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Ed Miliband
@Ed_Miliband
Shadow Climate and Net Zero Secretary, Labour MP for Doncaster North. Husband to Justine, Dad to Daniel and Sam.
www.labour.org.ukJoined July 2009
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7/ A Labour Government will: 🌊Make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030 🇬🇧Set up GB Energy, a publicly-owned energy company 🏗️Create a National Wealth Fund to secure good jobs 👷Insulate 19m cold homes over a decade That is real energy and climate leadership.
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Nope it’s because nobody wanted you to come. And you got the message.
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Donald J. Trump
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Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
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What an absolutely ludicrous, incompetent, absurd, make it up as you go along, couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery bunch of jokers there are running the government at the most critical time in a generation for the country.
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What incompetence. What failure of governance. Boris Johnson can't blame Theresa May, he can't blame John Major, he can't blame judges, he can't blame civil servants, he can't sack the Cabinet Secretary again. There's only one person responsible - him. Me in the Commons today:
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In my 4+ years opposing David Cameron I never saw a parliamentary performance like tonight’s from Boris Johnson: deeply irresponsible, stoking division, using dangerous, inflammatory language, fanning the flames of hatred. This is not about right and left but right and wrong.
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The Conservative Party is unfit to govern. 12 years of failure, 5 Prime Ministers, and working people paying the price. We need a General Election now.
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We know Theresa May can't now negotiate Brexit for Britain because she told us losing majority would destroy her authority---and it has.
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In which Dr Who travels back in time to meet the views of the 1950s. Jodie Whittaker is a great model for my two boys thanks.
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Former Doctor Who Peter Davison says casting of woman means 'loss of role model for boys' telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/2
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Congratulations Jacob Rees-Mogg. Look forward to you advocating for a clean energy sprint inc onshore wind & solar, a windfall tax, keeping the fracking ban and having no truck with those questioning climate science. And remember: we need energy policy for the 2020s not the 1820s
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UK Prime Minister
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The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP @Jacob_Rees_Mogg has been appointed Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy @BEISGovUK. #Reshuffle
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Suspending parliament to prevent the expression of the will of elected representatives is what autocrats and dictators do. This attempted coup against our democracy to impose a no deal Brexit cannot be allowed to stand.
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Nope. It is an expression of how mendacious (we can have a different colour now), absurd and parochial we look to the world. Worst of all, you don’t even believe this nonsense.
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Theresa May
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The UK passport is an expression of our independence and sovereignty – symbolising our citizenship of a proud, great nation. That's why we have announced that the iconic #bluepassport will return after we leave the European Union in 2019. conservatives.com/sharethefacts/
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Big picture: NHS in appalling state, PM has no empathy. Three days to decide the next five years. Nothing else matters. Avoid the rabbit holes. That’s what they want.
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Imaginative, bold, modern, common sense. Broadband is a 21st century basic good, it’s crap and expensive thanks to a privatised industry, it needs to change. This is how it can be done.
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HuffPost UK
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Labour promises free broadband for all if it wins the general election huffp.st/MJJy3Dj
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The Government's position on fracking collapsing on day one. Real anger from across the House of Commons that they are putting the public through this dangerous, unsafe, expensive charade just to appease the fossil fuel lobby.
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PM's refusal to condemn Trump Muslim ban is shocking, wrong and cannot stand. It flies in the face of the values of people across Britain.
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Liz Truss' first act as PM is to oppose a windfall tax on the oil and gas giants making £170bn in excess profits. Instead, she wants the British people to foot the entire bill for her energy package. She stands up for the vested interests, not ordinary people.
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He lies about crime in Britain, he lies about crime in Germany, he lies about and defends his cruel, inhumane, barbaric policy of separating babies and children at the border, a new low even for him, and in less than four weeks,
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will roll out the red carpet. Really?
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Donald J. Trump
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The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!
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Today’s rise in the energy price cap will mean hardship for millions. Don’t let people say there was nothing more to be done. The government is making a political choice to shield oil and gas companies and leave families in the cold.
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This shames our country. Don’t just weep, vote Labour to do something about it.
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8 year old Courtney and her family live off £5 a day - they rely on a food bank to eat and wear coats to bed when there's no money for heating. This is Britain today, where more than 4 million children are growing up in poverty.
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It’s cold the day after tomorrow so there’s no global warming. FFS.
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Donald J. Trump
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In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
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Suggested press conference words “He and I do disagree on some things: his tearing of babies from their parents, his racist attacks on the London mayor, his lies, his admiration for dictators, and I tend to think his combover is an absurdity.”
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'There are no press here' , 'I didn't say spaffing up the wall' '350m', 'Prorogation has nothing to do with Brexit', 'It's the chief whips decision to expel the 21' 'I'll lie in front of the bulldozers'...tell me that's not a pattern...
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Laura Kuenssberg
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Another very, very awkward encounter for PM - taken to task by a parent on a children’s ward in London where he says repeatedly the ‘NHS has been destroyed’ - Johnson like rabbit in headlights
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“The language of surrender suggests we are at war either with Europe or each other. We are not. The safety of MPs should not depend on the way they vote.”
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'Appreciate the congrats' says Trump. Can there be a more heinous, self-serving, disqualifying statement about the murder of 50 people?
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The PM didn’t say workplace changes applied from Wednesday. He said “And the first step is a change of emphasis that we hope that people will act on this week.” Wednesday was only mentioned in relation to other changes. Words matter. Clarity is essential. This is shambolic.
