Ed Miliband\u2019s frontline political career began in betrayal, leapfrogging his older, more talented and more electable brother David to seize the Labour leadership in 2010. That act split the party down the middle.<\/p>\n
He then led Labour to a catastrophic defeat in 2015.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t just a loss but a landslide that handed Tory leader David Cameron an unexpected majority and left the left demoralised.<\/p>\n
That failure opened the door to Brexit<\/a>, a moment that broke the hearts of millions of Labour-voting Remainers.<\/p>\n Ed didn\u2019t just lose an election, he cost the left their beloved EU.<\/p>\n Now, having finally returned to office, he\u2019s shooting himself in the foot all over again.<\/p>\n His obsessive net zero agenda is tearing holes in Labour unity and deepening divides within the movement. It also involves plastering the countryside with wind turbines built using Chinese slave labour<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sir Tony Blair is the latest big Labour beast to take aim, warning that Miliband\u2019s climate approach is built on \u201cinconvenient facts\u201d that voters are starting to see through.<\/p>\n Sir Tony said Miliband\u2019s approach is \u201cdoomed to fail\u201d<\/a> as voters are \u201cbeing asked to make sacrifices for virtually no impact.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n Miliband is loathed on the right but increasingly, the fury is coming from his own side.<\/p>\n Shuttering North Sea oil and gas production will cost the UK billions in lost tax revenues and leave us more dependent on foreign energy.<\/p>\n His green vision will saddle British households with soaring bills while making little difference to global emissions, as China and India continue to burn coal with impunity.<\/p>\n Unions are furious. Unite\u2019s Sharon Graham has publicly attacked his strategy.<\/p>\n GMB boss Gary Smith has branded the refusal to issue new oil and gas licences \u201cmadness”.<\/p>\n Chancellor Rachel Reeves reportedly sees Miliband as a serious obstacle to her growth plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n Reform’s Nigel Farage is having a field day by blasting net zero lunacy<\/a>. Just as he did with Brexit<\/a>. He must be Miliband’s biggest fan (secretly).<\/p>\n Labour PM Keir Starmer<\/a> has been forced to defend his under fire Energy Secretary. Just days ago, Stamrer insisted net zero is part of the \u201cDNA\u201d of his government.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not conviction but crisis management.<\/p>\n Yet Ed Miliband\u2019s grip on the party faithful remains strong, despite all the misery he’s heaped on them in the past.<\/p>\n If Starmer were toppled tomorrow, Miliband would be a serious contender to replace him.<\/p>\n But his appeal doesn\u2019t stretch far beyond the well-heeled, liberal middle classes. The kind who love green utopias as long as they don\u2019t interfere with their long-haul holidays.<\/p>\n Working-class Labour voters, the same people who backed Brexit<\/a> and now eye Farage, don\u2019t see him as a visionary.<\/p>\n