'Miliband’s order to ban drilling in the North Sea oil risks thousands of job losses, and the inevitable increase in all of our energy costs,' says Howard Cox
Howard Cox of Reform UK says Ed Miliband and Gary Lineker 'do not understand the struggles of the nation's hardworking, tax-paying majority'
Gary Lineker, the BBC’s multi-millionaire infamous untouchable, continues to open his buccal cavity and espouse personal rhetoric that, yet again, pushes his egotistical and ignorant left-wing politics.
There are two critical points for my brutal assessment here. Namely, the BBC is impotent in managing yet another of Gary Lineker’s narcissistic outbursts, and the man himself, a celebrity with no intellectual understanding of complex issues, continually ventures into matters he should not.
While his utterings resonate with his like-minded, gullible supporters, they are a cause for concern. Their trillion-pound net-zero pipedream, if implemented, could devastate our economy, and worsen the cost-of-living crisis. Yet, Lineker seems more interested in his own rhetoric than the potential consequences of his words.
Lineker's latest message, while self-absorbed, is not a solitary voice. He shares the mainstream media stage with another influential British figure, our new Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband. Miliband's detached-from-reality stance has influenced Lineker, the ex-Tottenham Hotspur star, to deliver his verbal incontinence.
Miliband’s unilateral order to immediately ban drilling in new North Sea oil fields overrules Energy Department officials and risks triggering a wave of legal action, thousands of job losses, and the inevitable increase in all of our energy costs.
It's a distortion of reality to claim that these two personalities truly understand the struggles of the nation's hardworking, tax-paying majority.
The path to Net Zero, as they envision it, is fraught with fear-mongering and emotive misinformation. This undemocratic disconnect is a cause for concern and underscores the necessity for a more balanced and truthful perspective in our public discourse.
For the record, as a successful public affairs campaigner advocating against excessive fuel taxation and motorist restrictions, my dedicated team at FairFuelUK serves as a crucial counterbalance to the influence of well-financed pressure groups, the new Government, and the ill-informed comments from affluent celebrities like Lineker and Miliband.
Our service is even more vital at a time when these forces are lobbying in the opposite direction, providing a much-needed counterbalance in the current political climate.
Moreover, much of what I do is at my own expense. I don’t get a fat salary from our publicly funded, patently politically biased broadcaster. And I have to put up with the appalling treatment and abuse that seems increasingly to be expected for anyone who dares challenge the left-wing consensus that is incapable of constructive debate. It is their way and only their way! It is sickening!
My FairFuelUK campaigning is crucial to the country's political balance in the environmental debate, preventing it from being overwhelmed by well-paid media journos and BBC affluent big mouths on the other side.
It’s time for these two virtue-signalling protagonists of economic insanity, who have no proof for their entrenched positions as to what they want us to do here in Blighty to save the planet from their Pinocchio scaremongering claims, to once and for all, shut up! Instead, they must back popular, common-sense plans to extract as much fossil fuel as possible from the UK and its coastal waters.
Such a political stance will make us all prosperous as a nation. Why can’t they see that this methodology will not negatively impact any aspect of our global emissions?
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The Climate Change Committee says: "The UK's demand for oil and gas needs to fall 80 per cent by 2050, externally, for the UK to meet its Net Zero targets."
Why? Miliband’s selfish, myopic, power-crazed decision, now overturned by his boss, Sir Keir Starmer, shows that fossil fuels will be needed for the foreseeable future. And rightly so.
A Miliband spokesperson was reported to say to the Daily Telegraph: "We will not issue new licences to explore new fields and will not revoke existing oil and gas licences. We will manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan."
Going down Miliband’s route to impoverishment, which Gary Lineker lovingly supports, will not matter to this ex-footballer. He is rich and will never struggle to pay his gas and electric bills.
But those workers in the gas and oil industry he wants to be thrown onto the dole queue will suffer badly, alongside low-income and the poorest in our society. His selfishness is off the scale. So, let’s make our country totally energy self-reliant by drilling for oil and gas alongside implementing small modular nuclear energy reactors as a matter of urgency.
The new Labour Government must ban the onshore wind turbine and solar panel plans, which will be costly blots on our valuable green fields that should be prioritised for food generation. Instead, focus on delivering sustainable but currently ineffective green energy supplies onto brownfield sites, motorway central reservations, the roofs of new houses, etc.
My final message to Mister Smug is to keep your mouth shut and stay out of politics! You continue to be out of your depth. Your empathy for the people who your sanctimony will hurt is unmeasurably less than the size of a carbon dioxide molecule.
