In the immediate aftermath of the Budget, the odds on Rachel Reeves being out of a job this year were rightly slashed, after she sent taxes rocketing for Britons. [some emphasis, links added]
Meanwhile, there are rumours that Sir Keir Starmer could be gone by the end of the month.
There seem to be few bets, however, on Ed Miliband being removed from office, which is bizarre because the Energy Secretary’s blind net-zero zealotry could prove to be this sorry Government’s downfall.
To describe Labour’s energy policy as a rotten mess risks understating matters. It’s far worse than that.
Voters are being gaslit by a man on an ideological crusade who refuses to let anything stand in the way – facts included – at the same time as leaving us less safe and poorer.
Miliband’s clean power targets are total fantasy, as is the manifesto’s promise that Labour’s unquestioning embrace of green energy will magically lead to much cheaper bills.
On the contrary, his blind pursuit of this make-believe world risks impoverishing millions of families.
It is a fact that Miliband must know – but can’t bring himself to admit – it is shaping up to be one of the biggest scams ever imposed on the electorate.
The scale of the deception is laid bare in a devastating new piece of research by the highly-respected energy consultancy Cornwall Insight. Among the Energy Secretary’s top goals is for Britain to have a 95pc decarbonized electricity grid by 2030.
However, once important factors like delays to wind farm construction and the closure of several ageing nuclear power stations are taken into account, Cornwall Insight’s number-crunchers believe Miliband is at risk of missing his clean power target by as much as 15 years.
The Government might seek to repeatedly play down such findings and others like it, but it cannot keep hiding from reality. To find itself in this situation, so far off track that the targets may as well be scrapped now, is a travesty of epic proportions.
Labour is spending billions upon billions in an effort to turbocharge its green revolution – costs that are increasingly being imposed on all of us.
Wind farms continue to be built despite the fact that many spend much of the time sitting idle, while a growing number of mega solar farms and giant pylons are being foisted on rural areas despite warnings that the grid simply doesn’t have the necessary capacity.
At the same time, the North Sea is under attack, making Britain more reliant on overseas imports, often from foreign despots who seek to undermine this country’s national interests.
None of it makes any sense — at least not to those who haven’t been captured by net-zero madness.
With all of this costing taxpayers a fortune, Labour risks electoral suicide at the forthcoming May local elections – unless the Prime Minister acts to rein in his runaway Energy Secretary.
Remember Rachel Reeves’s big Budget boast that households could look forward to £150 off their annual energy bills? Turns out that was another load of hogwash.
We were told the savings would be made possible by plans to ditch the so-called energy company obligation, a scheme that forces energy suppliers to fund energy efficiency measures such as home insulation for low-income households. That would knock £67 a year off bills.
Then a further £78 reduction was to come through the partial removal of the renewables obligation – effectively another green levy that pays for the construction of wind farms.
Pledges like these often come with a dose of spin or end up being overtaken by unforeseen events. However, the speed with which Reeves’ claims have gone up in smoke is almost something to behold.
The problem – as ever – is the unquestioning prioritization of Miliband’s clean power dash at the expense of even the slightest bit of common sense or sanity.
As fast as the Chancellor tries to scrap some of the punitive net zero taxes artificially pushing up energy bills, new levies designed to force us all to slavishly embrace his agenda come along to replace them.
Read rest at The Telegraph
