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Ed Miliband to Pay Net Zero Tsar £525,000 a Year

by Will Jones
20 March 2025 3:50 PM

Ed Miliband’s Great British Energy ‘green’ start-up will pay its Chief Executive up to £525,000 a year – more than three times the Prime Minister’s salary. The Telegraph has more.

The vast pay packet was revealed in a new job advert from Mr Miliband’s Energy Department, as officials attempt to sweeten the offer after struggling to find anyone to fill the role.

The eventual candidate will receive a basic wage of £350,000 a year to oversee the clean energy quango, while also receiving a potential bonus worth £175,000 – far outstripping the £172,153 salary paid to Sir Keir.

They will also be allowed to work from home two days a week.

It comes after GB Energy recently appointed Dan McGrail, the former boss of the Renewable UK trade body, as interim chief for six months. Insiders expect him to apply for the permanent post.

The recruitment advert says Mr Miliband is looking for “an inspirational leader with extensive board-level experience who is adept at shaping and delivering strategic vision… with a demonstrable vision for and commitment to making Great British Energy an integral part of the Aberdeen and UK Energy Sector community”.

GB Energy was set up by Mr Miliband shortly after the last election to “own and invest in clean energy projects across the UK”, with the body originally handed a budget of £8.3 billion.

His hope is that the taxpayer funding will act as a ‘catalyst’ for £60 billion in private sector investment, although it has recently been reported that GB Energy’s budget could be cut.

Mr Miliband has also claimed that the quango, which is based in Aberdeen, will generate thousands of jobs and help lower household bills by an average £300 a year.

However, the reality already appears different.

Juergen Maier, GB Energy’s Chairman, warned recently that it could take 20 years to create the 1,000 promised Aberdeen jobs and refused to say when household bills would fall.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Ed MilibandGB EnergyNet ZeroPublic sectorQuangoWoke Waste

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

“Something must be closed. The schools are something. Therefore they must be closed.”

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

They are all guilty as hell.

Talking of the covid “inquiry”:

Allison Pearson on X: “Sunak did well so far in his evidence. Quite right to spell out the harm lockdown posed to hospitality and other industries employing some of our poorest. Hugo Keith KC grandly says, “We’re not interested in QALYS”. Well, the taxpayer is interested in vast sums the NHS would…” / X (twitter.com)

Hugo Keith KC grandly says, “We’re not interested in QALYS”.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Huge Keith KC doesn’t appear to be interested in very much at all…..apart from “gotcha moments,” rude WattsApp messages ….. and exonerating The Blob from any culpability in the destruction of our economy and millions of lives.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

I’m sure he’s executing the script with aplomb. Whoever chose him, chose well, or briefed him well, or both.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago

Prof. Dr. Stefan Homburg absolutely nails the events of the last three years for Germany. We should have a UK version for our phoney covid enquiry. It would swing hordes away from the narrative!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uM0dIv4nX1cM/

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

It says it’s a speech to the German parliament but not clear who exactly. Given the applause, if it was MPs it would only be AfD MPs, surely?

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The truth remains the truth whoever is listening.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Oh I’ve nothing against those MPs (if that’s what they were) – quite the opposite. Just surprised that such a man making such a speech would be allowed anywhere near a German parliament building – though to be fair I suppose Bridgen hosted a similar session, albeit attended by only a few.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

The AFD is mentioned and their logo shown on the screen behind Dr Homberg.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Makes sense. They were the only ones to oppose covidianism at a national political level in Germany, to my knowledge. Horrible right wing racists of course.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

They were the only fascists in favour of freedom, funny that!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

AFD

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

That’s definitely not in parliament. It seem to be some sort of recorded AfD conference.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Interesting. I thought it might be some kind of meeting room within the parliament building.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

That’s from the 11th and 12th of November 2023 and – as also seen on the German sign in the background – is from the 2nd corona symposium/ conference of the AfD faction in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag).

It should also amply demonstrate why the parties of the current coalition (SPD, Greens, FDP) would very much like to outlaw the AfD which is already observed by the German inland secret service.

