Hardly a week passes by these days without some news about how Ed Miliband (a.k.a. Mad Ed) – the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024 – keeps upping the ante in the ‘fight against climate change’. As a politician, of course, the ante he keeps upping is not his personal cash but taxpayers’ funds.
On Monday, the same day that Stellantis, owner of Vauxhall’s 120-year old van-making factory in Luton, announced the plant’s closure, putting at risk over 1,100 jobs – which it said was brought on in the context of Britain’s Net Zero policies – Mr. Miliband said this in Parliament:
Despite all the difficulties, at COP29, one truth was overwhelmingly clear: the global transition away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy is happening, and it is unstoppable because clean energy is the route to energy security, unstoppable because it is the economic opportunity of our time, and unstoppable because people in Britain and around the world can see that the climate crisis is here, and that unless we act, things will only get worse.
In less than five months, this Government have [sic] shown that we will seize the opportunities of speeding up at home, and have demonstrated climate leadership abroad, in order to deliver energy independence, lower bills, good jobs, economic growth and the security of a stable climate. We are doing all we can to keep the British people safe, now and for generations to come.
Anyone with even a modicum of understanding of energy markets will be left wondering whether Mr. Miliband really believes in what he says. His detractors must wonder if he is really that illiterate about energy affairs. How does he square his claims of an “unstoppable energy transition towards clean energy” with what is really happening in energy markets in the U.K. and globally? What happens when his climate evangelism inevitably clashes with energy reality?
What the ‘Energy Transition’ Means for You and Me
Mr. Miliband’s boss, Keir Starmer, attended the annual UN climate summit in Baku (COP29) to sign Britain up to be at the “forefront of the battle against global warming” by promising to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% by 2035 compared with 1990 levels. Note the spurious accuracy of 81%. Why not a rounded 80% for a target to be achieved a decade hence? Would that make it any less believable?
In an interview at the summit, Mr. Starmer claimed with a straight face that his Government has no plans to “start telling people how to live their lives. We are not going to start dictating to people what they do”. Perhaps the Prime Minister is unaware that his Government’s Net Zero policies need to do precisely that – dictating approved and unapproved behaviours by businesses and consumers with a system of taxes, subsidies, fines and regulations – to get the greenhouse gas emission cuts that he is espousing.
Subsequently, Bill Esterson, Labour Chair of the Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, seems to have let the cat out of the bag, saying “we will all have to change our lives” if we are to decarbonise the power grid by 2030 (en route to a full transition away from fossil fuels by 2050).
The U.K. target — ratcheted up from targets pursued by the previous, equally climate-obsessed Tory Government – is in line with the weighty recommendations of the ‘non-departmental public body’ the Climate Change Committee, which is described as “U.K.’s leading independent authority on climate change”. When one examines just what such emission targets actually mean for U.K. businesses and consumers, the list of what must happen is startling.
In a detailed document issued by U.K. FIRES, a research programme funded by the Government, official targets of “Net Zero by 2050” will require all airports except Heathrow, Belfast and Glasgow to close by 2030. No one will be flying at all by 2050. There will be no new gasoline or diesel cars by 2030 and by 2050 road use will be restricted to 60% of today’s level. Food, heating and energy will be restricted to 60% of today’s levels by 2050. Beef and lamb will not be on the British menu by 2050.
Restrictions on mobility and social activity will be achieved by ‘15-minute cities‘ where daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare and leisure “can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from any point in the city”.
These consequences of Net Zero for the U.K. – and by extension the rest of the West if other countries are foolish enough to implement Net Zero targets – are thus not mere conjectures. They constitute the economic and physical-science realities of Miliband’s “unstoppable transition away from fossil fuels”.
Economist Jeff Currie of Goldman Sachs has a stat for Mr. Miliband. At the end of 2021:
Overall, fossil fuels represented 81% of overall energy consumption. Ten years [before that], they were at 82%. So though all of that investment is in renewables, you’re talking about $3.8 trillion, let me repeat that $3.8 trillion of investment in renewables moved fossil fuel consumption from 82% to 81% of the overall energy consumption. … The net of it is clearly we haven’t made any progress.
The results of Government policies since the U.K. Labour Government under Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2008 committed the country to a legally binding target of reducing carbon emissions by 80% from the 1990 level by 2050 are plain to see.
