It is only a matter of time before electricity is going to become a luxury item for pensioners, low earners and the unemployed.For others it is going to make the kind of painful hole in household budgets which is going to hurt considerably more than our currently soaring petrol prices do.
Successive governments have ignored the problem and pretended that it would go away.
We now have EU bullying directives - which if endured - will close many working power stations.
Billions have been squandered on quixotic windmill projects with the promise of ten billions more to come! All this so that we can use something which hardly works but at least, we shall be able to claim 'green' credentials!
Once again, let us turn to the French who have spent generations building up clean and safe nuclear plants - and who are now looking at us with amused detachment and a certain, gleeful, anticipatory rubbing of hands.
Not only do they have 'the power' but inevitably they will soon be in a position to hold us to ransom as they sell us electricity at grossly inflated prices.
Ironically of course, our electricity will still have been generated by nuclear means - it is just that we are not going to have any control over it!
Ironically of course, our electricity will still have been generated by nuclear means - it is just that we are not going to have any control over it!
This is oh-so-typical of green/liberal-left non joined-up thinking!
