Miliband's energy policy points to UK blackouts

The average UK household energy
bill rose by 60% from 2004-11,
compared with 17% in general
inflation. Almost one third of the

increase was due to government
policies to fund investment in
low-carbon energy, which Labour
supported.

 The UK continues to struggle to
persuade energy companies to
invest in nuclear and other aging
energy systems. It is therefore

difficult to see how the prospect
of price controlsand threat of
corporate break-ups will encourage
energy companies to commit money.

Ed Miliband's proposals on energy,

together with his threat of state

confiscation of land, mark an

important turning point in political

consensus on the market economy.

 

His conference speech will be

remembered more for his ability to

remember a long repetitive script,

rather than establishing his prime

ministerial credentials. No wonder

that he disappered for the summer.

It points to an ideological watershed

and a return to a command and
control economy. which will bring
to an end any hope of Britain's
recovery.

Ed Miliband's father, Ralph, 

is burried yards from Karl Marx
in Highgate Cemetery and it is
marxism that informs his thinking.

 

THE EVIL THAT MEN DO

Tony Blair's unwelcome intervention
over military action in Syria
merely compounds the obloquy
heaped upon him as a narcissistic
politician, who took the UK into
the illegal invasion of Iraq. It was
a war based on the false premise of
the imminent use of weapons of mass
destruction The cost to the UK was
£4.5bn and 6,700 casualties.

The Blair government made the
the disingenous assertion, that the
2003 attack was justified by UN
Security Council Resolutions
relating to the first Persian war,
subsequent ceasefire (660 and 678)
and later UN weapons' inspection,
which it said authorised the invasion.

The much delayed Chilcot Inquiry
on the Iraq war, due to be published
next year, will add to Britain's
humiliation at the G20 summit, when
heir to Blair Cameron's desire to
poodle up to Barrack Obama in
attacking Syria was frustrated
by a last week's parliamentary vote.

Cameron's wish to stand shoulder to
shoulder with the Americans was
denied by MPs voting against being
drawn into another war, which the
country could not afford and could
not win.

Russian President, Vladimir Putin,
displayed his diplomatic credentials
and rubbed Cameron's nose in his
manifest impotence, describing
Great Britain as a 'small island
nobody took any notice of''.

The Syrian humaniterian crisis
contiues to deepen with over 4m
displaced people and a further
2.3m crossing the borders into
Jordan and Lebanon, Hans Blix,
chairman of the Weapons of Mass
Destruction Commission, has said
that the only solution to the conflict
is the cessation of the supply of
weapons to both sides.