The U.K. now has higher electricity prices for its businesses than even Germany, the world’s epicentre of self-destructive green policies. In Miliband’s five months in office, the country’s last coal plant and its Port Talbot steel plant shut down, regulatory approvals for solar farms were rushed through in the teeth of objections in the local community, and the North Sea’s oil and gas field development has been sacrificed to an unchallenged climate lawsuit brought by Greenpeace.
Last week, Mr. Miliband introduced a “Warm Homes Plan” to fine gas boiler manufacturers if they do not sell a certain amount of heat pumps. The plan, dubbed the ‘boiler tax‘, requires manufacturers to sell at least 6% of their total sales as heat pumps or face a fine of £500 for each missed installation in the first year, rising to £3,000 in subsequent years. Many firms have already raised the price of their boilers by around £100 in a bid to offset the cost of possible fines.
As if this were not enough punishment on those wanting to keep warm in winter, Mr. Miliband is also relaxing the size and noise restrictions on heat pumps. This led the Telegraph to warn last week that the lifting of the noise restrictions will risk turning neighbourhoods into “war zones”.
What makes green ideologues tick?
In an article written over a year ago on luxury beliefs, I asked: “How did a leading economy like Great Britain come to have Governments (from both sides of the aisle) that promise their people penury and a future without the basic freedoms Westerners have taken for granted for over two centuries?”
Rob Henderson, who coined the term “luxury beliefs” defined them as “ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class”. Conspicuous consumption of status goods and services by the super-rich – having Bentleys and butlers for instance – might be frowned upon by the likes of Ed Miliband. His moral worth is instead related to his luxury beliefs, of which the “fight against climate change” is the crowning achievement – at relatively little cost to himself personally but at great cost to the lower and middle classes.
Another aspect of the luxury beliefs espoused by Ed Miliband and Keir Starmer is the need to claim ‘climate leadership‘ in international forums. Asked if he was disappointed other world leaders had not attended COP29 – such as those from the top 13 GHG emitting countries including China, the U.S., India, Indonesia, the EU, and all but Georgia Meloni of the G7 countries – Sir Keir said the U.K. was at the summit to “show leadership”.
Evidently, it does not matter to Mr. Starmer that some of the world’s largest developing economies with GHG emissions that dwarf the U.K.’s, such as China (by 35 times) and India (by 11 times) are not on the hook to curtail emissions until aspirational targets kick in decades later (theoretically in 2060) under the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities”. Furthermore, these countries are not required to contribute to the $300 billion a year in climate finance promised by the attendees at the just-concluded COP29 climate summit in Baku.
Nor does it seem to matter to Sir Keir or to his green commissar Mr. Miliband that President-elect Donald Trump, an avowed climate contrarian, has already made clear his intentions to exit the U.S. from the Paris Agreement under which the developed countries are expected to achieve Net Zero by 2050. Chris Wright, the nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Energy, has this to say about the U.K. in his book Bettering Human Lives:
The U.K., although no longer part of the EU, has continued aggressive climate policies that have driven up energy prices for its citizens and industry. The results are troubling. … The once-leading United Kingdom now has a per capita income lower than even the poorest state in the United States.
The impoverishment of Great Britain does not seem to concern Ed Miliband, one reason he has been labelled “Britain’s most dangerous man” on TalkTV.
Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an economist, a member of the CO2 Coalition and a former contributor to Forbes. Follow him on Substack and X.
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“The alarming reality of cheap Chinese cars on British roads”
I don’t know about ‘Woke’, it seems to me we’ve been fast asleep for the last 15 years.
IMO no ‘green’ technology should be permitted for sale unless it has a workable and acceptable system in place for re-cycling and disposal at the end of its life. This flood of cheap Chinese EVs could become a mountain of scrapped EV’s that nobody can handle in a few years time.
If these cheap chinese golf carts are anything like their electric scooters, there’s going to be bonfire night, every night.
‘Made in China’ and ‘Landfilled in the UK’. Most Chinese products are not built to last. The very fact that we seem to accept this ‘Made in China’ label as the norm now is deeply depressing. I try to not to buy anything made in China but try as I might, sometimes it is nigh on impossible. Even products with names known for quality are made in China. In Tesco, the garlic comes from China! Importing this EV rubbish with their spontaneously combustible batteries is a bad idea but when did bad ideas stop anything happening in clown world?
Coming to a garage,shopping centre, car park,domestic dwelling, FERRY, airport, school near you!
