Robert Jenrick: “I Would Tear up Unconservative Climate Change Act as Tory Leader”
Robert Jenrick has promised to tear up the Climate Change Act if he becomes Tory leader and eventually Prime Minister. The Telegraph has more.
He has said he will scrap major pieces of Blair and Brown era legislation including the Climate Change Act, Equality Act and Human Rights Act under a “Great Reform Act” if he makes it to No. 10.
His plans include scrapping carbon budgets and unburdening businesses of equality laws which have been criticised for driving positive discrimination and political correctness in the workplace.
He described carbon budgets as “Soviet-style five-year plans” and claimed they impede the building of critical national infrastructure projects.
He would also take aim at the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act and section 6 of the Human Rights Act, which gives the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) force in British law.
“The next Conservative government must do better to deliver a genuinely conservative country. We must repeal and amend the Climate Change Act, Equality Act and Human Rights Act and restore decision-making to ministers accountable to parliament,” Mr Jenrick told the Telegraph.
He accused the Prime Minister of “planning a second disastrous Blairite revolution” and suggested he could repeal laws brought forward by the current Labour Government, including a mooted Race Equality Act that was included in Labour’s manifesto.
He has also pledged to scrap new quangos promised in Sir Keir Starmer’s manifesto, including Great British Energy, the Nationwide Climate Export Hubs and an Office for Value for Money.
Mr. Jenrick argued the Public Sector Equality Duty has “led to recruitment based on identity, not merit” and that “the chief beneficiary has been EDI consultants and those that peddle divisive and false narratives about Britain’s past”.
On carbon budgets, the Tory leadership candidate said: “It is ludicrous to set out soviet-style five-year plans at a sectoral level which specify where you plan to reduce carbon emissions. The state does not have sufficient understanding of the economy to do that well. It’s impeding us from building the critical national infrastructure we need.”
Mr. Jenrick’s plan is inspired by the Great Reform Act of 1832 which expanded democracy and swept away corruption in the British political system.
Worth reading in full.
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Gets my vote.
But can he be trusted?
There were lots of things the Tories promised, but failed to deliver.
I’m not aware of any politician taking a stand on this topic. There was also Andrew Bridgen who took on the lockdown and vaccine shenanigans. Boris had no spine, even though he spoke eloquently about Brexit and the will of the people. Jenrick is unknown to me but the only one standing on this. Perhaps, like Boris, he will be controlled, or sabotaged, but right now he is all I have.
Are these not all Reform policies too?
Their Laleham Declaration is a fair stab at the climate nonsense:
https://x.com/AlexStarling77/status/1846296012165357839
Follow the money.
Very succint
Can you imagine how difficult this would be to achieve – the opposition he would face, even from within his own party? Is Jenrick really tough enough to get any of this done?
That was going to be my point. He can promise whatever he likes, but if his own MPs won’t let him do it then what is the point? They had 14 years to do this stuff. The Tories are finished whoever they choose.
100% – they are done. Where was this guy the last 14 years… going along with it all…
Exactly.
Utter bullshit.
And let’s not forget… Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
He only became an mp in 2014 but I agree where was he
When Mrs T was praised by conservatives, I thought it was for her victory over the Wets in her own party, not Labour, as that was ‘just her job’.
He’s saying all the right things now, but he’s a slithy tove and I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can spit.
I trust your question is rhetorical?
Unfortunately you won’t have an opportunity to vote until 2029.
What Jenrick seems to have overlooked is that the Tory party is in opposition – and likely to be so until at least 2029. So talk of ‘tearing up’ the Climate Change Act, although attractive to some, is hardly practical and is not going to appeal to many people – most of whom for good reason don’t believe Tory promises anyway. A far more practical approach for a Tory leader (don’t forget Jenrick said this as part of his pitch for Party leadership) would be to start an immediate, informed, well-publicised and continuing campaign exposing the dangers and absurdities of the Government’s climate policies. That I suggest would get media and public attention – something that’s desperately needed now that so many people have been subjected for years to incessant ‘green’ propaganda. Then, as the 2029 election gets nearer and with the public increasingly on their side (accentuated by the pain the policy will inevitably be beginning to inflict on them), the Tories should be able to put together a strong manifesto commitment on energy policy that’s likely to be popular.
