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in southern England. And, of course, the memory-holing of Labour’s promised commitment to a £300 cut in energy bills.
Ed Miliband and the green Blob mouth their mantras about cheap and reliable renewables, but we can all now see that the reality is quite the opposite. They keep blaming gas prices, but in fact the gas price is now back down to its pre-Ukraine war norms. Our energy is expensive because renewables are inherently expensive and must be subsidised, and because they must be paid not just to switch on but also to switch off. But Labour simply won’t admit it.
Starmer and Miliband may close their eyes and ears to the facts, but a much more successful and subtle Labour politician, Sir Tony Blair, can see the way things are going. His punchy foreword to his own institute’s report this week described the current net zero programme as “irrational” and argued that the closing down of debate meant that “the campaign stays in the hands of those who end up alienating the very opinion on which consent for action depends”. I wonder who he could possibly have had in mind?
The truth is that the great days of net zero are over. Its proponents just don’t realise it yet. The policy is moving away from them. The British public don’t trust what they are told. They aren’t willing to pay any more. They think the Norwegian energy minister has a point in wondering why this country won’t invest in the North Sea as they do. They have also realised that the rest of the world is laughing at us Europeans for wrecking our own economies while they invest in coal. And they can see that European governments are behaving like cartoon characters who have run off the cliff but haven’t looked down yet.
That can’t last. The tectonic plates are swiftly shifting. The Tories are joining Reform in distancing themselves from the craziness of this agenda. One day, and it will be soon, the whole net zero climate mentality is going to disappear in a puff of smoke, just as the Covid madness did. And not a moment too soon. The Climate Change Committee will be thrown on to the junk heap of history and we will never speak of it again. Will Labour leave this to the next government? Or can it see which way the renewables wind is blowing, and sail with it?
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