Populist politicians resonate with the public in their attack on the "Green Agenda" because they are right - climate policy is elite. Therefore, the man represents the next leader of the British Green Party.
“We all should be angry about the purity of pureness,” said Zack Polanski, currently deputy leader of the Green Party. “I hope that the poorest people in our society can strengthen their response to the climate crisis. But it’s the government’s fault, not the people’s fault.”
Polansky believes that a cautious approach to net zero is a tempting populist opposition. Instead, we need greater government intervention and anti-poverty agenda. He urged the wealthy to impose taxes to transfer production to a low-carbon economy, clear rivers and restore nature. "These issues are the result of political choices, and we can make different political choices," he said. This is populism, but in his opinion it is the real view of the people and the planet: ecologicalism.
Polansky sparked debate when green policies were under attack in various countries, most notably Donald Trump's America. In the UK, net worth zero has also become a flash point. Last week, British reforms took a record seat in local elections. Richard Tice, the energy spokesman for the right-wing populist party, attacked "Net stupid zero" in every opportunity, and its leader Nigel Farage warned council officials engaged in climate change in search of new jobs.
Before the election, Fracas exploded with the labor force due to Tony Blair’s inflammatory rhetoric, appearing to attack energy minister Ed Miliband’s stance at Zero and Keir Starmer.
Everything looked very different two weeks ago. On April 24, a week before the local election, Starmer took on the role of a world politician, greeting leaders and senior ministers from 60 countries and holding an energy security summit at Lancaster House. "We will make energy a source of vulnerability, but power. Energy security is national security," he said. "Indigenous clean energy is the only way to regain our energy systems, provide energy security and lower bills over the long term. That's the DNA of my government."
It aims to be a landmark speech. Miliband has been facing unfriendly briefings from the party, some of whom believe are from Blair and Rightwing Press, which is ruthless in opposing net zero and Miliband himself. Starmer's obvious gesture to support made Miliband laugh.
But what Starmer didn't know was that his trusted adviser and former Prime Minister Blair was preparing for his intervention when he greeted ministers from around the world.
Next week, Blair's bombshell hits. In a report’s introduction, he called for more investment in nuclear power and carbon capture and storage, he wrote: “When they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal…any strategy based on “short-term or restricted fossil fuels in consumption” is a failed strategy, they are asked to make financial sacrifices and lifestyle changes.”
Contrary to the trivial concern dedicated to Starmer's speech, Blair's remarks (withdrawing power 18 years ago and well-documented links to Middle Eastern Petrochemicals) immediately caused a stir. The conservatives happily caught it in the ranks. The reform has always been very exciting. Farage announced this week that the Reform Commission will reject training for clean training. Tice vowed to oppose renewable energy developments in Lincolnshire. "I'm going to write to (the developer) again now saying that we have won these elections and you need not fantasy. It's war," Tice said. "We're going to start a war against your people and your terrible ideas."
The 10th place was not irritated when intervened, and it was the time for local elections and the cover of Starmer. A spokesman for Downing Street defeated Blair's offense. Even amid the turmoil of bad results of local elections and surge in reforms, Starmer sticks to his plan. "The Prime Minister's remarks at the Lancaster House summit set the tone for the government's commitment to this agenda - the party is doubling its leadership in clean energy and climate," a labor source said.
Polls show voters have taken action against the climate crisis. Support for net zero is more than two to one: 40% of voters think the UK's 2050 goal is a good policy, while only 21% see it as a bad idea. Two-thirds of voters want the government to maintain its current policy speed, or faster. Even those labor voters willing to support reform net policy claims support.
"The idea of Britain becoming a net-zero skeptic is about birds. Reform voters are more skeptical, but that's not what most of them feel strongly about it."
Holly Braziler Tope, deputy director of politics at Green League, urged Starmer to be bold. "Labor's majority of people were going to make this change in 1945, but Steamer also understands that people are not feeling the benefits yet," she said. "The government must therefore focus on reducing bills to this parliament, thus decisively cutting expensive fossil fuels from Britain's energy supply."
