Tories overstated net zero cost by nearly £500bn after spreadsheet error
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
Ian Mackay12Wasn't Cameron's and Osborne's austerity based on a similar error? Nothing adds up with these jokers.
Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE8So .... the party of safe money can't add up or use Excel ..... mmmmmmmm !
Walking Pete4Spreadsheets, greed, psychopathy and don’t give a shit as long as the rich don’t pay taxes…
Nation of Stupids4Their ignorance on climate collapse will cost them every election going forward. They are doomed.
Chris Smith3The cost of unmitigated climate change to the country is of course much, much, more than even their silly made up number.
Ponder Stibbons3A scientist would have quadruple checked, but they wanted to believe it so much they didn't even single check it.
Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP7It wasn't a spreadsheet error. It was an ideological enthusiasm for a spreadsheet error that amounted to a useful lie. Useful until you've killed the planet and undermined your own future.
Bob White2Why do people still vote for these idiots who don’t check documents before they’re sent out? The Tories and their mediathink tank fan club should be forced to correct the record with a main article/main story etc. Why are there no standards governing mistakes and lying?
rob2there is a theme here austerity was a spreadsheet error too why isn’t massive political incompetence like this punished? surely this was misconduct in public office www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/ge...
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Colandme (Extremist Allegedly) 🏴5So much for the party who continually tell us about their superior fiscal competence.
Andrew Rait4A once in a lifetime error. Oh..... 🤨 www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Assembled Person3They’ll be getting the same media frenzy that Diana Abbott got when she muddled her numbers right? Right?
Clive2Shows how incompetent the Tories are
Sam Proctor2C’mon! Who’s never been out by half a trillion?
A-34402Do they know about the fact you can use formulas in spreadsheets, you don’t need to count things?
It would be lovely to think that on discovering an error of this magnitude it would prompt the Tories to stop and ask themselves if maybe we can afford net zero after all. Sadly, there is zero chance of that happening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
JWexTheSpa14Let me shock you - the Tories will double down on this number and no-one in the broadcast media will challenge them, so it will become an established truth rather than the lie that it is.
Mrs Quent7The level of incompetence among people *in general* is absolutely mind boggling. I just can’t really understand why everyone is so fucking incompetent
Paul Hebden4I've had a newsworthy piece of climate research spiked x5 TIMES this year by broadcasters, despite meticulous research into the localised impact of climate change on poorer working class communities, in a particular region of the UK . But climate sceptic comms get a free pass. Our media is a joke.
Conservatives double the cost of net zero with spreadsheet error. Spiky comment from the Climate Change Committee, whose estimates they messed up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andrew Richards3So much for the Tories' claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility. They can't even read a finacial spreadsheet.
Anand2to be fair, I've once nearly done this with a report for the UN, but my error was less than $1 billion (I'm still wincing though, decades later — and nobody noticed it in the draft, which was additionally worrying)
George Monbiot253Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
Sam Wilson15The figure came from the IEA, to the surprise of no one
Garvan Walshe5This plus the IHT thing…hmm. Who’s in charge of the CRD these days?
blayneydeborah.bsky.social2Oh @mrjamesob.bsky.social NB: 'It is possible the Conservatives copied the figure without checking it. It appears to have been published in a report by the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Economic Affairs and also included in an article in the Spectator.'
Snowy.2Standard levels of competence from the party that fucked the UK for 14yrs.
