Claire Coutinho
@ClaireCoutinho • 46,516 subscribers
Shadow Energy Secretary & Shadow Minister for Equalities. Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey elected in 2019.
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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 Coutinho243,792 просмотров • 23 дней назад
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 Coutinho176,539 просмотров • 21 дней назад
Ed Miliband broke promise after promise in his time as Energy Secretary. Bills are up by £300. Thousands of jobs lost in Aberdeen. Billions spent on GB Energy with nothing to show for it. I hope his successor is more interested in facts and less reliant on ideology.
Claire Coutinho72,441 просмотров • 10 дней назад
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 Coutinho269,307 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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 Coutinho248,010 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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 Coutinho435,843 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
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 Coutinho828,573 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
This is shocking. NESO have confirmed to the Times that the initial assessment of 23 June *was* that “constraints were breached and system security was compromised.” Exactly as my whistleblowers alleged. And yet in this leaked recording the CEO dismissed ‘my’ allegations as not true. A senior manager said whistleblowers had ‘let down’ the company. When NESO had documents which showed *in black and white* that this was worth investigating. Then they tried to deny they had criticised the whistleblowers… before the recording was released to show they had. We await the final findings of what happened but there is clearly a cover-up culture at NESO. I have had more brickbats thrown at me this last few weeks than I have ever had. But the whistleblowers have shown true courage in the national interest. We must match it by taking a clear-eyed look at grid stability and how NESO is being run.
Claire Coutinho76,701 просмотров • 12 дней назад
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 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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 Coutinho1,238,358 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
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 Coutinho454,565 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
The Government have quietly announced that they will push ahead with their Puberty Blocker Trial. Children as young as 11 will be given drugs that can lead to loss of fertility and bone density. No child can consent to this. The trial must be stopped.
Claire Coutinho158,563 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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 Coutinho529,214 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
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 Coutinho607,772 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
If Burnham wants to cut the cost of living, he must axe Miliband’s Fertiliser Tax. If food is more expensive to grow, it’s more expensive to buy. Making fertiliser 25% more expensive will put up the price of meat, bread, milk and butter - most of a weekly shop. It’s got to go.
Claire Coutinho40,601 просмотров • 11 дней назад
