Many colleagues will have wondered, post-2016, why large car manufacturers would continue to make cars in the UK after Brexit, apart from Nissan which keeps being bribed to stay.
Now that the EU has stipulated a framework ending carbon-emitting cars by 2035, plus strong rules re EV battery material sourcing and manufacturing requirements and recycling and re-use, the UK has no chance of meeting these regulations.
"Let me give you an analogy. A metaphor. You go to a doctor. A quack. He gives you pills. You take them for a while. Instead of feeling better, you feel worse, much worse. The quack doctor says: so sorry, my treatment failed. Meanwhile, it turns out, those pills gave you cancer. This is where Britain is now."
Will this change anything? No.
The dirty white offshore money that wants the UK as an unsupervised, unregulated financial land-fill for the worst global accountancy frauds will continue to make money, and doesn't care..
-- Dr Jon Cloke
Senior Research Associate - ENR-Demos
CEO Social Energy System Consultants
LCEDN National Network Manager
Recently published:
Extending energy access assessment: The added value of taking a gender perspective
Annemarije Kooijman, Joy Clancy, Jon Cloke,
Energy Research & Social Science,
Volume 96,
2023
