RossOct 5, 2024
Philip John

Labour: There's no money to spend £3.7bn lifting kids out of poverty.

Also Labour: We're investing £21.7bn in carbon capture, helping fossil fuel criminals continue to destroy our planet.

Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-false-promise-of-carbon-capture-as-a-climate-solution/

#FuckLabour #Labour #Poverty #ChildPoverty #Inequality #Pollution #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ukpol #politics @ukpolitics

The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution

Fossil-fuel companies use captured carbon dioxide to extract more fossil fuels, leading to a net increase in atmospheric CO2

Scientific American
Oct 4, 2024 at 10:08amWeb
Show threadFluffgar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 HAS MOVEDOct 4, 2024
@phil Yeah, it's "great" how that change they promised has turned out to be stopping pensioners and disabled folks winter fuel payments and just handing the cash directly to the companies supplying the fuel. No obligations to society.
Show threadMJ RayOct 5, 2024
@phil basically I agree but you look bad muddying the waters by failing to point out that's £3.7bn per year lifting the child benefit cap versus £21.7bn over 25 years wasted on carbon capture (so under £0.8bn/year). That's bad enough without contriving it. @ukpolitics
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Dec 14, 2024

@phil @ukpolitics

The government creates the money it decides to spend. It doesn't want to do anything for poor children.