Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband are out of control - anyone with a car should be furious

Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband are completely out of control. The petrol and diesel car ban won't work. The car industry doesn't want it, yet Labour's top brass press on regardless. Are they listening to the industry, or are they making decisions for the country with their hands pressed into their ears.

According to reports, Ed Miliband has strongly opposed plans to reduce electric car sales targets under the Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate rules set at 80% of production by 2030.

A crazy idea and a ridiculous target when manufacturers are already struggling to meet the current targets. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has stated that no one in the industry thinks it can be done. Keir Starmer overruled Miliband and watered down the plans, backing changes that would cut the target to just 50%. But even that may be too much.

The current UK EV market share is 23.9% this year, but the SMMT has suggested that natural demand may even be less than half of that figure. If true, a 50% sales target in just four years' time is a complete joke and will never be met in a million years.

The hilarious thing is, all of this could have been predicted years ago. How many motoring experts in the last couple of years have suggested that the ban would eventually be kicked down the road? If it was inevitable that the targets were unachievable, why didn't this all get watered down sooner?

Before leaving office, Rishi Sunak had pushed back the ban to 2035. But Labour had to make a big deal of reversing the decision. In their manifesto, they stated that part of the reason for restoring the phase-out date to 2030 was to give "certainty to manufacturers".

Does forcing firms to invest in EV production lines or discount new to meet sales targets only to water down the rules sound like "certainty". No, it sounds like chaos.

Electric cars have a lot of amazing selling points, but we should let the market sort itself out at a pace it naturally wants to. Electric has proved its a capable option for transport, but forcing everyone to have it as their only option is a big and costly mistake.

Labour just has to accept that Britain's drivers are not yet ready for a full EV transition. The 80% target was laughable and the 50% target is still a long way off.