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I have strong opinions, Siderite, and whether I agree with your opinions or not I completely respect your right to hold them. I don’t come on here to be liked or even agreed with; and if I come across as patronising and arrogant it’s my response to those who come out with comments such as those by Deerey, above.
Just look at that Deerey comment about net-zero. It’s complete nonsense. It’s an indisputable fact that energy costs soared when renewables were unable to cope with demand because the wind stopped blowing at the same time that natural gas supplies were low. The reason they were so low, of course, was down to fossil fuels being demonised to meet net-zero targets. Then of course, Mr Putin decided to invade Ukraine, paid for by the natural gas imported by countries such as Germany after they decided to close down their fossil fuel and nuclear plants.
The likes of Deerey just turn a blind eye to this. Maybe it salves their conscience for supporting this net-zero drivel. The drivel that is now pushing millions into poverty. Yet he just dismisses me as an ‘ideologue’. Well, he’s entitled to his opinion but that’s as far from the truth as it’s possible to get. What I am is a realist; and the fact is that this country has lived beyond its means for decades.
Of course the Tories have been to blame for this as much as Labour. There’s plenty of things the Tory party does that I don’t agree with and I have no problem admitting it. But Truss and Kwarteng are 100% correct that this has to change. Yes, the mini-budget was a shambles in how it’s been managed, but the fundamental strategy is the right one. Deerey can listen to as many ‘experts’ as he likes on R4, selected no doubt precisely because of his views on Brexit and net-zero, but it’s unlikely the chair of a pension fund is going to admit his own people were part of the screw-up that led to the BoE having to bail them out.