Oh dear. In the latest election campaign blip, it’s the Green Party in the spotlight. It has now transpired that despite the Greens long urging voters to swap out gas guzzling boilers for heat pumps, the co-leader of Green Party herself has, er, a gas boiler. Rules for thee but not for me…
Carla Denyer’s party has long harped on about its goal to reach net zero by 2040 — yet its eco-zealot-in-chief admitted to ITV’s The Leader Interviews that ‘at the moment I have a gas boiler’. Blaming the election for forcing her to ‘pause’ her plans to replace the contraption, Denyer told the broadcaster during the interview that: ‘I’m literally in the process of getting quotes for replacing it with an air source heat pump.’
The party’s manifesto notes that the eco-activists would plan to invest £9 billion over the next five years for heat pumps — and other heating systems — to be installed in homes across the UK. The Greens say they will advocate for all new houses to, ‘where appropriate’, include ‘low carbon heating systems such as heat pumps’. Only a couple of years ago, Denyer herself insisted that ‘renewables, insulation and heat pumps’ were needed immediately under an ‘emergency energy plan’.
Yet the situation was apparently not enough of an emergency for Denyer herself to fork out for a replacement heat pump, Mr S notes. With hypocrisy like this, it’s hard not to think the Greens are just full of hot air…
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