The North Sea comes to the rescue of Britain's ailing economy, once again...
Which is a massive disappointment to all those who prefer the politics of the 1970s -- the blackouts, the industrial disputes, the battles, the malthusian and anti-human philosophy, poverty...
Shame on any infant, jingoistic journalist who takes *any* government's statements at face value. Especially a government whose FS doesn't know the difference between the Baltic and the Black Sea.
Perhaps he is too young to remember Iraq, Afghanistan, Syrial, Libya... 45 minutes. Dodgy dossiers. Mysterious deaths. Tanks at Heathrow. The rollback of civil freedoms and legal rights. And much more.
But then again, if he can't remember, why is he a political correspondent?
The ignorant brat hack is not in a position to call shame on any other *actual* journalist.
Energy UK is a lobbying organisation. It doesn't represent the consumer's interest. Its current CEO was a WWF staffer.
Knight is misleading. Economy7 was offered to consumers because of a predictable SURPLUS of power at night. Time-of-Day pricing is proposed to manage shortage.
@PaulEmbery There was not much wrong with the energy market before the European and cross-party consensus on climate & energy policy emerged to ruin it. NB: '95/'96 methodology change.
Aside Beijing Barry's questionable statistical claims, the claim that abolishing VAT on domestic energy would "benefit" wealthier people more defeats itself.
Gardiner has been at the centre of domestic, EU and global green policymaking, and bears responsibility for the crisis.
If the amount poorer households pay for energy is "more" (as a proportion of their income) than what wealthier households pay, then the 5% VAT is of greater significance to them than to their richer counterparts.
But of course, green zealots are no friends of arithmetic & logic.
If you want to know more about the strange relationships between the CCP and the UK's carbon technocrats -- many of which were appointed under the post-97 Labour governments -- read @DavidRoseUK's recent Unherd piece... unherd.com/2021/12/does-t…