Complete recordings (in German and presumably, without subtitles) can be found on YouTube by looking for

2. Corona-Symposium der AfD-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Thanks for the link. I had already come to the same conclusion, but just intuitively. It’s nice to know that someone collected the necessary informations. Summary of factual key claims:

According to official statistics released by various German government offices (all quoted),

  • hospital occupancy Germany fell to an all-time low in 2020
  • respiratory diseases in 2020 and 2021 at normal levels
  • mortality usual in 2020, risen since 2021
  • median age of death after positive test 83, without 82

The only epidemic which occurred in Germany was an epidemic of positive PCR test results of overwhelmingly healthy people and an epidemic of sensationalists headlines about the purported horrors of COVID.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

Politicians playing God.

I hate the bastards.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago

Back in March 2020 was an interview with a Korean COVID-19 ‘expert’ and as well as the assertions that China controlled this well with strong restrictions there is this answer about education.
Stephen Park (Interviewer): “In Korea the start of the school is being postponed, people are practicing social distancing, and the government even sends regular updates via texts. How well do you think this is all being handled?” 
Professor Kim Woo-Joo “On March 20th, a couple days ago, the prime minister made a special announcement that he strongly recommends social distancing. So religious facilities, places people hang out, like bars, and indoor gyms… From march 20 for 2 weeks, these 3 types of places were strongly recommended to shut down. But this is not mandatory. People who are over 50 or 60 are following these protocols well. But teens and those in their 20s are not, because for teens in Korea, their education is very important. Even if they are sick and have a fever, they have to go to school and academy. The school year was postponed for elementary, middle, and high school because of COVID-19, but in the evening kids go to academies. So even if the government pushed back school, kids will still go to academy to study at night. Since I checked last weekend 90% of academies are open. In Asia, the college you go to determines your future.”

So not only did the kids continue their education, even when infected, but they were taught, presumably by someone much older!!!
Evidence is at 25:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&t=1808s
You Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | STAY CURIOUS #15

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Schools, shops, who cares?

Rishi Sunak “admits” covid was a scam and he is guilty of malfeasance in public office – that would be worth reporting

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

An even better ending would be one of the leading figures committing suicide due to being plagued by his conscience and leaving a long letter of possibly tearful confessions. Sadly, due to the need for cost savings, they don’t build public officials or politicians with consciences anymore these days.

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dangerous granny
dangerous granny
1 year ago

Ah secondary school transmission…. The old orange juice on the lft giving a positive trick….

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Neither should have been closed in the first place.

The Government knew Covid was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease, with low mortality rates and really only dangerous to the very elderly and people with serious co-morbidities.

They should have shielded the vulnerable and let everyone else get on with their lives and develop herd immunity.

But I believe Johnson was ordered to lockdown – probably by the CIA which knew it was a bio-weapon and wanted a mass human medical experiment to test the “vaccine” against it.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

The Government knew Covid was a Low Consequence Infectious Disease, with low mortality rates and really only dangerous to the very elderly and people with serious co-morbidities.

This is still standing on its head: What’s dangerous (in the sense of risk of death) to these people is that they’re very elderly or have serious comorbidities aka already very frail. Which means that even generally harmless diseases may push them over the edge. So-called elderly people are at least a large fraction of those still running around masked and someone really ought to tell them that it’s not the Chinese mummery¹ which stopped them from dying during the last three years but their generally still robust enough constitution which enabled their bodies to cope with everyday diseases like colds.

¹ I have no proof for that but judging from observations, I’m pretty convinced that Chinese mummery, insofar actually done by the Chinese, is not so much about real-world protection but more a social status symbol for those who can afford it which roughly means I’m sufficiently well-to-do that I don’t have to breathe the same air than those of the lower orders and they’re certainly not entitled to see my face when I can’t avoid interacting with them. Maybe with some additional I don’t have to expose may face to the sun and risk it getting brownish thrown in — prior to holiday beach culture, a tan used to be a mark of people who had to work out in the open all day.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

But I think here in the West a tan now represents affluence because those with a tan can either afford a sunbed, or they can afford to travel to warm destinations. All those wonderful things the West once prided itself of, now TPTB want to slowly remove those opportunities without the majority noticing.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Middle-class affluence — can afford package holidays, as opposed to being stuck in an eternal on work – off work zero hour contract loop in some low-level service job.

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

“It was designed in the context of a safe reopening.”
Posturing or did and does he still really believe this cr*p?
Safe like giving James Bond’s name and tel.no, or like walking in with masks and taking them off when sitting down?
Nothing made and could have made a difference.
Until he gets that, he has not understood a thing

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  JayBee

And don’t forget the substantial meal (is a Scotch egg one)!

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