Ed Miliband has now decided that no price is too high to achieve Net Zero.
The Mail reports:
The UK has backtracked on its pledge to ban slave labour from its renewable supply chain to meet Ed Miliband's Net Zero goals.
Labour enshrined in law a promise that its state-run company GB Energy would not fund companies using forced labour.
But following a probe that revealed that it had funded solar panels for schools without guarantees that they were ethically manufactured, it rowed back.
In a statement, the Energy Department introduced a new caveat to say that it would only ensure panels were free from forced labour "as far as possible".
The move provoked fury from campaigners who demanded that Ministers uphold the commitment to guaranteeing supply chains.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, an arch China-sceptic, pointed to the Government legislation which he said had "no caveat".
The amendment committed Ministers to taking "measures for ensuring that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in its business or supply chains".
Full story here.
Miliband always opposed the legislation requiring GB Energy, Britain’s state-owned energy company, to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place within its supply chain. The amendment was forced on him last April.
He showed his true colours earlier this year when he refused to rule out solar panels made with slave labour being funded by his Warm Homes Plan. The simple reality is that he has no where else to buy them.
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Reading ‘Fort Comme La Mort’ (Maupassant) at the moment. A neat rhyming phrase jumped out at me yesterday: “Qui veut la fin veut les moyens”….
Nasty little piece of weasel ordure.
Genuine question, again as I was driving along the North Wales coast looking at acres and acres of windmills, I thought to myself, how do these connect to the grid? If you go past a traditional power station, coal, oil, gas or nuclear, even hydroelectric, you will see lines of high voltage power cables heading to a substation alongside the generating plant. Has anyone ever seen similar high voltage lines going to an onshore substation linking the subsea cables into the grid anywhere on the coast? No nor me!
Ed Minibrain hasn’t worked that one out yet.
“An ‘owwible man!”
My great Auntie would have said that about Ed. She could not pronounce her Rs.
Interestingly, this was my comment in the DT regarding food price caps:
If this goes ahead, we will have to import even more cheap, lower welfare products from countries that have much laxer controls on pesticides, slave labour, etc
Ethics, morality, principles and integrity are optional in the Labour party it seems!
Red Ed’s future, highly lucrative career, in the Globalist Quangocracy is far, far more important to him than ethics, personal integrity (what’s that?) or morality.
Its Zealotry, the ends justify the means, what was it Stalin said? “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic” Milliband raised in a Marxist household, Educated in a Marxist system, surrounded himself with other Marxists. Proles don’t matter, there are plenty of us, we are detritus in the way of his future statue to himself as being the Man who saved the planet.
The man who saved the planet or the man who destroyed the UK?
The latter of course, if we let him.
More evidence that Miliband and his Cabinet colleagues must be working for the Chinese Communist party.
Why is anyone surprised. The man is from old style communist stock and is an aspiring world dictator. Slavery is in the DNA of every evil communist despot since time immemorial and this bastard is no different
Exactly.
Communism equals slavery.
There is no other way to exert total control over people. And communism – like all totalitarian systems – is about control and power.
Ultimately nothing else matters for them.
All this net zero, social justice, freedom of the proletariat business is just a means to an end.
Agreed, the real goal is to enslave all of us.
Perhaps Mrs Trump could send Ed her old jacket with the slogan “I really don’t care, do you?”