One man survived Keir Starmer's Cabinet bloodbath... Ed Miliband.
I don’t know how or why. Rachel Reeves was another one, although I suspect Keir didn’t want to spook the market, he’s already undermined her authority anyway by banning Darren Jones and changing her team.
But so far, Ed Miliband has escaped any such scrutiny.
The Energy Secretary has been a disaster, and his latest hare-brained scheme alone, rolling out ineffective heat pumps, has cost us the taxpayers £700million in its first year.
Nana Akua calls on Keir Starmer to sack Ed Miliband
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Before Labour came to power, Ed promised to save us all £300 a year off our bills, but in truth he is costing us a fortune.
Through his green levies, plans for solar panels and pylons, his payments to wind farms to switch them off when it’s too windy, otherwise known as "constraint costs", has reached an estimated £814million so far this year.
In fact, in total, rather than saving money Ed’s plans are estimated to cost £900 a year, three times what he said he’d save us.
He said there’d be lots of "green jobs", but that’s been deemed a fantasy, and he’s upsetting the industry in his pursuit of net zero, which involves no new drilling for oil and gas.
The boss of Octopus Energy Britain’s biggest provider has called for Labour to restart drilling in the North Sea. Greg Jackson, the chief executive of Octopus, said homegrown fossil fuels should continue to play a key part in the UK’s energy mix.
In a piece in the telegraph, Mr Jackson said: "Exploiting North Sea resources was more environmentally friendly than relying on costly foreign imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), which generate more emissions than domestically produced energy."
And now in his latest plan, Ed Milliband blown another £700million on grants designed to encourage us to rip out their perfectly good gas boilers and install a heat pumps instead.
Which are currently ridiculously expensive, about £13,000, require a considerable amount of space and are completely impractical and inefficient given our current housing stock. Something you’d think Ed would have been well aware of.
In fact, the grants given out to facilitate net zero schemes like this are now costing the treasury more than the income they generate.
To be precise, the Government Department for Net Zero has shelled out £692,108,250 to try and convince us to buy into their agenda.
It’s not working Ed. In the 14 years you were in opposition Ed, you should’ve worked that out, that’s about the length of time heat pumps have been about.
An industry expert said: "They are too expensive to fit and too costly to run compared to what UK households are used to, in most cases that’s a gas boiler. If they were better than a boiler, heat pumps would be flying off the shelves without the need for subsidies.
"What stinks is that the vast majority of households are subsidising heat pumps through taxes and bills while not knowing how they can afford their own heating."
Exactly Ed, we can’t afford it. A spokesman for the Department for Net Zero said: "We make no apology for backing technologies that cut bills and bring investment to the UK."
They’re just not listening. Clearly they don’t believe they are accountable. So let me tell you it to you straight Ed, you are a public servant and that is our money you are spending frivolously. I invite you onto my show one Sunday to explain to me why you think you are beyond reproach. We are not happy with the direction of travel.
And Keir, Ed needs to go. Take note for your next reshuffle, that’s if you’re still in post, and if you want to have a hope of winning the next election, ditch net zero.