Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch

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Labour is poised to encourage farmers to give up beef production and plant lentils to help combat climate change. More Net Zero madness bundled up in the government’s ‘farming roadmap’. Save British beef and scrap Net Zero.

Embarrassing. Not a single Labour MP could answer @ClaireCoutinho’s basic question: how much will Ed Miliband’s CB7 target cost ordinary people in higher energy bills, higher food bills and more expensive family holidays? 👇

Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho

23 minutes ago

Last night we voted against Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero target. Why? Watch this. Not a single Labour MP could say what it will mean for the cost of food or energy for our constituents - or for British jobs and industry. They’re going to spend hundreds of billions of pounds of

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Last night we voted against Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero target. Why? Watch this. Not a single Labour MP could say what it will mean for the cost of food or energy for our constituents - or for British jobs and industry. They’re going to spend hundreds of billions of pounds of YOUR money and they didn’t even seem to care what it will mean for you. Parliament should be better than this.

Al Carns is probably the best choice for Energy Secretary while we continue to have a Labour Government. But he must be given the latitude to dismantle Net Zero and cancel Miliband's ridiculous Clean Energy 2030 plan. Cheap, reliable energy should be the objective.

Al Carns @AlistairCarns

13 hours ago

THE FIVE TESTS For weeks I've argued that this party, and this country, needs a proper debate about where we go next. Not a reshuffle. Not a few degrees of course correction. The big, difficult, honest choices we've spent thirty years avoiding. A few people have asked me what

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THE FIVE TESTS For weeks I've argued that this party, and this country, needs a proper debate about where we go next. Not a reshuffle. Not a few degrees of course correction. The big, difficult, honest choices we've spent thirty years avoiding. A few people have asked me what that debate should actually be about. Fair enough. I spent 24 years in the Marines and two in government, and I resigned because I couldn't win the argument I believed in from the inside. So let me make it here, plainly. This isn't a manifesto, but a set of five tests. Anyone asking to lead our country should be able to look down this list and say yes to all five. 1️⃣ ⁠The Frontline Test Do we give the people on the frontline the kit they need to do the job, and stand by them when the job is done? I joined the Marines at 18. I've buried friends. So I do take this one personally. I sat in government and watched us write a defence plan for a world that no longer exists, discussed in rooms I was kept out of. A 100k drone is now sinking warships that cost a billion. That is the reality of the wars being fought right now. Passing this means 3% of GDP as the floor, not the ceiling. Buying for the next war, not the last. And fixing the Legacy Act so blokes in their seventies aren't back in the dock for what they were cleared of decades ago. 2️⃣ The Next-Generation Test Are we handing the next generation a better deal than the one we inherited, or a worse one? I'm a lad from a tough part of Aberdeen. My mum raised five of us through some bleak years. The only reason I got out was because I was given an opportunity. That cannot be said for young people today. Nearly a million young people, around one in eight, are now outside work, education or training. That isn't their failure. It's ours. Fixing this means a NEETs and youth unemployment target with a date, the youth guarantee delivered not just announced. Restoring the link between work and a decent life for the under 30s, on housing, wages and opportunity. Skills and apprenticeship numbers that beat the last government, not just match it. Talent is everywhere in this country. Opportunity isn't. Fix that and you fix half of everything else... 3️⃣ ⁠The Trillion-Pound Test Is the plan to add a trillion pounds to what Britain earns, or to manage the decline more politely? Here's the lesson I learned from Ukraine and in government, and it never changes. We invent things. Other countries build them. Other countries decide. We're brilliant at the first mile and absent for the next ninety nine. So set a target and be judged on it. A trillion pounds added to our GDP within a decade. Yes, it's ambitious. We should be ambitious! Getting there means backing the high tech inventors just as much as the high street traders. Your local coffee shop shouldn't be paying more tax per cappuccino than Starbucks does. So why on earth do they? It means an industrial strategy worth the name. Things to make and things to sell, in Barrow, in Derby, in every region. Our industrial base is national security, so we should fund it like it. And it means building the chips and the compute here, not inventing the breakthrough and watching someone else scale it. Data is the new gunpowder. 4️⃣ The 10% Test Can we make the country work 10% better, instead of only ever asking for 10% more? I saw this from the inside. We patch the symptom this year, but the bill grows next year, and we end up paying for failure at the most expensive end of every system. A 10% improvement in outcomes across a handful of our biggest problems, ill health, reoffending, wasted potential, would free up somewhere between £40 and £60 billion a year. We're already paying those costs. We just pay them too late, when they're at their worst. Passing this means investing early instead of paying far more later, and having the honesty to admit that not every pound we spend today delivers an immediate return. 5️⃣ ⁠The Lights-On Test Does our energy policy keep the lights on, the bills down and factories open, or do we keep chasing a target and hope the rest sorts itself out? For years we've treated net zero as the only goal, and everything else, your bill, our industry, whether the grid even stays up, as a problem for later. That’s the wrong way around. Make energy security the goal. Power that people, businesses, and industry can afford, and a grid that stays on when someone tries to switch it off. Do that and net zero follows. Chase the target on its own, and you end up with neither. Passing this means a serious baseload, nuclear and the North Sea, built in time to matter. Strong countries have cheap, secure energy. Weak countries don't. None of this is complicated. It's the oldest deal there is. You serve the country, the country stands by you. In uniform, in a hospital, in a classroom, on a building site. Right now that deal is broken, and everyone keeping our country going can feel it. That broken deal is the real reason for the frustration out there. It's why trust has drained out of politics. And it's why our party that won a landslide is, halfway through the term, already arguing about who leads it. But changing the person at the top fixes nothing if we don't fix the deal underneath. Swap one leader for another and leave the deal broken, and we'll be right back here in eighteen months, asking the same question all over again. So I'm not interested in who gets what job. I'm interested in whether we've got the courage to pass these tests. We've been promised a debate. This is my opening offer to it. And if that debate ever becomes a contest, it should be fought on this ground, not on personalities. I know where I stand.

