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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Lose his seat? He’s already lost the other end – his head. I admit there is little difference between the two.
losing his seat can’t come soon enough, but then as we all know he will be made a Lord.
Good old Socialists. All animals are equal
This eco socialist fraud is costing 1.4 trillion and guess who picks up the tab?—-Yes the Public. All for NOTHING. There is no climate crisis. Just think of how that money could be spent. —–Nurses, doctors, surgeries, hospitals, police officers hoses, roads etc etc etc. But our Political Class have decided to pander to the UN Agenda 2030 which seeks to lower living standards and take away affordable energy because they claim we consume too much, and our living standard is too high. Then a multitude of eco vultures swoop in to farm all the subsidies for their junk niche technologies that no one would ever build if it wasn’t for the free lunch from our phony planet saving governments.
It’s always so entertaining when the rats start openly attacking each other.
When in a hole, Mr Miliband, increase the pace of digging. The harder and faster you fail, hopefully the sooner we’ll get rid of you
The best thing that could happen to this failing government is for Ed Miliband to step down now.
Minibrain won’t care about losing his seat. He’ll just get some vast remuneration from a leftie quango and a peerage. (House of Lords needs abolishing)
What is needed now is a great big stone with all the virtues of Ed’s Climate Change Policies etched into it. Guaranteed to turn things round for Millibro Minor.
Will he (Millibrain) be pushed, or will he jump first?
I’d say he isn’t the sort to jump – will take it to the bitter end. 2TK won’t have the balls to move him anyway
Do you think this eco socialist fraud is purely down to Miliband?—-The entire Political Class are in on this scam. Getting rid of Miliband will be great but don’t think the fraud stops when he is gone.
It’s not really defeatism when you aren’t really fighting anything except imaginary enemies. Like, you know, catastrophic climate change.
Quijote fought windmills he hallucinated to be giants.
Miliband fights his own imaginary giants, in this case his hallucinations of catastrophic climate change, with windmills.
There seems to be something about windmills and foolish people who want to save us all from their imagined threats.
“I think Reform are a threat” – yeah, sure, to your virtue-signalling non-job.
Net Zero Britain Doomed to Fail
Storm in a pair of champagne socialists’ goblets.
Now why is Millibrain having at go at Bliar? It’s not as if they don’t share the same objectives – destruction of Britain – so this story has got false flag all over it. And Reform are a threat so he’s even bigging up Reform.
Must do better Ed because this shyte is gossamer thin.
I’m no fan of Blair, but intellectually Millitwat has bitten off more than he can chew with Blair – different league of scheming!
Absolutely, although they are basically having a spat for our benefit.
Off-T
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1928421924838785498?t=OULeHOrJJHqrlnOPl_uNnA&s=08
A Prison Officer has allegedly been attacked in Long Lartin.
ROPer apparently.
The madleft use of the word defeatist indicates that they view themselves as being at war. But who are they at war with? With us, of course, the ordinary people of the world, the people the madleft have scheduled for elimination.
‘Defeatist’ spelt R-E-A-L-I-S-T-I-C.
Not really because whilst he said rightly net stupid zero is doomed to failure it’s still concerned about CO2 emissions which we all know is completely irrelevant.
You’re barking up the wrong tree there Jack. I merely alluded to ‘realistic’ being a euphemism for ‘defeatist’,
It’s notable that Miliband used the word defeatist instead of mounting a defence against his policies, presumably because he can’t think of one.
He is missing a few screws, our Miliwat is.
I’ve just heard that he has won 2025’s tosser of the year award. The judging panel have decided to award it early on the basis that nobody has a cat in hell’s chance of getting anywhere the near the levels already reached by Mad Ed.
You missed a T out there 😉
Whut? Miliwatt?
(I think I know what you actually meant).
No, purpleone was correct, it should have been Militwat. Sorted.