Good comment, though I don’t see why he can’t do both. A mainstream political leader saying these kinds of things out loud is what we want to hear – though of course who knows whether he would get it through parliament.
It may be what we (DS readers) want to hear. But not most of the public who, because of the incessant propaganda to which I referred, broadly support Net Zero – which, after all, has been and continues to be Tory policy. I suggest that a sudden reversal of that policy would be likely to breed cynicism – even contempt. No the way to overcome this is surely to take it carefully and slowly (unfortunately there’s plenty of time) and, based on good sense and logic, to build back the trust that’s been sadly lost.
And BTW it obviously won’t get through Parliament for a long time given the Government’s current incumbents.
All fair points, but the issue is, it is 4 years till the next election, and if mass migration and net zero policies continue until then that maybe all that’s needed to realize Klaus Schwab’s dream of a digitally controlling World government and all that that entails. By then it won’t matter who wins.
Alternatively, within 4 years the general public might start waking up to the many absurdities and contradictions of the net zero policy – and how much it will actually COST them (esp. if a leader of the opposition actually starts to publicise some of the more egregious ones)
If he is elected leader he has plenty of time to sell the policy – on financial and national security grounds. I think a lot of people can be persuaded. I think the people who definitely can’t be persuaded would never vote Tory anyway.
I think it’s good to break the taboo
Academic as it doesn’t look like he will win
I am utterly baffled that this thread is discussing electoral possibilities. Our electoral system is finished and people need to wake up to this fact.
Kneel and his bunch of traitors are no more in charge of this country than I am.
Get a grip people.
Charming naïvity.
Going to be a challenge given the tories put lots of it in place themselves… or didn’t remove previous legislation when they could have
True.
He needs to constantly highlight the obscene subsidies given to renewable energy schemes, tell people that they pay for these subsidies through higher bills, and promise not to give any new wind or solar farms any guaranteed minimum price for their electricity. He also needs to promise to scrap all carbon taxes, stop subsidies for heat pumps, scrap the ban on petrol/diesel cars, and promise to issue new licences for North Sea oil and gas projects as well as fracking.
Without all these things tearing up the climate change act means very little.
The UN’s DARK Agenda: What You’re Not Being Told About Agenda 2030————Climate and Energy are just one part of the agenda, albeit a very major aspect of it.
I’ll give this set of clowns 2 years before they’re forced into a GE. So he’s not much time. Unfortunately, he’s just channelling Farage and will say anything to steal votes from Reform. But he lacks Nigel’s charisma and Kemi’s strength of character to defeat the Tory wets.
What was his voting record on these matters? Any MP too afraid to buck his party whip will certainly be too weak to buck the international pressures, let alone the combined Net Zero lobby cat home.
Yep, I’m sure you will…..
Still voting Reform.
I don’t trust the con-servatives.
What about petrol and diesel cars. Will he repeal the phasing out of IC vehicles and leave any transition to electric vehicles to the market and consumer choice?
This is hilarious I don’t know if you are drinking from the same cup as him moneywise but this man would sell his own grandmother and you wouldn’t have to offer much. Just look at him honestly. At a time like this anyone could sell AGW scepticism given that the whole agenda is falling apart and being disinvested and given the cost of fuel which is a much more pressing concern. If you live in the world of schmucks then you would be ready and eager for some chancer to take you by the nose. I think we have moved on a bit from that.
The Pseudo Tories which Jenrick exemplifies , are defunct . Farage carries the hopes of the the right and will command an audience which Jenrick can only dream of !
Jenrick has the STEM education and experience needed for a politician:
He read History at Cambridge, followed by the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Political Science. He then studied Law and qualified as a Solicitor ………
🙂
Yeah, another expensive suit who couldn’t grow a turnip. What a waste of space the PPE crowd are.
Even if he was genuine he would not be allowed to do it.
NO dissent allowed.
(He’ll be saying he’d ban mmRNA jabs and vaccines next).
I wouldn’t credit them with too much power. There is a tipping point where public faith declines so much that they are immediately dismantled. You saw something like this with the Soviet Union. The trust goes, there is a period of parody and a breakdown of the rule of law because the masses rightly conclude that the laws don’t apply to the overlords. All of our state and corporate systems are very fragile in this regard; they can collapse very quickly.
https://dailyclout.io/record-level-data-from-czech-republic-foia-proves-that-the-moderna-vaccines-increased-all-cause-mortality-by-over-30-and-the-pfizer-vaccines-werent-safe-either/
This might be of interest to some. It’s certainly of more interest than a bloody useless Tory mp who has done F A in the last fourteen years to put this country back on track.
