Andy Burnham is set to fly roughly 4,200 miles in little more than 24 hours. He flew into Antalya for COP31 late last night, will spend around three hours at the summit this morning, then heads to the European Political Community summit in Dublin this afternoon before returning to Britain tonight. His pointless speech at COP was delivered to a half-empty room, and he was the only G7 leader to bother attending…
Based on the Government’s own emissions figures for an Airbus A321neo, Guido estimates the three-leg journey could produce around 70 tonnes of CO2, equivalent to roughly 15 years of the average Briton’s annual CO2 emissions. The longest leg, from Antalya to Dublin, accounts for approximately half of the estimated total. Yes, FIFTEEN years…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”