Ed Miliband has called Tony Blair’s claim that Net Zero is “doomed to fail” defeatist – and admits Reform could boot him out of his own seat. The Telegraph has more.
In a significant intervention last month, the former prime minister said that Net Zero was “doomed to fail” and that it was wrong that people were “being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal”.
The comments prompted fury inside Downing Street and Sir Tony later appeared to back down, saying Sir Keir Starmer’s Net Zero approach was “the right one”.
Speaking on The Rest is Politics podcast, Mr Miliband said: “The report itself, he wrote a foreword to the report, is perfectly unobjectionable… but what is disappointing about Tony’s foreword, and I have huge respect for Tony, is I think it is incredibly defeatist which is not what Tony is. It is really defeatist.” …
Net Zero has emerged as a dividing line between Labour and Reform ahead of the next election.
Mr Miliband also admitted on the podcast that he could lose his seat to the Right-wing party at the next general election.
The Energy Secretary, who has represented Doncaster North since 2005, said Reform was “a threat across the country”.
Asked whether he worried about keeping his seat, Mr Miliband said: “Look, I think Reform are a threat, yeah. I think Reform are a threat across the country.” …
An analysis of this month’s local election results, which saw Reform make sweeping gains, suggested Mr Miliband was set to lose his seat to the party at the next general election.
Electoral Calculus analysed the results from each of the hundreds of wards and used the results to predict what would happen in each of the 145 Westminster constituencies where a vote was held.
The analysis showed that if Doncaster residents were to vote for the same party at a general election as in the local elections, Reform would win 46% of the vote to Mr Miliband’s 29%.
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Cancel culture is nothing new. Exhibit: A – Galileo Galilei. Excommunication was the Catholic Church’s version of cancel culture. Get excommunicated and family, friends would rebuff you, you lost your status in society and employment. Sound familiar?
In the days of Catholics v Protestants it was rife too, with either Protestants or Catholics being denounced – depending which bunch was ruling at the time – and sometimes spreading “misinformation” (aka heresy) had fatal consequences involving flames or a vat of boiling water.
At the Pope’s request, Galileo wrote a pamphlet, explaining his (or Copernicus’) heliocentric theory, written in the Socratic investigate style. Unfortunately, the questioner was made out to be very dim, and was recognisable as the Pope, himself. It didn’t go down well, especially as the Pope was having to deal with complicated matters of state at the time.
And Galileo could have done what everyone else had done, and circulated his thoughts in Latin, not Italian.
The problem with his theory was that it was wrong, the planets don’t circle the Sun, which harks back to the ancient theory of epicircles. The paths are elipses. In addition, he had no data, unlike Kepler.
So, he was more like an obnoxious Al Gore than an Einstein.
It’s happening everywhere no matter the context. People must not offend, insult or even present a counter-opinion without expecting to get cancelled or penalized in some way. Freedom of speech is non-existent in reality. Just one very petty example, which is literally nothing compared with how the Left/media are demonizing Trump;
”ROME, July 18 (Reuters) – A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA and other local media reported.
The journalist, Giulia Cortese, was also given a suspended fine of 1,200 euros for a jibe on Twitter, now named X, in Oct. 2021 about Meloni’s height, that was defined as “body shaming”.
In a response to a Reuters story on the verdict, Cortese wrote on X on Thursday: “Italy’s government has a serious problem with freedom of expression and journalistic dissent.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-journalist-ordered-pay-pm-meloni-5000-euros-mocking-her-height-2024-07-18/
They do indeed. Shocking from a so called right wing party. Meloni is proving, maybe, as sensitive as any other woman??
I find almost everything left wingers say distressing. Why aren’t my rights being respected?
I’ve seen it argued that the reason why the Tenacious D tour was cancelled was because the venues cancelled because the insurers hiked the premiums because they now expected trouble.
