Like most hysterical eco-obsessives, ideology blinds Ed Miliband to ­reason and cold reality

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.

A false premise — that wind and solar power are cheap, reliable and good while oil and gas are expensive, unreliable and bad — informs vital decisions.

This blinkered Energy Secretary cannot even see the glaring contradiction in claiming “clean power” will cut bills while stuffing gold into the mouths of foreign-owned wind farm giants to ­convince them to build.

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.

But David Lammy has managed to anger two of our staunchest — Israel and, in private, America — at once with his ill-judged, ill-timed, politically motivated arms curb.

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?