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…
Net zero zealots at the Climate Change Committee have been hard at work dreaming up new ways to greenwash Britain – including slapping a fresh tax on flying and telling the public to ration meat to the equivalent of two kebabs a week. It turns out many of the brains behind these bright ideas have been phoning them in from abroad…
An FOI from the Taxpayers’ Alliance seen by Guido reveals that a whopping 64 staff at the CCC were working from abroad in the financial years of 2022 to 2025. Although the quango wouldn’t say how long these staff were overseas, they did provide a list of 25 countries staff based themselves for “business and personal reasons”. Destinations include a mix of sun-soaked escapes such as Greece, Malaysia, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Columbia…
Guido assumes these taxpayer-funded climate crusaders had to hop on a plane to get to their sunny destinations. If they get their wish on flight tax, perhaps some of them will think twice before jetting off again…
Read the list of countries in full below:
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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.”
