The latest accounts from the Climate Change Committee – a taxpayer-funded body which tracks and advocates for measures to push Britain closer to Net Zero – show its chief executives have been handed a plum pay increase. Miliband’s ‘don’t eat meat any more‘ vanguard wouldn’t go unrewarded…
Chief Executive Chris Stark was in 2023/4 paid up to £210,000 for his work. Guido caught Stark providing advertising for a heat pump brand at the time of his departure from the role…
His replacement James Richardson enjoyed remuneration last year to the tune of £225,000 – his salary was boosted by a handsome pension benefit package. Stark was paid £15,000 by the body last year…
Total funding for the growing organisation has also gone up. Staff costs have rocketed from £4,610,583 in 2023/4 to £5,166,863 just twelve months later. Total operating expenditure is up from £6,711,820 to £8,258,989. A Labour minister has today defended the ballooning costs: “The CCC has a vital role providing independent, expert advice on reducing emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change, and staff numbers have risen to manage the increased demands from the CCC’s work programme.” Hop on the gravy train while you can…
Miliband is today boasting about locking in £95/MWh prices for offshore wind in the latest auction round. The average electricity price last year was £80. Subsidise or die…
Peter Mandelson has finally said sorry for believing Jeffrey Epstein over the paedophile’s victims. He told BBC Newsnight:
“Yesterday, I did not want to be held responsible for his crimes of which I was ignorant, not indifferent, because of the lies he told me and so many others. I was wrong to believe him following his conviction and to continue my association with him afterwards. I apologise unequivocally for doing so to the women and girls who suffered. I was never culpable or complicit in his crimes. Like everyone else I learned the actual truth about him after his death. But his victims did know what he was doing, their voices were not heard and I am sorry I was amongst those who believed him over them.”