Ed Miliband has lost plot – you’ll pay next time you turn on the gas | Personal Finance | Finance

The Energy Secretary has been handed one of the most vital jobs in government: managing the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. It’s a perilous balancing act. Britain has to shift from oil and gas to wind, solar and nuclear, while keeping the lights on and preventing costs from spiralling out of control. One misstep and tens of billions of taxpayers’ money is gone with the wind.

This demands a logical, rational and politically skilled operator. Instead, Keir Starmer gave us Ed Miliband. And it’s a disaster. The man is manic. His appearances in Parliament and on social media are unhinged: lip-biting, eye-rolling, finger-jabbing, muttering to himself before exploding with nonsense. This is not the behaviour of someone calmly planning a complex national energy system at a time when spiralling costs are destroying our industrial base. It’s sheer madness.

Instead of plotting and planning, Miliband has launched a hare-brained ideological crusade – and it’s costing us a fortune.

Miliband’s net zero drive is politics like I’ve never seen. One man, on a mission, forcing his deluded worldview onto the country and sending us the bill. It’s economic suicide.

Has Miliband responded? Of course not. He ploughs on regardless of the damage he’s doing to the country, but his own party because this will backfire horribly on them at May’s elections. Net zero will destroy Labour first, the country second.

Incredibly, Miliband believes the grid can run 95% on renewables by 2030. Doing that by 2035 would’ve been difficult enough, but he brought forward the deadline by five years.

Now independent analysts Cornwall Insight warns that he won’t achieve it until 2045. And he’ll throw a fortune away by denying that hard reality.

He’s taxing North Sea oil and gas into oblivion, leaving Britain poorer and more dependent on imports from autocracies like Qatar. This is economic suicide.

Miliband is squandering tens of billions on unproven carbon capture schemes and the pointless Great British Energy quango. And he’ll blow another £15billion forcing households to replace their trusty gas boilers with impractical heat pumps. Where does he find the money?

Voters have seen through this lunatic. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with him for three more years. I dread to think how many billions or trillions he’ll throw away in that time.

The energy transition is a high-wire act. Starmer appointed a clown. And you pay.