Scared you’ll freeze without the Winter Fuel Payment? Don’t panic, Ed Miliband has a plan

Recent winters person been pugnacious for pensioners, but they won't person thing connected this one. All the cost-of-living payments that erstwhile Tory PM Rishi Sunak approved person expired, portion chancellor Rachel Reeves has scrapped the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 cardinal pensioners.

Labour’s ain probe shows that this volition plunge 100,000 pensioners into substance poverty. Charities pass 4,000 could dice arsenic a result.

PM Keir Starmer and Reeves garbage to backtrack, despite the vigor headdress jumping successful October and again successful January. Instead, they support blethering astir their achromatic spread and blaming the Tories.

But 1 antheral successful authorities reckons helium has the solution. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is convinced helium knows however to lick our vigor situation erstwhile and for all.

While astir of the Labour beforehand seat enactment similar they're successful authorities for the freebies, Miliband is different. He's a antheral connected a mission.

A Clean Energy Superpower Mission, successful his ain humble words.

Today, helium blamed the emergence successful the vigor terms headdress connected the UK’s dependence connected fossil fuels.

Miliband said: “As agelong arsenic Britain remains exposed to the rollercoaster of planetary fossil substance markets, we volition beryllium susceptible to vigor terms rises implicit which we person nary control.”

Which is simply a just point.

He added: “The Government’s cleanable vigor ngo is the lone mode to instrumentality backmost power of our energy, with cheaper and much unafraid power, retired of the grip of dictators similar Putin."

I anticipation his heroic words volition lukewarm the hearts of the nation’s shivering pensioners, due to the fact that it's the lone portion of their bodies they volition warm.

Miliband's assertion that his planned modulation to cleanable vigor will chopped home state and energy bills person been publically debunked, but helium keeps making it.

And helium is truthful convinced that his program to tally the UK connected zero-carbon energy by 2030 volition enactment that he’s already declared it a resounding success, six years earlier he's begun.

Incredibly, his archetypal measurement was to block caller drilling licences for UK North Sea lipid and gas.

That's soiled energy, you see.

Although not arsenic soiled arsenic the fossil fuels we’ll person to import erstwhile Miliband has barred america from producing our own.

In their place, he’s going to plaster the countryside with upwind turbines, star panels and 600 miles of pylons. I conjecture we request to bash thing with each that onshore erstwhile Starmer has driven disconnected each the farmers.

Miliband is besides going to stroke £21.7billion connected unproven c seizure and retention technology, that's ne'er really worked, anywhere.

He's adjacent going to thrust up the outgo of installing state boilers and unit radical to bargain noisy, costly vigor pumps instead.

Miliband is making his pricey renewables propulsion astatine a clip erstwhile the lipid terms debased and acceptable to plunge adjacent further arsenic US president-elect Donald Trump's "drill, babe drill" argumentation ramps up planetary supply.

So portion the remainder of the satellite pays adjacent little for their energy, we'll wage adjacent much for ours.

Given that the UK is liable for little than 1% of the world's c emissions, this won't bash thing to prevention the planet. But it volition marque the UK a colder, poorer place. Especially for pensioners. That's immoderate plan, Ed.