One of them even burst into flames on a stand at the actual car show!
https://news.yahoo.com/chinese-electric-vehicle-catches-fire-184107935.html
https://e-vehicleinfo.com/global/chinas-electric-explosions-7-electric-vehicles-catch-fire-each-day/
Dr Engler talking sense again. I haven’t listened to the podcast but he wrote a substack about it;
”Finally, if it’s not obvious, it’s worth reiterating why I am so fixated on the question as to whether we actually had a pandemic, and what dangers attach to the (false) notion that we had a dangerous lab-leak.
The answer to this is two-fold:
Firstly, huge harms have been wrought on the world’s population based on the assumption that we had a global problem requiring a top-down centralized global solution. In my view that’s a dangerous notion in itself, easily twisted and usable by bad actors with control over the media for a variety of purposes which may not be totally benign.
Secondly, and more specifically related to “viruses”, whereas the likely proposed solution (centralized, top-down of course) to the “lab-leak” will be some sort of ban / treaty on “gain of function”, this always leaves open the possibility that in future someone will claim (truthfully or not) that a leak has occurred, perhaps by a rogue nation or by a rogue scientist, and the same fear-porn driven nightmare could play out once again.”
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/dismantling-the-covid-pandemic-and
Wow, read this. 100% evidence right here that the NHS have no interest in helping the elderly recover but would rather kill patients off instead. As I’ve said before, the vast majority of deaths were due to doctors and politicians, not a flu-like illness where people were actively denied early treatment. Thank god for this man being switched on enough to realise what was going on. And sepsis is easily treated with antibiotics ffs!
”I’m talking to a man who was told last October that his 75-year-old uncle – in hospital after being abused by his carers – was “end of life” and had three days to live. The doctors said he had sepsis and that he was definitely going to die.
The man – his uncle’s next of kin – managed to get his uncle home. They’d handed him a big pack of EOL drugs on departure from the hospital and told him he had to administer them to his uncle at home.
Nurses came to his home to check whether he was giving the morphine, Midazolam and two other drugs to his uncle and the man told them in no uncertain terms that he had absolutely no intention of giving his uncle those drugs as he knew what they did (his own mum had been euthanised with the same drugs in hospital in 2021) and, after telling him his uncle would “die in pain” without the meds, the nurses left. He never heard from them again.
His uncle is now fully recovered and living life to the full.
To me, this is solid evidence that the NHS were deliberately killing – or trying to kill – people.”
https://twitter.com/JacquiDeevoy1/status/1688494383547527169
That’s a most heartwarming story although it also makes my blood boil – not global boiling obvs but close! My father died in hospital in February 2021. He didn’t get the vaccine because he asked me whether he needed it and I said he didn’t. He never got Covid either. BUT soon after he was admitted to hospital, he faded and died. He had just gone in for a fall. He did have mild dementia but he still knew who I was and my brother and he could talk coherently. I am now going to ask the hospital what drugs they gave him prior to his death. If they mention morphine and midazolam, I am going to consider issuing a lawsuit against the hospital for deliberate euthanasia.
I’m sorry to hear that ATR.. unfortunately it seems to be an all to often occurrence, and I would pursue it if I were you.
Both my ex mother-in-law and a girlfriends mother were both dead within a week after going in for falls. Both were cheery and chatting with a cup of tea on the first evening in hospital. When next visited both were drugged up.
On visiting my own father once, I found him almost incoherent and slumped on the settee. I investigated the cocktail drugs he’d been put on by his GP and got him off the lot all bar one. The man was back to his old self within days.
The chemical cosh or the goodnight nurse treatment is all to readily dispensed to our elderly I’m afraid.
Thanks, George. I’m glad your father made a recovery and well done for investigating the drug regime and putting a stop to it.
“Britain is getting ready for a deadly bird flu outbreak”. Hmm. I think they are pinning a lot of hopes on this one, as bird flu has been rumbling about for a long time now. I wouldn’t be surprised if, at Porton Down, they are working on some kind of gain of function to make sure it passes to people more easily. Whatever, they are desperately searching for that pot of gold in the form of manufactured illness + new vaccine = squillions of pounds all round.
I wonder how they’re going to kill the birds?
