Guido was scrolling on the internet and wanted to see how Miliband’s much-vaunted GB Energy is getting along after its founding hiring run flopped with almost zero interest from applicants. No luck – Labour has taken down the GB Energy website…

Now the public can’t admire the stock image logo any more – the link http://great-british-energy.org.uk/redirects to boring updates on the project over at the gov.uk website. Gone are testimonials from members of the public and a postcode search feature to see: “How will it help in my area?” Could Labour not think of any answers to that one now the election’s over?

Thankfully the old website is still available on the internet archive. Now Labour has given up on saying energy bills will fall by £300 GB Energy is increasingly looking like just another stunt…

Today is the one-year anniversary of Khan’s hated ULEZ expansion – forcing all 32 London boroughs to cough up £12.50 to drive if they happened to have one of the 700,000 non-compliant cars. The tax collects a whopping £715,000 a day from motorists…

Late last month City Hall pushed out an unauthored taxpayer-funded report claiming that emissions had fallen “drastically” thanks to the expansion – it showed roadside Nitrogen Dioxide concentrations were a measly 1.93% lower on average since ULEZ’ expansion. Quite the reward for an anti-worker tax…

Buried in the middle of the report is the admission that it doesn’t measure either the expansion itself or ULEZ in isolation:

“The analysis for the ULEZ shows the impacts of not just the ULEZ and its expansions, but all of the Mayor’s policies to reduce emissions from transport, including those within the Mayor’s Transport Strategy. As such, it is not straightforward to isolate the impact of the ULEZ and its expansions. Therefore the analysis for the ULEZ can be seen to show the impacts of not just the ULEZ and its expansions, but of all the Mayor’s policies to reduce emissions from transport.”

On top of that new analysis claims ULEZ is responsible for £875 million of the total revenue generated by these zones since 2019. Seeing as it cost an extra £500 million to roll out, that’s a pretty hefty price tag. Now non-compliant cars are being forced off the road, Khan will have to think of a new money grab. Have no fear – pay per mile charging is on the way…

Left-wing politicos were winded by Biden’s genius economic strategy of… protectionism. The Inflation Reduction Act, a $369 billion subsidy programme for US-based companies, was met with breathless reactions from Labour politicians in the UK. Ed Miliband accused Grant Shapps of being “deeply complacent” by failing to replicate the policy and said plainly of the “global race for green jobs“: “We should match the ambition of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and stop moaning about it.” The IRA’s early results don’t bode well for its replication in the UK…

The FT now reports 40% of the largest manufacturing investments announced as part of Biden’s flagship bills have been paused or delayed. High costs and slowing demand are kiboshing eco-investment projects – foregoing the “green growth” that was promised with them. Reeves announced that “globalisation as we know it is dead” while unveiling Labour’s replica of the Biden subsidy programme. Labour is starting to realise the myth of “state-driven growth” won’t save them now they’re actually in power…

George Monbiot has released a new video on Double Down News praising that ecological champion…China. After claiming that the West has always criticised it in order to peddle “the old yellow peril myth” and mocking world leaders for talking about the threat from China on a state level, Monbiot touts the country’s green credentials. Everything else is waved away with a “China is doing some bad stuff”…

“It’s massively investing in green infrastructure and green industries and if there’s one thing we should be concerned about it’s that we’re being completely left behind by China’s investments… We are being left behind in the fossil age.”

Monbiot finishes: “China, for all its faults, puts us to shame.” News to anyone who thinks lowering emissions is a good thing…

Last time Guido checked, China, while building some solar farms, added a record 47 Gigawatts of coal power in 2023, which is double the amount from the rest of the world combined. That’s the equivalent of two new coal plants every week, as the country accounted for a whopping 30.9% of carbon emissions in 2021 and is currently rated “highly insufficient” on climateactiontracker.org. Guido didn’t realise George was such a fan of carbon…

Monbiot goes on to say how brilliant it is that the “French government is training every single public servant in ecological principles. 5.6 million people everyone who works for the state in any capacity at all is going to have ecological training.” More powerpoints for bureaucrats, that’ll solve climate change…