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Sam McBride
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Northern Ireland Editor, Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent
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💷 Baroness for hire: After discovering that Arlene Foster has been trying to make money for talking about renewable energy, I posed as a corporate fixer wanting to book her and established that she wants £10,000 a day...without a mention of RHI.

Baroness For Hire: Arlene Foster is asking for £10,000 a day to advise firms on green energy
Baroness For Hire: Arlene Foster is asking for £10,000 a day to advise firms on green energy

Former First Minister Arlene Foster has been advertising herself as a renewable energy expert at a cost of more than £10,000 a day, it can be revealed.

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Nice work. Chapeau.

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There's a book somewhere in how the very worst and most incompetent politicians here all manage to fail up.

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Meanwhile, RHI claimants who took huge loans after Arlene Foster's promise of 20-year untouchable subsidies have had payments slashed - and now Stormont is going to stop them entirely. One claimant says he has "nothing but contempt" for the politicians behind RHI.

RHI pledge torn up: I’ve only contempt for politicians who set up scheme, says farmer as every claimant to have payments halted
RHI pledge torn up: I’ve only contempt for politicians who set up scheme, says farmer as every claimant to have payments halted

Nine years ago, insider information from the Stormont department running the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme made its way to those profiting from it. The message was simple: The loopholes are going to...

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Sam McBride
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Northern Ireland Editor, Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent
184 followers7 following51 posts