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“What an awfully mean spirited post.”
Not remotely mean-spirited or weaponised, Deerey, it was simply a reaction to the incredibly naive and flippant views being expressed on this thread about the direction in which we’re heading. Certain people on here claim to care about the poor and needy while ridiculing comments from anyone who doesn’t fit what they believe to be an acceptable political profile; and it has absolutely nothing to do with me taking anything personally. The Tory party cares very much about poorer people and claiming otherwise is not only completely wrong but also, quite frankly, offensive.
I can assure you that it won’t be long before our lives are being controlled around energy use. Existing tariffs are designed to make better use of when energy demand is lower, i.e. in the middle of the night, but this is changing very rapidly as the country’s spare energy capacity is now dangerously close to zero. Why has this happened? For the simple reason that we’ve ploughed ahead with unreliable renewables, which are far too intermittent to meet our energy needs, while reducing highly reliable fossil fuels because of absurd net zero targets.
It will be years before reliable nuclear alternatives are available so things are going to get a lot worse. We can’t even power existing needs let alone what will happen when everyone has to use electric cars, though given their costs these will be restricted to those who can afford them so maybe that will keep the numbers down. Either way it’s the poorest in society who will suffer.
Finally, if you think things would be better under Labour, good luck. Starmer wants to be at net zero by 2030, which would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious. It seems to me that the only time our idiot politicians and net zero supporters will realise what they’ve done is when it’s too late. The real catastrophe isn’t that we’re “running out of time to stop climate change” but that we’re running out of time to stop forcing millions, billions even, being forced into poverty.