The «high priest» of the Net Zero church imports hardship and poverty – with no visible effect on the climate.

Britain’s Energy Minister Ed Miliband is competing with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves to be the biggest threat to British economy. That’s the situation in the UK today, which is being steered towards the precipice by Keir Starmer’s Labour government.

Aside from Liverpool’s success on the football pitch, it’s hard to find good news for Brits, even for a sworn Liverpool-supporter. And after all: Most Brits don’t support the team from Merseyside.

It’s the religious fanaticism of the energy secretary and Net Zero that is leading to businesses being outcompeted and household energy bills rising, writes Brian Monteith in The Telegraph.

Monteith is a former member of the Scottish and EU parliaments, a senior adviser to the Tax Reform Council and an international PR consultant. He represented the Tory party.

He paraphrases The Proclaimers’ old hit Letter from America.

Grangemouth no more, Port Talbot no more, Britain’s industrial output no more?

Someone should write a song about it. Hotpoint has closed in Bristol, Vauxhall is closing in Luton. Around 500 real, bread-on-the-table jobs have disappeared at Airbus, and even JCB has announced 230 redundancies. And more are on the way.

British industry has the world’s highest energy costs. But Miliband makes no concessions when it comes to the stone tablets that say we must be willing to let all our carbon-based energy industries either leave the UK in favour of overseas or stay and risk being outcompeted.

Since industry is shutting down all over the place, Miliband can cheer that emissions are falling. The fact that tens of thousands of Brits are losing their jobs and Heathrow needs a new runway to serve all the millionaires fleeing the country is not mentioned.

Miliband is like Norwegian politicians, repeating the same mantra: We must reach the climate targets. We have made a commitment.

Of course, we mustn’t do nothing, and bad agreements can be dropped or renegotiated. What should the EU do? Say no to Norwegian gas?

The climate will not be saved by Norway spending NOK 50 billion to move gas from oil platforms to burn in Europe. Nor will the world be saved by British chemical plants, steelworks, cement factories and all energy-intensive production simply reappearing on the other side of our planet.

Neither the British nor the Norwegians have an atmosphere of their own, as our brilliant politicians seem to believe.

The UK economy desperately needs growth, but no matter how hard Reeves tries to achieve it, she is thwarted, not only by the predictable effects of her own policies, but also by Miliband, who is playing the role of the government’s own “high priest” of net zero emissions.

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Heathrow’s third runway is a hot topic within Labour, as Document has written about. Miliband and Secretary of State for the Environment Steve Reed are in favour, but London Mayor Sadiq Khan is harder to deal with.

The biggest tragedy is that despite all the higher energy costs we face – both at home and at work – the fact remains that Miliband’s overheated rush towards net zero emissions is not solving climate change.

In fact, the effect is negative: Britain’s industrial output (and jobs and investment) is being exported to China, India and other countries where energy is much cheaper and usually dirtier.

Miliband thus contributes to importing distress and poverty, adding to the list of problems that Reeves has created. It could be funny, if only it weren’t so tragic, writes Monteith.

A comical example of the resistance to net zero emissions came when the head of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Sam Woods, wrote to Kier Starmer asking for the bank’s prioritisation of climate change regulation to be downgraded, if not removed entirely.

When did we hear similar statements from our Central Bank Norges Bank?

What the Bank of England thinks is good for the Bank’s business of contributing to economic growth, the government should adopt. But groupthink in Whitehall is a very powerful force. In Norway, absolutely the entire public sector is steeped in climate fanaticism.

Even NHO and LO are more concerned about the climate than the workers and employers they are supposed to represent.

Miliband and Norwegian politicians can take comfort in the fact that Greta Thunberg is happy, and the Palestinian/climate activist in particular is probably happy with the Norwegian government, which suffers greatly from climate hysteria, a love of Palestinian Arabs and a hostile attitude towards Israel.

Also the British trade unions are strangely silent on how Miliband is hitting workers’ wallets as hard as Reeves’ massive tax increases.

We dodged a bullet when we rejected Miliband as Prime Minister in 2015, but forgot to duck when he ricocheted back in 2024. Let’s hope the wounds to our economy and personal finances aren’t fatal.

Here in Norway, we’ve lived with the revolving door effect for far too long. You switch governments between the Conservatives and the Labour Party, but what we get is literally Same shit, new wrapping.

Maybe this autumn’s election can be the last lifeline for us Norwegians? Unfortunately, the British will have to wait more than four years.

 


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