EPISODE · Jul 2, 2020 · 3 MIN
Burned: The Inside Story of the 'Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite by Sam Mcbride
from Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics · host Samantha Padberg
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burned: The Inside Story of the 'Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite Author: Sam Mcbride Narrator: Sam Mcbride Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: July 2, 2020 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A riveting political thriller from the journalist who covered the controversy for over two years, Burned is the inside story of the shocking scandal that brought down a government. One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history: originally a green-energy initiative, the Renewal Heat Incentive (RHI) or 'cash-for-ash' scheme saw Northern Ireland's government pay £1.60 for every £1 of fuel the public burned in their wood-pellet boilers, leading to widespread abuse and ultimately the collapse of the power-sharing administration at Stormont. Revealing the wild incompetence of the Northern Ireland civil service and the serious abuses of power by some of those at the head of the the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which would go on to prop up the governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson and a major factor in the Brexit negotiations, this scandal exposed not only some of Northern Ireland's most powerful figures but revealed problems that go to the very heart of how NI is governed.
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