UK’s Sec. of Net Zero Ed Miliband called the ‘Net Zero Stalin’: Miliband now reports to himself over Net Zero – ‘UK is now a one-legged man sawing through his good leg’
On November 5th a tweet was so puffed up on self-importance that it could only have come from a public servant. Someone you won’t have heard of, yet pay a doubtlessly hefty salary, called Chris Stark announced that ‘today is an important day’. Government officials frequently have strange ideas as to what an important day looks like, and this was no different. His elation was for the publication of advice from NESO. The National Energy System Operator advice unsurprisingly supported destroying the countryside with onshore wind farms and infrastructure while removing imported gas (currently supplying 45% of our energy) and relying entirely upon unreliable so-called renewables. His tweet coinciding with commentating Guy Fawkes’ resistance against oppression and tyranny probably flew over Stark’s head, if not entirely through it.
Stark – who in his profile picture helpfully appears to have two horns on his head – suggests the NESO report is a brilliant analysis, mainly because the headline is something he agrees with: that removing fossil fuels from energy production is achievable, while maintaining energy security, but only if we get a move on. His tone is one of an ineffective school teacher being robustly ignored. He’s exactly the sort of lettuce who would be signing up as union rep within the first day of working in the private sector, if indeed he wasn’t already signing himself off sick. Terrifyingly, it’s these people now in charge of our lives.
Doubtlessly he was keen to inform our oxymoronic Energy Security and Net Zero Minister Ed Miliband the good news that NESO supports the destruction of the UK landscape and industry via the highest electricity bills in the world and make thousands of working people redundant. However, Stark’s rampancy might have been diminished by Miliband already knowing the news as the sole person of significant control at NESO.
NESO is a publicly owned company that claims to operate independently from the government, which isn’t entirely dissimilar to a hand claiming to be unaware it is wearing a glove. The National Energy System Operator announced by Miliband has existed since October 1st 2024. With the non-oil based paint barely dry in their offices, it is already supporting government policy with an obedience that suggests a government minister is involved, which he is. As the sole person of significant control at NESO Miliband is marking his own homework. They may not even have bothered with offices, settling instead with a burner phone for Miliband. It’s unclear if Miliband wears a different hat to sign off recommendations to himself as Energy Secretary, but it’s the biggest conflict of interest since the wolf was asked to investigate the disappearance of Red Riding Hood. It makes Stalin’s show trials look amateurish in the dictatorship stakes.
Thanks to Miliband and sycophants like Stark, the UK is now a one legged man sawing through his good leg. We’ve lost a coal plant that produced less Co2 than the Drax wood-burning power station, our nuclear power stations are decommissioning faster than we can build them and the ageing gas plants cost a fortune to keep in service. With a complete lack of self-sufficiency in the natural gas that lies untapped beneath the North Sea, we are at the mercy of countries generating gas who can charge what they like because they know that the cost of the lights going out will be incalculable. Miliband claiming he’ll lower electricity bills when he has no control over the cost of energy during periods of no wind or sun is someone with such dark arts that he should be kept well away from all positions of power.