So We Haven't Quite Annoyed Everyone Enough Yet.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1951668/Ed-Miliband-boiler-tax-heat-pumps-energy-policy-Labour-Party

So we'll all have to spend 15k on the most obvious snake oil.

Wonderful. Come on even you Labour groupies must be getting embarrased by now.

[Old_Geezer]

The government forced car sellers to sell electrical dodgem cars instead of ICE ones, so hardly surprising government would consider forcing pump manufacturers to make unwanted pumps. Both demonstrate equally incompetent governing and both are attempts to ignore the workings of the market.

[douglas9401]

Meanwhile, in a rare moment of sanity:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79n1vdv553o

[Gromit]

// Miliband won't directly force households to rip out their boilers and install heat pumps.

Instead, he's turning up the heat on boiler makers by forcing them to make more gas pumps. //

So the heat pumps are not compulsory and no one is being taxed.

The Tories tried to introduce something similar and chickened out due to the General Election. Labour have a massive majority and the next General Election is 5 years away. You will have to get used to policies that the last Government bottled out of.

[Gromit]

// The government forced car sellers to sell electrical dodgem cars instead of ICE ones  //

Obviously not true. Manufacturing a new car is a multi-million £ investment and the UK government has not introduced legislation mandating a switch. There are plenty (too many) new petrol and diesel cars for you to purchase.

[Old_Geezer]

The mandate is there, the percentages defined.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pathway-for-zero-emission-vehicle-transition-by-2035-becomes-law