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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stewart Lee

Europe burns while the Tories’ net zero plans are set to go up in smoke

Illustration by David Foldvari of a small boat filled with people at sea and a UFO hovering above in a sky filled with flames.
Illustration by David Foldvari. Illustration: David Foldvari/The Observer

It’s 2am on Thursday. Wildfires are burning in Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Portugal, Croatia and Algeria. British tourist climate refugees are, ironically, being rescued by friendly locals in small boats. Stop the boats! No! Not those boats! The other ones! The ones with brown people in them!

But the main environmental news in the past few weeks has not been about the Giveaway Package Holiday Dante’s Inferno Supa-Deals. Instead, we learn that British political parties are rethinking their commitment to green policies. And all because Labour somehow lost Uxbridge, by a narrow margin, to a Conservative party so corrupt that it is considering setting up an amnesty bucket at the entrance to parliament, where those on the right of the house can vomit out their consciences before taking their seats.

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