Empty Edded

IT is increasingly hard to tell the difference between Ed Miliband and a man terrifyingly and dangerously out of his depth.

Dangerous for Britain, that is . . . for our prosperity, for our ability to keep the lights on and businesses working.

As with the most hysterical eco-obsessives, ideology blinds Miliband to ­reason and cold reality.

An incorrect belief persists that wind and solar energy are affordable, dependable, and beneficial, while oil and gas are costly, unreliable, and harmful, influencing critical choices.

The narrow-minded Energy Secretary fails to recognize the obvious inconsistency in advocating for “clean energy” to reduce costs while offering financial incentives to foreign-owned wind power companies to encourage their development.

Those billions will be added to the very bills Miliband promised to slash.

And anyone fearing he has no actual clue how to deliver his fanciful election pledge of “clean power by 2030” has been proved right.

His extraordinary open letter two weeks ago begging for workable ideas from the National Grid Electricity System Operator proves it.

Labour claims to have unearthed a secret £22billion Tory black hole in the accounts.

We’ve been left so skint, they say, we now have to fleece OAPs of their winter heating payment or risk crashing the economy. It is risible fiction.

There ARE billions to bribe public sector unions and wind farm firms.

And billions more to set up Miliband with his “Great British Energy” gimmick.

The only black hole is inside Ed’s head.

Lammy roasted

YOU would think a Government with a huge majority would be beyond worrying about losing a few left-wing voters over Israel.

And that a Labour Party so quick to claim that Tory foreign secretaries embarrassed Britain globally would be acutely sensitive to riling our allies.

David Lammy has succeeded in upsetting two of our closest allies — Israel and, behind closed doors, the United States — simultaneously with his poorly considered, poorly timed, and politically driven arms embargo.

Regardless of any reservations about Netanyahu’s government, Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, defending itself against a terrorist army sworn to wipe Jews off the map.

And when Netanyahu says “Britain’s misguided decision will only embolden Hamas”, he’s not wrong, is he?

Woke weasels

HOW gleefully the BBC reports that less than two-thirds of the public is proud of our history, down from 86 per cent in 2013.

The same woke BBC gives endless airtime to those who talk down Britain and who insist we atone for our “shameful” past by toppling statues, rewriting school books and slapping trigger warnings on great works of literature.

Might these two facts be linked?