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Sofie Jenkinson
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social

...at 26°C our NHS has to bring in risk assessments & extra health&safety & can cancel entire surgical lists. As CCC pointed out last week: pupils taking an exam on a 32°C day leads to around a 10% lower likelihood of passing compared to a 22°C day. Climate change is here & it's impacting people now

Sofie Jenkinson
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social

And so we need our politicians to be very serious and very clear about how they are going to protect people and make their lives better, on the issue of climate, both now and in the future. Tony Blair's position is not to do that.

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Sofie Jenkinson
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social

Not only he is ignoring the potential of renewables and electrification to make people's lives better and bring down bills, but he is taking the same position as the anti net-zero populists in that we don't need to act to ensure the impacts we are already seeing don't get worse.

Sofie Jenkinson
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social

We need mitigation to do that, & we need adaptation to protect people from the impacts already here. This is the right thing to do. But equally the politics of both for the Labour Party, this govt, is actually very clear – it is the smart political move, for the electoral coalition & for the country

Sofie Jenkinson
@sofiejenkinson.bsky.social

For info on Net Zero and Labour's coalition see @persuasionuk.bsky.social's work here: "Provided noticeable cost & inconvenience to consumers is avoided at a policy level, unambiguously pro-Net Zero signalling is more or less all upside within the Labour coalition... persuasionuk.org/research/ref...

persuasionuk.orgGetting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'Exploring the attitudes, demography and values of Reform curious Labour voters and the coalitional dilemmas they represent