| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 18:35 - Apr 29 with 1233 views | carlo88 |
You can say what you want when you're an ex-politician, so presumably this is what he thinks. Perhaps he has an old Talbot Solara in his garage. |  | |  |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 18:36 - Apr 29 with 1226 views | J2BLUE |
He's right |  |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 19:00 - Apr 29 with 1159 views | Dubtractor |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 18:36 - Apr 29 by J2BLUE |
He's right |
You mean to say he's just parroting what his funders would like him to say?
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T14:19:06.907Z
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:26 - Apr 29 with 1085 views | DJR |
What has the Tony Blair Institute actually ever achieved, apart from turnover of nearly $145 million?
He, and it, are guns for hire with some very dodgy donors and business partners, such as donations from Amazon, the US State Department, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan.
The contrast with Gordon Brown couldn't be greater with the charitable Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation and his role as UN Special Envoy for Education and WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing. [Post edited 29 Apr 20:30]
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:31 - Apr 29 with 1063 views | J2BLUE |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 19:00 - Apr 29 by Dubtractor |
You mean to say he's just parroting what his funders would like him to say?
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... — Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla.bsky.social) 2025-04-29T14:19:06.907Z
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Doesn't stop it being right though (IMO) | |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:40 - Apr 29 with 1039 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 18:36 - Apr 29 by J2BLUE |
He's right |
.....well yeah if you don't want to tackle climate change. |  |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:42 - Apr 29 with 1037 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:26 - Apr 29 by DJR |
What has the Tony Blair Institute actually ever achieved, apart from turnover of nearly $145 million?
He, and it, are guns for hire with some very dodgy donors and business partners, such as donations from Amazon, the US State Department, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan.
The contrast with Gordon Brown couldn't be greater with the charitable Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation and his role as UN Special Envoy for Education and WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing. [Post edited 29 Apr 20:30]
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He's a snake, his skin even looks reptilian! | |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:56 - Apr 29 with 1004 views | DJR |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:40 - Apr 29 by BanksterDebtSlave |
.....well yeah if you don't want to tackle climate change. |
And you want to drill, baby, drill.
Even if people don't care about the climate, the earth's resources are finite (and the UK no longer has much in the way of gas or oil reserves), but that isn't the case with wind or solar. [Post edited 29 Apr 20:58]
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 21:03 - Apr 29 with 989 views | J2BLUE |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:40 - Apr 29 by BanksterDebtSlave |
.....well yeah if you don't want to tackle climate change. |
I think we all have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint and I make an effort to do so. A good chunk of the world don't care. Developing countries would quite rightly point out we'd have all the benefits so why should they hold back?
If we're going with wishful thinking then great, he's wrong. Looking at the real world I just can't see humanity meeting the challenge by reducing emissions etc. | |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 21:49 - Apr 29 with 904 views | NthQldITFC |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 21:03 - Apr 29 by J2BLUE |
I think we all have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint and I make an effort to do so. A good chunk of the world don't care. Developing countries would quite rightly point out we'd have all the benefits so why should they hold back?
If we're going with wishful thinking then great, he's wrong. Looking at the real world I just can't see humanity meeting the challenge by reducing emissions etc. |
Suicide pact then. |  |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 22:34 - Apr 29 with 840 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 21:03 - Apr 29 by J2BLUE |
I think we all have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint and I make an effort to do so. A good chunk of the world don't care. Developing countries would quite rightly point out we'd have all the benefits so why should they hold back?
If we're going with wishful thinking then great, he's wrong. Looking at the real world I just can't see humanity meeting the challenge by reducing emissions etc. |
Like I said....if you don't want to tackle climate change! Let's all keep fiddling while Rome burns is essentially what you're saying. Technofix is a myth imho! | |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 22:38 - Apr 29 with 830 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 21:49 - Apr 29 by NthQldITFC |
Suicide pact then. |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 22:45 - Apr 29 with 818 views | eireblue |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:31 - Apr 29 by J2BLUE |
Doesn't stop it being right though (IMO) |
Who pays for it?
The report suggests Carbon Capture is very expensive, and there needs to be lots
Who pays to store something that has no value? You can’t do anything with captured carbon.
“Currently, engineered CDR and DAC are prohibitively expensive, often costing hundreds of dollars per tonne of CO2 removed. This high cost reflects their status as relatively new technologies that require significant innovation and scaling to become economically viable. With increased investment in research, development and deployment, these costs could decrease substantially..”
Could seems to be doing a lot of lifting there.
How does the U.K. Government get China to spend money on Carbon Capture?
The approach seems equally flawed, and the only people benefiting from this approach are, companies that will get paid silly amounts of money to store carbon.
Consumers, tax payers will end up paying for it. Just as alternative energy sources are becoming cheaper.
At least when you pay for a solar panel or wind farm you get some energy out of your investment. |  | | |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 06:37 - Apr 30 with 654 views | Churchman |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:56 - Apr 29 by DJR |
And you want to drill, baby, drill.
