by Will Jones
Ed Miliband has forced wind power companies to support trade unions by threatening to cut their subsidies. The Telegraph has the story.
Dozens of businesses supplying the offshore wind industry have been pressured into adopting pro-union rules after the Energy Secretary warned he would reduce their access to taxpayer funds unless they complied.
It means the companies will be required to meet certain requirements in the Employment Rights Act months before they are rolled out nationwide, including a new right for trade unions to enter their workplaces.
They will also have to provide unions with information identifying “major contractors” across the supply chain where “reasonably practicable”, and actively engage representatives in projects that concern them.
At least 37 companies have agreed to the commitments set out in Miliband’s new Offshore Wind Fair Work Charter – after the Government threatened to block their applications for clean energy subsidies if they failed to comply.
The Tories accused Miliband of risking an increase in energy bills by “effectively forcing the offshore wind industry to accept unionisation”.
In its flagship Employment Rights Act, passed last year, Labour introduced several measures aimed at boosting the presence of trade unions in the workplace.
The new rules, which were Angela Rayner’s pet project before her resignation from the Cabinet, will include a “statutory right of access”, forcing bosses to let unions into their offices, and a duty on firms to inform workers of their right to join a union when they start a new job.
The Employment Rights Act is being implemented in stages, meaning these specific requirements are not set to come into force until October 2026.
However, Miliband has stripped offshore wind companies of their right to apply for the clean energy bonus – a green subsidy scheme – unless they sign up to his Fair Work Charter, effectively forcing them to implement the new rules early.
Worth reading in full.
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Botham comes out to bat against turbines desecrating the countryside.
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-15939591/SIR-IAN-BOTHAM-Join-fight-stop-Milibands-monster-turbines-wrecking-Englands-loveliest-landscapes.html
Windmills not turbines
The next Reclaim government will scrap all the green waste, sorry, subsidies which will be the end of the suffering for all those companies now affected.
Reclaim government?
Reform UK are still topping the polls and the smaller Restore party is active
Did you mean the former?
Do you mean Reform?
Yep. I get confused by all the Re-thingies on offer.
Understandable.
The morons on the extreme left don’t seem to know the most important word beginning with “re” – reliabilty.
The Conservatives won the Aberdeen South by-election a couple of weeks ago, and they campaigned on drill, baby, drill – a referendum on the government’s energy policies.
Labour and the clean energy mantra came absolutely nowhere. The Unions were miffed by Miliband’s net zero scythe cutting through the North Sea. And they were quite open about it.
LEADING progressive economists have written to a top Labour-linked union boss to back Ed Miliband for chancellor after she said he would be a “noose around the neck” of the North Sea.
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“Ed only seems to be interested in one side of the equation, rushing Britain to net zero with almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security.” – Sharon Graham, Unite general secretary. The National
Turns out Miliband’s Net Zero quest really is a programme of deindustrialisation and ‘managed decline’. Offshoring whatever emissions can be offshored might look good on paper, but it’s disastrous for union membership numbers and is causing ever greater unemployment. And it’s jacking up the welfare bill. The welfare bill in the UK is now greater than the income tax take for the nation. That cannot go on.
It’s easy to see why Miliband is doing this when you put matters in some context. But as we all know, it won’t be many jobs compared to those that are being actively thrown away. And the Tories won that by-election. Labour will not take the hint.
One thing this government excels at – other than utter dysfunction and incompetence – is authoritarianism.
Miliband is an authoritarian megalomaniac, bent on the destruction of the UK economy … & he’s succeeding, energy prices are going up again by 13.5%.
Miliband is an authoritarian megalomaniac
We can certainly agree on that. But I think in some ways this egregious example of an human being is so much more.
A climate zealot – utterly devoted to the net zero cause/belief, its objectives and outcomes.
My money is on…
A climate maniac – affected with mania; raving with madness; behaving or appearing like a maniac.
And he has 2 kitchens in one house, also his missus objected to a planning request for building housing close to their house whilst the Govt he is in plans large increases in house building. His net worth is £15M. So you can add total hypocrite to the list.
Added.
I can’t help but wonder if Ed’s retirement fund is invested mostly in Chinese stocks.
The mystery about the UK is how Labour, one of the two main political parties (along with most of the cultural establishment) came to dislike and despise not only its national history and culture, but also 75% of its citizens. And still got elected on a promise of making changes, without specifying what the changes would be.
Only to discover, when they ended up in office, that they had no coherent plan for government. So they just introduced random measures whose only justification was that someone in the party wanted them. Mainly based on spite.
Something which has happened again, for after two years of planless government, they have now kicked out the Prime Minister and are about to install the former Mayor of Manchester in his place. Who has also promised to bring change, also without saying what change. But the difference is that he thinks it will take 10 years to bring it about.
