Starmer To Relax UK Green Rules To Help Out Rich Brits

The green rules relaxation won’t help out the peasants, except in one small case

NET ZERO – The fake climate ‘emergency’
Doesn’t include really rich people!

Insane decisions look like this.
23,320 super cars – exempt
4.8 million vans – exempt
33.93 million cars – screwed

Policies for the few and not for the many???? pic.twitter.com/pPCPBaY3j8

— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) April 7, 2025

From the link

Gas guzzling supercars are set to be exempted from the 2030 ban on new petrol vehicles as ministers scramble to help companies hit by Donald Trump’s tariff war.

Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted to ‘back British brilliance’ as he confirmed yesterday that luxury vehicle manufacturers, such as Aston Martin, Bentley and McLaren, will be allowed to continue selling petrol-only models beyond the cut-off year.

In a victory for ‘white van man’, ministers have also agreed to delay the ban on petrol and diesel vans until 2035. Swingeing fines on manufacturers which fail to hit targets for selling electric vehicles have also been reduced and postponed while firms try to cope with the 25 per cent tariff on exports to the US announced by Mr Trump.

Apparently, Starmer thinks all the peasants are working class who buy white vans. What happens if all the working and middle class folks buy them? It would create a shortage and drive up prices

Let’s see how the uber-left BBC covers this

The government has announced a relaxation of electric vehicle (EV) sales targets to help the car industry in the face of trade tariffs from the US.

A ban selling new petrol and diesel cars will still come into effect in 2030, but manufacturers will now have more flexibility on annual targets and face lower fines.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told BBC Breakfast its changes were not a “silver bullet” but part of the solution to responding to US tariffs.

UK opposition parties said Labour’s measures would not be enough to boost the car industry.

Um, what do tariffs have to do with any of this? These are cars made not made in the US and shipped to the UK. What’s the percentage? Only about 18,000 vehicles are imported into the UK from the US a year for new sales. Forcing the peasants into expensive, low range EVs is what’s killing the UK car industry. And relaxing the rules for supercars and white vans sold in the UK has little to no bearing on British produced cars shipped to the US, which averages about 101,000 a year, 16.9% of the exports from the UK for new vehicles. I suspect the Rich folks in the UK are getting a bit upset over being forced into EVs, rather than their luxury cars.

But, really, the Elites who push the climate scam rarely include themselves in Doing Something.

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