Why bother getting your hands tied on what the money can be spent on, when a massive majority in Parliament means your Bill will pass anyway? Everyone know the proposer is a climate alarm enthusiast, but so are most MPs if approval of the Climate Change Act was any guide. As a general rule, they would have struggled to get past their local selection committees to become candidates if they were deemed sceptical on climate alarm, with human activities to blame.
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Labour have been mocked as their bill to create Great British Energy numbered just four pages – and contained “net zero” detail about what the company would do, says Yahoo News.
MPs debated Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s flagship project for the second time in the Commons on Thursday as politicians lambasted Labour for their “muddled” proposals, with critics accusing the Government of asking taxpayers for an £8 billion “blank cheque”.
SNP MP Dave Doogan mocked the Government for failing to communicate what the company will actually do, saying: “Talk about net zero, there’s zero detail in this bill to give us an indication of what is actually going to happen on the ground.
“It was going to sell energy to the public, then it wasn’t, then it was going to generate energy, then it wasn’t, then it is again, so I think we’re still in that space.”
Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho (above) added: “This bill is four pages long. There’s barely anything in it.
“I don’t want to oppose this bill just for opposition’s sake but he’s provided no detail on how this bill could deliver any of his promises, let alone all of them.
“This is a four-page bill in which the Secretary of State is asking for £8bn of taxpayers’ money while setting out no investment plan, no figures for the energy that will be produced, no numbers for the energy bill savings or carbon emission reductions, not even a timeline.
“And let’s be honest, I doubt it can deliver any of the things that he’s promised, so what he’s asking for is £8bn of taxpayers’ money for a completely blank cheque, for an energy company that won’t cut your bills or turn a profit by 2030.”
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Miliband gave a staunch defence of the Government’s aim to create a publicly-owned energy company, claiming that “the city of Munich owns more of our offshore wind capacity than the British Government”.
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September 8, 2024 at 05:26AM
