ED Miliband’s grand plan to enforce “clean power” across Britain by 2030 is as delusional and sketchy as you would expect.
Yesterday about 70 per cent of our electricity came from gas-fired power stations.
Just six per cent or so came from wind.
From solar: Roughly zero.
Scaling up wind and solar won’t help on dull winter days.
We need a fleet of new nuclear power stations instead, like France.
Why isn’t that the priority?
Nuclear gets only a passing mention in Miliband’s blueprint unveiled today.
The Energy Secretary is a muddled climate zealot who genuinely appears to believe his plans will unleash billions in investment and create well-paid jobs nationwide.
There is net zero actual evidence for any of it.
Nor for his mantra that he will slash energy bills and protect us from the “rollercoaster” of fossil fuel prices.
He won’t — since we will still need gas, and lots of it, to avoid blackouts.
Great British Energy?
Miliband is far more likely to trigger a Great British energy crisis.
BEFORE being forced to resign over her fraud conviction, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh handed the train drivers a jaw-dropping pay rise.
The political damage was instantly obvious.
The brand new Government’s first two major acts were to pay off Marxist militants on nearly £70,000 each, while stripping skint OAPs of their winter fuel payment.
Whatever else the Government does, that will prove hard to live down.
But even that wasn’t the extent of it.
Haigh paid the rail workers so much that they no longer needed overtime.
Since the network relies on it, that’s a disaster — and scores of trains are now being scrapped over Christmas.
It’s still a mystery why Keir Starmer handed Haigh a Cabinet role, knowing what he knew.
But did SHE ever pause for a moment to consider the effects of pandering to Aslef’s greed?
WHAT’S the alternative to Labour’s house-building ambitions? We don’t see one.
Far too many people chase each home.
The vast migration-led population explosion has made matters far worse.
And prices and rents have soared beyond many young people, especially in the South.
They will only come down with a massive rise in supply — and only then if immigration is slashed too.
The problem, aside from the risk to genuinely valuable Green Belt, is the practicality of the Government’s target.
Is it really feasible to complete 185 homes an HOUR, to hit 370,000 a year?
That’s a colossal increase . . . and we simply don’t have the skilled builders for it.
