Andy Burnham’s ramblings before and after election are designed to create warm feelings. They are not thought through policy or a working plan to change government.
He says former industrial areas have been neglected, their voices un heard. The truth is far worse than that. His political chum Ed Miliband has intensified the attack on UK industry and production by going for extreme net zero policies that shut our factories, wells and furnaces and make us depend on imports. Kemi Badenoch has set out how to alter this, and helped the Conservative candidate to win the Aberdeen South by election on policies that could start to reverse the precipitate industrial and energy decline.
A government that is serious about backing UK industry needs to
- Lift the ban on new oil and gas wells imposed by this government
- Lift the ban on making petrol and diesel cars, brought forward to 2030 by this government
- Abandon this government’s plan to link us into the EU carbon tax and emissions scheme, which means dearer energy
- Abolish the UK carbon tax imposed by the last government, and the windfall tax on oil and gas introduced by the last government and increased by this.
- Abandon plans to introduce a carbon border levy or tariff
- Reach agreement with the Chinese over the future of Scunthorpe steel
- Arrange for new gas fired power stations to restore self sufficiency in electricity
- Accelerate development of smaller nuclear plants to replace the losses from closures of old nuclear
- Install new reservoirs to meet demands from the expanded population, and the needs of data centres, overcoming big planning delays
- Repeal most of this government’s employee rights legislation
- Cut National Insurance and Business rates, taxes on jobs, paid for by benefit reductions
I cannot see Burnham doing these things if he does manage to become Prime Minister.
June 20, 2026
Of course he won’t do any of these things. If a decision was made today to build some CCGT plants, the waiting list fir large industrial Gas Turbines is over 7 years.
Burnham is Starmer Mk2. He is another Fabian who believes in open borders and Net Stupid.
Bond interest has risen after his win and we are heading for stratasphoric interest payments.
Literally borrowing money to pay interest.
The sooner the IMF are called and routine power cuts become a feature of daily life, the sooner things will change.
June 20, 2026
Quite, not a chance, but then the Tories didn’t do these things either.
We have another career politician whose only interest is the job. If Burnham’s mayoral experience is as useful as Bunter’s job experience as London mayor, then we’ll have another unprepared, inexperienced actor as PM.
Well, at least he’s not another Oxford man, give Cambridge a go!
June 20, 2026
There’s rumour going around that 2TK is about to water down the 2030 target of 80% EVs down to 50%.
The SMMC says current targets are unachievable. The usual suspects are against this because they are part funded by Hedge Funds, particularly the charging network.
From 2010 to 2025, UK production of cars has dropped from about 1.2 million to 750 thousand. Clearly seen as a win by the imbecile incharge of Net Stupid.
June 20, 2026
No 12 Forget any idea of rejoining the dreaded EU club