Rachel Reeves plans for aircraft could condemn work | Politics

Foreign Minister Rachel Reeves is playing a dangerous game if her main impulse for growth causes work to look weak in the environment.

Preserves They are obsessed with the threat Nigel FarageThe reform of the United Kingdom is perched for their party, and the Labor cannot afford to take off the greens.

While the reform won five seats in the July elections with just over four million votes, the Green Party sent four parliamentarians to Westminster thoroughly of almost two million votes.

The Greens He arrived second in 40 seats – 18 of which were in London. In all but one of these seats were the second in labor.

It is not surprising that London Labor mayor Sir Sadiq Khan is leading the opposition to a third track in Heathrow. If the environmentalists, the leftists and the Londoners who already irritated themselves by the noise and contamination of the windows caused by the Jumbo aircraft swing behind the green, then their group is in serious problems.

The promise of Mrs. Reeves of reducing the environmental requirements so that developers can “stop worrying about bats and triple” is not music for the ears of people who resist the idea that concrete is poured on Your green and pleasant land.

He Conservatives Bajo, David Cameron understood the deep importance of nature for the British voter, telling the electorate in 2006 to “vote blue” that “becomes green.” The young leader promised “green growth”, a way of boosting the economy without desecrating the environment.

Entered the 2010 elections with A promise of Stop the third track in Heathrow and “block the plans for the second tracks in Stansted and Gatwick.”

Cameron wanted to connect Heathrow to a high -speed rail network. The Fiasco HS2 has abolished Whitehall in the revolutionary power of the railroad and now Mrs. Reeves is supporting the expansion of the airport in Britain and has made Heathrow’s third track a personal mission.

She believes that sustainable aviation fuel is a “change of play”, but under current plans, this will explain Only 10% of fuel for airplanes by 2030.

He Conservatives face an choice. Do they pursue the environmental vote in search of a Renaissance in the style of Cameron? Or do Greens and liberal Democrats leave this space and, on the other hand, compete with the reform when intensifying their criticism of zero net policies?

They can try to have their cake and eat it by attacking giant green energy projects that would see fields covered with solar panels and sea views and altered slopes with the construction of mass wind turbines. Their own ranks on housing objectives have undoubtedly left them that Nimbyism is one of the most powerful forces in politics.

Kemi Badenoch must also be presented as a agricultural defender. He Conservatives You need to recover the rural seats that were put red in the summer elections, and the work of expanding the inheritance tax on the farms has given them a golden opportunity.

Surveys in December for the land and business association of the country found Two of three Rural voters said the Labor does not “understand or respect rural communities”, compared to one in three before the elections.

Meanwhile, burning environmentalists who believe that “climatic emergency” is an existential threat will be horrified in the priorities of the chancellor.

The veteran ecological activist George Monbiot this week gave Mrs. Reeves an idea of what to expect, writing that “this government is worse than conservatives“He said that” after only six months of power they have become so scary in their cold fanaticism and intolerance to dissent “and asked:” Did you vote for this? “

That is the question that the greens will ask at the door in each choice. The chancellor may be striving to underpin the confidence of the monetary markets, but she runs the risk of burning the coalition he delivered to Serv Keir Starmer Your landslide.