Claire Coutinho
@ClaireCoutinho • 43,992 subscribers
Shadow Energy Secretary & Shadow Minister for Equalities. Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey elected in 2019.
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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 Coutinho364,095 Aufrufe • vor 14 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 Coutinho828,089 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
We must fight ethnonationalism and its causes with equal vigour. Those who deny an English ethnic identity or sneer at white people are simply stirring up resentment. If we curb sectarianism and encourage assimilation and pride in nation we’ll be a happier, stronger nation.
Claire Coutinho66,250 Aufrufe • vor 9 Tagen
I warned Labour MPs that swallowing Ed Miliband’s lines on the North Sea would make them look foolish. Here’s one such example. People are losing their jobs and we are losing the tax revenue and supply chains of a critical industry. And they don’t even understand the basics.
Claire Coutinho94,537 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen
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 Coutinho454,109 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 Coutinho529,119 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Yesterday Andy Burnham put 'reindustrialisation' at the heart of his pitch to be Labour leader. Today Ed Miliband will whip his MPs to vote to shut down the North Sea. The greatest act of industrial self-harm in a generation. Will Andy stand up for British workers or not?
Claire Coutinho115,307 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen
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 Coutinho1,237,326 Aufrufe • vor 7 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 Coutinho607,503 Aufrufe • vor 4 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 Coutinho418,665 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Bridget Phillipson is fed up of me asking her to condemn the sectarian group The Muslim Vote. She even calls me divisive for raising it The Green Party actively court them Yet where they campaign, anti-semitism and intimidation are rife. We should not tolerate intolerance.
Claire Coutinho183,477 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
It's been SIX MONTHS since the Supreme Court ruled that sex means biological sex. And yet, what has the Government done since then to protect women’s rights? Now they plan to kick the can even further down the road. This Government is letting women down.
Claire Coutinho536,977 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
WE SAVED JENNIFER MELLE! The NHS has dropped their charges against Jennifer and reinstated her. A HUGE thank you to over 22,000 people who signed our petition, and for the amazing @ChristianLegal and Darlington Nursing Union for their steadfast support for Jennifer. You are heroes.
Claire Coutinho308,674 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten