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The Zealot Discovers Pragmatism the Moment It Suits Him Ed Miliband called new North Sea drilling "climate vandalism." He built a year in office on that conviction, closing licences, missing his own department's cost-benefit deadlines, and standing at the despatch box to warn that Britain's exposure to global fossil fuel prices was a danger to households. Now, with a possible move to Number 11 on the table, he is privately signalling he will approve production at the Jackdaw gas field. The vandalism argument has not changed. His career prospects have. An industry source put the real motive plainly: Miliband sees approval as a way of showing willing to the City. Not to the 1.4 million households Jackdaw could heat this winter. Not to the union boss who warned his appointment as chancellor would strangle job creation. To the markets, whose confidence he now needs more than he needs his own principles to survive intact. Conviction, it turns out, was never the obstacle to drilling. Ambition was the only thing capable of overriding it. Look at what has changed in the meantime, and what has not. Energy bills are 13 per cent higher than in April. Wealthy residents are drawing up exit plans over fears of a new CGT regime he may soon be responsible for setting. Britain still imports gas at a premium while sitting on fields it refuses to develop. None of that moved him while he held only the energy brief. What moved him was the prospect of a bigger one, and with it, a market reaction he could not afford to mishandle. Even the manner of this conversion tells its own story. He cannot confirm the decision publicly until a consultation closes on 10 August, for fear of triggering a judicial review, the same legal machinery that campaigners used to strangle Jackdaw's original 2022 consent in the first place. So the U-turn arrives privately, filtered through unnamed sources, calibrated for maximum reassurance to investors and minimum political exposure to a Left flank that still believes he means what he has spent years saying. A minister discovering pragmatism only where nobody can hold him to it in public is not pragmatism. It is management. The Aberdeen South by-election should have been the wake-up call. Voters handed the Tories victory on the back of exactly this argument, that domestic energy production matters more than distant targets. It made no visible difference to his convictions until his own ambitions entered the equation. That timing tells you everything you need to know. None of this should be mistaken for a change of heart on net zero itself. Miliband has not renounced the target that has driven a year of closures, suppressed analysis and rising bills. He has simply found one exception, sized precisely to the moment his own career required it. The zealotry stays intact everywhere his ambition does not reach. Andrew Neil called this government's energy policy bordering on criminally negligent. He might have added that the man responsible for it has just demonstrated exactly how negligence gets corrected, not by admitting the policy was wrong, but by discovering, at the moment it becomes personally useful, that it was. Britain does not need a chancellor who abandons conviction under market pressure. It needs one who never mistook ideology for policy in the first place. Miliband has shown he is capable of neither, only of noticing, at exactly the right moment for himself, which one currently pays better. "An industry source put the real motive plainly: Miliband sees approval as a way of showing willing to the City. Not to the 1.4 million households Jackdaw could heat this winter."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 CHURCH OF ENGLAND GIVES £100 MILLION SLAVERY REPARATIONS The Church of England is giving one hundred million pounds in reparations. A moral imperative, they say. Britain abolished slavery in 1807. Modern churchgoers pay for sins they did not commit. Project Spire will take the money and call it healing. The legal challenge will be ignored. This is guilt money for a crime no living person committed. Put an end to this madness now.

More people than ever are discovering there’s true evil in the world and they’re turning to God for answers. Jay Dyer explains the growing popularity of the Orthodox Church. 0:00 The Attempts to Suppress Christianity in Schools 8:14 The Problems With Christian Zionism 14:09 What Is Calvinism? 24:10 A Different View of Salvation and the Bible 30:13 The Rise of Secret Societies 34:09 The Importance of Reading the Bible 36:38 What Are Icons? 42:55 The Difference Between Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism 47:56 What's the Highest Form of Government? 55:49 The Rise in Online Debates 1:00:42 The Death of Atheism 1:04:35 The Religion of Hollywood 1:12:25 Has the CIA Been Involved in Making Hollywood Movies? 1:14:51 Lone Gunmen and False Flag Recruitment 1:17:44 The CIA's Role in American Politics 1:19:22 Were Epstein's Sex Crimes a Distraction From Something Bigger? 1:22:34 Are Aliens Actually Demons? 1:24:39 The True Goal of the Globalist Elites 1:31:51 Yoga, Sexual Perversion, and Demonic Power 1:39:55 Was Oppenheimer Participating in the Demonic? 1:43:44 The Rise of Charismatic Christianity 1:50:17 The End Times

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