Louise LocockTory talk of abandoning net zero measures in a desperate attempt to cling onto power, while we all burn.
The sheer malevolent short-termism of it.
#ClimateCrisis #GTTO
The sheer malevolent short-termism of it.
#ClimateCrisis #GTTO
Patrick Hadfield@ProfLouiseL I reckon it's politically stupid, as well. It keep them their core vote - those convinced the climate catastrophe is fake, or who think they'll be dead before it matters - but it won't get them enough votes to win. And voters in SE England will see through it.
@patrickhadfield I'd like to think so. Thing is, though, even some of my left and green leaning neighbours have started falling for misinformation about LTNs, for example, talking of being trapped in their neighbourhood. They seem oblivious to the nasty nexus of "anti" ideas behind the anti #LTNs or anti #ULEZ. Same old tangle of people who also deny #ClimateCrisis and #COVID, #AntiVaxxers, #AntiLockdown. Piers Corbyn, for example.
https://mastodon.social/@ProfLouiseL/109887913164188085
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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸@ProfLouiseL @patrickhadfield There's an "appeal to the nerds" here for Labour. Do some simple fact checking. Turn that into a political message. And then use it to attack the Tory "culture war" think tanks.
Labour has to find a way to deactivate the constant stream of Right Wing Contrarian bollocks coming out of 55 Tufton St. Make it obvious it's all bollocks and turn it against them. It shouldn't be just groups like LedByDonkeys or Desmog doing Labour's work for it.
@ProfLouiseL @patrickhadfield Don't fight ERG, CRG, NZW, IEA, Taxpayers Alliance, GBNews and so on, on their terms. Instead, get the electorate to laugh at them for spreading obvious lies.
When people like Grant Shapps spread obvious lies about ULEZ (when their signature was on the request to expand) Point this out and get people to laugh at Shapps being Shapps again. In Johnson's old ward point out that Johnson started ULEZ, so why are the Tories complaining?
Peter Lee@jbond @ProfLouiseL @patrickhadfield
Hard agree here. This seems like such an obvious tactic: the Torys keep spouting so many easily debunked lies, they’re leaving multiple open goals. I’m mystified that the Labour Party aren’t making more of this…
Hard agree here. This seems like such an obvious tactic: the Torys keep spouting so many easily debunked lies, they’re leaving multiple open goals. I’m mystified that the Labour Party aren’t making more of this…
@peteralee @ProfLouiseL @patrickhadfield Yes. And the obvious elephant traps that the Tories keep leaving for them. That Labour then walk straight into.
There's an open goal. The keeper has left the pitch. The Labour striker gets distracted by the other side's baying fans behind the goal. And hits the cross bar.