There are many examples like this, where we can spend public money once and get multiple returns. With subsidies for home insulation you get emissions reductions, and you lift the standard of living of both the residents and insulation workers.
Plus, you get reductions in energy use (home heating is a huge chunk of domestic energy use), and if any of the energy production freed up is offshore owned, it shifts the country's balance of payments, so it can import more for the same money.
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"... and I think there's red lines, about how we should talk about things, and engage with things."
#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/
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"If we insulate every home in Britain that needs it, that would reduce people's bills - vital in the cost of living crisis - we'd reduce emissions - vital in the climate crisis - and crucially, it could create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That could be in the public sector, in trade unions, where people are being paid properly, treated with dignity and care."
#ZackPolanski, UK Greens leader, 2025
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/
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There are many examples like this, where we can spend public money once and get multiple returns. With subsidies for home insulation you get emissions reductions, and you lift the standard of living of both the residents and insulation workers.
Plus, you get reductions in energy use (home heating is a huge chunk of domestic energy use), and if any of the energy production freed up is offshore owned, it shifts the country's balance of payments, so it can import more for the same money.
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"But I wonder if the scrutiny on policy is finally going to crank up. Because that's what's been missing, and that's what the populists always get away with."
#AlastairCampbell, 2025
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/12/164-zack-polanski-do-the-greens-have-what-it-takes/
Riiiight, *centrist* politicians eschew cheap, exploitative photo opportunity politics. Opting instead to put policy questions to the public, in detail, and let theme decide elections based on that. Which is why they always support proportional representation and citizens assemblies ...
