Time to Ditch Green taxes?

Labourhome » Time to Ditch Green taxes?

The latest ipsos/mori polling showed that the environment was the biggest concern for just 9% of people polled. This compared to 30% for Immigration, 38% Crime, 32% Economy and importantly 16% for fuel price and 22% inflation. We shouldn’t fall into the trap of prioritising issues that the people themselves don’t see as a priority. We can have a go at the Tories for ignoring the issues etc, but so are the public, they have bigger concerns.
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I am for green measures as I say, but they have to be taken in the wider political context, because people quite frankly don’t care about them as much as they do the money in their pockets.

Note: Some more detail is here. In the poll above, more than one answer was allowed.