Edless chicken
EVEN green fanatics are starting to think Ed Miliband has taken leave of his senses in his relentless Net Zero crusade.
In his latest madcap plan, the Energy Secretary wants to increase everyone’s gas bill by £30 so that a few well-off homeowners can install posh eco-friendly systems.
He is also offering £7,500 “bribes” to virtue-signalling middle-class homeowners who can afford the eyewatering cost of low-carbon heat pumps.
Red Ed seems to have forgotten his pledge to slash £300 off energy bills as he robs the poor to subsidise his unrealistic emissions targets.
Instead, he clings on to a pipe dream that renewable energy sources will one day mean cheap power.
But Labour donor and eco-magnate Dale Vince warned the “silly concept” will hit people who struggle to pay their bills, let alone afford a heat pump.
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More than 23million homes have gas boilers and even with a subsidy they would need at least £7,000 of their own money to make the switch.
While Mr Miliband throws £13billion at cutting emissions, Britain still has the second most expensive household energy bills in the developed world.
Cheap green energy for a privileged few should not mean higher bills for the rest.
Sham justice
NOTHING demonstrates more the out-dated and warped priorities of the European Convention on Human Rights than two cases this week.
Meddling judges in Strasbourg revived jihadi bride Shamima Begum’s seven-year fight to return to Britain.
They demanded an explanation from the Government of the decision to strip her of UK citizenship, suggesting it may have violated Article Four of its convention, which bans slavery.
It comes days after extremist Alaa Abd el-Fattah was welcomed into Britain after being freed from prison in Egypt.
He is unlikely to be kicked out — for fear of breaching ECHR rules.
It’s little surprise that support for quitting the flawed convention is growing by the day.
Glad tidings
MANY of us will be glad to see the back of 2025 — but with little hope that things will get much better in the new year ahead.
But despite all the economic gloom, there’s plenty to be optimistic about.
England and Scotland will give us reason to cheer having qualified for the World Cup finals in June, while Take That and Westlife both embark on sell-out UK tours, and the Bayeux Tapestry will return to the UK for the first time in over 900 years.
Happy New Year. Whatever your dreams for 2026, may they all come true.
