Ed Miliband Admits We’ll Buy Slave Products for his Solar Panel Splurge
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has refused to rule out buying solar panels made with slave labour for his new warm homes rollout – despite saying the UK must “diversify” its supply chains away from China. The Mail has the story.
The Government’s Warm Homes Plan, announced on Tuesday, will see millions of families able to access solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and insulation which could reduce the amount they pay for energy.
Under the plans, backed with £15 billion of taxpayer cash, homeowners can apply for low and zero-interest loans to install solar panels on their homes in what the Government has dubbed a ‘rooftop revolution’.
But concerns have been raised about fitting five million British homes with China-sourced solar panels – which have been linked with slave labour abuses against Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.
In April, the Government was forced to amend legislation requiring GB Energy, Britain’s state-owned energy company, to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place within its supply chain.
But Ed Miliband on Wednesday refused to impose the same ban on solar panels purchased for its Warm Homes Plan – which could see five million homes fit with the technology – under questioning in the Commons Chamber.
When asked to confirm that “not a single aspect” of the Warm Homes Plan would rely on slave labour supply chains, the Energy Secretary replied the Government has already “raised standards” in GB Energy – and blamed the Tories for the “system” Labour had inherited.
This comes despite Mr Miliband this morning saying the Government is working on “diversifying” supply chains away from China, which produces 80% of the world’s solar panels.
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Oh yes, what happened to GB Energy?
Silently doing nothing except consuming tax payer funds, I imagine.
Don’t worry. He will be building up a Solar Panel Reparations Fund so that our heirs and successors will be able to compensate the descendants of the slaves. I expect the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally will be able to give him some tips.
Whenever I have the conversation with eco zealots about slave labour for their green energy items that they brag about, solar panels cars etc. they tend to shuffle their feet, drop theirs eyes and refer to it as “slightly problematic” with an inference that as it is not them or their children it is a small price to pay to “SAVE THE PLANET”
Most of them haven’t thought about it, don’t give a sh*t and then toss their kefyh over their shoulder.
They haven’t thought about it because they see it on their TV everyday and think that investigative journalists have done the thinking for them. They don’t realise that the mainstream media are bought and paid for propaganda machines.that exist to indoctrinate.
Exactly.
Perhaps Ed should consider where these panels would come from if not China.
The answer these days is “nowhere” as the Chinese have destroyed those other suppliers by ruthless undercutting.
The end result, I hope, is that the bloody things and their associated inverter Radio Frequency noise that pollutes our one and only electromagnetic spectrum go away, but then that assumes some sort of rational response from our politicians who won’t ensure the enforcement of the ever-so-reasonable electromagnetic interference limits without which radio systems tend to fail in unexpected and often unrepeatable ways.
‘Ruthless undercutting’ AND help
from western governments with their myriad of rules, regulations and massively high energy costs due to net zero subsidies… that drive a false ‘need’ for solar panels… you couldn’t make it up
No offence DS editors but I’ve seen enough about Milibrain recently – he’s clearly got a problem – the only news I want to see about him is that he’s been removed from doing any more harm to us poor taxpayers.
Agree, although there could be even better news…
😀There are no slave labour abuses against Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.
It is just propaganda by the US to demonize China in the eyes of a gullible public so that the US and its vassals can fight a cold war against China to maintain US hegemony and their unipolar world conquest.
This is of course a possibility.
But how do you prove that negative you have stated so assuredly?
I tend to believe geo-political analysts who I trust like Brian Berletic on the Uyghur genocide myth.
https://www.jermwarfare.com/brian-berletic-on-the-uyghur-genocide-myth/
I also trust Western commentators who live in China and have been to Xinjiang to see for themselves like Jerry Grey.
“Two huge myths about the Xinjiang narrative, now that the United Nations have been there and found there are no Human Rights abuses and the US are acting illegally and potentially abusing the human rights of Chinese people in the region whether they be Uyghurs or not.
There is big news coming from the region that no one in Western media is talking about.
The United Nations sent a Special Rapporteur to the region and she found no evidence of any human rights abuses, what she did report was that many people had lost jobs and were subject to economic coercion by the USA – which act illegally by placing arbitrary sanctions and refusing to allow the presumption of innocence – they go one step further by refusing to accept evidence that companies in the region present which prove they are not using forced labour in their supply chains.”
https://jerrygrey2002.substack.com/p/two-of-the-great-xinjiang-myths-busted?publication_id=1744413&post_id=145361930&isFreemail=true&r=1ninci&triedRedirect=true
Very self righteous, I call bs.
So, in other words, you’re reliant on sources which you’ve never had direct contact with, but consider trustworthy. As opposed to real contacts in the region, who would soon disabuse you. Please stick to things you actually know something about.
You were doing OK until you got to ‘United Nations’…
It gets dark all winter in the UK at about 3.30 pm, and does not get light again till near 9 am, yet Miliband thinks solar is a GREAT idea. —-Except no he does NOT. He is simply aligned with the phoney planet savers at the UN and WEF, and will impoverish and lower the living standards of his own citizens in his ideological pursuits. There is no climate crisis, and even if there were, the UK is only 1% of it. We cannot unilaterally save the planet, but Miliband knows it isn’t and never was about the planet. It is about alignment with the UN and it’s Sustainable Development Agenda which says the west has used up more than its fair share of the fossil fuels in the ground. —Miliband and the political class who agree with what he is doing are TRAITORS and globalist ass lickers.
But if he carries on at this level, just think of the great post national politics role he’ll get given by the WEF / UN etc… he’ll be very well rewarded I’m sure