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Labour MP Barry Gardiner has been grilled in an intense GB News clash over the Government's net zero policy, as he was quizzed on Energy Secretary Ed Miliband's pledge to cut energy bills.Debating clean energy on GB News, political commentator Aman Bhogal took aim at Mr Miliband's policy, asking Mr Gardiner: "Where is the £300 that was guaranteed to be saved off of everyone's energy bills?"FULL STORY HERE.
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So the very simple question, Barry, is, you know, you're a Labour MP
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Where are those £300 that were guaranteed off every single Britain's energy bill
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We haven't got those. What we're getting instead is this sort of rebranding, I mean, by the Secretary of State for Net Stupid
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You know, he's out again with another fairy tale. Let's keep the conversation polite. It's been really polite so far
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Net Stupid is fair enough, I think. But it is fair enough because Net Zero is stupid
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and having a sector of state, let alone having a junior minister for it, is absolutely atrocious
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It's not good governance, Barry. As President Trump said, you know, we have a real treasure chest beneath the North Sea
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You know, just last week, another billion barrels of oil have been discovered
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Drill, baby drill. Why can't we get out that oil and gas to heat the homes of Britons today
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so that they don't go cold today for this, you know, fairy land tomorrow
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Let's be honest here. Let's work this out. We've spent tens of billions on solar and wind
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yet it's only generated 40,000 jobs, right? And we're still subsidising the renewable industry in this country
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by the tens of billions. That is a debt which the next three generations are going to be paying off
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What for? For some fairytale imaginations of the Secretary of State. Well, it's not fairytale imaginations
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It is. Well, let me explain why it's not. The Indians have been very proud of taking out a billion tonnes of coal in the last year
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Why? Because they have a responsibility to their population, the energy that the Indian economy demands
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The Chinese have done the same, right? We have been the fastest economy to decarbonise and in turn de at what cost Can you explain that Well I do exactly what I said I was going to do and challenge what you said
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Do people feel better off today? It's a very simple question. Do people feel better off today
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than they did before Tony Blair came in? We've had three decades of the Blairite orthodoxy
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Do people feel better off? They don't. Come on, tell me. You know that's nonsense
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It is not. Let's start off talking about India and China, OK
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The largest decarbonisation programme in the world is happening in China, OK
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Well, you would say that. No, not I would say that. The International Energy Association records it
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They do that in all of the countries. And look, I'd say to the viewers, check it out
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You know, it's very easy these days. You can go to Google. And the other thing I'd say to you is go to Google and say
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what proportion of domestic energy bills is attributable to the wholesale price of gas
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Just Google it. What you'll find is it says 32% of your domestic bills is attributable to the wholesale price of gas
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Under a Labour government. If you then Google the percentage that is the policy costs, OK, the green levies and all the other things
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you'll find that in total that's 25 percent. Now, I believe that 25 percent should actually be paid by general taxation
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There we can come to some sort of agreement because I think it should be taken off the bill payers because it's unfair
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At the moment, those who are more using electricity than gas, the preponderance of those costs is on electricity, not on gas
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So it's really important that we get this right to help people
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