This week, the Government confirmed the results of the sixth Auction Round (AR6) for contracts to supply renewable energy. Despite claims from politicians and green lobbyists that the price of power from wind and solar is falling, this auction saw prices increase. So what is really being auctioned – contracts, or a captive market of consumers who have no choice in how policies and prices are determined?
“The results are in,” announced the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. “The Government has secured a record-breaking 131 new clean energy projects in the latest renewable auction round.” Critics were quick to point out that Miliband’s claim is a simple lie. In fact, the bids were made in April under the previous government. The only difference that the new Government made was to increase the number of bids accepted by increasing the size of the budget available for bids, known as the 'pot'.
A more straightforward lie was Miliband’s claim that, “Every single one of these projects will help build our country’s energy independence and support our wider mission to cut bills.”
Neither claim is true. Electricity supplies just a fraction of the U.K.’s total energy demand, and we use significantly more energy in the form of gas to heat homes, and petrol and diesel for transport. As has been pointed out here on the Daily Sceptic, this Government is committed to destroying Britain’s domestic oil and gas production capacity through punitive taxation. Moreover, whereas Britain was
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At the time of the last but one election Miliband recreated the Ten Commandments of Labour on a large stone (a Milstone if you will, although it was more like a tombstone). I wrote a poem at the time:
Milibandias
I met a resident of a south coast land
Who said: A vast and useless slab of stone
Stands in a car park. Near it, lying sadly on the sand
Half faded, a tattered photo lies, whose nose
And staring eyes and bacon sandwich sneer
Tell the photographer well its subject saw
Who yet survives, a relic of the past,
A loser mocked, like brother once before.
On the commandment Stone these words appear:
“My name is Milibandias, my plans will last:
Look at my Labour platitudes, and believe!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal folly, no-one will grieve
And the Hastings sand and shingle stretch away.
But here we go again!
Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (those whom God wishes to destroy they first make mad). The only question is how long the interval will be before the first part comes to pass.
It has already.
Pay attention at the back.
As I understand it, it is now a criminal offence to express an opinion on social media which does not match the truth. What truth means is somewhat flexible. Is it not a criminal offence to lie to the electorate in the manner of Milliband? What he says is clearly not true to any reasonable person, proved by our bills continually increasing? Can we get him prosecuted? If not why not? Is this two tier law too?
This is one of the best and extensive articles to explain what really goes on with energy in this country where the market has been interfered with to such an extent by pretend to save the planet brown envelope eco socialists in the mainstream party’s that it isn’t a market any more. It has become a tool of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda, and the two main Political Parties are fully onboard with complying to this, with Labour seeking to save the planet even harder and faster than the Tories. I thought we were of the bare face LIAR Miliband, but here he is again now in charge of energy, and this is the worst possible person there could be in that position. If ever there was a case of “The people get the politician’s they deserve” then this is it. Price and availability of energy is directly tied to standard of living and Miliband and Labour are with their energy policies determined to lower it, while looking you in the eye and telling you the opposite.
He doesn’t even look human. I had to scroll away from his face. I feel violated. You can see the revulsion in his being when he looks at normal healthy rational humen behaviour. He is going to turn you into a freak just like him.
Everyone has a right to be ugly it’s just that he abuses it.
Most climate scientists, most of the MSM and most of our Uniparty politicians toe the party line laid down by unaccountable globalist bodies like the Club of Rome (“The real enemy, then, is humanity itself”), the United Nations (“global boiling”), the COP shindigs, Big Money influencers and the Paris Agreement (and Kyoto before it) that we must stop using fossil fuels and instead use short-lifespan, toxically non-recyclable, expensive to construct and integrate, heavily resource-depleting, inefficient, unreliable, weather-dependent so-called renewables.
They disregard the proper science that tells us that atmospheric CO2 is not a threat because its global warming effect is already “saturated”, meaning that even a far-distant doubling of its concentration from the present level will have negligible effect on the climate. They also ignore the fact that unilateral decarbonisation by the UK when the majority non-Western world is not following suit is doubly pointless.
They apparently never stop to think that Net Zero is totally infeasible technically and is certain to lead to mass destitution and depopulation, which seems to be the ulterior motive of the globalists who are calling the shots. If any of them do harbour any doubts, they never voice them publicly.
They are all… Read more »
Nothing really new but interesting read nevertheless.
There is nothing NEW in the scam. —–But we must keep exposing it at every opportunity.
In the North Sea it has been found that all wind speeds, up to a maximum, are equally likely. It can be modelled using ‘Primary School Arithmetic’ as follows:
If the wind blew at full speed(4), and at three quarters(3), half(2), and a quarter(1) speed, and not at all, over equal time periods, the Energy generated would be in the ratio of 64, 27, 8, 1 and 0.
In this case, 91% of the Energy is produced in 40% of the time, and we don’t know when this 91% will arrive, nor the other 9%. We would also have infrastructure running at <1% capacity for 40% of the time.
