Thread by @ecJulie

Ed Mlliband costliest mistake passed in #Parliament in 2008 'Climate Change Act' est. as high as £734 bn or £18 bn each yr until 2050. Estimates in 2015 by EU & Intnl' Energy Agency suggest target cost at £1.3 trillion equiv. to UK entire national debt or £50k every household
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2007 Al Gore hysteria over global warming was at its height, Bryony Worthington Campaign Dir of Friends of the Earth joined the then Environ Sec David Miliband dept, drafted Bill to make Britain only country in #world committed by law to slashing its carbon emissions by 60%
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2008 Gordon Brown promoted David Miliband to Foreign Sec. & created new ministry Dept of Energy & Climate Change DECC, headed by his brother, Ed who decided, following green lobby groups pressure, to up emissions reduction target from 60% to mind-boggling 80%
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CO2 emitted by fossil fuels, such as coal, gas, oil & petrol, is inseparable from every activity - keeps our #economy functioning, #MPs mindlessly voted for Miliband's Bill to replace them with 10's of 1,000s of wind turbines & a fleet of ‘zero carbon’ new nuclear reactors
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Fast forward 2019, Lesson learned: Ed Miliband’s brief spell in charge of our ‘energy & climate change’ policy revealed he is out of touch with any practical reality about the #economy & #industry to push forward his socialist #greenmania we see today
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