Mad Miliband brings you NESO (No Energy, Sod Off)

HENRY GATLEY

JUST when you hoped Ed ‘Nut Zero’ Miliband might be away somewhere seeking professional help, he resurfaces with the most worrying evidence yet of his eco-insanity.

On the Guardian website (where else?) he heaped praise on a report which endorsed his plan to convert Britain to ‘clean power’ by 2030 The report was compiled by a recently-formed outfit called NESO (National Energy System Operator) and Miliband claims it gives an ‘independent, expert analysis of the pathways to clean power’.

However, all is not as it seems. You see, NESO – a new incarnation of the National Grid – is a limited company owned by the State, and Companies House lists ‘one active person’ as having ‘significant control’ of it. And who might that be? Step forward the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. In other words, Ed Miliband.

Naturally, NESO – headed by an Irishman named Fintan Slye – wasn’t going to tell the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero that he’s living in cloud cuckoo land. Instead, its report is a masterpiece of prevarification, seemingly endorsing Miliband’s fantasy while at the same time hinting heavily that it’s a load of cobblers.

NESO basically informs Mad Ed that his zero-carbon Utopia might be achievable, but only if we swamp the land and sea with even more wind turbines, solar panels and cables, rip up the planning laws, and get ready for a fivefold increase in ‘demand side flexibility’ – geek-speak for energy rationing when demand is high. This will doubtless be achieved partially via those smart meters the Government is desperate to install in our homes. So you’ll have to wait for Big Brother NESO to tell you when you can boil a kettle or put the washing machine on.

Offshore wind generation will have to be rolled out at more than double the highest rate ever achieved in Britain, which means tripling capacity. A tripling of solar power is required, as well as a doubling of onshore wind capacity and a fourfold increase in battery capacity.

The report suggests that the annual investment cost alone for all these shenanigans exceeds £40billion, or £1,300 per household. But Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford warns that once higher operating costs are taken into account, the bill could be 20 per cent higher. ‘And consumers should understand also that this is only the cost for the electricity grid. It may only represent a quarter of the cost of decarbonising the whole economy.’

Mr Montford says the NESO report confirms Net Zero Watch’s recent findings that the costs of Net Zero exceed the benefits. ‘We should also say that if realistic assumptions are used, then grossly so. Net Zero should be cancelled. It is irrational.’

Yet Miliband was ecstatic at this hesitant, hedging-its-bets, caveat-strewn compilation, taking it as a ringing endorsement. ‘It is conclusive proof that clean power by 2030 is not only achievable but also desirable,’ he declared.

GB News host Patrick Christys expressed doubts about NESO’s impartiality: ‘Well, it looks like this independent report that Ed Miliband is using to push his Net Zero lunacy might not actually be that independent.

‘It is totally independent, is it, if the person with significant control is the Secretary of State? The Government ultimately owns NESO but . . . they say there is no operational link between the company and the Secretary of State. It’s not a good look, is it?’

Not a good look indeed. Miliband should be told that, unlike him, the British public (at least those of us who haven’t been brainwashed by the climate change scam) are not stupid. Our bull**** detectors have been fine-tuned after decades of being lied to by Uniparty politicians. There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of his insane schemes working – they’ll just cost us untold billions and leave us poorer and colder. His delusions are dangerous and potentially deadly.

I know the description of Miliband as mad is easily dismissed as rhetoric. In this incisive analysis, Net Zero Watch’s Andrew Montford calls him a fanatic. I genuinely believe Miliband is suffering some obsessive disorder. He’s definitely not down here with the rest of us on Planet Earth.

It’s astonishing that a robotic schemer such as Starmer has let him loose to wreak havoc on the country in this way. We can only hope that, sooner rather than later, pragmatism prevails and Sir U-turn tells Deluded Ed to go and lie down in a darkened room – of which there’ll be a plentiful supply if the Net Zero nightmare envelops us.

Meanwhile, we can only grin and bear it as Miliband’s baleful new acronym looms over our lives. NESO at the moment stands for National Energy System Operator. However, a much more apposite meaning was suggested in a comment on the Guido Fawkespolitical website. It said if Miliband’s madness persists, NESO will eventually stand for: No Energy – Sod Off.

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