That is the problem.
”Neither claim is true. Electricity supplies just a fraction of the U.K.’s total energy demand, and we use significantly more energy in the form of gas to heat homes, and petrol and diesel for transport.”
Exactly (and gas for industry) and the fact that the large majority of energy not supplied by electricity, will have to be supplied by electricity by 2050 in our brave new all-electric World isn’t even considered.
Where are the plans, the construction programme to provide sufficient generating output to meet that demand, and to upgrade and extend the grid infrastructure at local level as well as the trunk transmission?
How, and by whom, will the huge capital requirement, the construction, manufacturing, mining, transportation resources for this be provided whilst at the same time continuing normal economic activity?
Net Zero is impossible, whether it would be the right thing to do or not.
And it most certainly is not (the right thing to do).
Ed Milliband and his sidekick Chris Stark asked this very question, in a desperate (panicked) letter to a national Grid big wig… https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/31/ed-miliband-and-chris-stark-have-just-admitted-they-have-no-clue-what-theyre-doing/
Mere details: there’s nothing that a degree in History or PPE can’t magic away. 🙂
Millibrain has a degree in Personal Protective Equipment?
Must be. It can’t be Politics Philosophy and Economics.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford obviously must do both qualifications.
Gordon Brown and the Labour Party thought it was the latter PPE when it really is the former.
I think that if you lose a General Election as leader of a political party, you should not be allowed to hold a government position in subsequent years (unless you win a subsequent election as leader). Ed Miliband is awful.
[in a parallel universe…]
In 1733 Robert Walpole’s Whig Government outright banned the then burgeoning use of steam engines as ‘noxious and alien to our ancient Britannic ways of life’.
They instead greatly extended taxation and borrowed huge sums to pay for large increases in the country’s supply of oxen for ploughing, horses for transport, and windmills and water-wheels for power. All subsequent regimes continued with this basic economic / technological approach.
In 1978 a nine year-old Ed Miliband succumbed to a combination of cholera and malnutrition on the subsistence farm he had been labouring in for the last two years, alongside the rest of his family. His elder brother David was more lucky, living to the ripe old age of twenty three…
Miliband Destroys Britain with Net Zero
How can you tell when Milliband is lying….
Is he breathing?
Milliband – a man completely unspoilt by failure.
His lips move.
Brilliant article. I said elsewhere that when the lights finally go out and we can’t heat our homes maybe it will be this that wakes the British up from their torpor. Like the Roman etc etc.
I don’t know what the Roman etc etc is, but ancient Rome had a senate. The UK is supposed to have a parliament, but the government seems to be taking a wrecking ball to our polity without any opposition in a parliament. Rishi Sunak called an election in early summer, presumably to catch his rivals unprepared. This has allowed the government to take advantage of the summer recess.
“… As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood”.
I think he meant like the Romans did when after years of decay Rome finally, relatively suddenly collapsed.
And Rome itself was ‘sacked’, can think of nothing better. There must be a common law clause where the public can demand a change of government.
Sushi was spooked by Reform and Farage possibly standing for Parliament so thought catching them still trying to pick MPs for seats would be good for him. How did that work out then? No wonder his MPs who were not told of his rash plan were not happy especially as economic news ever since he called the election has been much better, even if not due to the Tories.
Sushi was in the same mould as Cameron, including being spooked by the same people. 🙂
The Romans had underfloor heating!
And slavery.
Great article. Is it Newsguard approved?
I hope not…
Great article.
So why does it make me so depressed?
He looks like a Nick Park figure from Wallace and Gromit. The wrong trousers – he woke up one morning and put on David Miliband’s magic trousers by mistake and no one in the Labour Party could tell the difference.
How is it such a dork is a Cabinet Minister?
What is wrong with the Labour Party?
What is Starmer up to?
Is this some cunning political play to prove to the Party Milibrain is a moron?
Don’t get me started on Lame David Lindon Lammy
Lammy is turning Britain into a global laughing stock
The Foreign Secretary has managed to create a rift not only with Israel, but with the United States too CON COUGHLIN The Telegraph DEFENCE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITOR 5 September 2024
To alienate an important ally, as Foreign Secretary David Lammy has managed to do with Israel over his decision to suspend some arms export licences, might smack of rank incompetence. But to act in a way that leaves the US, this country’s most important strategic partner, also feeling aggrieved demonstrates that he is fast becoming a liability.
Concerns were already being raised about Lammy’s erratic conduct… Read more »
What has happened to our world?
Did Kafka write it?
How did the nutters get the keys to the Great British Loony Bin?
We all got locked down and they all got out to run amuck and like the UK’s army of shoplifters no one will ever catch them.
The UK is now going through the ‘Biden Phase’, hopefully not for the full four years, let alone for the five years that we have in the UK.