Claire Coutinho
@ClaireCoutinho • 45,855 subscribers
Shadow Energy Secretary & Shadow Minister for Equalities. Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey elected in 2019.
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This week the Lib Dems voted for Labour’s new, stricter Net Zero target. I asked their energy spokesperson why replacing British production with dirtier foreign imports helps climate change… …and why they blindly trust the Climate Change Committee when their offshore wind costings were wrong *by a factor of three*. All I got back was ‘but the Climate Change Committee said to do it.’ Then they all voted for the new target anyway. Parliament cannot keep outsourcing its thinking to unelected, unaccountable bodies. Especially when their numbers are wildly wrong.
Claire Coutinho176,211 Aufrufe • vor 1 Tag
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.
Claire Coutinho266,058 Aufrufe • vor 4 Tagen
We just forced a vote in Parliament to stop the Puberty Blocker trial. The Government voted it down. These children are perfectly healthy. They need our care and support - not to be experimented on with life-changing drugs. Expertly argued by my colleague Dr Caroline Johnson MP
Claire Coutinho246,350 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Oh dear... I think I touched a nerve👀 Ed Miliband said I was ‘scaremongering’ because I asked who was responsible in the event of a blackout and what repercussions there would be. That’s because on the 2nd May our grid suffered a significant, sudden frequency loss. This could result in nationwide blackouts. Ed’s policies are making our grid more unstable, more unpredictable, and more expensive to balance. Who pays? You, the consumer. And weirdly, he doesn’t seem to know who is accountable. Ofgem? NESO? DESNZ? We need to know who is in charge and what accountability they will face for a more unreliable and costly electricity grid. It shouldn’t be this hard to answer a simple question.
Claire Coutinho197,605 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen
🚨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.
Claire Coutinho97,179 Aufrufe • vor 5 Tagen
It’s time to end the de facto ban on air conditioning. Only 3% of British homes have air con compared to 90% of homes in the US, or Japan. We need to overturn our miserabilist approach to energy which says we alone can’t have air con or AI. Let’s Make Britain Cool Again 🇬🇧
Claire Coutinho434,974 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Watch this. Running a data centre in the UK will cost A QUARTER OF A BILLION POUNDS more than elsewhere. Why? Because of our sky-high electricity costs. We will miss out on so much growth from AI unless we take radical action to cut electricity costs and fix the grid.
Claire Coutinho76,100 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen
Last year Britain lost a THIRD of its refineries. Why? A Carbon Tax on industry that Ed Miliband doubled. We won’t need any less petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ceramics or chemicals - we'll just rely more on foreign imports. We must axe the Carbon Tax and save British industry.
Claire Coutinho828,464 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Many couples work hard, but cannot afford to have another child. Yet from this week, they’ll be paying more in tax so that couples on welfare with four, five, or six children receive more in benefits. This is not fair. It is not compassionate to make welfare pay more than work.
Claire Coutinho454,330 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
This is extraordinarily misinformed. Ed Miliband just bought offshore wind on a twenty year contract at a HIGHER price than gas power is now during an energy price spike. They are locking us into crisis-level prices for decades. That’s what they call ‘control’.
Claire Coutinho529,142 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
An absolute must watch. Energy bosses have just told Parliament that EVEN IF gas prices halved by 2030, the soaring policy costs of renewables would mean bills go UP. Ed Miliband’s plan means more grid, more expensive renewable subsidies, more paying wind farms to turn off.
Claire Coutinho1,237,769 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
Why is Ed Miliband hiding the secret energy deal he signed with China? I just asked him to publish the full text of the deal he signed with the Chinese Communist Party last year. His response? To call it a 'wacky conspiracy theory'. So here are the facts👇🏾
Claire Coutinho607,659 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten