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Ed Miliband Snubs Reeves Speech Unveiling Heathrow Expansion Plans

by Will Jones
29 January 2025 3:06 PM

Ed Miliband skipped Rachel Reeves’s speech announcing support for a third runway at Heathrow in an apparent snub to plans that he previously threated to resign over. The Telegraph has more.

The Energy Security Secretary, who threatened to resign over expansion of the airport in 2009, was not among the Cabinet Ministers present.

Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary, Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, and Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, were all in the audience.

A source close to Mr Miliband, asked to explain the absence, said he had “meetings” but did not give specifics.

Mr Miliband also skipped the Prime Minister’s Questions session after Ms Reeves’s speech which was dominated by debate about the growth announcements.

At least 14 Cabinet ministers attended the House of Commons in person as Sir Keir Starmer took questions. Mr Miliband was not among them.

The former Labour leader is not expected to resign over the third runway. “Don’t be ridiculous, no,” Mr Miliband responded to a reporter who posed the question last week.

Yet his absence suggests discomfort over the decision and comes as other prominent Labour figures publicly criticise the move.

Ms Reeves said in her growth speech on Wednesday that a third runway at Heathrow was “badly needed”, could create 100,000 jobs, and that she wanted “proposals to be brought forward by the summer”.

But Sir Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor and a former Labour transport minister, posted his disapproval on social media site X within minutes of the announcement.

Sir Sadiq said: “I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow airport because of the severe impact it will have on noise, air pollution and meeting our climate change targets.

“I will scrutinise carefully any new proposals that now come forward from Heathrow, including the impact it will have on people living in the area and the huge knock-on effects for our transport infrastructure.

“Despite the progress that’s been made in the aviation sector to make it more sustainable, I’m simply not convinced that you can have hundreds of thousands of additional flights at Heathrow every year without a hugely damaging impact on our environment.”

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press:  The third runway at Heathrow will not be ready until 2050, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has said, warning that the project would face decades of delays due to planning, protests and technical challenges. Making it completely meaningless for the current Government’s growth agenda.

Tags: Air TravelAirportsEconomic growthEd MilibandHeathrowKeir StarmerLabourNet ZeroRachel Reeves

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

I don’t enough about all of this to comment on the rights and wrongs, but it does strike me how much more advanced alternative media seems to be in the USA compared to here. I wonder if we will ever catch up.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The slower we ‘catch up’ the better I will like it

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  RichardTechnik

Well, the USA seems madder than here, but the opposition to the madness is much stronger. I think whatever comes to the USA will come here, sooner or later, in spades, so opposition here needs to get a lot stronger. We’re still largely asleep – present company excepted.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

They are much more commercially confident.

The Daily Sceptic for example.There is no doubt in my mind this can be a challenger publication to the establishment press. I’m so disillusioned with my subscriptions to the Times and The Telegraph. I’ve cancelled my The Times subscription due to their shockingly unacceptable full-on Fascist censorship. The Telegraph is only a tiny bit better and is just hanging in by a thread.

However The Daily Sceptic need an aggressive business plan, proper finance (which also implies taking a risk) and need to charge a subscription. Maybe like the Spectator offering a set number of free articles each month.

Sure the many existing readers will bitch and moan, but I for one would subscribe and I would rather they are a commercial success and rival to the establishment globalist agenda driven press.

Last edited 2 years ago by TheBasicMind
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

I’m happy to pay my £5 a month

Luke Johnson is on the board but I guess he has limited time and would like it to be commercially self sufficient after an initial investment. A big problem is that they are blacklisted by the advertising intermediaries.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

You’ve just made me feel bad because I’ve remembered that is an option and I chose to make a once off contribution. So I will put my money where my mouth is and pay a monthly sub. However I do think it should be mandatory. There is no getting away from the fact people either prepared to pay for what you have or they aren’t. IMO hedging around that can only worsen the finances.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

I guess the issue is not to put off the casual reader with a paywall but I’m sure there are established approaches to that.
A lot of the BTL community here were indignant about the £5, and some pointed out they had other sites and publications in a similar space to which they subscribed. I have some sympathy for that but I was surprised by those who seemed to think they were entitled to free articles based on their BTL contributions.
I think advertising needs to be part of the mix. There is already some but possibly not paying much.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I’m £10 a month. Probably need to up it a bit. I pay Daily Wire an annual subscription. Daily Sceptic really needs to look into getting some financing from the USA.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Well done. I give to TCW too, though I don’t ever look at it – lack of time…

Fair point about the USA – could be a good market for them

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EileenD
EileenD
2 years ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

You make a good point. I’d subscribe.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago

I can confirm that none of this matters to me.

