Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/14/rightwing-media-blames-ed-miliband-uk-steel-crisis-net-zero
Posted by JRugman
Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/14/rightwing-media-blames-ed-miliband-uk-steel-crisis-net-zero
Posted by JRugman
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No way!?
You’re telling me that our news providers exaggerate the culpability of the current sitting government.
I AM SHOCKED!
The expert quoted is an ex Ed Miliband advisor. Doesn’t seem like the most objective source.
Rightwing media blamed for vilifying left wing politician by left wing media who claim said vilification is a great injustice, film at 11. You got to love the Guardian for quoting an ex Miliband advisor as an “independent” expert.
This actually seems true. I was listening to GB News and Nana Aquir had an entire segment that seemed to have been given the brief ‘attack Ed Milliband for something’. It wasn’t steel, it was that he travelled to an environmental conference and she didn’t like his face.
So I don’t know what he did, but the right wing press have definitely been told to go after him.
Left wing media wrongly blame the wholesale gas price (which is currently around the same level it was in 2019), and which has fallen by 20% in the past 6 months to desperately try and cover up their failed ideological policies. They wheel out biased “experts” whose jobs and financial futures depend on promoting this hugely damaging policy.
The wholesale gas price is responsible for about 33% of our bills.
Meanwhile, 25% of our bills go on direct subsidy payments to wind and solar companies.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-natural-gas
Veto the mines, veto nuclear, sell everything off to China and levy the shit out of everything that remains. That’ll work for sure
The UK has the highest industrial energy costs in the developed world by a very significant margin. How can that be if countries are all buying gas on the international market? The suggestion that carbon taxes and renewable subsidies are driving up energy prices is well supported by the evidence and it’s right that Ed Miliband’s policies are called out for the damage they cause. That’s said having seen the coverage the previous Tory government have also taken a lot of the blame.
I like how there’s a rule against opinion posts on this sub, but stuff like this from The Guardian gets posted every day lmao