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sheislaurence

🧵 1/2: Hear from the professionals complaining the government has done everything not just to derail but also to keep adding to their costs:
"There isn't a single route that we run that we can do end-to-end on traction" (yes, they use trains, ever smelt those?) and " access charge has increased by 140% since 2010" (oh, the year the came to power!) .
I cannot overstate how "third world" this is looking...
channel4.com/news/why-is-the-u

Channel 4 News · Why is the UK not exploiting technology for net zero trains?About 70 percent of them are then moved by road, using cheaper, polluting diesel lorries - not the cleaner rail network. If the freight train is electric, the journey is virtually carbon free.

🧵 2/2: what saddens me is not so much that the always went about doing what they are best known for (destroying , emptying coffers for private gains), but that 's have already walked away from their pledge and routinely insist that any social or policy with a backbone are "not grown-up policies". Sure, keep being condescent to your electorate, great tactics! theguardian.com/politics/2024/

The Guardian · Labour cuts £28bn green investment pledge by halfBy Kiran Stacey