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Green Deal’s a big joke, says Labour

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?

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