2024-06-01
When Sir Keir is anointed PM shortly as many claim to expect, will things get better or worse?
Well, the cost of energy is more of less the determinant of a nation's prosperity, so if it rises then all our costs wax and our real prosperity wanes, whilst if the cost of energy falls then our costs wane and our real prosperity waxes.
Too easy?
Well, never mind, we can trust our politicians to make it more complicated than that, and one of the ways they do this is to cherry-pick which costs they include and which they exclude, and then to apply fiendishly complex market (-fixing) mechanisms and stealth taxes that all somehow act to increase the price we pay.
They have had many years of practice at this so it has now become an almost impossible task to extricate the robust reality from the exquisite intricacy of the calculations.
"The Labour Party will create Great British Energy, a new, publicly-owned clean energy company. We will harness Britain’s sun, wind and wave energy to save £93 billion for UK households"
Fortunately by performing a before and after check of the amazing claims being put forward about how "renewables" will reduce our energy costs and ignoring the intricacies in the middle, it's reasonably easy to see that somewhere along the way, their wonderful assertions must have lost contact with the underlying reality.
David Craig subjects Sir Keir's promises to the scientific proof methodology of reductio ad absurdum, or what we might in less learned language term "adumbration of absurdity" or even "destruction through derision".
Worth reading, although I suspect that this is still only a part of an extraordinarily flaky renewables narrative.
NB: This is not a party political piece.
All the major UK political parties are in this schtick together, and Sir Keir's emanations are simply chosen as illustrative of the one trend as mandated by the UN and the self-appointed unelected World Economic Forum, which mysteriously seems able to impose these policies world-wide.
In this General Election year, if we want yet more of this nonsense and our consequent impoverishment, we can vote for any major UK political party, and several minor ones.
