Ed Miliband has warned Donald Trump that the rise of net zero is “unstoppable”, just hours after the President vowed to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement.
Great, so all that effort and subsidy has created sufficient momentum. We can stop now, right? Oh, we can’t? Therefore it’s not unstoppable, is it?
Just a stroke of the pen, Ed, you bloody idiot.
That’s how those regulations got there in the first place.
I didn’t quite grasp that Milibrain had actually gone bonkers till I saw the video of him wandering round the windmills strumming hi ukulele doing a Dylan impersonation that was as impressive as his bacon butty eating ability…
“…the shift to clean energy is essential to reduce Britain’s reliance on “rollercoaster” fossil fuel markets.”
Unlike the rollercoaster of no wind or sun? He really does have the intellect of a university graduate, doesn’t he?
I’m fairly sure that he has gone nuts. I know we often say that about UK politicians but there doesn’t seem to be any other explanation in his case.
“…the shift to clean energy is essential to reduce Britain’s reliance on “rollercoaster” fossil fuel markets.”
Which we’d benefit from as a producer. And it’s still bollocks. Every winter the energy commissar announces prices are going up. Then they go down slightly in summer. It’s not the market causing that.
bis, at present, our around 30GW of wind power ‘capacity’ is delivering 0.17GW into the grid, but lets not forget wind, providing a massive 0.68GW (from 14.7GW ‘capacity’), so with demand at 43.06GW renewables are demonstrating unequivocally that they are the way to go to reach net zero.
Unfortunately, Net Zero doesn’t mean net zero emissions, it means net zero energy.
Someone throw him a bacon sandwich. That should shut him up.
I just had a look at gridwatch, We are burning a lot of gas. As for wind power: Crickets.
“That’s how those regulations got there in the first place”
It was Mad Ed who pushed the 2008 Climate Change Act through a supine parliament (only 5 MP’s voted against). But let’s not forget environmental campaigner Bryony Worthington, the lead author in the team which helped draft the bill…
Trump and the Americans are counting on Milimong and the EU regimes continuing to Net Zero their economic future. Suits them fine for the CW regimes to remain shackled to Paris while America floats on serenely.
It means energy poor Europe will lose its remaining manufacturing industries to the USA and China, and Europe will be forced to buy expensive American LNG exports for the foreseeable future.
Twofer! Western Europe is America’s paypig. We’ll continue to get poorer while we fund economic boom times in the USA. Euros will be helping Make America Great Again whenever they can afford to turn on the heating. Well done, Edward.
Steve is making a case that Weird Ed must be on an American pay roll. That’s an interesting notion.
When the flow of Moscow gold was halted did the CIA simply recruit some stranded recipients and redirect their treason? (Not that I am suggesting that Weird Ed is a traitor. Oh no. For a start that would imply that he’s sane. Also he’s a bit too young to have trousered Moscow’s cash.)
And now:Economic growth must ‘trump’ net zero, signals Reeves in split with Miliband
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/22/economic-growth-trump-net-zero-signals-reeves-split-miliban/
And then the judiciary will step in to point out that anything which doesn’t ‘protect the environment’ is a breach of yooman rights.
At least there’s no popcorn shortage around my way. Yet.
The CAN Act is up for debate this Friday. If that passes we will have to curtail not just our own energy but imports of fossil fuels, fertiliser and manufactures… Everyone will get a lot poorer in a very short time.
Start measuring the lampposts, go long on rope.
the shift to clean energy is essential to reduce Britain’s reliance on “rollercoaster” fossil fuel markets.
His father wasn’t.
Oh! Dunno how that happened.
Also he’s a bit too young to have trousered Moscow’s cash.)
His father wasn’t. Maybe being a traitor can be a family business…
And then the judiciary will step in to point out that anything which doesn’t ‘protect the environment’ is a breach of yooman rights
Then the judiciary should be elevated above the people.
DM – most of our politicians are American owned through some sort of influence network. They don’t fuck off, post-Westminster, to America to get those well paid jobs at Amazon or in “charities” because the Yanks are impressed by what they achieved here. It’s just disguised payment for services rendered.
Even your former First Minister, Humza the Useless, was part of a US Department of State run “future leaders” programme. (Why? Do you think the US State Department cares about you?)
Consider how Americans would feel if their entire political system was captured by a foreign power. Israel, for example. Thankfully that would never happen.
@Dave Ward – January 22, 2025 at 11:19 am
It was Mad Ed who pushed the 2008 Climate Change Act through a supine parliament (only 5 MP’s voted against).
IIRC they were the only 5 in the Commons who had scientific or engineering backgrounds… Odd coincidence, eh?
philip, I DuckDuckGo’d ‘The CAN Act’. This was the top hit:
https://www.greenlibdems.org.uk/news/article/the-climate-and-nature-bill
Just look at these smug, affluent cunts. How do they think they’re going to maintain their agreeable lifestyles afterwards? What’s that fucking dog going to eat? Brexiteers?
They don’t even understand how the DNS naming system works. It should be green DOT libdems.
‘Ed Miliband has warned Donald Trump’
Like Prof Dent warning Dr No.
@Gamecock: Yes, I bet the Donald is quaking in his boots.
If DJT is even aware of Millibrain’s ‘warning’ perhaps he got a slight smile of schadenfreude. I doubt he roared with laughter though. Perhaps the laugh would come if TTK similarly abased himself.
I’m waiting to see how he’ll wind up Smarmer, Lammy, Mandy & co. I hope it doesn’t punish us plebs too much, our own govt is doing enough of that.
It shows the bubble that Ed and his ilk live in. This isn’t top down on a whim from Trump, it’s bottom up from banks, tech companies, tech billionaires, unions and every day folk.
Some of America’s banks just withdrew from some big international ESG group because they were losing money on ESG schemes and that was before Trump.
When the US starts getting real growth and the illegal immigration numbers are falling like stone Labour will still be pissing about talking to regulators and muttering about building extra runways. Then they will come under real pressure to change or suffer the sort of wipe our Canada’s Liberal Party is just about to suffer or worse.
And unless the Tories see sense and despatch their left to where they belong in the LibDems Nigel could be looking at a clear majority.
“The CAN Act is up for debate this Friday. If that passes we will have to curtail not just our own energy but imports of fossil fuels, fertiliser and manufactures…”
I want that to be passed. There would be a violent revolution within days of it going into effect. Look at what happened in Sri Lanka when they tried something similar.