But if we’re still pumping 40m tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, how will this achieve success

The reality is that each human being has a carbon budget of about 1 tonne per year and a land budget of about 1 acre per year. We have to live within that budget

Labour are in govt and could signal a complete change of direction, but they haven’t

So they deserve all the criticism they get

I guess that makes sense. If you think about it as progressive v reactionary, that points towards an ability to embrace change v a natural reaction to push away from it.

The question is, can the wiring be changed. Possibly, but that's the great political challenge

As with Mamdani, I think people just want someone who will try to make things better, and he is shaping a vision of what is possible

Everyone else is giving “we just have to suck it up” vibes

Also when it’s just text. Like, seriously, you couldn’t include a screenshot or video?

TL:DR - ⬆️ VAT on luxury goods from 20% to 30% and using the extra revenue to ⬇️VAT on the hospitality sector to 12.5% would help local communities, support small businesses, reduce pollution, reduce unnecessary imports and create 270k new jobs & £7.7bn of new activity across the UK

I think the Tories who are likely to switch have already done so (to Reform and LibDem mainly). Their polling seems to have steadied in recent months

FPTP abhors a vacuum and at some point will push support to one or other of the progressive parties. but will it be Labour or Green?

That only works if Labour are in second place. Soon they’ll probably be in 4th or 5th

If you want to vote tactically, vote for the party that will be in second place. That will probably be the Greens

What?

the issue is not the income tax rises (although if taxes are to rise it really should be elsewhere), it's more that Labour specifically sought a mandate that including no income tax rises.

It was explicitly excluded from their mandate. By her.

Hoist by her own petard

I agree. That’s the point of my article and my broad use of the term ‘progressive’

The focus needs to be on what maximises our chances and minimises both Labour’s and Reform’s.

Even if we oppose them, we’re still not going to target more than 3 or 4 of the same seats

Are we?

Relatively speaking, we live in very stable times*, we just have more extremist agitators trying to convince us otherwise

(*not environmentally, in which case we are definitely in extreme times)

But it clearly wasn't just a tactic. They went to great lengths to shut down the re-join movement (even for the single market/customs union), even after they won the election

They are the government. I wish people would stop treating them like they have no power to act