A Political Revolution Disguised as EnvironmentalismFor more than a century, the British public has been bombarded with dramatic warnings of climate catastrophe. Newspapers from the 1930s, 1950s, 1970s and beyond issued panicked predictions — seas rising fifty feet, Antarctica collapsing, Britain drowning, ice ages coming, ice ages going. None of it materialised. The rhetoric changed shape, but the message stayed the same: fear the climate, and trust the experts.
But something changed between 2006 and 2008.For the first time in British history, a government did not simply use climate fear — it legislated it, locked it into statute, and handed control of national policy to an unelected quango.
Two people were at the heart of this transformation:Ed Miliband, then the newly appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Baroness Bryony Worthington, the radical environmental campaigner who drafted the Climate Change Act behind the scenes.
Together, they created the legal, political, and economic architecture that is now dismantling the UK’s energy security, destroying its industrial competitiveness, bankrupting households, and handing power to corporations, consultants, and international bodies who profit from permanent crisis.
This is not hyperbole.This is the story of how two individuals installed a system that the British people never voted for — and cannot vote out.
The Birth of the Regime:
The Climate Change Act 2008
When Parliament passed the Climate Change Act, most MPs thought they were voting for a symbolic environmental gesture. They had no idea they were handing over the keys to the country.
Behind the scenes, Baroness Worthington — then working for the environmental activist group Friends of the Earth — drafted the core architecture of the Act. Miliband championed it through Parliament with evangelical zeal.
What did it actually do?
1. It created legally binding carbon budgets
These budgets function as five-year economic handcuffs.If future governments fail to meet them, they can be taken to court.
This means:
Energy policy is no longer democratic.
Industry strategy is no longer democratic.Infrastructure spending is no longer democratic.The entire economy must align with carbon budgets set not by voters, but by…
2. It created the Climate Change Committee (CCC)
The CCC is an unelected quango with the power to determine the pace, scale, and direction of the UK’s entire economic transformation.It decides:what energy sources Britain must use,how fast fossil fuels must be eliminated,how much households must pay,what infrastructure must be built,and now, increasingly, how people must live.Parliament cannot override CCC recommendations without facing political ruin.Ministers cannot diverge from CCC reports without being accused of “denying science”.The CCC, not the electorate, now governs Britain’s energy future.This was Miliband and Worthington’s true achievement:making climate ideology enforceable by law.
The Consequences:
An Energy System Designed to FailOnce the carbon budgets were locked in, everything else followed automatically.
✔ Collapse of baseload generation
Coal was eliminated before replacements existed.Gas was demonised.Nuclear was delayed for two decades.The grid was left with intermittent sources designed around ideology, not engineering.
✔ Explosion of renewable developers feeding off subsidies
Solar and wind corporations discovered they could make more money from:
subsidies,
Contracts for Difference,constraint payments,curtailment compensation,and speculative grid queue positions…than from producing usable power.The result?Thousands of miles of farmland carpeted with solar arrays that cannot connect to the grid for 10–15 years.
✔ A grid pushed to breaking point
The UK now needs:130,000 km of new cables,hundreds of new substations,100+ super grid transformers,£58–£100 billion in upgrades by 2035,just to accommodate an energy system that produces power when it’s not needed and fails when it is.This is not an accident.This is the direct consequence of a law written by activists and signed by politicians who never understood energy engineering.
The Corporate Capture:
Who Really Won?
Miliband and Worthington promised a greener, fairer Britain.Instead, they created the most lucrative corporate feeding frenzy in modern history.The winners have been:renewables developers, building on farmland with guaranteed profit;
international finance, cashing in on green bonds and carbon markets;
consultancies, producing endless Net Zero roadmaps for government fees;
grid operators, extracting billions in regulated asset returns;
oil and gas giants, rebranding as “green partners” while still profiting;
tech giants, pushing electrification that the grid cannot support;
carbon trading firms, turning emissions into a tradable commodity.
Meanwhile, the losers have been:
British households
British farmers
British industry
British manufacturing
British national sovereignty
The Climate Change Act created a structure in which the UK is permanently trapped:permanently paying,permanently upgrading,permanently transforming,permanently diminishing,with no reset button.This is how great nations fall — not through invasion, but through self-inflicted economic and infrastructural disarmament.
The Political Deception: “The Science Made Us Do It”
To shield their system from criticism, Miliband and Worthington embedded a narrative strategy that is still used today:
1. Conflate weather events with climate catastrophe
2. Interpret every hot day as proof of failure
3. Interpret every cold day as “just weather”
4. Label dissent as ignorance
5. Claim urgency to suppress debate
6. Use moral language to silence objections (“save the planet”)This mirrors the historical climate rhetoric in your screenshots — the same doom-laden predictions, the same absolutist tone, the same insistence that “we have only a few years left”.The difference is that in the past, these were headlines.Today, they are laws.
The Outcome: The Managed Decline of the United Kingdom
What did Miliband and Worthington actually achieve?They turned Britain into a global experiment — without public consent.A nation that once led the world in engineering, mining, manufacturing, and energy innovation is now:
unable to build its own nuclear stations,reliant on imported electricity,strangled by its own grid,exporting manufacturing due to high energy costs,covering farmland with infrastructure that cannot connect,legislatively forbidden from pursuing the energy sources that built its prosperity.The UK has been locked into decline by a law written by activists and made permanent by politicians who failed to consider the consequences.This is not Net Zero.This is national self-erasure.And it began with two people who believed they were saving the planet —when in fact, they were dismantling a country.
Conclusion:
The Undoing Begins With Repeal
Britain cannot recover until:
the Climate Change Act is repealed,the CCC is abolished,carbon budgets are replaced with democratic accountability,energy engineering replaces ideology,and national survival replaces symbolic climate virtue.
Until then, the UK will continue its engineered descent —not because of climate change,but because of Miliband, Worthington, and a law that should never have been written.
Shane Oxer. Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy
SAY NO TO THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR LAND 
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