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Our Campaign Director @MDC12345678 tells @GMB that decades of poor decisions on energy have culminated in the cost of living crisis.
"We haven't just woken up today and the cost of living is suddenly just here."
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Net Zero Watch
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Campaign to highlight the serious economic and societal implications of expensive and poorly considered climate and energy policies #CostOfNetZero
London Katılım Eylül 2014
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The drive to hit green targets was prioritised over patient safety when the beleaguered Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was built in Glasgow. Experts have warned the air cooling system installed in most patient rooms was good at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but did not meet healthcare standards for circulating air.
Net Zero is being put above people’s health.
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"An honest day" is a dishonest report.
It claims that physics is not the obstacle to low-price green energy, but cannot explain how building more grid makes expensive energy cheaper.
Labour Growth Group@LabourGrowth
This is for the people who do the work. The nurses doing double shifts. The teachers who stay late. The plumbers, the carers, the small builders, the people running shops. The graduates trying to build a life. The founders who chose to build something here. Britain has stopped being a country that backs them. Over 40 years of political choices Britain has built an economy where owning things pays better than building them. Holding scarce land. Holding protected market positions. Holding the right credentials. Holding the right postcode. Gaming process. Capturing public money meant for someone else. These have become safer routes to reward than working, investing, teaching, caring, manufacturing or taking productive risk. This isn't a conspiracy. It's the predictable result of a state that has lost the ability to build, decide, enforce and shape markets in the public interest. The planning system rations land. The energy system rations power. Capital fails to scale British firms. Regulation protects incumbents and crushes challengers. Tax falls hard on work and lightly on position. Government compensates people for the costs this creates. But in rationed markets, that compensation is often captured by the same scarcity that made it necessary. Public money flows through broken systems and strengthens the very interests that broke them. Fiscal space shrinks. The state becomes more cautious, less capable, more dependent on the processes that created the failure. The loop tightens. An Honest Day is a new economic settlement for Britain. The shift required is from a distributive state to a capable one. Support people now. Reform the scarcity that makes support necessary. Reward action, not position. Read it now labourgrowth.co.uk
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“All these towns lost their industries in two recessions, and by deliberate policy – namely, the pursuit of Net Zero, and the consequent green deindustrialisation of Britain. More than six million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since the mid-1960s.” Maxi Gorynski
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Ed Miliband has been accused of handing Beijing a “kill switch” over the British economy with his headlong drive for Net Zero. Critics say Net Zero simply transfers reliance, and potential economic sabotage, from Russia to an even more dangerous state: China, which controls almost the entire planet’s supply chains for green technology.
#CostOfNetZero
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This is shocking negligence and proves this Labour govt is anti jobs, anti growth & wants higher bills
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Calling this the Energy Independence Bill is Orwellian Newspeak in its purest form.
The purpose of language is to describe reality. In this case, the reality is that Britain will continue to need secure access to hydrocarbons for decades. The more we produce and refine here, the better that is for energy security and our economy. Yet by preventing Ministers from issuing new oil and gas exploration licences in law (both onshore and offshore) this reckless Bill will make Britain MORE reliant on imports.
As with the idiotic Energy Profits Levy, the effect will be to accelerate the decline of domestic production, weaken Britain’s energy resilience and increase our exposure to international markets. In many cases, it will also mean importing energy with higher associated emissions than the resources we could have produced at home.
Miliband knows all of this, which is why his claims to "climate leadership" ring hollow. He is not motivated by decarbonisation. In his own words in Go Big, he wants to "abandon our 300 year model of economic growth". That is the real meaning of this Bill.
But at a time of rising domestic political tension (driven by the cost of living crisis) and renewed great power conflict, this is grossly irresponsible and negligent.
In his excellent book on the New Left, the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton (who tutored @ClaireCoutinho) once observed, citing the work of Françoise Thom, the French historian and Sovietologist, that the ultimate purpose of Newspeak was "to protect ideology from the malicious attacks of real things." That is precisely what Miliband, Starmer and DESNZ are doing here. They are manipulating language and corrupting the public's understanding of the true state of our energy security in order to protect an ideologically driven policy of dependence and higher energy costs from objective facts.
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho
Ed Miliband’s Energy Independence Bill includes… Banning new oil and gas from the North Sea. He is not making us more independent. He is making us more reliant on foreign imports. He is utterly deluded. We will fight him every step of the way.
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Sir Keir Starmer bowed to Ed Miliband’s demands to go faster on Net Zero goals as he unveiled a flagship energy bill in the King’s Speech.
Despite the massive rejection of Labour’s self-harming Net Zero agenda, they are going to double down.
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Starmer leaving or staying makes no difference. This will become law. It will have broad support from the energy illiterate and ideological Labour MPs. But they are playing with fire.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
Yes, I realise given speculation abt @Keir_Starmer's fate there's an enormous question abt whether ANY of this stuff happens. But still - the point remains: right now, the law says new govt CAN issue new N Sea licences. The King's Speech actively commits them to ending this...
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"Ed Miliband continues to throw ever larger subsidies at the construction of wind farms, apparently in the belief that the supporting infrastructure, economics and system stability will somehow materialise afterwards," says @KathrynPorter26, warning "The reality is that Britain has built a very high-cost electricity system that is less secure, and at the same time, failing to meet the core objective of lowering emissions. The real question is when Miliband will be held to account for these failures."
#CostOfNetZero
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“A show is being staged, in which green blob outfits seemingly call out the policies lobbied for by green blob outfits… The spectacle itself is just different limbs of the same blob, seeking the optimal solution for itself.” @clim8resistance
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Translator: Miliband is banning new homegrown energy and making Britain more dependent on the very international oil and gas rollercoaster he says he wants to escape.
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband
After the second fossil fuel crisis in five years, it's clear that clean power is the only route to energy security. The Energy Independence Bill is the next step in our mission: tackling the affordability crisis, creating thousands of jobs and delivering energy security.
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Calling this energy independence is Orwellian. The Government is legislating to block new domestic oil and gas exploration, ban fracking and dress up the managed decline of Britain’s energy base as climate leadership. It is doing this at a time of rising geopolitical tension, when Britain will continue to need secure access to hydrocarbons. This is grossly irresponsible and borders on a dereliction of duty.
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DESNZ says it makes “zero apologies” for splashing almost £30,000 of taxpayers’ cash to send Labour’s Climate Minister Katie White to South America on a hiking trip.
While British people struggle with the cost-of-Miliband crisis, Labour is sending its ministers on hiking trips.
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