Scotsman letters
Labour’s decline in popularity since the euphoria of last July is stunning. Most blame it on the Winter Fuel Payment withdrawal and other welfare tinkering. In my opinion there is only one central cause, and it is not these, but I fear Sir Keir Starmer is not up to righting it.
He needs urgently to get rid of Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and his crippling policies and ditch the whole impoverishing net zero shebang. The crassness of shutting down our oil and gas bonanza and then importing the same product from China and elsewhere at horrendous cost in every sense of the word beggars belief.
Then Mr Miliband concreted in all our coke mines and in so doing closed down permanently the fuel needed to power the UK’S steel manufacturing industry. This now has to be bought and shipped from the USA.
This kind of blind zealotry is hurting Labour – and far more importantly,ourcountry–endlessly. We need someone pragmatic in Mr Miliband’s place, the sooner the better. Alexander Mckay
Edinburgh
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