Today sacrificed for tomorrow
TOM ED
In a moment harking back to experts barking about THE science to justify locking healthy adults, with capacity to make their own decisions, and at no risk of dying of Covid, inside their homes, Ed Miliband has accused the Conservatives – and anyone daring to question the ‘scientific’ modelling indicating manmade Co2 as the driving climate change, of being “anti-science” by their abandoning the political consensus on Net Zero.
These days Miliband is looking as ragged as his job title Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Of course it was The Guardian being the only national newspaper not chortling at his pleas to the Science gods. Miliband is increasingly sounding like a cult leader in the fading light of his influence; when his methods slide from subtle manipulation to actual arm twisting, and the eventual liberal use of poorly aimed automatic weapons by his disciples from the windows of Airstreams and less desirable RVs, while he sneaks out the back of the compound.
There are already too many members of the public replying to reporters questions about how well Labour politicians are running the country with “they couldn’t run a bath” as though they’ve spontaneously minted the phrase, but pursuing energy security and Net Zero is a Defence Secretary providing guns without bullets, which is alarmingly close to the truth in these days of aircraft carriers without planes. These days even The Guardian is struggling to write Miliband’s oxymoronic job title, preferring ‘energy and net zero secretary’.
Meanwhile, a google search produces Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Seemingly, Miliband is taking advice from warfare survival – be a moving target. Mind you, his changing job titles must be costing the environment in reprinted business cards and door signage. The man who once lost a mouth battle with a bacon sandwich can’t even decide on his job title.
Miliband remains under the illusion that an already de-industrialised UK can wield global influence over so-called man-made climate change. Reducing the UK’s less than 1% of global Co2 emissions will impact world emissions with the effectiveness of chopping down a Kent cider orchard to reduce global alcohol consumption. Miliband accused the Tories of being anti-science and “are anti-jobs. They are anti-energy security, and they are anti-future generations.” It’s hard to see how anyone can be anti-future generations, beyond pissing in the village well, but that would need to be your last act, as you’d better not be thirsty tomorrow.
It’s fascinating that his priority is to future generations rather than those alive today; presumably the Future People will be erecting statues of Miliband in thanks to the sacrifice of their parents to unemployment and struggles to heat their home. We live beneath the cosh so our descendants can skip in the meadows.
As we are witnessing, Miliband is a malignant and gaslighter – this week he was in the Telegraph blaming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK cost of living crisis. Cost of living of course has nothing to with let’s say the extortionate taxes enquired to pay for a public sector pay that has increased from £160 billion in 2008/09 to £288 billion today, or the national debt interest of £304 million PER DAY.
What’s particularly disingenuous is that thanks to Miliband’s hellbent obsession with destroying any remaining competitive edge is that for the first time since 1964 there are to be no new North Sea oil wells, due to banning new licences. If this isn’t anti jobs then what is? This is apparently crucial for meeting climate goals. Meanwhile recent figures estimate around 13,000 jobs were lost in just one year (2023-2024) thanks to the dismantling of the UK oil and gas industry, which blames the policy for a collapse in exploration, which it argues will hurt energy security and economic growth. This is so obvious that it’s like looking out the window and announcing it’s snowing; shit and Sherlock spring to mind.
What’s more crucial than climate goals, as Norway are discovering, is a reliable energy source that provides stability, cheap energy and State revenue. Across the water Norway’s economy is heavily reliant on its oil and gas sector, which is the country’s largest industry and a major driver of GDP, exports, and state revenues. Presumably the Co2 emissions from Norwegian fossil fuels are less harmful to the environment than the UK’s. Markets are weighing up the risk that Britain might find itself in a fiscal crisis if it doesn’t seek to reduce £160 billion a year in public spending, which might be mitigated by growing an economy stifled by Ed Fuckwit’s Net Zero dogma leading to the highest energy prices in the world. The burden of his messianic mission to save the world is on backs of British workers and bill-payers.
This is a country which pissed £500b up the wall to pay for Lockdowns, which incidentally far too few people opposed, but are now moaning about the inevitable tax bill on a wartime scale debt for the next thirty years. The Covid enquiry has of course discovered that Lockdowns are so brilliant they should be implemented sooner and harder, whilst admitting it’s utterly awful for children’s development and childhood, and the economy.
The Covid report will be good reading material for those returning from the COP 30 jolly in Brazil, where a protected natural area woke up to bulldozers building a new highway near Belém, to accommodate attendees for the climate summit. There’s some form here with Stop Oil protestors driving cars to protests and wearing oil-based hi-viz vests. It’s unclear if the 13km (8-mile), four-lane “Avenida Liberdade” has been surfaced with red carpet, but it is certainly be the smoothest surface chauffeurs will have ever driven upon. It means the delegates are less likely to choke on their own hypocrisy as they admire the cut-back rain forest they are campaigning to protect. Meanwhile Ed ‘anti-jobs’ Miliband is making two identical 12,000-mile round trips to attend the UN summit, presumably he’s hoping a plane flying backwards will cancel out the Co2. There’s nothing politicians like better than endless self-important meetings on how they can best spend money robbed from tax payers (global ones in this case). There’s such status desperation to be at the top table that it’s likely to wider than the building.
What they are likely to be ignoring is that while the ppm of Co2 in the atmosphere is increasing, from historic lows, it is leading to significant greening of the planet. The climate crisis is a business opportunity, mostly for China, as thousands of acres of farmland and countryside are blighted by their solar panels and demonic (wind) mills. Miliband is keen to set an example, but the only thing the UK leads in is its deindustrialisation and the highest industrial energy prices in the developed world. He’s the wanna-be-alpha leading by the example of jumping from the diving board into an empty swimming pool, and claiming it’s ‘lovely once you’re in’ while clutching at the blood gushing from his head.
This article (Miliband’s Net Zero sounds increasingly desperate and ill-judged) was created and published by Tom Ed and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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