Of course cancel culture is wrong, it’s nasty, spiteful and often disgusting. What’s the answer though, to be nice, caring and forgiving to the people that partake of it, turn the other cheek? That’s working out well so far! I am all aboard for free speech, whomever it offends, but we have to take back the language and get back to a level field, call out the child castrators, the actual racists, the women haters. How do we move the Overton window back to sensible rational discourse? The only thing I can see is to play them at their own game.
Who decides what “sensible, rational discourse” is?
In my opinion, discourse that listens to both sides and doesn’t denigrate anyone for disagreeing i.e you don’t have to agree with what I’m saying but agree with my right to say it and counter it with facts not bile. Plus it will be nice when we can joke about things again.
🎯 Totally. Plenty of people on here that would apply to. I tend to get reduced to “an angry and aggressive woman” or criticised as being “boring”, “attention-seeking” and “obsessive” etc, by the very same people that bang on about free speech on here, or who proudly proclaim they’re “absolutists”. So they’re pro free speech whilst simultaneously criticising me for exercising my right to free speech, all because my opinions trigger them because they can’t hack being challenged, or they have nothing left in their arsenal other than playground insults or strawmen with which to counter. Such hypocrites are common. I think they’re 50% hilarious and 50% pathetic. It’s an ego thing, clearly.😁
The Left, they want their cake and eat it too!
This is the closest I come to social media. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why people choose to make “jokey” posts – one man’s joke is another’s damnable insult and the possible reaction by now is surely well known. Keep your silly comments to your friends and keep them verbal.
I’m wondering why you even bothered with this?
Can I just ask as a Farage fan, a luke warm one since 2020: do you think he would support a Nuremberg 2 style trials for all those parasites who supported the jabs, Drs on TV to celebs like Piers Morgan?
Andrew Bridgen’s comment answers that:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/sird3nBG5OBf/
Dear dear, I don’t know what to say about that!
Possibly the worst choice for the worst sort of government intervention.
“Nigel Farage calls for Tony Blair to become UK’s vaccination Tsar”
“Much as I don’t like Tony Blair he does get things done, he commands respect, he is seriously bright.”
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nigel-farage-calls-for-tony-blair-to-become-uks-vaccination-tsar-215370/
Even though I’d rather hear high profile left wingers show themselves up for what they really are I have a question.
Is losing your job your using the wrong pronouns in the same category as saying you’re really disappointed that Donald Trump’s brains weren’t blown out live on TV?
Yes but in this case it’s quite delicious!
Let us have one victory please!!
Political violence is what results from the policies of the government, not from someone in
a band with songs such as “cock pushups” and “f*** her gently” making a quip.
In my mind this is key. I do not believe it was a ‘joke’ at all. The left mean it 100% when they say they want Trump dead, so then the ‘joke’ has to be considered within the context of intent, time and audience. The ‘joke’, and the subsequent gleeful reaction of the crowd, would encourage any other would be Trump assassin immensely. The problem we have is trying to define a rule for everything when some things should never be given rules; this is a symptom of a society that has lost its moral compass.
A lot of people (on Twitter for example) don’t seem to understand the difference between boycotting and cancelling. Boycotting is a totally acceptable freedom which every individual has, to make their own personal choice, while cancelling is taking away the freedom of others to choose differently.
For example, if a comedian or musician says something I don’t like, I have the right to not buy a ticket to their show for that reason. That’s boycotting. Obviously nobody is compelled to purchase a ticket for any show, so there’s nothing wrong with boycotting.
But if venue owners decide they don’t like something a comedian or musician says, and they therefore cancel the show, or protesters or pressure groups cause a show to be cancelled, that’s imposing their beliefs on others who think differently and taking away their freedom to attend if they choose.
So if Trump supporters don’t like Kyle Glass making a joke about killing Trump, it’s their absolute right to not buy a ticket, to boycott him and his band. But nobody should have the right to cancel him, to prevent him making a living, and to take away the freedom of others to choose differently.
Spot on.