Ed Miliband, it seems, is now totally out of control. Even Starmer and Reeves are no longer able to reign him in
PAUL HOMEWOOD
A few examples just in the last week illustrate this.
First the Telegraph report that he is being urged to raise energy bills in the South to “save Net Zero”:
Ed Miliband must ramp up energy bills across London and southern England to hit net zero targets, a parliamentary committee has said.
The Energy Secretary is likely to miss his target of making the electricity grid 95pc carbon free by the end of the decade unless he embraces so-called zonal pricing, a new report from the Lords industry committee warned.
Such a change would mean splitting Britain’s single electricity market into almost a dozen regions, with the price of power determined by supply and demand within each area rather than set nationally.
In practice, prices would surge in London, southern England and the Midlands where renewables are in short supply, but plummet in Scotland because of its plentiful wind farms.
Full story here.
The whole idea is absurd any way. The idea that more renewable generators will be built down south in search of higher prices ignores the fact that they will all get the same CfD price anyway. The real object is to suppress demand in areas with low renewable output.
But more to the point, how on earth does Miliband get the authority to set energy prices?
Secondly the Telegraph also report:
Labour’s windfall tax on oil and gas producers will leave 1.5bn barrels of oil and gas stuck in abandoned North Sea oil wells, according to new analysis of the levy’s impact.
The predicted output between now and 2050 has fallen 40pc from 3.6bn barrels of oil equivalent to just 2.1bn barrels, according to a report from investment bank Stifel.
The findings are based on data supplied by the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), the Government’s oil and gas regulator.
The slump in expected output comes after a surge in the number of companies abandoning productive wells, following Rachel Reeves’s decision to extend the tax on oil and gas profits to 78pc. Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, has also banned new drilling.
1.5 billion barrels is worth about £100 billion at current prices. While Rachel Reeves’ tax raid has not helped, it is the idiot Miliband who is ultimately responsible from keeping this godsend under the ground.
And finally, Miliband is plotting to massively increase gas prices, as a way of forcing people to buy useless heat pumps. Again, from the Telegraph:
Ed Miliband is considering plans to overhaul green levies, which experts have warned would push up the average gas bill by £120 a year.
The Energy Secretary is looking at removing the taxes that are applied to electricity as part of his plans to encourage more people to buy heat pumps.
But he has admitted Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, would not cover the £4.8 billion-a-year cost, meaning the charges would likely have to be shifted on to gas bills.
Government ministers and Ofgem, the industry regulator, have spoken positively about the plans, which experts calculate would add 15 per cent to the cost of gas.
Ed Miliband is considering plans to overhaul green levies, which experts have warned would push up the average gas bill by £120 a year.
The Energy Secretary is looking at removing the taxes that are applied to electricity as part of his plans to encourage more people to buy heat pumps.
But he has admitted Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, would not cover the £4.8 billion-a-year cost, meaning the charges would likely have to be shifted on to gas bills.
Government ministers and Ofgem, the industry regulator, have spoken positively about the plans, which experts calculate would add 15 per cent to the cost of gas.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/31/miliband-plots-120-gbp-net-zero-gas-bill-rise/
As has been pointed out, this amounts to a tax on gas. But normally any tax would have to be properly vetted by the Treasury, with impact assessments etc. So how comes Miliband gets to to set taxes of his own without any proper oversight?
The argument is that the increase in gas bills will be offset by equal falls in electricity bills. That may be true overall, but there will inevitably be huge anomalies.
Richer households with EVs and heat pumps will be much better off, while poorer people reliant on gas boilers, and unable to afford heat pumps, will end up worse off.
And, yet again, this switch will have virtually no effect. Homeowners are already offered subsidies of £7500 to buy a heat pump, yet still refuse to buy them. Clearly the £7500 subsidy is not affordable at scale in the long run – it would amount to everybody subsidising their own pumps.
So why on earth would anybody buy one of the useless things just to save a couple of hundred quid a year, when a bribe of £7500 did not do the trick.
All these suggested policies have one thing in common – the Net Zero establishment is now getting desperate. It sees people refusing to waste money on heat pumps and useless EVs.
It has realised that there will be catastrophic shortages of electricity in a few short years time, if Miliband’s mad policies are pursued.
And it knows that continuing supplies of cheap, homegrown oil and gas will fatally undermine the transition to expensive, unreliable renewables.
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Miliband Told to Scrap Net Zero Costs From Energy Bills As UK Businesses Suffer the Highest Electricity Prices in the World
End net zero levies raising energy bills, CBI boss to demand
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MAURICIO ALENCAR
Net zero costs which push up energy prices and “anchor” businesses’ ambitions to grow must end, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will tell government officials at an event in London on Thursday evening.
Rain Newton-Smith, the chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), is set to urge the Treasury and Department for Business and Trade to roll out an industrial strategy that tackles high UK energy costs which currently far surpass prices seen in competing economies such as France, Germany and the US.
In her address to government officials and business owners at the CBI’s National Business Dinner in London, Newton-Smith will urge the government to dial down net zero policies which are making it “harder and harder” for businesses to stay in the UK and to provide more support to firms transitioning to greener energy.
While Newton-Smith will acknowledge that the government’s net zero push has “become controversial “ and “low-carbon energy” will help UK become economically secure in the long run, she will argue that governments have pushed for renewables “too fast” and thereby damaged key manufacturers of metals and chemicals.
“The cost of building the network is immense.That is being felt by bill-payers across the country,” she will tell the event.
“UK firms cannot carry their part of that without hitting our ability to compete. That’s why we’re calling on the government to remove policy costs from electricity bills.”
“[Businesses] can’t wait for the energy transition to finish.”
In an echo of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s comments on the costly impacts of phasing out fossil fuels, the CBI boss will point to recent surveys it has conducted showing two in five businesses plan to cut investment due to higher energy bills.
She will also reference a minerals firm company who said energy costs in the UK were five and a half times more expensive than in the US.
Electricity prices are around 19 per cent above the EU average, recent data has shown, while Make UK recently claimed it faces energy bills 46 per cent higher than the global average.
“[Firms] need fair prices and targeted support to decarbonise now. Across the economy, the message is clear: we cannot deliver economic security without action on energy.”
Net zero strategy to be revealed
The government’s industrial strategy is expected to be revealed in days, with boosting nuclear energy – likely through building mini power stations – expected to feature heavily in the blueprint for economic growth and advancing the UK’s drive to becoming a net zero economy.
It will follow the publication of Labour’s Spending Review next Wednesday, which will detail government expenditure on net zero policies.
Small business minister Gareth Thomas chaired a review of sustainability at small and medium-sized businesses which set out recommendations on how firms can cut energy costs and profit from clean energy.
A survey in the review said that nearly three quarters of companies saying the perceived cost of implementing greener practices was a barrier to sustainability.
Michelle Ovens, the founder of industry group Small Business Britain, told City AM that firms could install solar panels and cut waste to reduce their own costs.
She argued that net zero practices were not as expensive as first thought as businesses could find ways of cutting costs on packing or energy efficiency.
“Of course there’s an onus on the government and GB Energy, which will play a big role, in bringing energy costs down. But we’re seeing lots of small businesses take that into their own hands.”
A government spokesman said: “Through our sprint to clean power, we will get off the rollercoaster of fossil fuel markets – protecting business and household finances with clean, homegrown energy that we control.
“We are already bringing energy costs for key UK industries closer in line with other major economies through the British Industry Supercharger – saving businesses £5 billion over the next ten years.”
SOURCE: City AM
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