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Blair McDougall's Climate-related Tweets, Speeches & Votes

We've found the following climate-related tweets, speeches & votes by Blair McDougall

• 15 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @jreynoldsMP: Tackling climate change is a huge economic opportunity for Britain. This government is working to ensure every community… [Source]

• 12 Nov 2024: Tweet

  RT @adamvaughan_uk: NEW The UK's pledge of an 81% cut in emissions by 2035 is confirmed by Keir Starmer at #COP29 in Baku Makes the UK on… [Source]

• 6 Nov 2024: Parliamentary Speech

  The scale of slavery in the region is enormous and is barely disputed: four years ago, official Chinese Government documents acknowledged that 2.6 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities had gone through labour transfer programmes. The scope of the industries affected is too large to cover in the time afforded to us today, so I will focus on three areas that especially expose the UK’s economy and that risk consumers being unwittingly complicit in Muslim slave labour: clothing, cars and climate change.

  Even if we were not appalled at the inhumanity of the persecution of Muslims, the theft of children from their parents, the sexual violence and the sterilisation, we should be angry as a nation at the economic unfairness of it. We cannot build our own manufacturing industries and create good jobs for our own people while competing with companies that have little or no labour cost. This Government are building a new green energy future for the country, but we cannot generate the green jobs that are part of that vision while competing against Muslim slave labour.

  I am keen to hear the Minister expand on the welcome pledge that the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero made during the passage of the Great British Energy Bill that the Government are working to ensure that the extension of solar energy in the UK is not built on Uyghur forced labour. I would argue that the only real solution, given the Chinese dominance of the market, is an urgent international effort to develop alternative supply chains that, from quartz to panel, never pass through China. The measures in the Modern Slavery Act 2015 have not stopped companies profiting from the slave labour of Uyghurs and other Muslims in China.

  Full debate: Uyghur and Turkic Muslims: Forced Labour in China

• 05 Mar 2024: Tweet

  @moraigcampbell ???? Turning the minimum wage into a real living wage. ????A commissioner to recover billions lost to fraud during Covid. ????Create GB Energy a new publicly-owned national champion in clean power generation based in Scotland. ????Race to net zero by 2030. 1/ [Source]

• 04 Mar 2024: Tweet

  @Kaizen_49 @Lesley_A ???? Turning the minimum wage into a real living wage. ????A commissioner to recover billions lost to fraud during Covid. ????Ban fire and rehire. ⚡️Create GB Energy a new publicly-owned national champion in clean power generation based in Scotland. ????Race to net zero by 2030. [Source]

• 26 Jan 2024: Tweet

  Hugley important challenge for government: how to transition to net-zero without doing so off the back of Uyghur slave labour. https://twitter.com/Anti_Slavery/status/1750537794416443895 [Source]

• 10 Oct 2023: Tweet

  ???????? Accelerate £2bn of spending to resupply Ukraine and rearm the UK. ????Action on unfair car insurance hidden fees. ????️No new licences for oil and gas. ????£3bn for near zero emission steel production. [Source]

• 10 Oct 2023: Tweet

  ⚡️Create GB Energy a new publicly-owned national champion in clean power generation based in Scotland. ????Race to net zero by 2030. ???? Ensure there is an industry-wide social broadband tariff for low-income families. 0⃣ Ban exploitative zero hours contracts. [Source]

• 10 Oct 2023: Tweet

  A thread on (some of) the changes announced at Labour Conference. ????£28 billion a year green investment to cut bills, create new industry & fight climate change. ???? Turning the minimum wage into a real living wage. ???????? Ending the cost & inhumane Rwanda deportation policy. [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  I’m for the long term, that’s why I’m yaking these short term decisions. I’m committed to net zero, that’s why I’m ditching these comittments to net zero. [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Turning to tactics pursued by the Australian Liberals when they're down in the polls has become a habit for the Tories over the years. But to look at the shoeing Scott Morrison got over climate change policies and think it's a winning strategy is a sign of how lost they are. [Source]

• 20 Sep 2023: Tweet

  Remember that delaying the move to net zero makes it more expensive later. The Tories are offering a tax rise. [Source]

• 16 Aug 2023: Tweet

  @Cunning37136930 @MhairiHunter Winter fuel payment and free Tv licences. 3 million Child Trust Funds. Cancelling the debts of the poorest countries. Co2 emissions down 1/5. Largest offshore wind capacity in world. 8/ [Source]

• 24 Jul 2023: Tweet

  @AFromTheB @redhistorian You think it’s only climate change if a cloud reaches down with a box of matches? Don’t understand your point. The unprecedented heat that has left the countryside tinder dry. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/heatwave-set-to-be-greeces-longest-as-extreme-weather-continues-in-europe [Source]

• 23 May 2023: Tweet

  @presumeddeadass Winter fuel payment and free Tv licences. 3 million Child Trust Funds. Cancelling the debts of the poorest countries. Co2 emissions down 1/5. Largest offshore wind capacity in world. 8/ [Source]

• 12 May 2023: Tweet

  Stil, chartering a private vessel rather than taking the public transport they have left in crisis doesn't quite top the time they went to the global climate change summit to argue for oil extraction against Greenpeace. [Source]

• 30 Apr 2023: Tweet

  @CatONineTalez @murray_rogers By investing tens of billions in green energy in Scotland? Right oh [Source]

• 02 Apr 2023: Tweet

  @Mach1Mcl 1. The energy company the SNP promised & didn't deliver. 2. £28bn/year to get to net zero by 2030 3. Linking min wage to cost of living, 4. Extend maternity leave 5. Day one right to sick pay, holiday, parental leave. 6. Abolish non-dom status. 7. Sectoral pay agreements. [Source]

• 27 Mar 2023: Tweet

  @TzikTzok @Iain643 So you don't want to sell green energy, or you just don't want to sell it to English people? [Source]

• 25 Mar 2023: Tweet

  @murray_rogers Public energy company, net zero by 2030 with MASSIVE investment, abolishing non-dom tax & carried interest loophole, link min wage to cost of living, extend maternity leave, ban zero hours contracts, day one rights to sick pay, holiday, parental leave. [Source]

• 19 Mar 2023: Tweet

  @drlongsock Public energy company, net zero by 2030 with MASSIVE investment, abolishing non-dom tax & carried interest loophole, link min wage to cost of living, extend maternity leave, ban zero hours contracts, day one rights to sick pay, holiday, parental leave. T.H.I.N.G.S. [Source]

• 02 Dec 2022: Tweet

  @lesleys20 It’s not. It’s one of example. I could list public energy company, net zero by 2030, abolishing non-dom tax & carried interest loophole, link min wage to cost of living, extend maternity leave, ban zero hours contracts, day one rights to sick pay, holiday, parental leave & NMW [Source]

• 29 Oct 2022: Tweet

  @lesleys20 Actually England produces 3x as much renewable energy. But yes, we have competitive advantage, made possible by the costs of investment being paid for by energy bills across GB. Why any of that has to do with the FM making stuff up though, I don’t know. [Source]

• 25 Oct 2022: Tweet

  @Allmyownviews1 @Paul13_Walnut5 We don’t. We’re part of a single energy market. We provide renewable energy and the investment to build that comes from bills of people across the Uk. [Source]