2024-06-23
Why is it that politicians always seem to suffer from a reality gap?
In so far as the gap between the fantasy of their fondly-imagined future and the current reality of the state of the nation always seems to be a chasm too far for them to even comprehend, let alone to bridge?
It's as if they really believe that all they have to do is to tell us where they want us to be in the future, and someone else will do all the hard graft to work out how to get us all there, and then actually get us all there, whatever obstacles may be encountered along the way.
Perhaps we voters should send engineers to Parliament rather than politicians, since engineers are accustomed to producing products that work - but then wouldn't that mean that we would have to work with the defective products now produced by all those useless displaced politicians?
"It is no longer possible for either party to pretend that we can decarbonise our power grid in the timescales they propose. Neither will it be possible at all without massively expensive alternatives, such as carbon capture, hydrogen and energy storage"
Paul Homewood reports for the Daily Sceptic.
