Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has raged at Ed Miliband’s net zero plans - claiming in a GB News interview, that you can watch above, that the Energy Secretary is now Britain’s “most dangerous man”.
Asked by Martin Daubney how Labour can be expected to go about plugging the public finance black hole, Lee took aim at Miliband’s eco plans.
He said the funds generated by their decision to cut winter fuel payments can be achieved by slashing some of the energy proposals.
“This week, we’ve had mad Miliband, the most dangerous man in Britain, bleating on about GB Energy”, he said.
Lee Anderson furiously hit out at Ed Miliband
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“That’s £8.5 billion. Foreign climate aid, another £11 billion. There’s £20 billion this man is spaffing away.
“This, by the way, is taxpayers’ money. You’ve got pensioners in my neck of the weeds scraping through on about 15 grand a year.
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“They are going to have this winter fuel allowance ruthlessly stole off them while train drivers are on 70 grand a year. It’s an absolute disgrace.”
Miliband has argued the party’s flagship GB Energy company will shield consumers from international market shocks while creating jobs and supply chains.
He told MPs: “The truth is that we had the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation because of our exposure to fossil fuels. We have seen prices rise again on October 1, not because of decisions made by Government but because of our dependence on international gas markets.
“The argument for clean energy that we used to debate 15 years ago was a climate argument. It is now as much an energy security argument as a climate argument.”
Labour is cutting winter fuel payments to pensioners
PABut according to Lee, pensioners are being put at the “bottom of the pile” as a result.
“These are political decisions. It’s a choice between these things and pensioners”, he said.
“But unfortunately, they are putting our pensioners at the bottom of the pile.”
If MPs and peers pass the Great British Energy Bill, they will give Miliband the power to set up the firm.
The Bill cleared its first Commons hurdle on Thursday after MPs gave it a second reading by 348 to 95, majority 253.
It will undergo further scrutiny at a later date.