By Paul Homewood
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https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/09/ed-milibands-speech-labour-conference-full-text
Ten years ago, Ed Miliband promised a million new green jobs by 2030. He’s not the only one of course to make such extravagant promises over the years.
The reality, as you might have guessed, is somewhat different!
The ONS has just published the data for 2022, which attempts to put a gloss on it by including all sorts of jobs, such as 138,900 jobs in waste collection, jobs which have always been there. There are another 70,000 jobs in the environmental charity/consultancy sector.
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When you strip out all of those peripheral jobs and focus on the Low Carbon sector itself, we find that total jobs have increased from just 57,900 in 2014 to a pitiful 97,700 in 2022.
Of the increase, there are 9,200 new jobs in nuclear, presumably building Hinkley Point, and 10,000 new jobs in Low Carbon vehicles, which will effectively have just switched form ICE cars production and therefore are not “new jobs” at all.
The whole renewable sector, including wind and solar farms, hydro, carbon capture, bioenergy and renewable heat, still only employs 17,400 people, just 7400 up on 2014.
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Miliband has another 960,000 jobs to go to hit his target.
I don’t know what they will actually do, but maybe he could tell us how we are going to find the money to pay them!
