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Tom Harwood
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Jeremy Corbyn's record on climate change is actually filthy.
He bloody loves coal. So much so that he called for it to continue to be used, as did a group of his MPs just last year.
order-order.com/2019/05/02/cor…
He hates nuclear power. His Shadow Chancellor would end nuclear power within ‘the first 100 days of a Labour government'...
... meaning suddenly the UK would suddenly have to generate 1/4 of our power from another source.
What's quick and dirty and powers our emergency capacity? Coal.
Since he became leader, Corbyn has had 400 opportunities to ask a PMQ about climate change.

How many did he take? Zero.
order-order.com/2019/05/02/cor…
The socialist countries he idolises have had the worst record on climate of any industrialised nations.
Freer markets deliver cleaner economies.
victimsofcommunism.org/witnessblog/20…
Jeremy Corbyn has at every stage opposed the market mechanisms that are vital in bringing down the cost of cleaner energy.

The world over, those mechanisms are working - meaning that even countries with politicians resistant to acting on climate have seen their emissions fall.
Meanwhile the UK has been literally world leading. Since 2010 the UK has done more than any advanced country to reduce our CO2 emissions. More by miles.

Emissions are back down to levels not seen since 1888: order-order.com/2019/03/04/uk-…
The blunt fact is that Corbyn doesn't really care about climate change.

All he cares about is establishing a command economy and he will briefly hop on any trend that takes him closer to that dream.

order-order.com/2019/05/02/cor… #ClimateEmergency
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Tom Harwood
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Why shouldn’t they? Why not?
We have the strongest soft power in the world.
More world leaders are educated here than anywhere else.
Our economy eclipses Russia, Saudi, & many other so called military powers put together.
Our steadfast leadership far surpasses that of the States.
So tired of holier than thou commentators saying that somehow we simply aren’t good enough as a people.

I’d struggle to think of a single other nation that comes anywhere close to our history, and our potential future.
We who liberated half Europe, who set half Europe free when otherwise it would be in chains.
Who laid the foundational leadership and invention that gave birth to the modern world.
Whose language is that of the world.
Who invented the freedom that guarantees our global prosperity
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Tom Harwood
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This morning every MP has received one of these weird butterfly tags, accompanied by a newspaper cutting of a word seemingly specific to them. Not creepy at all.
also accompanying the butterflies are weird Lexit paragraphs, conspiratorially attacking "financial companies", "moslem countries", and Israel.
Randomly name-checked figures include Vince Cable and the BBC's Norman Smith.
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Tom Harwood
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If you think the mild reduction in the pace of growth of spending in the UK was austerity, can't wait to see how you'd describe Greek budget measures...
Just for some context, this graph shows the 'austerity' the UK went through.
(Forecast data is slightly out of date - expenditure is actually 818bn this year, 30bn more than is shown on the graph)
... and here is the austerity that Greece went through.
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