Posted on 06/25/2026 2:20:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Backsliding on climate action would drive the Labour party into political obscurity, Zack Polanski has warned, as trade union leaders said more drilling in the North Sea would not help UK workers.
The Green party leader, speaking to the Guardian as searing heat swept the country for the second time this year, urged Andy Burnham – widely expected to be the UK’s next prime minister – to be bold on climate justice. He said any move to water down the party’s commitments would have dire consequences at the ballot box.
“Half measures or backsliding on climate action would be a moral and political failure from Andy Burnham. He has the chance to be bold, and failing to do so will see our country get poorer and his party slip further into obscurity.”
The leader of the UK’s biggest union, Unison, has called for no more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea amid a debate within Labour and the trade union movement about the party’s climate commitments.
However, the former health secretary Wes Streeting has called for more drilling in the North Sea, including giving the go ahead to the massive Rosebank oilfield. Sharon Graham, the leader of Unite, which represents workers in the oil and gas industry, also backs new drilling and said that the commitment of the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, to net zero would be a “noose around the neck” of job creation. The British Chambers of Commerce said Burnham should exploit what fossil fuels were left in the dwindling North Sea basin “to avoid mass job losses”.
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“Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action”. The climate changed here today.
The “climate” is changing every day. It is called “weather”.
The leaders of english labor unions are WEF plants.
“The leader of the UK’s biggest union, Unison, has called for no more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea amid a debate within Labour and the trade union movement about the party’s climate commitments.”
So much for being a champion of the working man.
I just Googled searched Unison. It is as I suspected a left-wing union that represents public service workers.
I would expect that the unions representing blue collar workers, especially those in the energy sector would support more drilling etc.
It was various unions whose members are blue collar workers that supported the construction of the Alaskan Pipeline and the early provisions that Alaskan crude oil be carried in American built ships with American crews.
“drilling in the North Sea would not help UK workers.“
Well that is BS. “Workers” - right out of marxist texts
Not Roman Polanski, I take it.
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