How long before Labour pull the plug on the demented fantasies of Ed Miliband?
Unplug him
HOW long before Labour pull the plug on the demented fantasies of Ed Miliband?
A new report says, yes, achieving his “clean power by 2030” is strictly speaking possible.
That’s if we can find £40billion a year to build 6,350 wind farms, triple our solar farms, increase our battery storage fivefold, deliver “carbon capture” technology — as yet unviable at scale — and lay thousands of miles of cable.
Even then we’ll still need gas.
Oh, and we’ll be urged to use electricity not when WE want but when the Government wants.
The National Energy System Operator calls all this a “huge challenge”. In a country catastrophically slow to build anything it’s infinitely greater than that.
As for Miliband’s vow to cut our bills by £300, the NESO can’t confirm that.
Charging towards a random deadline just five years away is ruinously insane.
And driving us all off this cliff is a hapless zealot rejected by voters in 2015.
His chance of success? Net zero.
Did mob rule?
DID fear lead the police watchdog to probe an armed cop for the “murder” of gangster Chris Kaba?
An ex-head of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, Sal Naseem, admits being warned of possible rioting if Sgt Martyn Blake was not prosecuted . . . albeit after it was decided to proceed.
But former Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu reckons that WAS a hasty response to pressure.
If so, it is shameful.
Fear of disorder is no reason to throw a man to the wolves.
No more than it was for cops to keep evidence from the public over the Southport murders.
As for Naseem’s view that Kaba should not have been shot, he rammed an armed police roadblock in a two-ton car.
He was later exposed as a merciless gun-toting thug.
The jury heard every scrap of evidence and cleared Sgt Blake in three hours.
They weren’t cowed by possible riots. Was the IOPC?
Boats bilge
YET another small boats plan. Another futile “crackdown”.
Keir Starmer cannot keep this up for five years.
Voters aren’t thick.
They can measure his failure on illegal migrants from the daily arrivals at Dover.
Labour still pretend the cause is trafficking gangs.
In fact it’s a Britain whose liberal civil service, legal system and now Government puts up all-comers in style and lays on a new life.
Small wonder these mostly fit young men cannot resist.
With no deterrent to end this lure you can “smash” all the gangs you like . . . more will spring up.
Labour axed our deterrent. So still the migrants come. And some, appallingly, die.