How Milliband and Starmer are overseeing the collapse of UK Plc
Another profitable Saturday, and please God, this heralds the start of a fab week at Aintree and another at Augusta. So far, and it’s only Tuesday, I have had five Master’s Sweepstake opportunities offered to me - I fear I’m giving people entirely the wrong impression about me!
So tonight or tomorrow, I shall give you Day 1 of Aintree and my selections for the Masters. Then Day 2 on Thursday and The Grand National on Friday/Saturday. I’m also expecting some F1 news, which I’m waiting to have confirmed, and a whispered defection which will set a few tongues wagging.
Until then, I shall remain deeply angry at the lies we are being told, surrounding the looming energy crisis.
The famous quotation about the certainty of death and taxes is often ascribed to Benjamin Franklin in 1789. In point of fact, it was first iterated in 1716 in the book The Cobbler of Preston by Christopher Bullock, and again, after him, by Daniel Defoe in his book The Political History of the Devil in 1726. I shall use Defoe’s version as his version, and the source lies at the very heart of this.
“Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believ’d, Defoe stated in his book, which suggested in a highly Puritanical format that the Devil is a shape-shifting manipulator of men and circumstance to suit his worst outcomes, and that politics was his simultaneous play- and battle-ground. It is hard not to see the Devil at work in the enormous trick which is being played on the nation, because, like all good cons, part of it is true. Yes, if everyone in the world uses fossil fuels for all eternity, or until there is simply no more left, the impact damage will, in all likelihood, be unsustainable in life-support terms. I get it.
And if you’re an environmental puritan, you might very well decide that the ONLY WAY to stop this is for the UK’s official energy policy to achieve net zero by 2050 by rapidly shifting to clean, domestically produced energy while maintaining security, affordability, and economic growth. But it simply cannot happen, and we are being lied to every day.
The real problem is that it suits the Government to portray any questioners and naysayers as evil disbelievers. Because if - as I have done for over 20 years - anyone questions the Net Zero ideology, they are anti-environment and right-wing thugs who would see the world burn before they give up a single lightbulb.
What absolute tosh. It isn’t that alternative energy solutions are “evil” - Wind and solar are perfectly fine technologies. The problem is the UK’s massive engineering and accounting fraud, which is being perpetrated on the British public.
It’s my fear that the current energy strategy is a recipe for national bankruptcy.
The first element is the “Ghost Power” scandal - where Miliband has gone on a building spree, approving massive solar and wind farms across the countryside. On paper, they claim these will provide “X” Gigawatts of clean power. But in reality, the National Grid is full. It’s an old, narrow pipe trying to handle a massive firehose of new electricity. If we simply “plugged in” every new wind- and solar-farm company, the grid would literally melt. To prevent this, the government (using our money) pays these companies “Constraint Payments”—billions of pounds a year to stay switched off. Now, even if you don’t know the precise figures and every detail of every transaction, simply ask yourself - or them - how can they afford to not produce power and pay the farmer from whom they are leasing the land up to six times their normal agricultural income.
In effect, we are building a power station we can’t use and paying the owner not to work. No business in the world would survive this model. Now, on top of this, we also have to provide a backup power source for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn’t shine. This power source has to be able to meet all needs, not just a lightbulb at midday, which is known as baseload power. We have been promised that Small Modular Reactors (mini-nuclear) will fulfil that role in the near future. But right now in 2026, they won’t be operational for 10 to 15 years. That means - and this is a fact - that between now and 2040, we have a massive “Black Hole” in our energy supply. The grid won’t expand fast enough, and the nuclear plant isn’t ready.
However, HMG has a trick up its sleeve. Whilst it is busy shutting down domestic gas and oil production, and to keep the lights on (and to keep the government in power), we still need gas turbines. But because we have stopped supporting our own North Sea production, we have to import Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from thousands of miles away. This imported gas is “dirtier” because of the energy used to freeze it and ship it. We are burning our own cash to buy someone else’s gas, while our own—which is cleaner and already there—sits under the seabed.
This is the ultimate business failure. And this is where one of the biggest PR deceptions comes into play. The argument is that even if we drilled and produced, it wouldn’t meet our needs or reduce imports. Both those statements are true, but they deliberately obfuscate the facts and distort the truth.
The UK produces Brent Crude, which is one of the best, purest, cleanest oils in the world. It is the “Gold Standard” of oil. What we consume, run our planes on, and heat our houses with is something else entirely - and we don’t produce any. Brent Crude is highly valuable on the global market. Logically, we should be pumping that “Gold” and selling it to the world. The massive profits and taxes (75%) from those exports should be the “Venture Capital” that pays for the new grid and the new nuclear plants. But by killing off our own production, we lose the export income. We then have to use what’s left of our money to buy back car petrol, heating oil, and aviation fuel at a massive premium.
The government is pretending this transition will be seamless. We are building “Ghost” wind and solar farms that stay off. We are waiting 15 years for nuclear power, which isn’t here yet. We are buying “Dirty” gas from foreigners while our own stays in the ground. We are throwing away the “Gold” (Brent Crude) that could have covered the entire transition.
In effect, what we have allowed to happen is for the current board of UK PLC to fire its best salesmen, stop its most profitable production line, and pay its new contractors to sit at home—all while claiming the company has never been more successful.
It isn’t just bad politics; it’s a strategic disaster founded entirely on the worldview of Miliband and his acolytes. A worldview that is less a philosophy and more a collection of unverifiable prejudices masquerading as moral imperatives. It’s nothing more than pious grandstanding used to justify indefensible logic - and they are killing our country.
There are only three things certain in life - death, taxes and the arrogant stupidity of a Socialist.