• Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure what this has to do with climate scientists. What am I supposed to be looking at?

    Rishi has a history of making legislation to benefit the companies run or owned by friends and family. I would be extremely surprised if this didn’t also have a similar angle.

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      1 year ago

      Just some good old “whataboutism”. Maybe he sprinkles some climate-change denial into some prohibition discussion to distract us?

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      1 year ago

      Climate activists want to, among other things, pass extremely unpopular carbon taxes as they’re the most serious effort toward cutting fossil fuels usage

      Extremely unpopular ideas that inevitably favor certain products are not always moves to sell those products, is the point

      It’s pretty reasonable to assume no one outside the UK knows much about Sunak’s history with handouts to friends.