Blowhard Ed
ED Miliband’s pre-Election pledge to cut energy bills by £300 is looking more of a fantasy than his crazed Net Zero dreams.
Yet another hike is the last thing families need as the cost of living continues to bite.
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Industry regulator Ofgem in part blamed the latest rise on unreliable wind farms.
Sooner or later the Government is going to admit that these wind farms are still miles away from being the future of cheap electricity.
When the wind blows, the energy can’t be stored for future use.
So when it doesn’t blow, gas-fired power stations are paid hundreds of millions of pounds to step in.
Massive Government subsidies paid to wind suppliers to keep them in business also drive up prices for consumers.
The knock-on effects of this folly are huge.
Energy costs are to blame for rocketing food prices and job losses across the board as British businesses — from manufacturing to pubs — are saddled with some of the highest electricity charges in the world.
Meanwhile, Miliband has banned new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea — which would give us energy security — while chucking tens of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on green projects not yet proven to work.
We are all paying the price for the Energy Secretary’s madness.
Double sellout
LABOUR’S “reset” with the EU has already been exposed as a sellout of the freedoms won by Brexit.
But closer ties with Brussels make it even less likely that the Government will make any move to reform or quit European human rights laws.
That’s despite former party grandees Jack Straw and David Blunkett both publicly agreeing it would be the only way to stop the small boats.
Can Labour really afford to betray Brexit and continue to fail to secure our borders in favour of cosying up to their chums in Brussels?
Misjudging the public mood on both could prove costly.
Rot in hell
JIHADI monster El Shafee Elsheikh was given the chance of a new life in Britain after escaping Sudan.
He turned his back on this tolerant country which welcomed him and went to fight for Islamic State instead.
Stripped of his UK citizenship and given eight life sentences for torturing British hostages and murdering four Americans, he’s now angling for a return to the UK. Why the hell should we ever have him back?
This beast should be left to rot in a US jail for ever.
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