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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Ian Cunningham<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Blair has turned on Starmer and Miliband\u2019s Net Zero zealotry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Telegraph report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Tony Blair has attacked <\/em>Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s net zero plans<\/em><\/a> and called for a radical reset of the Government\u2019s green agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former prime minister said it was wrong that people were \u201cbeing asked <\/em>to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle<\/em><\/a> when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a significant intervention, he said politicians must face \u201cinconvenient facts\u201d showing that any strategy based on phasing out <\/em>fossil fuels<\/em><\/a> was \u201cdoomed to fail\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Tony has been advising Sir Keir in an informal capacity since Labour\u2019s <\/em>landslide election win<\/em><\/a> last year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes as Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, faces mounting questions about his green strategy a day after Spain and Portugal were plunged into a nationwide power cut blamed by experts <\/em>on a reliance on renewable energy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s ironic because Blair was at the forefront of pushing the Climate Change Act from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in those days, nobody could have forecast that the bill for subsidising would top \u00a3100 billion by the end of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor that the rest of the world would stick two fingers up at the idiot Miliband\u2019s attempt to ditch fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, it\u2019s all too little, too late from the Blair creature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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