By Paul Homewood
Last Friday, Conservative MP, Esther McVey appeared on Mike Graham’s Talk TV show, to discuss Tony Blair’s road to Damascus moment on Net Zero.
McVey dismissed Net Zero as “a dud”, and stated that she had “always been sceptical and questioned Net Zero”. You can see the interview here at 2 hours 6 mins in.
Could this be the same Esther McVey, who is still listed a member of the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), an organisation that promotes the Net Zero agenda and has called for the acceleration of the transition away from fossil fuels. Surely not!
We are of course used to hypocrisy from our politicians. But this little saga has exposed a much greater problem.
CEN was set up twelve years ago as an independent forum for conservatives and now has a network of more than 50 Tory MPs, 30 Tory peers and 500 Tory councillors. The whole purpose of course is to influence government policy.
Parliamentary groupings have long operated with the same intention in mind. But the CEN seems to be a much bigger, well funded and altogether more sinister organisation than we are used to seeing. Its latest accounts, for instance, show they have £391,000 in the bank, and they are well staffed, with six Board members and twelve senior staff listed on their website.
As with most climate lobby groups, the CEN is extremely well funded by the Green Blob. Three quarters of their income comes from familiar far left foundations, such as the European Climate Foundation, Pooled Fund on International Energy, Clean Air Fund and WWF.
At the heart of this spider’s web is the billionaire, Sir Christopher Hohn, who owns the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Hohn, it is reckoned, has ploughed more than £670 million into climate campaigns in the last decade, including £17 million to the aforesaid Clean Air Fund.
The CIFF are also major funders of the European Climate Foundation (ECF), together with left wing US foundations, including Rockefeller, Bloomberg and Hewlett. ECF also receive money from the Grantham Foundation, another outfit at the heart of the climate scam in this country.
Why is the Tory party allowing its MPs and peers to be members of a subversive network, bought and paid for by billionaires and set up to bypass normal democratic protocols. Who matters most to the Esther McVeys of the world – voters or wealthy donors?
If she wants to be taken seriously, Kemi Badenoch needs to get a grip and ban her MPs from being members of the CEN.
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