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DS99
DS99
2 years ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

It might not appear to be that important but it could be. Quite a few people I assumed were independent (e.g. Jordan B Peterson, Matt Walsh) have on their Facebook page, “The Daily Wire is responsible for this content” so that’s a bit strange if they’re independent. But who owns the Daily Wire? It’s not easy to find out (I watched a guy going through the process of trying to find out). As we don’t know who owns The Daily Wire, it could mean nothing very much but it could also be a brilliant way of dampening down independent voices?

The penalties in these contracts are massive for missed content and all kinds of other things and of course the enticement of $50 million is an offer most people can’t refuse. And other ways of raising funds are often difficult, one alternative news website recently was denied access to its own bank account, having been banned off all the usual social media sites, down listed by search engines etc . It’s potentially a brilliant scheme, offer ludicrous sums of money to stars/independent voices and penalise them heftily if they stray off course or even take a sick day whilst at the same time, making it hard for truly independent voices to fund themselves. Something to think about – not entirely sure what the answer is apart from as always, support things you don’t want to disappear – shops, cafes, independent voices etc but as usual question everything.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago
Reply to  DS99

I cannot afford the mental cost of caring about every issue and this one is so far remote from my experience that it is not worth investing in it. I have reached an age and financial status (only modest) where I can plough my own furrow.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  DS99

Take all your points on board about the continual censorship of any comment that doesn’t fit whatever the current narrative is etc, but can we just put this into perspective? 50 mill over 4 years divided by 365 days/year = $34,246 A DAY. I’d take a few limitations on gobbiness for that sort of cash. Having watched Crowder’s vid it just looked like he was having a hissy fit, and there were/are much more mature ways of dealing with contract negotiations. Perhaps he reckons it’s good publicity.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  DS99

The key thing is that the term sheet was a starting negotiation draft. Crowder is already demonetised. So was Candace Owens, so that aspect of the terms sheet would be an immediate redline.

Crowder has gone berserk over a terms sheet, to be clear. Essentially, Crowder’s operation is one run by him and his parents and he doesn’t seem to have bothered to get his lawyers involved in negotiations. Candace Owens spent five months in negotiations. Crowder threw his toys out of the pram on day one.

Lauren Chen has done an excellent appraisal of the situation on her YouTube channel. She’s worked for The Blaze and had negotiations with Crowder and The Daily Wire.

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RDG
RDG
2 years ago
Reply to  DS99

the £100K per episode penalty was not for a sick day … it was for a voluntary decision to just not make a show … the ‘sick day’ was $60+K equivalent to the per show fees.
Crowder has been known to just clear off.

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
2 years ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

“I’m certainly not going to be goaded into a conflict with allies unless I can think of a way to monetize it.” [BabylonB, adapted]

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zebedee
zebedee
2 years ago

It wasn’t the Daily Wire it was the Babylon Bee.

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  zebedee

Yes, BB can always be relied on to take the sting out of a situation.

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Nicholas Britton
Nicholas Britton
2 years ago

Meanwhile, in the latter-day sodom and gomorrah known as Davos, megalomaniacs are plotting our enslavement to technology and other worthless idols of the modern age. That seems like the real elephant in the room right now, not some guy and his job contract

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nige.oldfart
nige.oldfart
2 years ago
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Yes it does appear to be the case, that after every Davos, the thumb screw is turned a little more against the pleb. I can’t wait to hear how wonderful they are in whatever format they wish to publish it.

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
2 years ago

I lean towards the Wire on this one too. Crowder comes across as petulant and entitled. Imagine having to do 190 shows per year for a measly $50m, oh the inhumanity! It’s practically modern slavery.

