Well, here we are. 100 days of Labour tomorrow.

* Gray (autocorrect)

I agree, an abysmal start indeed. Not quite what we were lead to believe here on GN before the election is it ? I'd like to say that 🎶 things will only get better 🎶 but I can't bring myself to do so.

It’s like 1997 all over again - and that only lasted 13 years after all. Chin up FriedGreenTomatoes2.

Showing their true colours, didn’t take long, did it….

My chin is up Casdon 😁
I’m watching developments with interest.

A rocky start for Labour but will try to be optimistic and hope for better.

And what about Miliband's deranged enthusiasm for ruining the country, financially and environmentally in pursuit of some pointless target that no other country is even trying to reach.

They've made life seem very gloomy, depressing even. I just hope the light at the end of the tunnel hasn't been turned off too!

Feels like a 100 years. What a bunch of hypocrites.

My chin is trying to stay up, but so far I am unimpressed.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

And what about Miliband's deranged enthusiasm for ruining the country, financially and environmentally in pursuit of some pointless target that no other country is even trying to reach.

All his scheme is going to do is move the UK’s carbon footprint abroad.

Solar panels on farming land, just downright ridiculous, put them in buildings, industrial units or car parks.

Apparently we nearly had the first blackout on Tuesday when an inter-connector with Norway failed. Gas kept the lights on. ..... it would have been quite entertaining watching Red Ed and Keir-Ching! explain how "their" energy policy and the Net Zero lunacy will keep the lights on ..... when they've just gone out all over the UK.

Oh sigh! It would be really good to drop the childish names and have some kind of serious discussion.

Lighten up. Remember the names for Boris? I never moaned. 😊

Power cuts, very expensive energy for homes and business; 20k oil workers losing their jobs. Racing ahead too fast before the science is ready - I'm thinking heat pumps, electric cars. The list goes on. Miliband scares me. He’s like a zealot.

GrannyGravy13

FriedGreenTomatoes2

And what about Miliband's deranged enthusiasm for ruining the country, financially and environmentally in pursuit of some pointless target that no other country is even trying to reach.

All his scheme is going to do is move the UK’s carbon footprint abroad.

Solar panels on farming land, just downright ridiculous, put them in buildings, industrial units or car parks.

For once, I partly agree with you GrannyGravy. I'm not that bothered about solar 'farms', although I really don't understand why solar panels aren't being installed on every car park, industrial unit, hospital and school, etc.

I confess I don't know that much about carbon capture, but (from what I've read) it does seem a strange way to invest so much money.

Why doesn't the government give universal grants to people and businesses to make sure their buildings are as well-insulated as possible, with boiler upgrades if necessary? (Lots of potential for you there, by the way ;-))

FriedGreenTomatoes2

My chin is up Casdon 😁
I’m watching developments with interest.

Tell us what you think, specifically, of the bills and announcements so far, as opposed to the gossip, and I’ll believe you.

GrannyGravy13

My chin is trying to stay up, but so far I am unimpressed.

That’s me too.

Louise Haigh and Angela Rayner are also close to scuppering a flagship investment of £1bn by DP World at the London container yard.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Power cuts, very expensive energy for homes and business; 20k oil workers losing their jobs. Racing ahead too fast before the science is ready - I'm thinking heat pumps, electric cars. The list goes on. Miliband scares me. He’s like a zealot.

Oil workers can be retrained to install wind farms and solar panels (and maintain them).

Jaxjacky

Louise Haigh and Angela Rayner are also close to scuppering a flagship investment of £1bn by DP World at the London container yard.

Hmmm! The £1bn might not have been so advantageous to the UK, if most of the workers were foreign and the profits syphoned off abroad.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Lighten up. Remember the names for Boris? I never moaned. 😊

And I never called him any of them.

Some did! I remember those days well.
Anyhoo … moving on.

I didn't really expect anything too much during the first 100 days. They were not likely to overturn the mess the Tories left after 14 years in charge. I am concerned about their blinkered determination to impose a 20% VAT increase on private school fees because although it will not cause issues for the wealthy those children with SEND who go to private SPECIALIST schools may face the very real problem of being sent back into the state system who could not meet their educational needs originally. Labour thinks it is black and white. It is a very long way from that. I hope for a fair and well thought through Budget but I fear the worst.