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LABOUR MPs launched a scathing attack on the Con-Dems’ so-called Green Deal yesterday and said it was nothing more than a “pack of cards which contains only jokers.”
The Green Deal was much trumpeted by the government as a way of helping people make energy-saving improvements to their homes.
But Labour MP Gerald Kaufman said: “Is it not a fact that the government’s institutional meddling with energy efficiency structures has not only wasted a huge amount of taxpayers’ money, it is actually making people on low incomes pay more?
“Isn’t your Green Deal nothing more than a pack of cards which contains only jokers?”
Energy Secretary Ed Davey disputed the claim and said that over 445,000 people had undertaken Green Deal assessments, 70 per cent of whom went on to install measures.
Labour MP Barry Sheerman also claimed there were “subversive elements” in the government — for example Communities Secretary Eric Pickles — who block projects such as wind farms.
