Climate Change Act 2008
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Sep 21, 2026
Is Andy Burnham Planning a Tax Raid?
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26:57Ian CollinsHOST
I mean, not... dance lessons in pakistan or whatever it was that you know comes up on one of those lists once a year uh but so i understand that um you've got the department for net zero or climate carbon neutrality whatever it's called these days you could just put those budgets on hold couldn't you so if you want you'd appease everybody then if you said well i'll tell you what we'll do for a couple of years we will pause the foreign aid budget we will pause ed miller bans originally ed miller bans net zero department because we just can't afford this and no one's going to die as a result of pausing the windmill program or the solar panel program so we'll stick it on pause both of those you'd probably forget 20 billion you'd be talking about 220 billion if you solved it did that for two or three years well i mean what would be wrong with that
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27:44Guy DampierGUEST
Well, the problem standing away on that would be the Climate Change Act 2008.
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27:48Guy DampierGUEST
So the problem is the government has locked itself in through legislation to delivering this, and it's going to keep on pushing it.
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27:54Guy DampierGUEST
So you actually need to pass legislation saying, no, explicitly, we're not going to do this.
Earl Spencer TORCHED by Tom Bower for ‘undoubtedly forming an alliance’ with the Sussexes
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21:16Michael EllisPANELIST
It's the cost to the purse of the ordinary man and woman in the street.
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21:21Michael EllisPANELIST
And what needs to happen is there needs to actually be a repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act.
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21:28Michael EllisPANELIST
There needs to actually be a removal of the carbon tax, which is to lower electricity prices.
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21:35Michael EllisPANELIST
These are things that actually need to be done to help, rather than just talk about changing names.