Rachel Reeves isn't the only Labour nightmare - Ed Miliband is falling to pieces

Every day brings fresh proof of ministerial ineptitude, naked selfinterest, vanity and entitlement. Labour's front bench loves to lecture the rest of us, grab our money and talk down to working people, while shamelessly bending the rules they impose on the rest of us.

Angela Rayner is the most glaring example. Parading as the authentic workingclass voice, she was forced to resign after bending the rules to avoid £40,000 in stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat in Hove.

Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali campaigned against "unreasonable rent increases", but only afterevicting tenants from her east London townhouse and hiking the rent by £700 a month for the new occupants.

Transport secretary Louise Haigh had to resign after it was discovered she'd filed false reports that her work mobile phone had been stolen.

And then there's our bungling, grabby Chancellor Rachel Reeves. She of the dodgy CV, plagiarised book and freebieenhanced lifestyle.

Now she's in trouble again, after breaking housing regulations by renting out her home without a licence. Regulations she'd praised just weeks earlier.

Who appointed these goons? Of course, chief goon and ultimate freebie lover Keir Starmer , doing what dopey bosses always do and employing in his own dozy image.

Which brings me to the biggest goon of the lot, Ed Miliband.

The energy secretary may be untainted financially, but he's spectacularly useless, politically vain, ideologically unhinged and wildly dishonest with voters.

During the election, he promised to lop £300 off household energy bills if Labour won. By next April, bills are likely to have risen £300 instead. That claim has vanished from official policy documents, yet he repeated it himself last month.

As wholesale gas prices fall, our rising energy bills are down to him. His green levies are adding £185 a year per household at a time when millions cannot afford to heat or light their homes.

All his other madcap projects and plans are crumbling. His vanity project to accelerate decarbonisation from 2035 to 2030 has forced him to squander tens of billions into questionable schemes.

Sizewell C nuclear is on track for a massive cost overrun, he's paying wind farms £1billion a year not to generate energy, and pouring money into unproven carbon capture projects.

Factories are closing because electricity prices are the highest in the developed world, and now households have to subsidise their bills to stop them going bust.

Unions are in revolt as he destroys 40,000 jobs while pretending to replace them with 400,000 fantasy positions.

Foolish, deluded Ed Miliband thinks he's saving the world by fulfilling his self-proclaimed "clean energy superpower mission", but he's making life hell for us ordinary mortals.

The rest of the cabinet has had enough too. Reeves is considering scrapping the North Sea oil and gas windfall tax to encourage investment, undermining Miliband's green agenda.

Starmer has publicly said he will "double down" on fossil fuels, saying they'll remain "part of the mix for many, many years to come".

Miliband's green dreams are melting on contact with reality. In any other government, he'd have been sacked long ago. Yet he refuses to change course, refuses to listen, and only remains in post because hardleft activists love him.

Starmer has tried to reshuffle him once, but Miliband wouldn't budge. Starmer should try harder. Then move onto Reeves and finally, himself. Soon there will be none of the original cabinet left. And a good thing too.