Labour seem determined to cosplay the Tories/Reform at every available opportunity, so I won't be the least bit surprised if this awful, stupid decision goes ahead.
Why are we so incapable of long-term thinking? Not just in the UK but the West generally.
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Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told
Sat 8 Nov 2025 06.01 GMT
Rachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups.
In a letter to the chancellor, more than 60 groups and companies urged Reeves not to take such a damaging “short-term fix” to slash funding for more energy-efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills.
The Guardian revealed this week that Reeves is finalising a multibillion-pound energy support package that is likely to cut green levies paying for energy efficiency as she looks to save as much as £170 from the average bill.
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James Dyson, a senior researcher at E3G, a non-profit that helped coordinate the letter, said the last time the ECO scheme was cut, 10,000 people lost their jobs and millions of families were “left in draughty homes paying astronomical energy bills” as a result.
“Cutting ECO could collapse the entire insulation industry, putting thousands of working people out of work in areas of the country that need good, skilled jobs and removing one of the best methods of permanently reducing energy bills for low-income families. It would also rob us of a key tool for lowering carbon emissions in this critical decade for climate action,” he added.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... eeves-told