The fuss about the social media clauses could also be taken out of context although It’s harder to tell on this one. I doubt the Wire rely on YouTube or Facebook revenue whereby they could not cope if a presenter is demonitised, but if Crowder did a YE and got banned entirely then it’s not unreasonable for an employer in the entertainment industry to impose penalties for that.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
2 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Agree. Crowder has a point but has used completely dirty and bad faith tactics to make it. It isn’t an exposé that needed to be made like that. If he really felt that strongly (and isn’t acting in bad faith – but I think he is) he should have spoken to the Daily Wire and said, look guys, I think this is a big enough issue for the industry, sorry I’m compelled to talk about it publicly. Even if he gave them no time for a lawyer response before doing so, that would have been a better way to handle it, consistent with someone acting in good faith.

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Grahamb
Grahamb
2 years ago

Who are these people? Astonishing that they can be paid so much money and I don’t remotely recognise them or what they do!

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago

Crowder is an idiot. I like what he ofter says, but he seems to have decided to start his own network by trying to destroy the Daily Wire. It’s the old idiocy that infects all sides: the desire for ideological purity. On the right, there is always more individualism and diversity of opinion, because the right doesn’t have the hive mind aim of a communist utopia that the left does. The trouble is that the most prominent voices on the right no only fail to get along, but spend more time slagging each other off than keeping an eye on the enemy. It goes back decades. Ayn Rand, Isabel Paterson, Murray Rothbard, William F Buckley Jr all flirted with each others ideas, but ended up hating each other. The Ayn Rand Institute spends hours slagging off The Objective Standard and The Atlas Society, plus anyone one else vaguely right of centre, acting as if only they know best. The Daily Mail has spent decades slagging off its right of centre ‘rivals’ while pumping out gallons of borderline pornography.

Unfortunately no one seems to get it into their thick skulls that there’s a war going on and we’re losing. Six or seven thousand people globally have got themselves into key positions in politics, big business, the media, civil services, medicine, governments and education and are systematically dismantling Western society… scratch that! … have dismantled Western society. We’re fighting a rearguard action and the people who are supposed to be on our side are too busy measuring the lengths of their d**ks!

I’ve been a Daily Wire subscriber for ages. They’re a good site – an oil billionaire-financed text and streaming site aimed at taking on Hollywood at their own game, making classy documentaries and moving into entertainment. A major part of their deal with Jordan Peterson was that Peterson could guarantee there was somewhere his work could be kept safe as the wolves have been set on him in the public arena. But DW represent one prong in the rearguard action (I’m beyond thinking we can win in our own countries: the best we can hope for is the foundation new countries or havens or ghettos to we which we or our descendants can flee in the next couple of generations.) And Jeremy Boreing is well known as a lover of negotiations. Daily Sceptic is another significant ‘prong’ in the fight.

The right needs to end the infighting. While they slag each other off, the left laughs and continues to hand out puberty blockers to children and teach them horrifying lies in school. And in 25 years’ time, many of us middle aged people will be lying in hospital for some sort of operation while these Red Guard kids will doctors be deciding whether to treat us properly or ‘allow’ us to die on the operating table because they’ve been taught to hate our politics.

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RDG
RDG
2 years ago
Reply to  DomH75

Although extremely dark your comment is about right …. sadly.
I’ll keep believing in the white pill though because Ive got a 20 yr old son and have to 🙂

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

Thank heavens I’m not a fan of overpaid American alternative media ‘celebrities’. I do hope this doesn’t disqualify me from the Daily Sceptic?

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DomH75
DomH75
2 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Of course not. But the alternative scene is more than just media in the USA: it’s becoming a full blown alternative economy. When Harry’s Razors stopped advertising on Daily Wire, tossing a woke hand grenade on the way out talking about a ‘values misalignment’ in order to cozy up to the far left, Jeremy Boreing launched Jeremy’s Razors and they proved to be a big success.

Eric July, rapper and libertarian pundit has launched his own comic book company. So has Ethan Van Sciver, formerly a successful creator at DC Comics. They aren’t creating conservative or libertarian comics: they’re simply creating comics that don’t have woke messaging. For that, they’re under constant attack as ‘far right’.

Unfortunately, this kind of alternative economy doesn’t exist in the UK and the extremists who run our country won’t let it happen. When Gillette went woke and attacked their male customer base, I stopped using them, but I’ve yet to find as good a brand of razor as a replacement, having used them for 30 years!

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