Labour, keep your promises for a “fairer, greener future”.

EMAIL KEIR STARMER

Ask him to ensure Labour’s election manifesto includes a commitment to proper green investment. Please make sure to personalise your message - if we all send in the same email, it may get marked as spam! Let’s show Starmer that this policy is a clear vote winner:

Keir

Starmer

Labour Party

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The awful timing of this decision could not be more stark. Our country is struggling through a cost of living crisis, our economy is failing, and climate change is accelerating rapidly.

The Green Prosperity Plan, as set out in 2021, I believe was the right course of action to steer us through the multiple challenges we are facing, and lead our country to something better. The plan, matched with funding at the appropriate scale, was exactly the kind of bold vision we need now. It helped mark Labour as offering something different from the Conservatives ahead of the upcoming General Election.

Now that the plan has been watered down so significantly, I struggle to understand how Labour will break us out of the sticking-plaster-politics of the past decade, or enable the UK economy to stay afloat in the coming decades. We desperately need investment to boost jobs. We need decent jobs with fair wages, we need better, more reliable and electrified public transport to clean up our air and reduce pressure on the NHS, and we need our homes to be upgraded with both insulation and heat pumps to stop children living in cold homes and bring all our energy bills down. We need a government that will restore our natural environment and give us back a sense of national pride.

The levels of investment you are now proposing amount to only a quarter of the £20bn per year extra capital investment that the Institute of Fiscal Studies thinks the UK economy needs in order to grow, and only a fifth of what London School of Economics thinks we need in capital investment for a green industrial strategy.

While the figure of £28 billion a year has been attacked as ‘fiscally irresponsible’, a look at how other governments have chosen to invest would suggest that failing to do the same in the UK is economically irresponsible. In the USA, job numbers have increased by 353,000 in January alone thanks to Biden’s targeted infrastructure investment.

I am aware you are now considering what will go into Labour’s election manifesto. I urge you to commit to investing, at scale, to make our homes warmer and greener, expand and electrify public transport, and boost nature protection (including upgrading vital sewage infrastructure). These three sectors are the ones in greatest need of new government investment to seize the opportunities of green growth, lower bills, and protect our natural world - and at present Labour has precious little to offer that would differ from the Conservatives.

Ahead of the General Election, you need to show voters you have a vision and plan for the climate and the country. Please commit to delivering what is necessary to ensure our country can prosper.

Yours sincerely,

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Labour, keep your promises for a “fairer, greener future”.

We’re standing at the edge of a cliff. For the first time, our planet has experienced average temperatures above a 1.5C threshold for an entire year. Now, more than ever, we need a government that will put the needs of the people and our planet first.

With a general election coming soon, the Labour Party currently has a solid lead in the polls. But despite this, their policies are not up to scratch.

Just last week, Labour party leader Keir Starmer hugely scaled back plans to invest an extra £28 billion a year into green jobs and industries. This level of investment could transform the lives of all of us in the UK by tackling the cost of living crisis.

This is a vision worth fighting for, not retreating from.