Even if people don't care about the climate, the earth's resources are finite (and the UK no longer has much in the way of gas or oil reserves), but that isn't the case with wind or solar. [Post edited 29 Apr 20:58]
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Many 100s of years of coal though. Dig baby, dig!
Only joking!!
Yes, the earth’s resources are finite, but the U.K. occupies only 0.05% of the earths surface and 0.84% of the world’s population. I don’t see how anything the U.K. does can have any effect on world global warming with those numbers. Drop in the ocean.
However, that is not to say that we shouldn’t be diversifying away from fossil fuels as far as is possible. It’s the right and obvious thing to do. Invest in finding better alternatives to what’s out there now for all the obvious reasons, including dependency on others. Mixed energy provision to the point where we export it and reduce the cost of it for people and business.
I was interested to see how Portugal had invested in hydro on the Douro river when I was there. The cost was paid for in 18 months and over maintenance cost it’s all free and clean. Mother Nature working for you.
Ok, that sort of thing can only provide fractions and it is just an example. But it all adds up. It also makes more sense to me than Milliband’s solar panels made in China with virtual slave Labour powered by fossil fuels. That is tokenism of the worst kind.
As for Blair, I was interested in the interviews he did a year or two back. He appeared to have no principles or scruples whatsoever. Strange man and not one whose views I’m I’m interested in. [Post edited 30 Apr 7:05]
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 09:14 - Apr 30 with 492 views | Blueschev |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 21:03 - Apr 29 by J2BLUE |
I think we all have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint and I make an effort to do so. A good chunk of the world don't care. Developing countries would quite rightly point out we'd have all the benefits so why should they hold back?
If we're going with wishful thinking then great, he's wrong. Looking at the real world I just can't see humanity meeting the challenge by reducing emissions etc. |
I agree. You don't achieve change by doing things differently, you do it by changing the tone of the debate whilst not doing much at all. That's the Tony Blair way. |  | | |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 09:25 - Apr 30 with 460 views | Swansea_Blue |
| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 20:42 - Apr 29 by BanksterDebtSlave |
He's a snake, his skin even looks reptilian! |
He’s got the look of the devil about him. It’s shallow I know, but I’ve always thought he looked untrustworthy, even before his PMship (which is a coincidence as things turned out…!). |  |
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 14:29 - Apr 30 with 329 views | DJR |
White man speaks with forked tongue?
Blair's thinktank issues statement clarifying former PM's position, and saying Labour's climate policy 'the right one'
The Tony Blair Institute has issued a statement saying that the UK government’s approach to the climate crisis is “the right one” and saying that it supports the 2050 net zero target.
Here is the clarification is full.
"The TBI report is clear: we must prioritise technologies which capture carbon, place a bigger emphasis on protecting and enhancing nature, and develop new nuclear power, smart grids, and a new system of financing existing renewable solutions in developing economies. The UK government is already pursuing these, and their approach is the right one.
The report also makes a plea for a different international policy approach which focuses on the global sources of emissions and the additional solutions we are likely to need to meet climate goals. It notes that ongoing domestic decarbonisation efforts in all countries remain vital for reducing emissions and delivering a sustainable future. In the short term - and we emphasise short term - fossil fuels will continue to be a large part of the global energy supply, particularly in developing countries who need to meet the immediate and increasing energy demands of their people as their economies develop.
The report is clear that we support the government’s 2050 net zero targets, to give certainty to the investors and innovators who can develop these new solutions and make them deployable. People support climate action, and it is vital that we keep the public’s support for how we do it."
This statement does not mention Tony Blair directly, or the foreword that he wrote to the report published yesterday that has generated a considerable backlash, from environmentalists and from people in the Labour party.
It is true, as the TBI statement says today, that Blair did not directly refer to UK government policy. But many of the general points he was making were clearly applicable to the UK. The foreword, and the report itself, did not directly defend the 2050 net zero target. And Blair in his foreword said:
"Though action by the developed world is still vital, by 2030 almost two-thirds of global emissions will come from China, India and South-East Asia. Yet the global financial flows for renewable energy in the developing world have fallen and not risen in the past few years.
These are the inconvenient facts, which mean that any strategy based on either “phasing out” fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail."
Now the TBI is suggesting that this statement referred mainly to policy in the developing world, and that he was only referring only to the short term. That is not quite what he said yesterday. [Post edited 30 Apr 14:32]
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| I see Tony has finally found his natural political suit colour.. on 14:34 - Apr 30 with 316 views | DJR |
Badenoch missed the opportunity to ask about something much more topical and arguably much more important. This is the verdict on her performance from Henry Hill, deputy editor of the ConservativeHome website.
So Tony Blair puts out a report basically agreeing with Kemi Badenoch about Net Zero... and she doesn’t mention it once at PMQs? [Post edited 30 Apr 14:35]
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