Ed Miliband’s Ongoing Fight with Reality (and Now Tony Blair)
“The critics need to know that if they want to fight about this, this Government says ‘bring it on’,” said a triumphant Ed Miliband at the conclusion of the international Conference on the Future of Energy Security last week. Fighting talk, perhaps, from the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, who was the meeting’s co-host, alongside the International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol. Is this a sign that the green zealot will actually respond to his critics?
Never mind ‘lower bills’ and ‘green jobs’. The claim that he or the Government is either willing or able to ‘fight’ critics is the biggest lie Miliband has ever told. I can say this with such confidence because I and many other Net Zero critics have begged for such a debate, and have been seeking it since Miliband last had the energy brief. Countless requests to Miliband’s DESNZ have put challenging questions to him, the Government and his wonk underlings, and many reports, articles and analyses have summarised the shortcomings of his favoured approach.
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Many Intelligent people have no common sense. Ed Miliband is a prime example. Shame on the Labour party in continuing to follow his agenda. It is becoming increasingly obvious he is leading the net zero zealots and our country down a pathway to the destruction of our economy and way of life. Other countries are laughing at us or at best feeling sorry for us.
Many intelligent people are capable of knowing one thing and saying another in order to further their unstated nefarious goals. How near the surface that “knowing” is probably varies.
Ed’s Dad was a Marxist. What else is there to say?
It is hard to get a man to understand something when his whole career depends upon NOT UNDERSTANDING.
Mad Ed understands, for sure…………
It’s NOT his “agenda” it’s the “sgebda” of every Party in the UK (except Reform UK) and abroad (except USA) and the UN and every international institution, NGO, and deep-state bureaucrat.
Miliband appears to be suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I think that applied quite a while back for the boy Silliband
Do you mean to say that we are going to be superpower clowns rather than superpower leaders in this field?
There’s lack of common sense, And being a deranged ideologue. Far worse.
Climate change “is one of the fundamental challenges of our time,” perpetuates the Dark Lord’s recent statement of the b. obvious.
Therein lies the problem. The convenient untruth plied for decades, going all the way back to Gore, the Hockey Stick and the Club of Rome before that.
Meanwhile China, India and the rest of the BRICS countries are laughing all the way to the most recently-commissioned coal-fired power stations.
The Age of Unreason has been upon us for far too long already. As remarked in the Sceptic by the Anonymous Engineer the day after the Iberian fiasco, “Grid stability isn’t merely a technical detail; it’s the foundation of our civilization.”
That’s a real challenge of our time.
Yes.
“People go mad in herds and only recover their senses slowly one by one”
I do not believe that Miliband and his ilk are thick, nor completely oblivious to the laws of physics.
I think that they really, really hate us and want to ruin us.
I believe they do all hate us, for their own reasons:
1) Miliband – because everyone for some reason preferred his brother. Also, people keep saying he looks like Wallace of Gromit.
2) Blair – because we all wanted him in prison for the WMD business; he knows he’s hated and needs to prove he is above the law.
3) KC3 – because all his life he has been either bullied or indulged, called a loon and hated for the Diana saga (and had fun made of his ears).
4) Starmer- because we voted for Brexit and he didn’t quite manage to stop it.
I’d go along with all that….but would also like us all, on 1st May, to celebrate the Ed Stone, the Blue Guitar, and the Bacon Sarnie
Britain’s senior politicians are just unspeakably trivial people – what have we done to deserve them? Party aside, who would we choose to speak for us? JR-M?
From what I’ve seen of Rupert Lowe, he seemed sound to me.
And Javier Milei.
David Kurten. Rand Paul. JD Vance. Ron DeSantis.
Any Brits ‘to speak for us’? Maybe sensible serious people keep away from public life now, they’d just be vilified and typecast for little or no benefit. So we get left with the dross
Kurten and Lowe are British. Can’t think of many other professional politicians who have consistently impressed me.
I’d have been happy to give Liz Truss a term; trouble is, the blob were having none of it.
She tried, though she did not rise to the occasion during “Covid” so cannot be completely trusted or given top marks. Kurten was onto Covid from the start.
Danny Kruger?
Christopher Chope?
Possibly – I know Chope was or is campaigning for vaccine damaged people. I remember Kruger saying something good but I don’t know enough about either of them.
At least three are Fabians or Marxists, so who is the odd one out? 🙂
The reasons you are referring to are the UN Political Agenda called Sustainable Development which has decided that we in the wealthy west have too much of everything. We consume too much and our lifestyles are “unsustainable”. —I don’t recall ever voting to have my standard of living greatly reduced” do you?
