Showing posts with label Nick Clegg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Clegg. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Two of the four people who run the Coalition have family links to the wind industry

Two of the four people who run the Coalition government have family members who have made money out of the wind industry.

Read this post below from ConservativeHome
(we all know the two are, of course, but we may not have known just how powerful they are)

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/02/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-group-of-four-that-runs-the-coalition.html

Imagine if they had similar links to the coal or oil industries!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Matthew Sinclair: Clegg's crony capitalism, cash for Climate Change Capital

On today's ConservativeHome.

As he says (about offshore wind and other green investments):

"People don't invest in frightening things like that, so the plan is to transfer the risk to the poor old taxpayer, who is going to have to bear the cost of the subsidies and be saddled with the risk if they don't turn out well."