Have you seen ‘Labour’s’ new ad on the London Underground?
Unofficial adverts criticising Labour Party chancellor Rachel Reeves for accepting money from climate crisis-sceptic lobbyists appeared on several London Underground lines on Friday 24 January.
Labour: taking money from climate deniers – so now, the London Underground knows thanks to adverts
The satirical posters say Your Chancellor, Sponsored by Climate Deniers: Rachel Reeves took £10,000 from them (so far). A modified party logo reads: Labour: still backing oil:
We're facing climate breakdown, but the Chancellor is perfectly happy to take money from climate deniers while slashing green spending…
📍 London Underground #StopPollutingPolitics pic.twitter.com/bKg6d5QUPm
— Stop Polluting Politics (@climate_resist) January 24, 2025
Last year, Reeves scrapped Labour’s proposed £28 billion green investment fund, shortly after accepting a £10,000 donation from Lord Donoghue, a prominent climate sceptic and former chairman of the climate-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation.
The chancellor has come under further pressure in recent weeks as the economic outlook has worsened.
Sam Simons from Climate Resistance, the group behind the stunt, said:
To avoid dangerous climate change, our government must get the country off dirty oil and gas and onto clean, home-grown wind and solar power. But big oil companies are hijacking our politics in a desperate bid to protect their profits and slow down action on climate change.
It’s outrageous that our Chancellor is accepting five figure sums from notorious climate deniers, while slashing funding for tackling the climate crisis. From fires in California to floods in the UK, we’re already seeing the impact of the climate crisis. If we want a safe future, we must break the influence of oil lobbyists and climate deniers.
Featured image and additional images via Climate Resistance
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I cannot remember the exact numbers, but Britain creates less than 1% of the problem in the world scheme.
With tRump talking about “drill baby drill” our meagre attempt seems futile.
I am a believer that man is upsetting the planet with the amount of fossil fuel that we are burning, but we need to get the likes of China, India, and America on board.
Until that happens Britain taking the moral ground is pissing into the wind…
I take your point, but “Mony a puckle maks a muckle”. We have no credibility in challenging the big players unless we take responsible action ourselves.
China are very much on board making huge efforts internally and supplying much of the technology for other countries’ efforts. Perhaps person the US already produce about twice the atmospheric Carbon China does, and as China’s climate friendly policies come to fruition, even without Trump, the US were well on the way to being the world’s biggest polluter, not just the biggest per person.
The UK may only be a small player, and have missed many opportunities to be a major player in the huge and expanding renewables markets, but any government initative that helps UK re enables industries develop will only end up making the country richer, as well as starting to rebuild our world standing.
Britain’s additional 1% each year means it is using up 2 countries’ worth, since there are approx 200 countries in the world.
Furthermore, Britain has been putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere for 2 centuries, being the leader of the Industrial Revolution, so there’s an awful lot of gases still up there we put up in the past. So that takes our share to a good 4%. That’s 8 countries’ worth.
Worse, Britain supports the fossil fuel industry with more banking, insurance and PR services than any other country. We are massive enablers of emissions. If you add this in, Britain does as much harm to the climate as umpteen countries’ worth.
What about banning flights for a year? Jet fuel is a huge environmental curse on our times. We have Zoom for meetings and can see places in the world via our screens. I see no serious attempt to deter flight for package holidays, during the pandemic “wealth creators” could fly as the virus some how wasn’t interested in them, most fly in private planes or jets. Still the wealthy, one way or another, produce more emissions than most humans.