The Spectator 
Columnist Lionel Shriver joins The Spectator’s Natasha Feroze to discuss Ed Miliband’s plans to ban new licences to drill for oil in the North Sea. They discuss what she makes of the plans, and whether they’re a liability for Labour.
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A foreign Marxist Jew has no love for the English and we're surprised?
Net Zero is not an accident or virtue signalling
Follow the money
Who is making/going to make huge profits from the madness
Its not stupidity, its corruption
Ed Milliband sounds like he's a student teacher speaking with a bunch of five year olds.
These wind turbine can not be broken down and cause mass pollution!
It's nothing to do with net zero It's just yet another way of taxing the public to pay for the rest of the world, or so it seems. Get the boats stopped, get the roads fixed get the bins emptied.
So we bann the drilling for our own oil and import it from other mega polluting countries? Where is our wisdom coming from, this policy is going to break GB and is grossly unfair on the poor
Hemp for net zero legalise cannabis ✌❤
Uncontrolled immigration and the lights going out. Its going to be a long decade of Labour ideological government. But the Liberal left who think socialism is the best thing since sliced bread will keep voting for more of the same punishment. Whats the definition of madness. Repeating the same action over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
Once again we find a politician being responsible for government department who doesn’t have the foggiest bloody idea of what they are doing or saying.
This country contributes less than 1% of greenhouse gas emissions and yet we seem willing to bankrupt half the country to pay for the energy required to run our homes and businesses.
Labour has zero business acumen in its ranks.
Morons is putting it mildly when describinging the far left.
Again… WE NEED THE BLOODY CO2!!!
I don't know what's going on with politicians these days
but I've never known so many thick people wandering around in westminster trying to goven this once great country
Get these planks out they do not understand the real world
In 1945/46 my mother,along with her fellow soldiers was bussed to Harwell near her camp. They were given a lecture on how marvelous atomic was and here we are almost eighty years later not much to show for it.
Ed Miliband is 😡 mad oil and gas will be needed to run machinery and vehicles for a long time put solar panels on warehouses not on farm land just think of all the jobs that will be lost in Scotland gas and oil imports will be more expensive
Another example of politicians putting grit into the economy
I think he mistook brains for drains and emptied his completely.
We all saw inept Milliband trying to eat a bacon sarnie a few years back. Nothing's changed – still got two left feet.
Yes micro plastics are more of a threat than global warming at the moment. To get rid of the piles of old turbine blades they have started shredding them and burning them as fuel in coal,wood and rubber fired power stations fact. This has a worse impact on the environment than coal. But they keep insisting wind power is good for the environment .
A unicorn with no legs
Welcome to the circus uk with millipede the clown !!!
Wow, because what the UK needs is less energy and less industry
"for not being right enough"
…or in the case of most of the Tory Party, not right at all.
Pursuit of "renewables" is controlled by ideologues rather than by engineers, but also by those who have heavy investments in renewables (that's why they don't want nuclear).
We are told that Net Zero refers to carbon emissions, what it really refers to is economic activity.
Re your singing I’d normally say “stick to your day job” but not this time I’d say go for it you have a marvellous untapped talent there you should give up whatever you are doing and go for it full time we are all behind you and good luck.
I heard Miliband had loads of mates at school
What a prick
More fob villain than bob Dylan
Ban Noth Sea Oil but continue importing oil & gas from OVERSEAS ?? Ed Miliband pushing Labours CRAZY policies
Milliband……yet another delusional Blairite still hanging on to the gravy train.
Ed Miliband has never been very bright and is quite possibly the most dumbest of dumb idiots for not being able to see the bleeding obvious that he is being used as the fall guy. Mark my words, net zero is unachievable without destroying industry and jobs by dramatically burdening industry and the public with huge unnecessary costs on a grand scale and anyone in authority with half a brain cell knows this. So the story will go that when the UK Government has to cave in to common sense it will all be blamed on the one idiot rabbit who is left staring into the car headlights. Ed Miliband.
VOTE REFORM
It is not irrational or alarmist to warn of power outages if we pursue the insanity of nut-zero. It is not for nothing that my local power network company has taken it upon itself to deliver a leaflet to all homes called "Preparing for power cuts". So there you have it, the network itself is telling you it is going to happen.
She hasn't got a clue what she's talking about.
I presume you will point us to the evidence which underpins Schrivers claims.