Not everyone will be happy with Labour’s announcement of £14.2 billion taxpayer funding – some of which was already allocated in the previous budget – to further develop Sizewell C. The local Labour MP has been increasingly vocal on the nuclear plant…
Suffolk Coastal MP Jenny Riddell-Carpenter’s constituency covers the plant. The new MP has been involved in numerous local actions against the development of the plant. In January Riddell-Carpenter wrote to developers after receiving pressure from the group ‘Together Against Sizewell C‘ in order to say the plant had to honour its “social valuable and charitable investments, employment opportunities and environmental actions.” While Riddell-Carpenter declined to say work should be halted entirely she said her priority was to “hold Sizewell C to account”…
That same anti-Sizewell group has today said it is “outraged” thanks to “the loss of thousands of trees and miles of hedging.” Separately Riddel-Carpenter spoke out against the plant just two months ago over concerns that incoming jobs would put pressure on the local housing market and in planning meetings she only expresses ‘concerns.’ Curiously the MP is due to attend a meeting with eco-loons Greenpeace – naturally strongly opposed to the project – next month on 5 July. Siding with the blockers…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”