That's if this is true, and since it's in the 'Guardian', caveat emptor...
Political elites are out of step with the public appetite for net zero, according to analysis that identifies rightwing media narratives as fuelling a false backlash against climate action. Media coverage of net zero is more than twice as likely to be negative than public attitudes and is driving a false perception that net zero policies are unpopular with voters, the analysis found.
They probably are, until the bills start to mount up.
This echo chamber of elite opinion, the analysis says, has led to a situation where MPs significantly underestimate public support for climate policies and overestimate public opposition to local clean energy infrastructure projects.
As if public suppotrt matters to prospective (and standing) MPs anymore. Of course, the people pushing this theory are the lanyard classes again..
Becca Massey-Chase, the head of citizen engagement at the Institute for Public Policy Research, who coauthored the analysis, said the research showed claims of a voter backlash against net zero were “largely a political myth”.She said: “The British public continues to support climate action.... The real danger is not public opinion – it is elite division and media narratives creating a false sense of risk.”
The analysis, jointly prepared by the IPPR, a progressive thinktank, and Persuasion UK, a non-profit that researches influences on public opinion, noted that the UK’s increasingly assertive far right caricatured net zero as a threat to UK sovereignty.
See?
...a strong core of 40% of voters remain strongly behind net zero, almost double the 24% who are implacably opposed to it.
Until they have to pay for them, then they change their tune. But by then, the song's over amd the musucians have packed up their instruments and gone home.
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