THEY might have too much of everything; my needs are quite basic and I’m happy to make-do-and-mend. I suppose if KC3 is feeling the pinch he can cut the staffs’ wages…
Jane it is your choice to make do—-but I don’t think you voted for governments to choose for you, infact I am sure you didn’t.—-That is what the climate change agenda is all about. It has nothing to do with the climate. The climate is just the excuse for the Policies
Agreed, Starmer clearly personality disordered and nasty
No empathy
No sense of humour.
No inner life (doesn’t read, do art/music)
Bristles when challenged
Hates being laughed at (viz. TV audience at his “Son of a toolmaker” spiel) – which he has not repeated since
Pathological liar.
No soul. Look into his eyes. Nothing there. The eyes are where we see another.
Blair has just (correctly) identified that the Net Zero SCAM is going to be “a big issue” at the next General Election ….. and Labour is on the losing side of the argument.
That’s all.
Control of energy is being weaponised to rule the planet not save it.
Mad Max, indeed.
It’s called “fobbing-off” and I’ve suffered it for decades from every politician I’ve ever challenged.
Miliband is the Queen Mary of the green movement, the awkward, cast out zealot who eliminates things which don’t agree with the agenda. Mary burnt 280 people, including Bishops, to death in the Marian Persecutions, before her own early, childless death
Blair deserves the Devil sobriquet, but he’s trying to give the Labour Party a very big hint
I think in the right circumstances the luciferian Blair would burn for hours, you could power half of London for a week .
Just need to link him to a boiler and turbine and we could generate some cheap power… is he net zero though?! 😉
I am reading a history book which covers the 1600 s in that century the last great famine in Scotland occurred, thousands died from hunger due to crop failure, caused by successive years of torrential rain. There were no cars, heavy Industries etc then. But the climate changed for a period of years even then.
It’s nature it’s what happens. It’s the arrogance of people like Gates and his servant Blair, who believe that they are Gods who can turn the world and its people to their command.
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity.”
Michael Crichton (1942 – 2008)
The Romans who built Pompeii thought they were the gods. They placed the Temple of Jupiter at the northwestern end of the forum specifically to completely block the view of Vesuvius.
Well, in 79AD, Vesuvius had other ideas, and demonstrated them to the insignificant ants with delusions of grandeur which crawled around his feet.
Net Zero has all the hallmarks of Socialist planning, such as Stalinist 5 year plans or the Cultural Revolution. They fail quite simply because they do not take new learning on board. Inevitably, as a plan develops, you learn more about the problem, the environment around the problem and your own abilities. Re-planning is an absolute necessity. The Stalinist approach refuses to acknowledge this learning, and always fails. As many people have said in the past “planning is important, plans aren’t”.
It’s based on ideology.
Harness the power of AI – lol! Would that be the AI that consumes huge amounts of energy?
AI is as bad as the BBC News.
We’re all assuming he meant AI as in “Artificial Intelligence”. I’m starting to wonder whether he means “Actual Intransigence”.
Milliwatt exhibits GS – Genuine Stupidity.
In all of human history REALITY has never been defeated. It will provide a very hard uppercut to Milibands chin just shortly, and if silly planet saving politicians know what is good for them then they should never step into the ring with the “Greatest”
It seems to me that Blair is still trying to ‘triangulate’. To find a third position that miraculously balances between Net Zero lunacy and the crunchiness of reality.
But being able to appear as a very reasonable ‘half right’ still means he is ‘half wrong’.
He’s trying to feather his own nest, no matter what he says
Just in case I’ve missed them, by adhering to the excellent work of the author, Chris Morrison and the other contributions to this site, has there been any substantive scientific work in the last ten years that confirms the fairytale of the hockey stick and the basis of the Paris Accord? I know seas haven’t risen, the Great Barrier Reef has recovered, storms are no more violent or frequent, Arctic ice is stable, Antarctica is not warming other than due to volcanic activity etc etc, but has any scientist produced any real work, not computer models, that show anthropogenic climate change is a real thing?
This. NetZero can NEVER work. Because Physics..
https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/the-physics-of-net-zero
Blair could be jockying for the WEF leadership for which he is being considered. He is showing them he still has significant political clout and can do them great damage, so choose wisely. He just fired some grapeshot across their bow.
The net-zero nonsence was started by Conservative PM Theresa May and doubled down on by Claimed to be but not by his actions Conservative PM Boris Johnson. BJ was too heavily influenced by his American girlfriend, but that is no excuse for his stupidity and weakness, also demonstrated by his actions during covid. The result of this has permitted the now extreme net-zero stupidity of the Labour Party claiming to be world leaders in net-zero. What they/We in fact now are is world leaders in net-zero stupidity and the rest of the world is laughing at us and taking advantage of our world’s highest energy prices while taking away our manufacturing industry. The Labour party was once the party of the manufacturing unions, where are they now while the actions of their party are crippling our industry?