‘Net Zero-People know how to spend their money better than any government’.

Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Dagenham and Rainham Sam Holland today writes:

Last week the Prime Minister announced major changes to the Government’s plan on getting to Net Zero Carbon emissions. The debate about climate change is stuck between two extremes: those who want to deny climate change or abandon Net Zero altogether because the costs are too high, and those who want to go further and faster with no regard to the cost to people’s lives or how much our country has already achieved compared to others. We need to change this debate – and forge a credible path to reach Net Zero by 2050 that brings people with us and is properly transparent about the choices involved.

The new approach includes a delay on the ban to sell new petrol and diesel cars until 2035, a loosening of the 2035 phase-out of selling new gas boilers and landlords will no longer be forced to insulate their rental properties by Government. We care about the environment, but we also care about working people keeping more of what they earn.

Why does all this matter and what does it mean for the people of Dagenham and Rainham?

These changes come following an analysis of the cost impact on ordinary working people and families. As Conservatives, we do not believe in making working people shoulder even more costs to hit high-level internationally agreed targets. This principle goes together with what we’re campaigning for here in Dagenham and Rainham. The removal of the Mayor’s ULEZ Driver’s tax, wanting better value for money fortaxpayers by reducing council tax at both Barking and Dagenham and Havering Council, removing high-cost parking charges and Controlled Parking Zones where they aren’t wanted, pledging more value for money in tackling crime through smart investments in Policing and cleaner and tidier streets.

In contrast to our plan to put working people’s finances at the front and centre of climate and energy policy, Labour don’t have a credible plan. They’re just taking short-term positions to suit them politically.

They want to borrow £28 billion a year to spend on the climate transition but haven’t said how they’ll spend it. Borrowing this amount every year us dangerous, inflationaryand would increase further the cost of living for every person in the country.

They want to ban North Sea Oil and Gas which would merely increase our reliance on oil and gas imports from foreign despots and dictators – and put 20,000 UK jobs at risk.

Leading energy experts say that Labour’s plans will lead to ‘tax rises’ and ‘higher bills’ Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, Dieter Helm, said Labour’s 2030 decarbonisation target would lead to ‘higher costs’, ‘higher energy bills’ and it would cause ‘taxes to go up’. Even the General Secretary of the GMB Union described them as ‘impossible’ and a ‘disaster’ that would lead to ‘economic destruction’.

Working people know how to spend their own money better than any politician or bureaucrat, whether they sit in Barking or Havering Town Hall, City Hall or Westminster.

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