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At least Burnham got the timing right - they could be announcing this after Britain experienced an unprecedented 4 successive months of heatwaves and much of Europe is on fire. Oh!

Thats because westminster, lives in a "bubble", gets funded by corperations.

Nominative determinism?

Another one for that Tory Lies account to ignore.

Disasterous policy from Burnham (normal) politically toxic (unusual).

and what's worse Andy it makes no bloody difference, the world is going fast to EV's and trying to protect Nissan mini and JLR is fake as who is buying these in 2 years time with oil not going down

I know what sales that equates to as I am the CPs and projections. But if one thing is likely to slow CP rollout its reducing the number of EVs sold (or uncertainty of the same) as the former gets built on the basis of the confidence of latter.

You know how “new cars” work, right?

EV sales are mostly increasing in areas where charging is easy (either at home or local stations). In areas where it's difficult to recharge, sales will remain low.

One thing actions like this will do is put off the companies that would otherwise be investing in charging networks. It’s beyond stupid.

Around 70% of the UK population has access to private parking. Although in city centres that figure drops rapidly, but city centre dwellers are generally less dependent on cars. I think all this does is make it more likely British drivers will be buying a BYD instead of a domestic brand.

True. But then the fleet won’t change overnight. We have two EVs and we have had 3. So far not problems: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Exactly … only a few wingnuts and profiteers. For the rest of us … we’ve seen this coming for a long time, it’s been ridiculously hot for a very long time, perhaps we should actually do something about it 🤷‍♂️

I know I keep saying this but people really did need to look at his attitude to congestion charging/ULEZ in GM.

A dreadful lack of policy coordination that has resulted in just copy and pasting manufacturers' lobbying asks.

What's the Labour party anyway?

Stupid thing is car makers can't just turn the EV tap every time a government decides to move targets. It takes 3 years to develop a new car even with old tech engines so their planned EV models are already well into development. They won't mothball that investment for short sighted politicians.

another case of populism over doing the right thing.

That emergency alert needs to run every night with some climate emergency message. Not just disposable bbqs.

The EV sales target is a bad policy - doesn’t achieve what it’s aimed at and involves lots of poor consequences

They make Nissan LEAFs in Sunderland. How does this protect those jobs exactly?

I was ganieonly ompraizsed

Oh I like that one

I’ve already been dicalosed, James, I’m not sure I want it again.

Don’t be redicalose.

A dictionary simply records how words are used -- so use the word. Use it a lot. Make it so popular that it gets added to the dictionary. You Have The Power.

Trying to reverse engineer the word in my head, I wondered if autocorrect had mangled "relocalise"

Redically, surely?

Bloody hell. It’s “mavity” all over again.

WTAF is wrong with him... better not be Starmer 2.0 🤬

What it will do is spook the companies planning to invest in charging networks. Very annoying.

well i mean the fossil fuel industry want it and they're the ones who own our government so...

I'm starting to wonder whether he'll last as long as Truss

because they are obviously not going to hit the target.

This and approving the oil licenses in the North Sea whilst the country is on fire. Burnham seems to want to follow in the footsteps of Starmer....😣

Met friend visiting from Oz, he’s just bought EV cos of Hormuz

I support net zero, but just announcing targets with no proper plan for getting there is pointless. People aren’t going to rush out and buy EVs because of wildfires and heatwaves in the numbers that allow car manufacturers to profitably transition and the country has the infrastructure for.

Strong agree. For so many folk, this is the year when the penny has dropped on climate change. Govt could and should channel that widespread realisation to build momentum towards net zero.

Hi James - this may (?) be of interest. allouryesterdays.info/2026/08/14/b...

It would. But in Belfast bikes appear to be target practice…🤣 But I do have a bike (electric assistance type) as well. But I’m embarrassed to admit to being a fair weather cyclist…

I had to look it up as I'm never sure about words and there are plenty I don't know!