Miliband plans to make Britain a clean energy superpower with zero-carbon electricity by 2030. He says that in an unstable world, the only way to guarantee our energy security and cut bills is to speed up the transition away from fossil fuels and towards homegrown clean energy.
Miliband wants to make the “UK energy independent, bring down energy bills for good, create good jobs, and tackle the climate crisis”.
All of which sounds jolly good. Especially for authoritarian Chinese leader Xi Jinping, because Miliband is serving him the UK on a plate.
Miliband has declared war on the UK countryside, threatening to crush Nimby opposition and plaster our green fields with wind turbines, solar panels and super-sized pylons.
This is part of his unrealistic pledge to double onshore wind and quadruple offshore wind by 2030, while tripling solar power.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will help by cleansing the countryside of tenant farmers to make space for Miliband’s plan to turn our green and pleasant land into a giant energy plant.
Miliband claims this is a matter of “national security”. Yet to achieve that, he’s cosying up to one of the most brutal and authoritarian regimes on the planet, that’s no friend to the UK.
China.
Where does Miliband think all those turbines, pylons and panels will come from? Certainly not from UK manufacturers. Miliband’s crazed power rush hasn’t given them time to scale up.
Although to be fair, there’s no way UK suppliers can catch up with the world’s biggest producer of renewables kit.
China is churning out more cheap wind and solar kit than the world knows what to do with. Not to mention electric batteries.
Nobody can compete with that.
Just a few years ago, Germany was a global leader in renewable power. Then China stole its tech and flooded the world with cheaper versions built at scale.
German wind and solar manufacturers were wiped out.
Exactly the same thing is happening with the German car industry, as China floods Europe with cheap electric vehicles.
In one way, this is good news for Miliband. Cut-price imported tech will allow him to wipe out yet more tenant farmers and destroy more areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Unfortunately, it will also leave us at the mercy of China.
PM Keir Starmer paved the way by kowtowing to Xi Jinping, despite repeated NATO warnings that China is backing Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine.
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed trade tariffs are likely to push Labour even further into the arms of China.
Journalist Iain Martin at news site Reaction reckons Labour’s aggressive net zero drive “risks emboldening China’s aggressive spycraft against Britain” and posing “a risk to national security”.
This is even more worrying when you consider that Beijing appears to be gearing up to invade Taiwan in 2027. Whose side will we be on then?
None of this will stop Miliband. In this fanatical push for net zero, he’s happy to wipe out the UK’s remaining oil and gas industry, as well as our agriculture and even our car industry. While helping our new best friend China mop up its excess green tech capacity. So much for “homegrown clean energy”. Whose side is Miliband on?
