production by going for extreme net zero policies that shut our factories, wells and furnaces and make us depend on imports. Kemi Badenoch has set out how to alter this, and helped the Conservative candidate to win the Aberdeen South by election on policies that could start to reverse the precipitate industrial and energy decline.
A government that is serious about backing UK industry needs to
- Lift the ban on new oil and gas wells imposed by this government
- Lift the ban on making petrol and diesel cars, brought forward to 2030 by this government
- Abandon this government’s plan to link us into the EU carbon tax and emissions scheme, which means dearer energy
- Abolish the UK carbon tax imposed by the last government, and the windfall tax on oil and gas introduced by the last government and increased by this.
- Abandon plans to introduce a carbon border levy or tariff
- Reach agreement with the Chinese over the future of Scunthorpe steel
- Arrange for new gas fired power stations to restore self sufficiency in electricity
- Accelerate development of smaller nuclear plants to replace the losses from closures of old nuclear
- Install new reservoirs to meet demands from the expanded population, and the needs of data centres, overcoming big planning delays
- Repeal most of this government’s employee rights legislation
- Cut National Insurance and Business rates, taxes on jobs, paid for by benefit reductions
I cannot see Burnham doing these things if he does manage to become Prime Minister.
