Ed Miliband to Make Two 12,000-Mile Trips to COP30 in Two Weeks
Ed Miliband is set to make the same 12,000-mile round trip twice in two weeks to attend COP30 – a climate conference to discuss reducing global CO2 emissions – at a cost to the taxpayer of an estimated £22,000. The Mail has the story.
Energy Secretary Miliband flew to Brazil 10 days ago to meet up with PM Sir Keir Starmer and Prince William in Rio de Janeiro before they all flew onto Belem where the COP30 climate summit is taking place.
Mr Miliband then flew back to the UK last Sunday – but the Net Zero zealot is set to return to Brazil, making an identical trip again, this Saturday.
While in Brazil the first time he was spotted dining out at a luxury rooftop restaurant with views over Rio above the £1,250 a night five star hotel he was staying at – with fellow eco campaigners.
By the time he has returned to Britain for a second time his four-leg plane journeys will have cost the taxpayer an estimated £22,000 – and created some six tons of CO2 emissions.
This amounts to the average annual carbon footprint for a whole household in the UK across an entire year.
A source at the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero justified Mr Miliband’s globe trotting double trip, saying: “It’s a lot easier for everyone to meet in person – trying to organise a summit of this scale on Teams or Zoom just wouldn’t work, it would be chaos.”
But the Tories said he should focus on reducing people’s bills rather than flying thousands of miles to spread the word on climate change.
Claire Coutinho, the Shadow Energy Secretary, said: “It is beyond parody that Ed Miliband is flying halfway across the world and back not once, but twice, all while lecturing the rest of us in the name of saving the planet.
“While Ed jets off again to the forest-thinning climate jamboree in Brazil, closer to home it’s ordinary Brits who are suffering thanks to his policies which are pushing up everyone’s energy bills.”
Mr Miliband’s first jaunt to Brazil saw him dining in luxury – with fellow eco zealots who had also flown long haul to be there.
The Daily Mail spotted him enjoying dinner on the top floor of the Tivoli hotel – the city’s newly opened and only five-star hotel.
Sitting alongside him at the dinner table – which had fabulous views over the city’s night time skyline – were former Extinction Rebellion (XR) cheerleaders who had previously campaigned against air travel.
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Do as I say, not as I do.
Further, if the climatists *genuinely* believed that CO2 emissions were going to bring the world to an end, they would NOT behave like this.
See also: multiple politicians and advisors breaking there own stupid Covid “rules”. They did not believe their own hyped-up danger.
I’m polluting, so you don’t have to (he might say).
Isn’t he thoughtful? NOT
The people around that table have been buying the same sized clothes since they were teenagers. Their breadth of knowledge has stayed the same too.
There aren’t any polite words to describe Miliband. I don’t know a single person who doesn’t hate the little ar** wipe
A conspiracy of Cop-outs. A phalanx of Pharisees. A hubris of Hypocrites. A delusion of Delegates.
Oh to be a ghost sitting in that spare chair next to Miliband and listening to the pearls of wisdom flowing from the lips of these paragons of virtue who are determined to save us from ourselves. If they are really serious about their mission to rid the world of these nasty carbon emissions, may I suggest that they follow the example of Thor Heyerdahl and return to the UK by a raft similar to the Kon-Tiki. With any luck it would take them at least six months. I am sure that Greta Thunberg would be able to advise them.
I’d be certain that climate change will not even feature in their chummy conversation.
Probably something along the lines of ‘so how many historic balsa trees have we managed to chop down to build our next set of windmills. I love the smell of burning Amazon rainforest in the morning ‘.
Some lunatic on GBNews just now has called us hypocrites because we don’t believe in man made climate change. No, as Patrick Christys told the idiot, Milibrain is the hypocrite. How can you be a hypocrite if like me you maintain your belief. He needs to go back to school, not only to learn a bit more English Language but also history, because, yes, he tried to claim the recent hurricane that hit Jamaica was exceptional and man made, rather than just a run of the mill, powerful hurricane, of which there are records of many as and more powerful over the last two centuries.
How can you be a hypocrite for not believing in something that does not exist? Just let me top up the stove with some more wood to release some CO2.
What is worrying is that Militwat is the most popular candidate to lead the party with the membership and they get to make the decision.
Looks like it’s time for a mass membership sign-up of the LP, to swamp the voting as we did to get Corbyn made leader. We knew he would be a disaster for the LP’s electoral chances
I used wo work with a Brazilian ecologist. She told me how much the people resent what she called ‘ rich gringos’ flying in their private jets with their 5 star lifestyles and telling the people they have to live a more frugal life to save the planet
How inspiring to see so many fat little Prize Piggies sat around the table, demonstrating their hypocrisy for us.
It isn’t a Climate Conference. It is an economic one. It is about control of wealth, resources, and YOU. The climate is simply the excuse that most of the public fall for. There is no climate crisis, and if there was, there is no way they would tear down 100,000 trees for their silly conference in the very place they say we are destroying —The AMAZON
Sadly Uk gov’ts has successfully brainwashed nearly every citizen into believing climate change is man made. It is so ridiculous. How did they convert the entire country to believe this. Thanks in large part to the drip, drip, drip of the bbc, it’s brainwashing tool.
Extinction Rebellion eco-zealots should be blacklisted by all international airlines. Simples.
…and I bet it wasn’t bacon sarnies all round.
Well, at least the extra ‘gas o’life’ liberated Will have stimulated some plant growth to replace everything needlessly cut down to speed these ignorant buffoons to their luxurious hotels.