After the bleak local election results, MPs were nervous about Labor's achievements and needed to be relieved, many of whom welcomed Starmer's commitment to purity. Southeast Cornwall MP Anna Gelderd said it provided the party with a "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".
Polly Billington, a member of Congress at East Thanet, said Net Zero was not running on the doorstep campaign, urging the government to focus more on how green policies can benefit green policies in their local people, not just abstract or global meaning. “The postal (local) elections, we need to maintain our commitment and tell our story in a way that attracts people who stay at home or move us from left to right to right to tell us,” she said.
The next few months will be crucial, as Starmer will follow his strong words as a series of imminent decisions set a net-zero agenda for the rest of this council.
One will be the publication of a new industrial strategy. Many sectors face difficult prospects. The steel industry has been supported with the help of the government. Automakers are concerned about tariffs. Danish company Ørsted shocked the renewable energy industry, breaking away from the Hornsea winds from Yorkshire, ironically, due to high energy costs due to reliance on expensive natural gas.
Ministers scramble to talk about flagship housing policies for building 1.5 million new homes. The long-awaited "Future Housing Standards" are coming, which will determine whether these homes are built under the highest green standards. This is beneficial for residents as it will keep the bills low as well as reduce carbon emissions, but developers must pay for them, and they are trying to threaten the government by warning them that they may not meet construction goals.
For existing homes, a warm housing plan will be developed later this year, with £132.2 billion going to the national insulation scheme, which focuses on low-income families who leak medium and high energy costs for housing. Green experts believe this is crucial to show that net zero plans can benefit the average worker.
More detailed plans to enhance onshore wind and solar power generation, as well as a controversial decision on expanding Gatwick and Heathrow airports, should also be drawn, and the government must achieve another milestone by the end of October after last year’s court victory for Friends of the Earth.
Tessa Khan, executive director of campaign group Uplift, said the government must challenge the court ruling this summer, challenging some potential new oil fields, including the Rosebank and Jackdaw projects, one of the biggest tests of Labor's determination.
"The geological reality is that after 50 years of drilling, we burned most of the gas in the North Sea. The only gas that can be taken from more outputs are oil and gas giants, who will export their ability to export their shareholders and not expect futures for workers, because the basin will decline. To win this fight, labor requires bold labor, not bold."
She said a fair transition to workers would resonate with voters. “(Labor) requires a workforce that supports oil and gas to transition to renewable energy and ensure communities that have suffered years of decline as the North Sea era becomes richer from its clean capacity mission. It needs to be with most people who recognize how much fossil fuels are making us harm and master the wealthy and their forgers and their disguise.”
But moving the economy to a low-carbon position will require investment. Economists can prove that it will pay off, and several times, investors around the world are eager to participate. But in the short term, government cash may require cash, and that's the problem.
Principal Rachel Reeves was beaten to death on 11 Downing Streets of the comprehensive spending review released next month, which will determine that every government’s priorities are attributed to each government’s priorities during this council. Environmental spending has faced cuts, flood control, sustainable agricultural subsidies, and warm housing plans in the fire. As the defense budget absorbs more resources, will the clean resources remain?
Polansky has an answer: He will fund the green transition through wealth taxes, an idea that is very popular in polls and also collects Labour followers behind closed doors.
Reeves firmly violated any such violation of the financial rules imposed on her self. Having ruled out wealth tax, she even suppressed herself against her threats to avoid tax non-bonds.
The promise of abandoning the oddity of cash, promising to isolate low-income homes while refusing to tax the way a large part of the public needs is a bold strategy in its own way, but not in line with last month’s vision Starmer. As he promised, if the Prime Minister was really ready to fight for net zero, then his real difficulty might not be the emergence of reforms, his own back-bench stand, or even the Green Party ecologist. He needs to see next door.