{"id":2258,"date":"2007-09-28T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2007-09-28T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T08:47:07","slug":"a-labour-green-decision-only-because-business-says-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"A Labour ‘green’ decision – only because business says ‘yes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems there’s an election in the air – zero-tolerance, support for “have-a-go heroes”, extra-clean hospitals, complaints about violence on TV – and that’s just from the Labour (ie supposedly “left wing”) side – who knows what the Tories will manage to find in response to that – “back to basics”? (Despite the fact it seems the leader’s wife, while now just doing the “supportive spouse” stuff, has both a real career, and a real politics – Green Party<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But should we be writing the final days of a Labour government, I think this story<\/a> sums it up: Britain is going to get rid of inefficient incandescent lightblubs, but very, very slowly<\/i>, and only because big business has agreed it can.<\/p>\n

Currys has agreed to stop selling the bulbs by the end of this year, Habitat by 2009, Woolworths, the Co-op, Asda, Morrison’s, and Sainsbury’s by 2010, and Tesco by 2011. Only Somerfield has declined to give a date for a complete phase-out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems there’s an election in the air – zero-tolerance, support for “have-a-go heroes”, extra-clean hospitals, complaints about violence on TV – and that’s just from the Labour (ie supposedly “left wing”) side – who knows what the Tories will manage to find in response to that – “back to basics”? (Despite the fact it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-politics","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}