Why is it that when this Labour Government is clearly heading in the wrong direction, which is pretty much on everything so far, they stubbornly hold on to achieve maximum damage before acknowledging error and retracting?
It’s called stubbornness, which is fine when you’re gambling with your own money, but it’s totally unacceptable with other people’s. Let’s take Ed Miliband.
Net zero.
When even the world acknowledges the ridiculousness of it and it’s retreating and moving away from it, the UK, under the guidance of Ed Miliband, are hurtling towards it – despite projections that it will cost an absolute fortune, all based on science, which, in my view, is not settled.
Let’s take the manufacturing industry and compare us to France.
Net zero has been blamed for… Well, the UK paying nearly double the amount that the French pay for their electricity because, unlike France, the UK has a dwindling nuclear energy supply.
Why, I hear you ask? Where the French invested heavily in nuclear. The UK did not and instead relies on a combination of renewables.
There’s that word again. And we rely on a gas backstop, which is when those unreliable renewables decide that it’s not windy enough or sunny enough to provide us with what is needed.
The GB News star blasted Labour’s net zero drive
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Research by think tank Adam Smith Institute said that the UK’s manufacturing industry pay about 81 per cent more than other than their French counterparts for electricity, hardly giving us the competitive edge.
And the so-called green jobs. Well they’re no good if everyone’s out of business.
Now, the ASI economist and Mr Mitchell Palmer summed it up.
He said: “Wind subsidies in particular are driving up electricity prices, especially as wind becomes a more dominant source.”
Ed Miliband at the North Sea Summit in January
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Claire Coutinho, Shadow Energy Secretary, said: “No country can be prosperous with the highest electricity prices in the world. If we’re serious about growth. Our absolute priority must be to make electricity cheap.”
Look, we don’t want electric cars, even though they’ve tried to force them on us. We don’t want heat pumps. They’re ineffective given the current housing stock.
British Steel is teetering on the edge of closure, our last blast furnace. With a major glass fibre plant at a chemical facility closing, each largely blaming net zero.
And these are just the ones, some of the businesses, that cite that as their reason.
And now we hear that Ed Miliband’s hell-bent obsession to hit these green targets are apparently leaving us vulnerable to Russian attack.
That’s what a former NATO chief has warned.
Whilst the Labour Party may have been given a majority to rule, that doesn’t give them the mandate to be foolish and play fast and loose with our cash.