Labour is playing the same game as the Tories, and we’re all losing

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Labour’s U-turns on vital green issues affecting us all are diminishing their sincerity and their integrity (PA Wire)

Dave Brown’s cartoon of a weathercocking Starmer brilliantly follows Sian Sutherland’s recent letter in which she highlights Labour’s scrapping of their commitment to low-emission zones, their attitude to “Just Stop Oil” protestors (who are fervently and peacefully trying to bring about necessary change, albeit it sometimes inconveniently) and their unwillingness to revoke 100 new oil-drilling licences. Labour have also rowed back on its pledge to spend £28bn a year until 2030 on green projects funded by borrowing.

Never a Tory voter, I have generally supported Labour in the past but, in their attempt to gain power, it is disappointing to see them playing the same short-term game as the Tories. Labour’s U-turns on the vital green issues affecting us all are diminishing their sincerity and their integrity.

In my constituency, the Liberal Democrats are the only party who could oust the Tories and so I may vote for them at the next general election. However, if the emerging Liberal Democrats’ green policies also turn out to be inadequate, I will be voting for the Green Party.