Claire Coutinho
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Shadow Energy Secretary & Shadow Minister for Equalities. Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey elected in 2019.
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The Climate Change Committee tried to censor me. When I wrote in a newspaper that they were underplaying the cost of offshore wind, they tried to force me to edit it out. I refused and was proved right. Our public bodies should seek the truth, not to silence politicians.
Claire Coutinho74,900 Aufrufe • vor 3 Tagen
On 2nd June I raised concerns about the security of our electricity grid. I was told by Ed Miliband that I was scaremongering. Since then I have been contacted by a whistleblower within our grid operator, the NESO. They allege that operators are being instructed to hide information that shows the grid is not being operated securely. Worse, they allege that Corporate Affairs interefered with operational decisions to stabilise the grid - risking blackouts to protect NESO's reputation. Despite this coming from within the operator, the Minister doubled down on calling this ‘scaremongering’ rather than wanting to know the truth. This Government is asleep at the wheel. They must urgently investigate these allegations.
Claire Coutinho244,170 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Coutinho828,934 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
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 Coutinho435,930 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
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 Coutinho269,698 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Andy Burnham and his new Energy Secretary said they would be ‘pragmatic’ when it came to the North Sea. But this morning Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed they will BAN all new oil and gas licences. How is it pragmatic to favour gas from Norway, the US or Qatar over gas from Britain?
Claire Coutinho57,510 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen
Watch this. We currently pay £1.5 billion a year to switch wind farms off when it's too windy. Rachel Fletcher from Octopus Energy has just told Parliament that could soar to £10 BILLION by 2030. Ed Miliband is writing cheques for wind farm developers before the grid can move their energy to where it’s needed. This is a political choice and it is making electricity expensive. Government needs to wake up to what their plans are doing to our energy prices and make electricity cheap.
Claire Coutinho176,968 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Coutinho248,150 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Coutinho1,238,499 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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 Coutinho180,477 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Coutinho198,049 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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 Coutinho454,620 Aufrufe • vor 4 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 Coutinho529,242 Aufrufe • vor 5 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 Coutinho607,816 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
A hijab used to hide the abuse of 10-year-old Sara Sharif at the hands of her father. Women forced into cousin marriages while the NHS praised its ‘benefits’. Children groomed by gangs while police and social workers looked the other way. In each of these cases public services turned a blind eye to the harm of women and girls because they were scared of being called Islamophobic. Labour’s Islamophobia definition will make this worse. If we put one group on a pedestal and make it harder for public services to do their jobs, then we will only foster more inequality and resentment.
Claire Coutinho418,896 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten