Unofficial adverts criticising Labour Party chancellor Rachel Reeves for accepting money from climate crisis-sceptic lobbyists appeared on several London Underground lines on Friday 24 January.
Labour: taking money from climate deniers – so now, the London Underground knows thanks to adverts
The satirical posters say Your Chancellor, Sponsored by Climate Deniers: Rachel Reeves took £10,000 from them (so far). A modified party logo reads: Labour: still backing oil:
We're facing climate breakdown, but the Chancellor is perfectly happy to take money from climate deniers while slashing green spending…
📍 London Underground #StopPollutingPolitics pic.twitter.com/bKg6d5QUPm
— Stop Polluting Politics (@climate_resist) January 24, 2025
Last year, Reeves scrapped Labour’s proposed £28 billion green investment fund, shortly after accepting a £10,000 donation from Lord Donoghue, a prominent climate sceptic and former chairman of the climate-denying Global Warming Policy Foundation.
The chancellor has come under further pressure in recent weeks as the economic outlook has worsened.
Sam Simons from Climate Resistance, the group behind the stunt, said:
To avoid dangerous climate change, our government must get the country off dirty oil and gas and onto clean, home-grown wind and solar power. But big oil companies are hijacking our politics in a desperate bid to protect their profits and slow down action on climate change.
It’s outrageous that our Chancellor is accepting five figure sums from notorious climate deniers, while slashing funding for tackling the climate crisis. From fires in California to floods in the UK, we’re already seeing the impact of the climate crisis. If we want a safe future, we must break the influence of oil lobbyists and climate deniers.
Featured image and additional images via Climate Resistance
