Laughing stock Labour and Mad Ed Miliband's cheap assault on UK industry

The Labour Party, once the party of hard hats and factory floors, has become a laughing stock under Mad Ed Miliband and his spinning-top sidekick Sir Keir Starmer. Their Net Zero 'twister game' madness isn't just a policy - it's a full-scale assault on Britain's industrial heartlands. While they virtue-signal about saving the planet, they're shuttering our coal mines, banning fracking, and propping up British Steel with foreign coal imports.

You can't make it up. It's a scandal of epic proportions - and it's time to properly call it out. Let's cut through the spin: Labour's Net Zero crusade is a con job. Mad Ed and Spinning Keir have banned new coal mines and outlawed fracking, leaving Britain begging for coking coal from abroad to keep our last steel plants alive. The fact a 55,000 tonne shipment of coal which arrived in Lincolnshire from Japan on Thursday, needed to save Scunthorpe's blast furnaces, was still stuck on a boat last night - 24 hours after the Government took control of British Steel, beggars belief.

Moving forward, these eco-clowns would rather import coal on slow boats from Australia or Colombia - waiting 45 days for delivery - than dig up British coal that's right under our feet. Why? Because their greenie pals in the Extinction Rebellion mob would throw a hissy fit.

Meanwhile, towns like Scunthorpe face economic ruin as British Steel's blast furnaces gasp for fuel. The government is even offering to buy the coal themselves with your taxes to keep this farce alive. It's insanity!

We're paying foreign miners to do the work British miners could do-while Labour lectures us about "sustainability." Don't be fooled by Labour's last-minute stunt to "save" British Steel.

This is a pop-up steel industry - a cheap, temporary trick to mask their industrial vandalism. The Chinese owners at Jingye are ready to bolt, blast furnaces are days from going cold, and Mad Ed's solution is to throw taxpayer cash at foreign coal shipments.

It's like using a sticking plaster to fix a broken leg! And let's not forget Labour's role in this utter omni-shambles. Their energy policies have given Britain the highest industrial power costs in the world bar none.

No wonder Jingye says steelmaking here is "financially unsustainable."

Even Andrew Neil blasted Mad Ed's "nauseating hypocrisy," rightly accusing him of promoting policies that make British industry uncompetitive while posing as a hero for workers. Labour's "rescue plan" is a sham.

Once the headlines fade, Scunthorpe's furnaces will still face closure - and thousands of workers will still be left jobless. Mad Ed Miliband and Spinning Keir Starmer are eco-zealots,not leaders. Their Net Zero obsession has become a death warrant for British industry.

They've shut coal plants, banned fossil fuel projects, and poured billions into windmills and solar panels that can't power a toaster on a cloudy day.

Meanwhile, they've turned Britain into a dumping ground for foreign coal. While they virtue-signal about "clean energy," they're happy to let China, India, and Russia burn coal by the shipload. They've made us a global joke-and British workers are paying the price.

Even the Greens are laughing! Their solution? Nationalisethe steel industry and switch to "green steel" - a fantasy technology that doesn't exist at scale. Meanwhile, Labour's pop-up steel scam keeps the furnaces burning just long enough for Starmer to snap a photo op with hard hats before pulling the plug.

The crisis in Scunthorpe is a national disgrace. BritishSteel's furnaces - Bess and Anne, the last two standing in the UK - are running on fumes. To buy time, engineers are performing a risky "Salamander Tap" shutdown on Bess, drilling holes to drain molten metal without killing the furnace.

It's a Hail Mary move that underscores Labour's utter incompetence. Unions are begging for nationalisation, but that's just a band-aid.

Without affordable British coal, steelmaking here will never be viable. Labour's answer? Keep importing foreign coal, keep prices sky-high, and keep workers biting their nails.

And let's talk about Jingye. The Chinese firm isn't stupid - they've seen Labour's Net Zero madness and want out. Who can blame them? Even the Lib Dems and Tories are scrambling for "alternative partners", but no sane investor will touch British steel while Mad Ed's policies drain profits.Labour claims to "level up," but their policies are levelling down.

Towns like Scunthorpe, once thriving industrial hubs, are becoming ghost towns. Workers who built this country are treated like collateral damage in Labour's war on fossil fuels.Mad Ed and Spinning Keir would rather win applause at the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil than save a single British job.

They've sold out the working class to please their tofu-eating, bike-riding London elite mates. It's a betrayal - and voters won't forget it. Even Labour's own unions are revolting.

Unite's Linda McCulloch has demanded nationalisation to "keep steelmaking alive", but what's the point if Net Zero taxes and foreign coal make it impossible?

Here's the solution, plain and simple: Reopen Britain's coal mines. We have enough coal under our feet to power steelmaking for decades. It's cheaper, faster, and creates thousands of jobs-real jobs, not pop-up scams.

But no. Mad Ed would rather virtue-signal. He'd rather import coal with a giant carbon footprint from halfway across the globe than admit his Net Zero fantasy is unworkable.

It's time to ditch this madness and put Britain First. Labour have betrayed workers, sacrificed communities, and turned us into a global punchline. It's time to sack the clowns, reopen the mines, and put British jobs and British homegrown energy security. No more foreign coal.

No more phony "green steel" pipe dreams. No more Mad Ed.