Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A senior member of the British government has just boasted about bypassing the US Federal Government, and coordinating British government policy directly with US cities.
UK bypasses Donald Trump to discuss climate change with US city mayors directly
Claire Perry, the Climate Change Minister, says British Government is now speaking to ‘other players’ in US about how to fight global warming
Ian Johnston @montaukian Tuesday 25 July 2017 14:21 BST
The UK has started bypassing Donald Trump over climate change, talking directly to city mayors and other officials committed to trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the new Climate Change Minister has revealed.
Claire Perry, who was appointed to the post after the general election last month, said that British ministers had not “missed an opportunity” to tell the US President that they were disappointed he had decided to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the news service Bloomberg reported.
She said she had been speaking to “other players” in the US, including the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, who visited the UK last week.
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“The UK is ranked third in the world in tackling climate change,” she said.
“I think we need to exploit and take that leadership position because we can change the world doing this and we can also generate highly productive jobs.
“I look at this and see it’s the way the world is going, so it’s not just about British businesses, it’s about global mega-trends, so how do we seize that opportunity to decarbonise our own economy and help other countries.”
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In my opinion this British government initiative represents a crazy level of interference by a foreign power in US domestic politics. Imagine the outcry if the Trump administration started boasting about bypassing the British government, about coordinating US policy directly with British cities.
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UK third most gullible, third most stupid, third most economically suicidal, etc………. some boast.
Claire perry is minister for climate change and industry . The cept solely responsible for climate change was disbanded several years ago.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/claire-perry#current-roles
I would think that She was probably discussing primarily trade with the few mayors she met in respect of Brexit negotiations
Tonyb
No, she was discussing climate…
As were the Chinese and Germans who visited California.
she is down to produce a green development plan this autumn.
Renewables and climate change are mainstream, baked in, central pieces of the policy of UK and EU governments. and have been for a decade.
As I said up-thread, good for the UK and the EU. You don’t need U. S. money so carry on without us.
Does the UK actually have a position they could call “policy?” Apparently one department is moving ahead to ban the sale of vehicles using fossil fuels, while another is finally moving out to approve fracking to provide reasonably priced energy to the nation.
It is humorous to see the representative of a big oil city like Huston talking to a representative of a government moving ahead on fracking discussing ending the use of fossil fuels. Both are just posturing.
Any fracking conducted in the UK would be constrained by the limits on CO2 which can be produced under the climate act, future UK carbon budget targets and targets for percentage of renewable electricity.
There is in effect a limit to how much gas can be burned in UK power stations/for heating.
We might choose to frack for it, as N Sea output declines, or get it from Qatar.
But the use of it will be constrained.
So the policy on fracking is within the policy on Climate change.
Blithering idiots, I’m glad I left. Just like the Boy from Tottenham in Australia, I believe.
Are Dementocrat mayors colluding with foreign governments at the same time as complaining Trump colludes with a foreign government?
That’s ok, Trump can take that into consideration during trade talks with the UK now that they’re leaving the EU. If the UK wants to interfere with US politics then they can be financially punished accordingly in any trade deals that the UK are desperate to make with the US.
You got that right. The UK government needs to get the heck out of us domestic politics. We will take a giant dump on them. Really getting tired of Euro trash politics although I immigrated from there. Well maybe that explains that
What party was it again that won the recent UK election? I could have sworn it wasn’t the Labour watermelons.
Sounds like the UK is afflicted with a “sensible centre”, LabourLite government much the same as Australia now has as a result of the Turnbull night of the long knives.
I would be sending the good old US Ambassador around to No 10 for a chat.
Claire Perry should be prosecuted immediately. Who is she anyway – totally unknown to the British electorate apart from her own constituency. Who is speaking for?