This week, the U.K. energy regulator announced that the domestic energy price cap would be increased by 10%. This means that the average household energy bill, on which the price cap is based, will rise to £1,717 per year, up from £1,568. And it means that just weeks into the new Labour government, and hotly following the cancellation of pensioners’ winter fuel payments, Labour’s promises to lower bills and the cost of living look like simple lies – they had no idea how to achieve them.
In response to the news and inevitable embarrassment, the Secretary of State for Energy and Net Zero, Ed Milband, took to Twitter. In a Twitter thread intended to mitigate the damage to his own and his department’s reputation, Miliband instead removed any doubt about the fact that he has no command of his brief, and little understanding of the problems the country faces.
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I am equally uncomfortable with this use of an iconic painting as I was with the Olympic one.
Agree, not good optics DS.
I felt very uncomfortable with the Olympic version but I think in this case it’s a caricature of the messiah complex of dimwits like millibang (or whatever he’s called). So let’s assume the Daily Sceptic meant no offense. But I take your point.
I am not in the slightest religious, never have been and I’m absolutely sure they meant no offence but coming on the heels of the disgusting Olympic one it’s a bit jarring, even to me. I can understand and appreciate being offended at the changing of an iconic painting of an important event in Christianity when the religion itself is being denigrated wholesale, just to caricature a moron.
OK, point taken.
As a Christian, I agree that DS should have stayed well clear of parody when it comes to the sacred image of the Last Supper. It was not a good idea.
However, in contrast to the Olympic perverts, whose aim was to denigrate the sacred image, I give the DS the benefit of doubt and assume that they tried to make fun of the dimwit millibang.
Nevertheless I agree it should not have been done.
Also I’m confident that the DS does not have an agenda to denigrate Christianity.
Ignorance then. Bacon at Jewish Passover.
And judging by the comments here, DS not the only ignoramuses.
Not necessarily a bacon sandwich,though Milliband and bacon sandwiches are now fixed in the imagination, more the maniacal features.
You do know that Jesus and the people at table were Jews?
Think! Bacon sandwich.
It’s not an offence for Christian, it’s Jews.
Whilst I realise there is a hierarchy of offence nowadays and Christians and Jews ain’t at the top, they can both be equally offended but I’m sure they won’t blow up or stab anyone and can just mention being slightly miffed.
Thank you for your support, Mrs Bunty.
Bacon at Jewish Passover? A moments thought.
Thats because you lack between the ears. The Olympic sacrilege was such because they genuinely sought to replace and ridicule Christianity.
The one above is ridiculing the sacred esteem Miliband and the green morons hold themselves in. Christianity is not the subject.
Absolutely no need to be so offensive. And I would argue that you “lack between the ears” if you can’t understand why some people would be uncomfortable with the image of Christ being replaced with the image of Ed Miliband – whatever the intended message behind the replacement.
But, as the Apostle Paul advised his converts, if you are hungry, eat at home: the table of the Lord isn’t for gluttons.
I think it was intentional because of the Olympic debacle
Insensitive.
It’s a bacon sandwich he is fighting and bacon is not Kosher and would not be present at a Jewish Passover meal.
That aside – what is its relevance anyway?
Slight difference – this was not blasted all over the world. The DS are are just as entitled to blaspheme/offend as the next person. It’s called free speech. We’re all getting very po-faced and holier than thou down here.
Ed Miliband, the millionaire son of a Marxist, is convinced he is a man of destiny. The fool. My ancient and revered Mother – ninety-five years of age and still sharp as a tack – has said that she would like just ten minutes alone with Miliband and her walking-stick in a soundproofed room. I will draw a veil over the detailed plans she has for the walking-stick.
That conjures up the most wonderful image!
The most dangerous person the UK right now is not some half wit running about with a knife. It is this cretinous eco socialist parasite Miliband. COLD is what kills people 20 times more than HEAT ever does. But the cretin is so obsessed with global warming and pretending to save the planet that he and that other twerp Reeves are prepared to kill pensioners and the poorest people in the country that they are forcing into fuel poverty with their disgusting energy policy, and they have the audacity to claim they will reduce energy bills and will lie straight to your face that renewables are now cheaper than Fossil fuels ——A bare faced lie. I urge all to watch this from last nights “The Saturday Five” program on GB News. https://x.com/Raphfel/status/1827519234265522650.
There was an expose a few weeks ago regarding Ed and Rachels financial interests as have to be declared. Ed received substantial sums from various climate change misanthropic organisatons. I always say follow the money.
Spot on.
God help a lot of people if we actually have a proper winter again! We are due one
Atlantic temperature has dropped so rapidly the ‘settled science’ computer gamers have no idea why. Doesn’t bode well for winter.
Please don’t use this painting in this way.
In an attempt to prove that he is not against all emissions, Miliband minor asks the CEO of BP to pull his finger …
If only the result was the same as in the film Children of men when Michael Caine asked the perp to ‘pull his finger’
Who are these dictators that are the cause of all our misery?
Are they the ones now located in Westminster who are issuing dictats without the scrutiny of parliament.
Dementia Joe as we get our gas from the US.
Thanks DS, this article has reminded me to call the local log lads and get a supply of logs in for the winter. It is strange how all this energy hoo-haa has made heating your house by an oil boiler and a wood-burner look quite attractive. How long we will be allowed to continue to do this, I do not know? but it is good while it lasts.
Unfortunately, my ’60s-built house doesn’t have a chimney and since it’s mid-terrace, there was nowhere to install a flue, so a log burner wasn’t possible.
