On Monday, Ed Miliband addressed the Labour Party Conference. He started off by claiming that “things can and must be better for the British people” and that we must “build a country that puts working people first”. He framed his speech around the key themes of economic justice, social justice and climate justice.
The full speech can be seen here.
His ideas for more jobs and prosperity centre around more expensive intermittent energy that will be the inevitable consequence of his mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030. It is interesting that he recommitted to the 2030 Net Zero grid target, because it was only last month that he and his sidekick Chris Stark sent out an SOS to the National Grid ESO asking how to deliver it.
Miliband eschewed the free market and instead called for massive spending on what he termed an armoury of clean power. These technologies include onshore wind, solar power, offshore wind, nuclear, tidal, hydrogen and carbon capture. He said he wants to break the power of the petro-states.
The trouble is that the only technology on his list that can deliver firm power is nuclear. The others are either expensive, unreliable, intermittent sources or expensive technologies to try and mitigate intermittency or emissions. Every single contract awarded in AR6 was awarded at a higher price than the market rate so far this financial year. No wonder he doesn’t want the free market anywhere near electricity generation. Carbon capture applied to a gas power stations will increase the quantity of gas needed to produce the same amount of electricity. With Miliband’s ban on offshore drilling and the continuing fracking moratorium, carbon capture will increase the power of the petro-states and increase energy prices.
Miliband hailed the return of industrial policy under the Labour Government. He failed to mention that thanks to him, we have had an anti-industrial strategy since the Climate Change Act of 2008 that has pushed up energy prices and destroyed highly productive jobs. He wants to use the (debt funded) Great British Energy and National Wealth Fund to build new industries for Britain and deliver a British jobs bonus. These jobs are going to be in carbon capture and storage, nuclear, floating wind and making electrolysers for hydrogen. As has been discussed before, we have seen six times as many jobs lost in energy intensive industries as have been created in green power. Miliband’s plan to reindustrialise Britain will kill off what is left of our productive industries.
Miliband conjured the image of the post-war Labour Government that created the NHS as a source of inspiration. He is more likely to lead us down the path of the 1970’s Labour Government that led to a bailout from the IMF.
Finally, in an act of stunning hypocrisy, Miliband is going to fly to the UN to demonstrate that Britain is back in the business of climate leadership. Yes, he’s going to fly there, because curbing emissions is just for the little people. He is going to use his plan as a stick to beat other countries and demand they follow suit in some sort of grand economic suicide pact. There is no sign that this ‘global leadership’ is working.
David Turver writes the Eigen Values Substack page, where this article first appeared. The podcast version of this article can be found on these links to Spotify, Apple and YouTube.
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“and carbon capture”….Another to add to the long list of wasting the taxpayers coffers, along with all of the above. Who is the one who mentions Piano wire and Lamp Posts, that’s all I can think of when is see this fuc*er.
”Climate leadership”? Absolute bilge. I think this about sums it up;
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1838908706999636387
Yep. we are at the bottom of the emission graph, leading the world to oblivion. whilst China last year consumed / produced about 4.67 Billion Tonnes of coal and India’s consumption was about 1.1 Billion Tonnes. We ain’t going to make any difference. The only world economies that are not too badly off are India and Russia. The rest of the BRICS lot are in as economic regroup domestically, whilst the G7 are on the road to hell.
I liked watching her as a guest on the Steyn show before the Offcommunists got at him and GBN. Easy on the eye, a Miss 1998 or around that time.
She is on X and I find myself agreeing with most of the stuff she tweets, but not because she is nice looking, which she is.
De-industrialisation allied to mad mass unlimited unvetted immigration. No wonder the Left has to prevent the feedback from reality by censoring “disinformation”.
And they wonder why the NHS is so fuc*ed, immigration plays a large part in that too.
To a zealot every article in the press is valuable. If the article is positive it reinforces the zealotry. If the article is critical it just re-emphasises the need for greater effort.
And the need to censor!
That man is mentally deficient in a deep way. It is hard to fathom his ascendancy. The very opposite of the British character. The sort of character that the Brits rightfully take the piss out of and yet there he is making decisions of the most important kind. You would almost think that there is some sort of malevolent hidden hand.
A tiny clue.
David Miliband works directly for George and Alex Soros, on a (declared) salary exceeding US$ 1,000,000 p.a.
His bro Ed doesn’t just cut his capers for the odd bacon sandwich.
All part of the plan to make us all dependent on the State’s UBI and CBDC to be rolled out in due course.
A French writer said that when the Brits lose their pubs that will be the end of old England. Pubs are closing down rapidly now. Some have been domesticated into horrific family eateries but real pubs are gone because the soul of the nation is gone and it didn’t take long to kill it. You could say 1995 to present with obvious antecedent events since the 1930s.
[W]hen you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
HILAIRE BELLOC
Especially since 2020 there has been a rapid change in terms of small business ownership especially in hospitality. In essence a move towards immigrant businesses with extremely cheap labour taking over old pubs etc. 2020 was your last chance in terms of demographics. Even if you wanted to fight the numbers wouldn’t allow it now. And for what, for cheap labour? Was it really worth it? None of these people are ever going to be ejected from this country they will probable deal with you in a few years time. It is a joke among immigrants how Britain is basically a dumping yard for the criminal class of the worst countries in the world. You don’t even know what you have imported. Again we all like a bit of wonga but was it really worth it to sell your own country down the river like this? What happened to never crap where you sleep?
They think it won’t affect them until it does. No matter who you are, you can always take the wrong turn!
Claiming ‘green jobs’ will save an economy is like claiming drinking your own piss will save you on a life raft in the Pacific.
Ed Milliband needs to be cannon fired into an off-shore wind turbine.
I see him as nothing more than a vandal on an epic scale.
Oh United Kingdom
Don’t you cry for me
Cause I come from Eco cuckoo land
With a banjo on my knee.
What we have here is the UN Anti-Capitalist Sustainable Development Agenda being played out all over the western world and ofcourse it would have to be the UK that pretends to save the planet harder and faster than all others.
—The bare faced liar Miliband will stand there plucking his silly banjo in front of wind turbines telling you that he wants “cheaper bills” when infact the countries with the most turbines all have the “highest bills”. How can anyone trust someone prepared to lie to their face in such a preposterous manner? This whole agenda is about giving us all less of everything with the planet as the excuse. —-Less energy, less travel, less food, less cars, less flights, and less of everything else you can think of. –WHY? Because our lifestyles are “Unsustainable” according to Miliband’s bosses at Davos.
The first step is admitting that you have nothing to fight back with. Any serious address státs with complete candour. Looking at he situation now I would say it is probably too late to stop it based on the acceleration. Just try to keep your head down and not piss them off too much. I deal with them everyday. I am not unpleasant with them but I make it clear that they better not try anything.
At least they consider nuclear an option. The Australian Labor party hasn’t even got that far
Is there a chart that shows both the UK’s CO2 emissions and electricity price over the years. I think it would be an inconvenient truth to Millipede, as whilst CO2 is already reducing, electricity prices have rocketed.