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Tony Blair is Not the Solution to Ed Miliband

by Ben Pile
23 February 2025 7:00 AM

Headlines this last week have reported an increasing tension between Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, and the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair – both of the Labour Party fold, of course. The former PM’s eponymous Institute for Global Change has published a report that apparently argues for Miliband’s zeal to be cooled down. ‘Miliband’s Net Zero promises are false, Tony Blair’s think tank warns,‘ said the Telegraph on Thursday. The Sun followed with ‘Miliband’s ambitious pledge to deliver 650,000 green jobs to Britain slammed by Tony Blair‘. But, sadly, this tension doesn’t quite represent a dispute between anti- and pro-Net Zero forces that these headlines suggest. And as ever with Blairites, the remedy may well be worse than the disease.

Anyone reading the report in search of red meat is likely to be disappointed. It is a long tract that will only satisfy players of buzzword bingo – authored, as it is, by think tank wonks in favour of a long-term industrial strategy. Even to fans of industrial strategy as such, this is likely to be disappointing, for two principal reasons. First, there is no meaningful emphasis on industry, but empty promises that certain policies, also known as ‘picking winners’, can drive particular outcome. Second, whether the authors understand it as such or not, it is written wholly from the green perspective, which is categorically anti-industrial, and is consequently unable to identify the mistakes that have been made in recent decades.


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Tags: Climate AlarmismEd MilibandEnergy CostsEnergy crisisEnergy transitionGreen BlobNet ZeroRenewable energyTony BlairTony Blair Institute for Global Change

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

Miliband Minor is fruitcake of Marxist loins, Sir Bliar once upon a time played in a boy band, is devil incarnate and should be up before the Beaks at The Hague for the Iraq War.

Looney bin and prison cell, respectively.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago
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Channel 4, back in 2007…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXxyWHnQEn0&list=PL46CCAC3763F5CDF6

“…The Trial Of Tony Blair”

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10navigator
10navigator
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Peter Hitchens has no time for Anthony Charles Linton Blair, regularly referring to him as ‘the Olympically dim Blair creature’.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago
Reply to  10navigator

MkII Lawyerly Labour leader. Attlee was MkI, Starmer is MkIII.

From Attlee’s Welfare State to Allcomers Welcome, in 80 years.

Progress means change, but change does not always mean progress.

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Hester
Hester
2 months ago
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Blair isn’t dim he is a self serving, manipulator who has only one concern, himself and he doesn’t care who he tramples on or what he destroys in order to promote himself and feather his own nest.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 months ago

The Great Liar isn’t the solution to anything.

But he has recognised that Reform’s policy on the Net Zero SCAM and the consequential destruction of our remaining industrial manufacturing base is going to seriously resonate in the UK’s former industrial heartlands where Reform already taking huge chunks out of the Labour vote.

He’s desperately trying to get Two-Tier to rein-in Mad Ed. That’s all.

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Jacqui
Jacqui
2 months ago
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Like Dr Frankenstein trying to rein in his monster.

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Hester
Hester
2 months ago

I wonder how many involved in this farce have ever worked outside Government, Lobbying etc, i wonder how many have spent many years in the industrial/commercial world?
As for Blair what is he? A lawyer who spent I think I am right in saying 7 years on the job, considering the time it takes to qualify, articles etc this would mean his experience is negligible. He was a disaster for this country, he destroyed the constitution through devolution and the appointment of a supreme court, which means Parliament is no longer in charge, hence the problems we face now. He was the root cause of our Industrial demise, he took us into an illegal war which kicked off the mass influx of people who despise us and seek to turn the country into a Caliphate. He is a self seeking Parasite who has for money done business with some of the world’s worst regimes, and yet, and yet, he is still given the oxygen of publicity and fawned over by Labour. He is a Man without honour and not to be trusted.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
2 months ago

The picture: Milliband needs to work on his ‘sombre reflection‘ face. Our Tony’s nailed it but Milliband just looks sulky.

(I’ll read the article later).

Edited to stop the American speil chucker correcting ‘sombre’ to ‘somber’.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago

Whatever a problem might be, Tony the Liar is never going to be a solution.

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Epi
Epi
2 months ago
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Exactly he’s normally the cause of the problem then he can charge people i.e the tax payer for not solving whatever loathsome thing he’s created.

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Jacqui
Jacqui
2 months ago

Heartily agree – we need to move on from the Blair era. And great research by Ben Pile.

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HughW
HughW
2 months ago

Tony Blair is Beelzebub’s representative on Earth and should be accorded the respect his position deserves.

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