But I’ve now got a calor gas heater and two full bottles of gas, plus two bio-ethanol fires and a year’s supply of fuel in the garage.
I won’t be cold.
“If he wanted to lower bills”
Why would he want to do that? I suppose there’s a risk that voters would blame the government for high bills and vote against them at the next election, but it’s probably going to be fairly easy for them to blame Russia or greedy producers or tell people it’s all for the greener good. I sometimes wonder whether there is any correlation whatsoever between actual performance and who gets elected – it seems more like a fairly regular oscillation brought on by subconscious boredom.
Thanks to the controlled media, I hate those cun*s with a passion.
“Is Ed Miliband an idiot or an evil bastard”
He’s both. And so are the rest of the Eco Nutters and Net Zero liars …. across the whole Establishment.
Everyone understands that a donkey with a blue rosette can get elected in a comfortable Surrey suburb, just as a donkey in a grimey South Yorkshire town will get elected with a red rosette.
But even with that much common sense, or cynicism if you prefer, it is still incomprehensible to me that Miliband is continually returned to Westminster by the people of Doncaster North, very many of whom lost their jobs in coal mining, in large part because of this malevolent, Marxist twerp and his blatantly idiotic strategies.
Will he and his evil chums ever be held to account?
Doncaster North has 69759 registered voters, 16231 of these registered voters voted for Ed Milliband. That means that 53528 (approx 77%) of the registered voters in Doncaster North did not vote for Milliband.
Democracy in Action.
If only it worked like that (have an up-vote).
I note that 38,757 (a little more than 55%) of the electorate did not vote in the Doncaster North 2024 election – ie turnout was under 45%.
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 212
Party of Women 452
Liberal Democrat 1,045
The Yorkshire Party 1,059
British Democratic Party 1,160
Green 1,778
Social Democratic Party 1,960
Conservative 7,105
Labour 16,231
NOTB 38,757
There were 475 spoiled ballots.
How surprising that there was no ReformUK candidate to vote for – maybe that explains such a low turnout
The turnout was not that much lower in E Surrey than at the GE with about 60%. Sushi’s little dollybird had her majority reduced but it was spread over Labour – astonishingly second – Limpdumbs and Reform. I wonder if she is at the agricultural show this year or is there no election in the near future now?
86% of voters backed parties who are fully subscribed to Net Zero
THAT is the real concern…
It’s really unfair that people publish hurty pictures of our Ed.
I mean, people keep publishing this:
Sad.
Increased energy prices are the direct result of the ruinous policies of Governments which have reduced capacity in the electricity supply sector, by replacing reliable, low cost, uninterupted, dispatchable electricity generation with the exact opposite and a system of market distorting subsidy, taxation, regulation and introducing an increasing external cost, intermittency and the dual system fossil fuel back-up costs that entails.
Price caps are the best method to ensure shortage of the good which is price-capped. Subsidising purchases – Winter fuel payment – will maintain demand in the face of the higher prices which is the market process to curb demand during supply shortage.
Price-caps and subsidies are the favourite method of Governments trying to show they are solving problems of their own creation.
Taken together they epitomise economic illiteracy, and lead to rationing as the only option left when inevitably they fail, and supply cannot keep up with demand.
Rationing leads to black-markets and solves nothing… just creates more misery.
Funny you are talking about a black market. I was only thinking the other day about the possibilities of a second electricity supply arrangement, with proper cheap dispatchable 24/7/365 power. The costs are actually quite low, but I am sure the Government would interfere if the monopoly were upset. A surprisingly few million quid would provide this from diesel in my local area (say 4000, houses), in other words less than one years electricity for the capital cost. I am sure someone would find a way to scupper the plan, but at the first wind/solar power cut there would be no logical opposition.
A friend of mine was offered an hour of free electricity by Octopus, and boasted about the phenomenal amount of cooking/cleaning she got done in that time. I was about to ask if she liked having her life ruled by a “smart” meter, but said nothing rather than spoil her delight. A worrying number of people seem to share her attitude (as shown in those British Gas adverts about the delights of discount energy on Sunday afternoons).
It’s all part of the plan. Cancel the Sunday drive out into the countryside and stay at home to get the washing done at a cheap(er) rate!
How about inserting the Millipede into animations about interesting episodes in the life of Mo, for example?
Standing charge up yet again as you would expect as grid balancing costs increase with every bit of unreliable energy added as well as the other green shite added to our bills.
I wake up every morning feeling like crap these days. Age? Vaccinations? – don’t know, but the result is that I don’t have the energy to follow the reasoning so punctiliously laid out in excellent articles by the likes of Ben Pile. I’ll leave that clever stuff – the sort of stuff with which I too used to grapple for hours every day – to younger, more energetic, more efficient brains. Luckily, in the case of articles like this one, I don’t really need to push myself too hard, because all is said, signed and sealed in the first short paragraph:
When the idiot Miliband says it is the fault of the previous government, what he means is that he thinks (for ideological reasons) that they didn’t build enough wind turbines, but in fact this is total crap because the countries with the highest electricity bills are infact those with the most turbines (Germany and Denmark). So what Miliband is proposing by wanting more wind is actually higher bills, not lower ones.
“Is Ed Miliband an idiot or an evil bastard”? The two are not mutually exclusive.
When will the Uk build a nuclear reactor to deal with its energy problems? What on earth is miliband thinking laying down solar farms and building wind farms? We already know this would only contribute 3% of energy requirements and waste millions of pounds. Surely this cannot be allowed to happen.