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'What An Absolute Hypocrite’ | Ed Miliband BLASTED For His Green Hypocrisy

Kevin O'Sullivan focuses on the "Net Zero Hypocrisy" of Labour's Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero, Ed Miliband. Kevin highlights Miliband's extensive air travel, stating he flies 23,000 air miles in the last six months, with his staff covering an additional 14,000 domestic air miles. Kevin sarcastically questions what Miliband, who campaigns heavily on climate action, is doing in New York and why he takes so many "planet-destroying" flights. Kevin interviews Harry Wilkinson, Head of Policy at the Global Warming Policy Foundation, to discuss Miliband's actions. Wilkinson explains that Miliband is in New York for preliminary discussions ahead of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil in November, calling the travel for these "hot air" conferences "seriously hypocritical." Wilkinson argues that the solutions promoted at these conferences, such as restrictions on consumer choices (e.g., car and boiler use), taxes, and more expensive flights, are designed to restrict others, while politicians use taxpayer-funded flights. He criticizes the overall global climate agenda, calling it "counter-productive" and "miserabilist," and argues that it slows decarbonization by sheltering green technologies from competition, which stifles innovation and growth. Wilkinson also refutes Miliband's key talking point that green energy will allow the UK to stop relying on "despotic countries" like Russia, pointing out that fossil fuels still dominate 75% of the UK's energy mix, including gas for home heating and petrol for cars. He concludes that the agenda impoverishes countries like the UK, while the real victims are the poor in developing nations, who are denied opportunities for growth and energy access. Wilkinson condemns Miliband and his team for their enormous carbon footprint, highlighting the massive delegation the UK sends to these events (460 delegates at the previous COP), and concludes that their pollution occurs on an "industrial scale." #starmer #edmilliband #netzero Have you got a story? Email [email protected] Click here for more from Talk https://talk.tv If you need any help visit: https://talk.tv/helplines