{"id":368013,"date":"2025-02-28T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=368013"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:00:51","slug":"miliband-and-the-design-for-britains-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=368013","title":{"rendered":"Miliband and the Design for Britain\u2019s Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"368014\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=368014\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Miliband2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0Miliband2.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/miliband\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Ben Pile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A red prince, blinded by ideology, deaf to criticism, glib and disingenuous, indifferent to the impacts felt by millions: Ed Miliband epitomises the political establishment\u2019s divorce from reality and the public. Championed by Miliband, climate and energy policies have undermined the UK\u2019s industrial capacity, agricultural production and economy. Prices are rising. Jobs are being lost. Businesses are going bust or moving overseas. And it is going to get worse\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change is falling down the global political agenda. Governments across the world have realised that radical emissions-reduction policies carry huge economic, social and political costs. In Britain, however, the Government has decided that its plan for \u2018growth\u2019 is subordinate to Miliband\u2019s desire to make the country a \u201cclean energy superpower by 2030\u201d. In the face of very clear evidence of policy failure such as rising prices, the Government is doubling down on Miliband\u2019s false promises of \u201cjobs\u201d, \u201clower bills\u201d and \u201cenergy security\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the&nbsp;<em>Daily\u2019s Sceptic<\/em>\u2019s help to get the word out,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climatedebate.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate Debate UK<\/a>&nbsp;is producing a full-length documentary film about the failure of the climate agenda. And we need your help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featuring interviews with energy analysts, economists, journalists and historians, this film will explain in clear detail that climate and energy policies have failed because they are fundamentally at odds with reality. Irrational economic policies have been created in an attempt to overcome this problem, but these policies have also failed, creating huge expense for homes and businesses. And as has been seen elsewhere, these failures are in turn leading to political crises. With the Government signalling its inability to accept and respond to criticism of its flagship policy agenda, how will this crisis unfold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are at a critical moment. Ever more people are coming to the view that Net Zero is a terrible idea. But the Government \u2013 with perhaps the weakest popular mandate in history \u2013 is clinging to it at all costs. This film will help to focus attention on the most crucial criticisms of the green agenda\u2019s many failures, and bring them to a wider audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/net-zero-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support<\/a>&nbsp;to help produce this film to the highest standards, and to ensure that no opportunity to expose the green agenda\u2019s shortcomings are missed. Please take a look at our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pysuVlkhtX0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trailer<\/a>&nbsp;below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pysuVlkhtX0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A red prince, blinded by ideology, deaf to criticism, glib and disingenuous, indifferent to the impacts felt by millions: Ed Miliband epitomises the political establishment\u2019s divorce from reality and the public. Championed by Miliband, climate and energy policies have undermined the UK\u2019s industrial capacity, agricultural production and economy. Prices are rising. Jobs are being lost. Businesses are going bust or moving overseas. 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