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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer writes op-ed against net zero (slrpnk.net)
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has written an op-ed piece in The Sun promising "I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists"

Which means he's willing to sacrifice all the industry to appease the fossil fuels industry.

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[-] egrets@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

becoming

It's been this way for nearly thirty years. Vote Conservative or vote Slightly-More-Agreeable-Conservative, and with FPTP, your third-party vote may as well have been for Father Christmas for all the difference it will make.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Um…is Father Christmas an option?

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