Great speech from Coutinho. She is right. The cost of living is about to go through the roof. Ministers have no mandate for any of this. We have been warned. 👇

Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho

14 hours ago

🚨Labour and Lib Dem MPs just voted to INCREASE the cost of energy, food, shipping, housing, heating and holidays by voting for Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero target. One of the reasons I asked to stay in this brief was my time in the Department and seeing how badly we were making

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This is a must watch 👇👇👇

Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho

14 hours ago

🚨Labour and Lib Dem MPs just voted to INCREASE the cost of energy, food, shipping, housing, heating and holidays by voting for Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero target. One of the reasons I asked to stay in this brief was my time in the Department and seeing how badly we were making

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🚨Labour and Lib Dem MPs just voted to INCREASE the cost of energy, food, shipping, housing, heating and holidays by voting for Ed Miliband’s new Net Zero target. One of the reasons I asked to stay in this brief was my time in the Department and seeing how badly we were making decisions about climate and energy. There’s simply no scrutiny or proper analysis of what these targets are doing to jobs, the cost of living or to the competitiveness of our industry. The Minister bringing it forward refused to take a single intervention. She did not answer a single question. I’m sorry, but that is simply not good enough. MP after MP cited bogus figures or praised the Climate Change Committee’s analysis without being even slightly troubled that their cost of offshore wind was wrong by a factor of three. Get the cost of energy wrong and all your other assumptions about the cost of living and the economy will be wrong too. I am proud Kemi Badenoch and I have changed our party’s position. We are the only party who have said we should measure the offshoring of emissions. We are the only party who have a plan to make electricity cheaper without costing the taxpayer a penny. We are the only party with a fully costed plan to axe the Carbon Tax which is replacing clean British industry with dirtier foreign imports. This debate shows why Parliament is not working. Poor analysis let off the hook by poor scrutiny. So-called impact assessments which are written to be as impenetrable as possible, and which MPs show no interest in reading or questioning. We need fewer virtue signalling MPs and many more who can read modelling assumptions.

So it looks like @neso_energy's get out of jail free card for this evening was to beg... It executed 2.3 GW of SO-SO trades on the interconnectors despite the EU only allowing 1.5 GW in any setlement period...ie it has begged the EU to let it trade more to secure the system this evening image from Amira Technologies dashboard @Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @ofgem

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Businesses across Britain are putting their Net Zero plans on hold because they simply cannot afford them, new research suggests. A poll found that three quarters of workers believe rising costs are forcing firms to delay or scale back plans to cut energy use, water consumption and carbon emissions. Nearly two thirds - 65 per cent - said Net Zero had become more of a reporting exercise than a practical business priority. Net Zero is failing Britain #CostOfNetZero

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“Are we going to survive this heatwave, or are we all going to die?” @JuliaHB1 asks our Director @aDissentient on @TalkTV. “As people in hot countries know, if you get air conditioning, it's just not a problem really,” he says.

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Electric vehicles involved in a collision are taking longer and costing more to repair than petrol or diesel cars. That’s according to new analysis which reveals that EV repair costs for non-fault incidents were 19% higher than internal combustion engine vehicles and spent the vehicles spent 9% longer in the workshop. #CostOfNetZero

.@Ed_Miliband, you’re fired!

Lord Sugar @Lord_Sugar

22 hours ago

On the Jeremy Kyle Breakfast Show he spoke to Harry Wilkinson, Head of Policy for the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Jeremy asked Harry what the answer is to the increasingly hot weather? His reply? Get air conditioning. There you have it. Get in touch with #TheApprentice

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Installations of heat pumps in the UK grew just 7% last year - down from a bumper 56% in 2024 - in a worrying sign for the government's targets. The fall in sales comes after the government withdrew a controversial grant scheme. Net Zero relies on subsidies. #CostOfNetZero

Our Head of Policy @HarryWilkinsonn talks about the prospect of Ed Miliband becoming Chancellor. “No doubt he'd continue promoting Net Zero from the Treasury… Andy Burnham has a really critical choice here.”