I might as well post some news…
CNN technical director, Charlie Chester, in a secret Project Veritas recording from April 2021: Once the public are no longer scared of “Covid”, the climate scam will take centre stage as the new imaginary boogeyman to terrify everyone into submission with.
“They’ve already announced in our office that once the public is open to it, we’re going to start focusing mainly on climate… There’s a definitive ending to the pandemic. It’ll taper off to a point that it’s not a problem anymore. The climate thing is gonna take years, so they’ll probably be able to milk that for quite a bit.”
“Be prepared, it’s coming.”
The best channel out here join while you still can: Forbidden Truth
Modi remarked that ‘This not a time of war’ and immediately punctured the Putin balloon.
Unfortunately, for Mr Jenrick, who gives every impression of being a ‘All Round Good Egg’, within parochial Conservativespolitics, this probably is not a time for emollience.
It long since time for conviction.
https://interestofjustice.substack.com/p/nuremberg-2-hang-em-high-study-confirming?triedRedirect=true
Worth a look.
Yeah, at this point, in opposition, the Conservative party can promise anything.
“We must repeal and amend the Climate Change Act, Equality Act and Human Rights Act and restore”
Repeal AND amend? Huh?
I read that as ‘water down’ but generally keep it so as not to upset their lords and masters plans for world domination too much, but appear to the common folk to be doing ‘something’ (even though it’s FA use)
It would have to be written in the blood of his firstborn for me to believe he would. And even then I’d take out insurance.
This position by Jenrick loses my vote. It is intellectually bankrupt. There is good and bad in the legislation concerned but Jenrick’s answer is to tear up the good with the bad. If his position was to identify specifically what is bad and say why and then that he would tear out the bad and keep the good that would be better and appeal to more electors. For example, if he just tears up the Equality Act that removes from everyone the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of beliefs which include religious, moral and political beliefs. What Jenrick also misses is that discrimination is lawful when it is objectively justified – like objecting to a man, who conducts his life as if a woman, from running a rape crisis centre or from sharing lavatories for use by women. Similarly one could lawfully discriminate against a leader of the Klu Klux Klan being appointed as CEO of the Equality and Human Rights Commission as objectively justifiable notwithstanding that person’s right not to be discriminated against. Jenrick is offering bad politics to pander to mindlessness instead of intelligent and elegant solutions to bad parts of what could… Read more »
Specifically on climate change we need better laws and a scrapping of what are mindless target dates for targets based more often than not on thin air.
The climate change debate needs to be out in the open with all viewpoints allowed to be heard instead of deniers being cancelled by the Far Left rent-a-mob screamers.
It is all too easily forgotten that it used to be called ‘global warming’ until it was shown to be an incorrect description. That became ‘climate change’ but even that is now up for debate.
The entire climate change argument is based on a supposed consensus worldwide of ‘scientists’. These people for the most part would be cancelled and could lose their jobs if they do not agree with the supposed consensus.
So once they are all removed from the main argument for climate change we are left with conflicting arguments about whether the supposed climate change is anything to do with carbon dioxide emissions from hydrocarbon energy sources.
Sciences are not about consensuses. Newton’s laws of motion were not established by consensus but by observations of how nature behaves.
Yeah, wotever.
The Party Grandees would never let him do it, even IF he really wanted to (which I doubt).
They will, however, ensure it doesn’t happen because the WEF-approved Badenoch will be appointed. It’s not the votes that count, it’s who counts the votes.
Problem is that I don’t believe a word he says.
What did he do in government to try to roll back on Net Zero. Why wasn’t he arguing for a Repeal of the act while he had an opportunity to while in office?
He’s simply looking at Reform UK policies and copying them to try to win back voters from Reform. It won’t work, this disingenuous lightweight had his chance, whilst in government, and blew it. I don’t trust Generick or Badenough to run the country.
Mr Jenrick
Sir:
You are a day late and a dollar short.
Yours faithfully,
Disgusted
Tunbrdge Wells
The fact that he might be prime minister does not mean he has the support of all “conservatives”