Ed Miliband to Pay Net Zero Tsar £525,000 a Year
Ed Miliband’s Great British Energy ‘green’ start-up will pay its Chief Executive up to £525,000 a year – more than three times the Prime Minister’s salary. The Telegraph has more.
The vast pay packet was revealed in a new job advert from Mr Miliband’s Energy Department, as officials attempt to sweeten the offer after struggling to find anyone to fill the role.
The eventual candidate will receive a basic wage of £350,000 a year to oversee the clean energy quango, while also receiving a potential bonus worth £175,000 – far outstripping the £172,153 salary paid to Sir Keir.
They will also be allowed to work from home two days a week.
It comes after GB Energy recently appointed Dan McGrail, the former boss of the Renewable UK trade body, as interim chief for six months. Insiders expect him to apply for the permanent post.
The recruitment advert says Mr Miliband is looking for “an inspirational leader with extensive board-level experience who is adept at shaping and delivering strategic vision… with a demonstrable vision for and commitment to making Great British Energy an integral part of the Aberdeen and UK Energy Sector community”.
GB Energy was set up by Mr Miliband shortly after the last election to “own and invest in clean energy projects across the UK”, with the body originally handed a budget of £8.3 billion.
His hope is that the taxpayer funding will act as a ‘catalyst’ for £60 billion in private sector investment, although it has recently been reported that GB Energy’s budget could be cut.
Mr Miliband has also claimed that the quango, which is based in Aberdeen, will generate thousands of jobs and help lower household bills by an average £300 a year.
However, the reality already appears different.
Juergen Maier, GB Energy’s Chairman, warned recently that it could take 20 years to create the 1,000 promised Aberdeen jobs and refused to say when household bills would fall.
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Corruption and criminality is all this is.
£500 K including a ‘bonus’ (dirty knees are encouraged) for promoting ‘green’ ie. eco-gaia-destroying-non-tech, which will never be used, never be practical but achieves the aim of money-laundering to the great and good’s various shell companies, family businesses, NGO’s, wife’s offshore accounts etc etc.
Green fascism – follow that money laundering.
So a starting bonus of £175k, presumably if the successful nose-trougher achieves the reported 10% reduction in GDP and bigger bonuses if he manages 15% reduction and so on. The bigger the destruction of GDP, the more that the WEF requirement to deindustrialise will have been achieved.
I’ll do it. I could expose the nonsense for half that.
Sadly you’ve just ruled yourself out – I thought the same as well!
No, Ed Milliband will not be paying the Net Zero Tsar a penny. You and I will be paying.
Whenever I look at members of the current cabinet, I remember the saying, attributed to various people, including George Orwell:
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves
Can we include the Opposition cabinet in that, too?
Definitely.
So he could sit there, achieve the same as net zero’s effect on the climate, ie nothing, and earn £350k. Sounds about right for these climate dunes.
Look up the Tsar’s CV and draw your own conclusions…
…Degree in International Business and Spanish from Liverpool John Moores University
…Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and CBI Leadership programme
…Joined Siemens in 2004 as Commercial Project Manager
…Rose through the ranks to become Director of Strategy NW Europe
…Oversaw Siemens £160m investment in wind-turbine facility at Hull
…Chair of The Association for Decentralised Energy
…Established the Heat Network Industry Council
…Left Siemens to join Renewable UK as CEO in May 2021
Eminently qualified to sluice away billions on the latest state-sponsored House of Cards.
Less well-qualified to understand why “You can’t run Britain on breezes.”
A useless yes-man. He clearly knows the square root of F-all about anything worthwhile.
He’d never be able to earn that money anywhere else.
OK, the problem with “net zero” is an engineering one, which is “how can I produce energy to run a first world country from nothing?”. This man has zero clue about that, nothing in the CV on Patents, Engineering, in fact nothing but bean counting. This post needs a first class Engineer who can say, this won’t work, that won’t work every day! This man is worse than Microbrain and Rachael from complaints combined!
I have never heard such nonsense. Imagine telling an experienced corporate ‘C suite’ executive where they have to work at any given time. My CEO from many years back would have had a few choice words to say about something like that (it would be quite educational, in a way).
The new CEO of GB Energy may decide it’s a good idea to work from an office to suit their own interests or to encourage certain behaviour from the staff. But if the CEO is not trusted to put in the necessary hours wherever they are then the organisation is forked.
(Cue discussion on merits and otherwise of WFH).
OK, WFH is the biggest con against the real British people ever invented. I could never have done my job unless I was prepared to work, in the office etc., every hour that was necessary, and that was always more than my contracted hours! Sometimes all night, sometimes travel across the world, sometimes straight computer work with a colleague, if necessary for days without a break! WFH, is stupidity in spades! Noticeably the only ones doing it much are the Government employees who have very low productivity anyway!
Slightly off topic. Well this video is about poor science being peddled wrt to climate science:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsjeKo3u3o
The whole climate change thing is a con! Basically everything that is supposedly science is fake. The basic principle of “greenhouse gases” is contrary to the second law of thermodynamics. The peddling clowns have never even heard of it!
The Milli Next Tuesday is not paying anybody anything, taxpayers will be picking up the grifting tab.
So they have a Chairman And a CEO – but still no actual work. How will they while away the office hours…?
‘IDEATING!’ (Horrible corporate term for coming up with ideas)… amazing how many people think this new quango is going to own and run power stations… when it’s simply an investment vehicle to squander tax payer cash on renewable bs
As an innovator it is demeaning! But that is the view of the Government of both Science and Engineering.
True
Great British Energy, the Vampire Squib. Sucking money from taxpayer’s in order to increase their energy bills
So he’s going to be paid £500K of taxpayers money for a non-job which will destroy our industry, wreck Aberdeen’s economy and deliver about 200 jobs ….. also taxpayer funded.
The Marxist Eco Moron Red Ed and his lunatic Leader couldn’t do a more comprehensive job of wrecking the UK if they tried.
Oh I think they could! At the moment they are still slightly restrained by reality. Once the cool-aid really starts to work, along with Coke etc., we shall really be in trouble.
500,000 for the tzar and 500,000 for the actress for heatpumps. How much has Millibend dobbed out so far with no benefit?
More than the heating allowance.
Every heating allowance in the Country?
His hope is that the taxpayer funding [£8.3bn] will act as a ‘catalyst’ for £60 billion in private sector investment,
Which of course as we all know is NOT how anything Net Zero actually works as it is all uneconomic.
There is something so terribly wrong happening in the UK right now, it beggars belief. People take back your country. It is going downhill so rapidly. You are witnessing the decay daily. Is there anyone like an Elon Musk around? Because you sure could use it!