A green theme to the blog this morning.
According to George Osborne
The Labour plan announced today is like giving people a grant to buy an internal combustion engine, without bothering to set up any petrol stations.
Hot on the heels of the government's announcements on electric cars,shadow chancellor George Osborne has been telling the country what green issues a Conservative chancellor would tackle if he was standing at the dispatch box next week.
The main stay appears to be a grant of £6,500 for every home to increase energy efficiency which would be paid for in the resultant fuel bill savings.
As a response to the electric car news,he committs the Tories to a the creation of a national recharging network for electric vehicles.
But also something that we are not hearing from Labour,investment in public transport.
A Tory governmnet would start work on plans for a new high speed rail network initially between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds which would be funded through a public-private partnership to enable construction to begin as soon as possible.
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