The Strange New Left-Wing Cult of Ed Miliband
Over at the New Statesman, a long hagiography of Ed Miliband blows a great deal of smoke on behalf of the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. According to Will Lloyd, to some acclaim from both sides of the climate policy debate, Miliband has become “the most powerful man in Government” and may even have been so during the 14 years of Conservative Party rule. Many words marshal some evidence towards Lloyd’s conclusion, but I believe that Lloyd makes far too much of Miliband’s meagre talents.
Miliband is at once both a product of the crony-ridden technocratic bureaucracies that bloomed under the dark of Blair’s term, but also seemingly an antidote to its excesses. In respect of the latter, some important coordinates are well-established in the article. Miliband was critical of Blair’s reckless foreign policy which started off as “humanitarian intervention” but which left hundreds of thousands of corpses amid entire cities reduced to rubble. And, it is claimed, Miliband is more committed to Labour’s radical principles of “social justice”. Miliband, it turns out, was a Jeremy Corbyn in waiting, “who wanted the working classes back in Labour”, but whose radical ambitions were muted for the sake of what seemed to be political pragmatism.
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The goal of Communism is world domination and for the means to achieve this Net Zero will do nicely.
Environmentalism has always been a cover for Socialism.
Ed Miliband is the Marxist son of a jewish refugee who clearly hates the country that gave his family sanctuary, despite Britain’s part in defeating the Nazi regime that killed most of his extended family. Now, this arrogant, ungrateful traitor is intent on destroying everything we hold dear and creating a Marxist state. We have rejected the swivel eyed bacon gobbler at the ballot box once. Shamefully, Starmer has inflicted him on us regardless, and this loathsome reject has delivered the highest energy costs in the developed world. His net zero is immiseration by design.
100%. His father, Ralph, was given sanctuary – and this is how he and his sons treat us. In the mildest terms possible – I’m not a fan.
Miliband represents the British Ancien Regime as surely as Louis XVI did in France.
Businesses, households, individuals are going to be absolutely hammered and driven over a cliff by the cost of energy. Meanwhile we have ample reserves of oil, gas, shale and oil which the lunatic Miliband refuses to use.
I suspect the Iran War and the impending energy catastrophe is going to be the equivalent of the “let them eat cake” moment in the UK.
And we know what happened to dear Louis.
Environmentalism is a disease of the upper middle class and beyond
The fundamental problem is the development of the state bourgeoisie as a class – the class that has risen to dominance as the state’s interference in society has grown. Unlike the entrepreneurial middle class, the state bourgeoisie is a dependent class, dependent, that is, on the state for its livelihood, i.e. the taxpayers. Thus, to the state bourgeoisie the taxpayers are a resource to be exploited. To facilitate exploitation the state bourgeoisie has to exert ever-increasing control of the rest of society. Hence the state bourgeoisie’s endless regulations, the nit-picking laws, the adoption of “the climate crisis” as a means of social control, the horror of personal independence, the loathing of free-speech, the destruction of civil society, the vast growth of the bureaucracy and the NGOs.
The solution to this (and to the social problems created by the state bourgeoisie) is the destruction of the state bourgeoisie as a class. And that can only happen by reducing the role of the state in society.
“work together, across party lines, to agree carbon budgets”
What does that monumentally arrogant starement mean?
Carbon is:
– No 6 on the periodic table,
– 15th most abundant element in the Earth’s crust,
– 4th most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen.
– 2nd most abundant element in the human body by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen.
– The common element of all known life.
“Control of carbon” is merely a device to control us.
If you consider Climate Change Activism as a mania (similar to the Tulip Mania of history) then perhaps Ed Miliband is in the grip of the mania and reluctant to see himself so gripped.
However manias eventually wane and apparently Ed Miliband is now likely to greenlight the Jackdaw gas field project, although Rosebank oil field project is still a step too far. Back to reality in small steps perhaps?
The wankocrat is responsible for energy security – he has manifestly failed and should resign in shame.
There’s nothing new about evil, so there’s nothing new about Left Wing.
I think this works slightly better:
The Strange New Left-Wing Cult (sic) ̷o̷f̷ – Ed Miliband.
I don’t think the idiot is working from any ideology. If it was socialism, he would be worried about the fate of the workers and the relationship between the Labour party and the unions. But he doesn’t give a stuff about them, I don’t think he is really that wedded to the environmental cause, because he ignores so many other aspects of the environment, he’s not worried about plastic pollution, rubbish thrown onto the roadside, not worried about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, happily lives an affluent life of excess, flying first class, staying in luxury hotels. No what drives him is resentment that he was so solidly rejected and mocked when he was the leader of the Labour party in the election and he has now been given the opportunity to reek revenge on the country, including the working classes, that humiliated him by whatever method and economic destruction under the guise of green energy is the convenient tool. He will only be happy when he looks over a wasteland onto which he can replant his ridiculous stone.
Net Zero will hammer Labour’s beloved [allegedly] working class by forcing them into unemployment with, as with know, the promised ‘green jobs’ never materialising. Any jobs that are left will be low paid and menial compared to their former jobs and if they have in demand skills, they could relocate. Once gone they will be hard to tempt back should we elect a government that is not retarded in the future. In a pincer movement a tank commander would be proud of, the over-promoted office temp in No.11 is bankrupting companies with tax increases and minimum wage rises to remove even more jobs. And in a high cost environment, even our service industry could decline with increased use of AI over expensive people.
3,600 words, far too long!
I love the concept of community energy. Puts me in mind of a large gym full of people on exercise bikes.
Sorry, but these articles regarding “climate crisis” and net zero are just too long, paragraphs saying nothing, Milliband and ilk are a danger to this country, stop giving them publicity. We all know we should be using our own gas and oil, but it doesn’t fit the agenda!
Hes a Fabian. Every Labour PM has been. Half the cabinet is. For an organisation with 6000 members they have massive influence. Pretty dodgy history with eugenics though, the group rebranded that department Dignity in Dying.