He won’t resign if Labour approves new airport runways, so is Ed Miliband’s statement more political double-standards?
It seems so, to This Writer.
According to the BBC,
[After he became] Labour leader in 2010, Miliband ended his party’s support for Heathrow expansion, saying he had had “some very heated arguments” with Prime Minister Gordon Brown over it and had even considered resigning from his cabinet.
In 2018, he said he would vote against it in the Commons, arguing “we owe it to future generations not just to have good environmental principles but to act on them”.
But now,
Asked if he would quit if a third Heathrow runway got the go-ahead, he said: “Don’t be ridiculous, no.
“We believe that we can meet our growth mission – our number one priority – and keep within carbon budgets, and indeed that our clean energy mission is crucial and a central part of meeting our growth mission.
“Far from them being in contradiction, they are absolutely complementary,” he argued.
Challenged on whether the country could still meet net zero with a third Heathrow runway, he replied: “I’m not getting into speculation about specific issues like that.”
So he can’t say that a third Heathrow runway won’t ruin his government’s plan to hit Net Zero carbon emissions, but he won’t quit as a minister over it, even though it would ruin one of his ministerial responsibilities and he had threatened to resign a ministerial position over it in the past.
Yes – it definitely looks like double-standards to This Writer.
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Is Ed Miliband’s statement more political double-standards?
He won’t resign if Labour approves new airport runways, so is Ed Miliband’s statement more political double-standards?
It seems so, to This Writer.
According to the BBC,
But now,
So he can’t say that a third Heathrow runway won’t ruin his government’s plan to hit Net Zero carbon emissions, but he won’t quit as a minister over it, even though it would ruin one of his ministerial responsibilities and he had threatened to resign a ministerial position over it in the past.
Yes – it definitely looks like double-standards to This Writer.
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