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Lots of objections to class war appearing. Totally agree. Assault on welfare state, slashing top rate and corporate tax while imposing cuts on everyone else, driving people to food banks, Universal Credit, pay freezes, growth in zero hours. Where will it end? FFS.
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Strong & Stable Gov 1 (2015):PM resigns, manifesto shredded, Scottish independence threat, election called, man buys shed. Fancy the sequel?
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Keir Starmer has shown he’s a person of decency and integrity throughout his career in law and politics - and he showed it again today. It’s the leadership the country needs.
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The move to abolish the deputy leader post without warning or debate is undemocratic, wrong and should not happen. Those who came up with the idea for the eve of Labour Conference have taken leave of their senses.
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Tonight Conservative MPs voted against our windfall tax on oil + gas giants making record profits.   This Government will never put working people first, will never stand up to the vested interests, and has no answers to the cost of living crisis.
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Today’s report from National Grid shows our vulnerability as country is a direct result of Conservative energy policy over 10 years- banning onshore wind, stalling on energy efficiency, failing on nuclear and closing gas storage have led to higher bills + reliance on gas imports
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1/ Congratulations to
@grantshapps
on his appointment, the 5th BEIS Secretary of THIS Parliament. Fair play to him, one of his aliases was Michael Green, which could be a good sign. 🙂
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Fracking is dangerous, expensive, and unsafe. Jacob Rees-Mogg is ripping up the Conservatives' manifesto promises and imposing a Charter for Earthquakes on the British people. Labour will fight this all the way. We need clean power for Britain - not dirty fracking.
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The Internal Market Bill is indefensible. It breaks international law. It is wrong and self-defeating for our country. Tonight I urged MPs to oppose it.
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Workers in manufacturing and construction who are being told they should go back to work tomorrow need to know that they will be safe. Yet tonight the Government has still not published the official guidance to assure those workers of their safety.
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So proud of this team, their heart, their teamwork, their decency. Losing is shit but nothing can or should take that away. And Gareth still deserves the knighthood.
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Absolutely outrageous slur by Jacob Rees-Mogg that people who object to fracking are funded by Putin. Shameful and disgraceful.
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Paul Waugh
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"Some of the opposition to fracking has been funded by Mr Putin's regime..." says Jacob Rees-Mogg. As Business Secretary, he's certainly going to get a lot more airtime/TV exposure for stuff like this.
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We’ve all been there: ‘oh no how do we respond to this?...blah blah, competition, growth, undesirable...gigabit’...oh dear.
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Baroness Nicky Morgan
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Corbyn’s Labour are yet again overpromising something they cannot deliver effectively nationalising broadband - killing growth & competition. We want everyone in the UK to benefit from world-class gigabit connectivity no matter where they live or work by 2025 twitter.com/bethrigby/stat
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Government finally admits only £3bn of money for green recovery is new. Classic Johnson - big on bluster, short on substance. This isn't a Green Industrial Revolution, it's a pale imitation.
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I deeply regret the decision of my former colleagues to leave Labour. Labour's values are still my values and a Labour government is the best hope for the country we need. Labour must and will continue to be a broad church as it has always been.
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This is the disgraceful result of 12 years of Tory government that has failed to prepare and refused to invest: scrapping all home insulation programmes, blocking the cheapest power (onshore wind & solar) and closing our gas storage. Bills are higher & our country is less secure.
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BREAKING: The UK is planning for several days over the winter when cold weather may combine with gas shortages, leading to organized blackouts for industry and even households trib.al/RhGg9sQ
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The scenes from Catalonia are appalling. They go way beyond rights and wrongs of independence. The U.K. government cannot just stay silent.
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Tonight, the Conservatives have voted against Labour’s fracking ban, against the wishes of their constituents, the British people, and their own manifesto. They have chosen to stand by a failing Prime Minister against the best interests of working people
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House unanimously passes emergency motion finding Trump Muslim ban discriminatory, divisive and counterproductive and calling for repeal.
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Kwasi Kwarteng was personally warned 18 months ago about systemic risk to energy suppliers and the possible need for government action to stabilise the market. He did not prepare, he was complacent, and now we are facing the consequences.
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So now we discover this 'FDR' speech cuts money for affordable housing---£12bn over 5 years in Budget 2020, now £12bn over 8 years. What an absolute fraud.
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Chris Wood
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The PM said in his speech he'll get more homes built. But 'zap' doesn't build homes. In fact he's cutting annual funding by stretching the existing £12bn over 8 years instead of 5, and reducing standards by allowing more to avoid planning permission. gov.uk/government/new
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David Cameron has decided not to attend tonight’s debate. If you're applying for the job of PM, you should turn up to the job interview.
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Labour will ban fracking for good. The Conservatives are u-turning on their manifesto and seeking to impose fracking on communities across the country.
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Boris Johnson comments abt the "split allegiances" of young people is odious 'cricket test' Tebbitry. Internationalism is not unpatriotic.
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Today is a total betrayal of millions facing the biggest crisis from the energy price rise: bills up by almost £700 and all the Chancellor offers is £150 & a £200 loan, not available until October. Labour's fully-funded plan would have provided up to £600 for 9 million families
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Congratulations to Keir Starmer on a clear and deserved victory. His decency, values and intelligence are what our country needs at this moment of crisis and to lead us to a more equal, fairer and just future.
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Let's call out trickle down economics for what it is: the Conservatives doling out hand outs to the super rich, while ordinary people struggle. It didn't work in the past, it won’t work now. #minibudget
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