Hundreds dropping from the sky would be impressive.. perhaps a good dose of 5G @60 GHz should do the trick.. a few humans might stop breathing too which would enhance the effect.. EMERGENCY LOCKDOWN immediately..
https://emfharmonized.com/blogs/news/does-5g-at-60-ghz-stop-humans-from-absorbing-oxygen
“I wonder how they’re going to kill the birds?”
More wind turbines with 5G ariels on top!
That’s a cracker Dinger.. 😉
“manufactured illness + new vaccine = squillions of pounds all round.”
…and millions of deaths, which is what they are really after.
You got there before me, HP!
Yes people are waking up. Even Gatesy himself cannot deny that. This is why we can expect more from the WHO going into fear porn over-drive when they realise less and less people want to rock up and get their kids injected with any more toxic, untested against a true placebo crap that they don’t need;
https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1688640355325890561
Squillions of pounds and more dead people from the vax. It is demonic.
Bird flu & the sudden bird deaths occur when the communications network is ramped up ie happens in cities/areas where there is a concentration of cell towers or new LED street lighting is turned on.
EMF radiation is behind a lot of this, it’s acknowledged in the literature that EMF is harmful to animals yet it’s safe for humans….
The other thing to bear in mind is that in areas where there is a concentration of cell towers & LED lighting which links in to the communication network, there is a localised heating of the environment raising the local temperature which is nothing to do with the urban heat sink effect.
You’re on it Bertie.. “^”
Thank you George.
Advantage of being a member of MD4CE with direct access to world renowned experts, sadly now vilified & censored, who know about these harms.
I’m so fortunate to have these contacts & am determined to share the knowledge I glean with as many folk as possible.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/natwest-cash-limits-cashless-society-coutts-debanking-row/
Sir Nigel has really peed off the Davos Deviants and this is their response – We are coming for your cash.
It is very clear that they are accelerating their plans. The drive to become cashless is relentless: banks closing branches, ATMs disappearing, tills that take cash often out of order. I can see very clearly how they are manufacturing the end of cash. Have you noticed how Charlie boy’s head doesn’t appear on any coinage or notes? So many people blindly pointing their phones at readers without a hint of concern…‘cos it’s convenient, innit?’
Blimey Aethelred, I didn’t realise Chuckles was missing from the currency. That paints a clear picture.
He’s a traitorous barsteward.
Yes, but at least we are saved from looking at his traitorous face while getting the beers in!
A good point.
This time a tennis player but in the last 2 days I’ve seen on Twitter a former pro badminton player, a young squash player, a triathlete ( when she was doing the swimming leg ) and a cyclist all die suddenly. These are just a few of the ones reported of course. Being young, fit and healthy has never looked so dangerous.
”Former college tennis star Lilly Kimbell died of a heart attack at 31 after she suddenly collapsed at home and was rushed to the hospital.
Despite efforts to perform CPR and save her life, doctors determined she had a massive heart attack. The lack of oxygen left her brain unable to regain consciousness, and she was removed from life support.
Kimbell was one of the most successful tennis players in collegiate history. She won a staggering 197 victories, including 109 in doubles and 88 in singles. She reached the NCAA Quarterfinals four times.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/former-tennis-star-dies-of-massive-heart-attack-at-31/ar-AA1eS9n4
https://www.globalresearch.ca/freeland-designate-them-as-terrorists-seize-their-assets-impair-them-case-coutts-four/5827709
A terrific article laying in to the worldwide corruption of the Judiciary.
And there I was wondering if the revolutionary suggestion was going to be… revolution.
…she still thinks we are the worst and that others are going to survive the giant monetary Ponzi scheme they’ve been running for years…..alas she is wrong….….which doesn’t make me feel any better….
Apparently there have been recent stories of a rise in cases of Leprosy in the USA, particularly in Florida…
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/8/22-0367_article
….and along comes this study
https://discovermednews.com/leprosy-adverse-events-associated-with-bnt162b2-anti-sars-cov-2-vaccine-two-case-reports/
Leprosy adverse events associated with BNT162b2 anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (two case reports)
Yikes…
??..is anyone from ‘officialdom’ going to weigh-in and explain these statistics? Which are not only happening in Singapore..??
@-aussie17
Singapore data drop Q2 2023
Population Natural Increase Data
(Live Births – Deaths)
13% decrease in 2021 vs 2020
39% decrease from 2022 vs 2021
51% decrease from Q2/2023 vs Q2/2022
Something is causing significant drop in Live Births and increase in death!
https://www.ica.gov.sg/news-and-publications/statistics