The main reaction of his team, on discovering that they had won, they had got rid of PM Starmer, was panic at the idea that they were now about to find themselves running the country. And could they please have a bit more time to figure out what they wanted to do with it?
Meanwhile the Net Zero idiocy continues. As does gender lunacy and race lunacy. And economic illiteracy. On the horizon one can see winter blackouts, a bond market revolt and a visit from the IMF. Strikes, lots of them.
Burnham will not get 10 years. Six months if he is lucky. And then the country will come up to a real fork in the roads. Do they cancel the next election, or try to? They tried and failed to cancel the recent local elections, but what they will have learned from the results is how necessary cancellation was. Expect the next attempt to be much better prepared and thought through, and be preceded by much increased control of the media. Probably justified by the blackouts. They will be, after all, a bona fide national emergency.
Historically, the Labour party has served to contain and keep communism at bay – it was a party of the working class first and foremost. The Attlee government of 1945 shifted society leftward, and it firmly represented the working man and woman.
This changed between the 1970s and today. The working class vote was gradually replaced (in urban centres) by an imported vote; a bloc vote that could be relied on every time.
Objectors were racist, xenophobic, possibly homophobic etc. Tony Blair set everything in motion:
Labour threw open Britain’s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a “truly multicultural” country, a former Government adviser has revealed.
Andrew Neather, a former government adviser and speech writer for Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said the aim of Labour’s immigration strategy was to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity – Daily Mail etc
Enter the Prince of Darkness
Immigrants? We sent out search parties to get them to come… and made it hard for Britons to get work, says Mandelson – Daily Mail etc
Now we have two tier….
NB. Burnham’s chief of staff, James Purnell, is another best friend of Mandelson….
That sounds familiar, like in the US except it involves trillions of dollars in the meanders and payoffs along the way for the Dem-Prog Axis. Over here, large advertising agencies add the cosmetics and slogans on top of the wild money grab riot.
Obama ran on the slogan “Change you can believe in”.
We have the same problem in the US, the further to the left the politician, the more they despise the US.
Seems like the only two countries that meet their demanding standards are China and the mythical country of palestine.
So much is said about Miliband on WUWT, I finally took a few minutes to read a bit about him. In addition to obviously and openly being an extreme leftist, Marxist and atheist, he repudiates his Jewish heritage, as did his father, except with regard to his Jewish ethnicity.
The fact that he has risen to such levels and roles in the UK government says more about the overall attitude and body politic of the UK. With the current state affairs, even with no Miliband, you all are in a heap of trouble. If there are any truly “conservatives” (and I don’t mean the party) remaining in the kingdom, it will take remarkable actions to salvage your once great nation.
It has been said that Britons are now poorer than those in the poorest U.S. states, alleged to be Mississippi and Alabama. That might appear to be so on the surface of it, but in fact, the poorest states in the contiguous United States are now California and New York when one adjusts for cost-of-living. The UK and those two US states are now in an active and intentional race to the bottom.
Miliband’s father – Adolphe, later Ralph – did not like the English (who took him in) very much:
The Englishman is a rabid nationalist. They are perhaps the most nationalist people in the world … When you hear the English talk of this war you sometimes almost want them to lose it to show them how things are. – https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ralph_Miliband
Like father, like son. The son who stabbed his own brother in the back for the Labour leadership.
It’s rumoured that David Miliband might return to UK politics so we might have two Minibrains in government once again. David has been doing very nicely on a reportedly $1M salary heading up a charity (to which the incoming Labour government gave a big chunk of cash for no obvious reason), so having to scrape by on a minister’s salary might be tough for him.
Yes, I heard. Trump cut off the $1million salary collected largely from USAID.
That will mean a peerage and an upset brother.
Why were US dollars intended to help underdeveloped countries flowing to the UK? It would seem that Trump was correct that much of the money was being misused.
If it was paying Miliband, D. it was entirely wasted.
Every accusation a confession
Every accusation a confession
Each answer a very jest… while renewable energies do slay the West, whilst thou dost merrily applaud its doom.
Boom, boom.
So what is your accusation confessing?
I’m going out on a limb and guessing that this made sense to you.
When it comes to government spending, “much of the money being mis-used” is SOP.
David Miliband is President of the Charity International Rescue Committee and is based in New York.
The scam widens and deepens.
So who holds all the cards in this standoff? NetZ dreams are nothing without the turbines.
Eliminate the subsidies and it removes the coercion. Another clear demonstration that “renewables” are mainly a green washing scheme designed to pay off leftist constituencies.
When Reform scraps net zero, Miliband’s house of cards will collapse…
Thus rolls on the leftist protection rackets.