‘Net zero sceptic’ Kemi Badenoch accepted £10,000 from Chevron director
https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/13/net-zero-sceptic-kemi-badenoch-accepted-10000-from-chevron-director/
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‘Net zero sceptic’ Kemi Badenoch accepted £10,000 from Chevron director
https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/13/net-zero-sceptic-kemi-badenoch-accepted-10000-from-chevron-director/
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Forever amazing to see just how cheap UK politicians are. These are rookie numbers in American politics!
First reported by Sam Bright:
*[…] The new Tory leader has vocally criticised the UK’s climate ambitions in recent months, calling herself a “net zero sceptic”. Badenoch has suggested that the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 would “bankrupt the country”, and has hinted that she may try to scrap the legally binding target.*
*Badenoch received the £10,000 donation on 6 August from House of Lords member Baroness Moyo, an economist and banker who has served on Chevron’s board since 2016 and holds shares worth more than £100,000 in the company.*
*[…] Chevron, the third largest oil and gas company in the world by market capitalization, does not have a net zero commitment, or a commitment to align its activities with the temperature goals set by the flagship 2015 Paris Agreement.*
*Between 2010 and 2018, Chevron reportedly dedicated only 0.2 percent of its long-term investments to sources of low-carbon energy like wind and solar.*
*[…] In August, DeSmog revealed that Badenoch had received £10,000 towards her leadership campaign from Neil Record, a millionaire Tory donor and chair of Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.*
*Net Zero Watch has called for “rapid” new North Sea oil and gas exploration, and for wind and solar power to be “wound down completely”.*
*Speaking to an audience in Washington DC last week, during a visit to North America that saw Badenoch meet with several climate science deniers, the Tory leader declared that the conservative desire to “protect the natural world” had been “hacked, replaced by a radical green absolutism”. […]*
The Tory party, the oldest party in the UK and the democratic world, is now filled with nothing but traitors. From irreversible policies of mass immigration to manufacturing Brexit just so they can line their mates’ pockets up, the Tories has been consistently betraying Britain for decades now. London now being owned by American and Canadian hedge funds, billionaires from China or Russia, and African dictators while British people are being priced out of their own city is partly a direct result of Tory policies.
Say what you want about the evils of 18th and 19th century Britain, but at least the majority of the statesmen of those days weren’t complete sell outs. Just imagine telling William Pitt the Younger this is what his successors would eventually amount to, willingly disintegrating the entire political infrastructure for cheap change from the Americans, Russians, and Chinese.
Idiot doing idiot things.
How is this the best the conservative party has to offer?
Its actually embarrassing how easy it is to sway conservative politician’s. Just give em a hamper with some champagne and they wil sell the country to the lowest bidder.
It’s amazing what trivial sums of money can be used to buy our politicians
This is why politicians need to be paid significantly more.
So what?
What is your point? She didn’t take a bribe, she accepted a legal, above-board, donation. If you can show that she is using that donation for personal gain, then you’ve got something to criticize her for, but until then, it’s a donation to a fund.
Climate Change is fake, and “Net Zero” is a multi-billion pound, dollar, and euro money-making scam.
It’s amazing how low her price is. £10,000 to betray the future generations.
Imagine if she gets into power and gets what she wants. Can you imaginea young person talking to a 90 year old Badenoch in a few decades’ time?
“Was it worth it?”
“Well they did give me ten grand.”
Sceptical about what? The science or the idea of not business as usual?
There’s a chicken/egg issue here. Is she a sceptic _because_ of her connections, or does she have those connections because of her scepticism?
I presume the answer is somewhere in the middle
Pales next to reform (aka the real Conservative Party)…
MP’s just like police officers are crown servants, they serve at his majesty’s pleasure.
When it comes to the police every force around the country generally has two depts, one is professional standards, the other is counter corruption. Despite public perception the police are actually very ruthless when it comes to internal investigations and corruption, they are far better investigators than the likes of the IOPC.
To vounter corruption the police have very strict rules around “gifts and gratuities” for example policies that make a point that no gifts can be accepted unless they are of a trifling value, i.e under £30 and it would be seen as rude as turn the gift down and there is no possibility that the gift could be interpreted as seeking to influence an officer.
This translates into the real world as if you go to a house and the victim offers you a cup of tea and biscuits which they have laid out or you go to Mc Donalds and get a free coffee during the shift then this is okay.
A cop I know was investigated and interviewed around a crate of fresh farm produce he received from a victim following an investigation. Whilst nothing came of that investigation, he was questioned around it and they explored if there was any possibility that this gift could have influenced any decisions the officer made. It was a thank you present and that was all. Yet it was looked at with a microscope because actual corruption in the police is taken that seriously.
Why?
I have never seen it as just a matter of public confidence in the organisation but as something more than that. The meaning of being a crown servant is that you answer to the crown, naturally not to Charles directly but as a symbol. To hold a position serving the crown you need to be a loyal and faithful servant to the state, in policing that means you answer to the law and law alone serving without fear or favour.
I find it digusting that corruption and the buying of influence from ministers who have that same position as a crown servant are free to take gifts that are quite clearly given to them to buy favour and influence policy.
There is more scrutiny given to a cop recieving a box of fruit as a thank you for dealing with a low level crime that has no bearing on anyone else than the scrutiny applied to ministers who’s decisions directly impact us all and can massively impact which company will prosper and which will crash.
Ministers should be under the same level of monitoring as the others and certainly should never be able to accept any gifts or gratuities worth more than £30 or so either. The commons standards committy who should deal with corruption are basically lip service and lack the policies to support them in dealing with these issues. There needs to be change.