Sir Tony Blair has savaged Ed Miliband’s Net Zero agenda. The Telegraph has the story:
The former Prime Minister accused the Energy Secretary on Wednesday of pushing a “quixotic fantasy” and said that China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, did not care about his beliefs.
Sir Tony made the remarks a day after launching an unprecedented attack on Sir Keir Starmer, claiming in a 5,700-word essay that the Prime Minister had no plan to fix Britain. …
The intervention has piled further pressure on Sir Keir, who is expected to face a leadership challenge in the coming weeks after leading Labour to a historic local election loss.
In an interview on Wednesday, Sir Tony singled out Mr Miliband as he urged Sir Keir to abandon his flagship proposals to achieve 95% clean power by 2030 and Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
He told the News Agents podcast: “Xi Jinping is not sitting there in Beijing saying: ‘I wonder what that Ed Miliband thinks.’ In the end, of course, renewable energy is going to be the future, long-term…
“Right now, our energy costs are really high; they’re imposing costs on business, we’ve got this artificial intelligence revolution that’s going to use more and more energy. We need more electricity if we’re going to go for electric cars, which again we should do.”
He added: “Therefore, all I’m saying is the lens through which you judge policy should be cheap energy and electrification, because that’s the way the rest of the world’s doing it.
“And it’s a sort of quixotic fantasy to think that because Britain’s decided – with, by the way, under 1% of global emissions – it is going to go down a different path at huge expense… It’s quixotic to think that the rest of the world is going to follow that. It’s not, and it isn’t.” …
Sir Tony warned Britain would continue to rely on carbon beyond the Net Zero deadline of 2050, adding: “I don’t understand why you’d shut your own fossil fuel industry and import someone else’s.”
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The thing about renewables Tony conveniently leaves out is that ‘renewable’ actually means ‘being frequently renewed’ as they wear out quite quickly, so it’ll be his way of continually creaming off the top of the subsidy gravy train. With renewables, that will never end, and electricity will never get cheaper again.
Looks like the catastrophic (for Labour) Local Elections and the Unite the Kingdom March (which had hundreds of thousands attending, not the 50,000 officially reported) has really terrified the Labour Old Guard.
They don’t give a 4X about the British working class, or the country. But they DO care about the Labour Party and keeping the “Blair settlement” and they know that Starmer/Theeves/Miliband are going to destroy the Party.
And Burnham will make it even worse.
That’s all it’s about: saving the Labour Party and the “Blair settlement.”
Blair is wrong. Unreliable energy sources (wind and solar) are not the future, you bloody fool. And electric vehicles are also the fantasy of schoolyard scientists.
Sub human being has idea
What does the creature want? It always wants something. The fact that a rat knows what filth looks like is absolutely meaningless. What isn’t meaningless is this particular rat pointing out the filth.
Its not out the realm of possibilities that Millibrain is working with the CCP to bring down industry in the UK.
He doesn’t need to work with China – just with the UN’s agenda to equalise the world by de-industrialising (and depopulating) the West.
This is the PM who, together with the gold salesman, closed down any further nuclear generation when at last we had built a cheap reliable design on time at Sizewell, which is still going to help baseload when the other nuclear has shut down in 4 to 5 years time.If we had built another 10 Sizewells we would mnow have much lower costing electricity.
He still doesn’t understand that wind and solar are intermittent and cost of maintenance and backup make them expensive.
Judas mocked by Satan.
In the end, of course, renewable energy is going to be the future, long-term…
No, it isn’t.
We need more electricity if we’re going to go for electric cars, which again we should do.
No we shouldn’t, no we aren’t and so no we don’t.
Ruinable energy.
I disagree. The sun is the ultimate source of all energy on Earth and so there is every reason to use it as a source of direct energy. What is wrong with Net Zero and the UK Net Zero policy in particular is the arbitrary and destructive timetable.
Hmm, let’s not forget, the Bliar creature’s son is heavily invested in digital ID and AI industries. For that to have an economic chance in the UK compared to the US, it’s going to need vast quantities of cheap electricity and he ain’t going to get that from the Milibrain madness. I think some of the dots can be connected.
Tony the Liar’s fund is bankrolled by Oracle.
You have to wonder what is in it for him. After all these years of self destruction since the Climate Change Act he eventually sees the light.
In his next epistle Blair will advise against regime change and nation building efforts in countries with incompatible cultures.
He’s up to something – and it won’t be good for the rest of us.
My thoughts too. No matter what came out of this creature’s mouth I could never trust it. The silver lining is that his words as an “elder statesman” will turn the screws on this abomination of a government.
Not fotgetting he’s the chief architect of our current dystopian mess.
My guess is that Blair is hoping to build more political capital to back his personal aim of becoming President of the European Commission.
Or maybe stand against Starmer? 😎
Oh please god no! I feel the need to lie down.
He wants cheap energy for AI. No doubt this will be very important for his son who will be a favourite to implement digital ID. Blair is said to have significant shareholdings in his son’s business.
Now you may be getting to the nub of it.
it’s called the Universal Digital Gulag.
He said it himself: AI – by which he means of course, the quickest and most efficient and inescapable way of controlling and regulating EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. AI requires huge amounts of energy – in quantities not produced by ‘renewable’ energy. So it’s nothing to him to do an about-turn and trash the people he would otherwise be marching with in lockstep. Blair is pure evil; he has no conscience; his eyes still glitter with messianic zeal and he will, like Mao and all those other leftist
lunaticsvisionaries, see the great achievements of the past destroyed, and innocent people suffer and die, in order to see his dreamworld made real. I find it weird to hear him using the word “quixotic”; he is the definition of delusion.Of course he is, it’s called Digital ID & CBDCs that need huge data centres and humongous amounts of reliable electricity. This is not for our benefit, but his.