“We’re experiencing bottlenecks in all kinds of things – huge stresses – as the world wakes up from Covid. It’s like everybody going to put the kettle on at the end of a TV programme.” Thanks Johnson. You fill me with confidence.
Surely more gas, electricity, water...etc was used during lockdown than now? I know I had about 8 cups of tea a day when I was on furlough!
A lot of Brexit delusionists are also climate change deniers, so it’s not entirely out of the question that this could soon become official government policy. The good news is that any wannabe coal barons out there won’t have to worry to much about unionisation and workers’ rights.
Who'd have thought that the genius government would have us reliant on arch enemy Russia for our essential gas supply
The fact is we've removed coal and not replaced it with anything other then more Gas and some renewables. Continued heavy reliance on gas is the problem, coupled with our shocking lack of planning when it comes to renewing nuclear power stations - wind and wave is not reliable enough or advanced enough to do the job, yet. We have a gap - and have to buy electricity from France via cables under the channel - one of the 2 interconnect stations - which I guess feeds that power into our grid burnt down last month, so the amount we can import has been cut in half. Coupled with the uncertainty around gas supply from Russia via NORD 2 - and their price negotiations its all another massive cluster fk which makes us look like a 3rd world basket case.
I thought this was going to be a thread about the wonderful job Joey Barton is doing at Bristol Rovers!
Maybe we could just invade another country in the middle east? All we need is a catalyst, maybe like an old school Pearl Harbour or a new 9/11.................(looks for a copy of the Dick Cheney "how to be a neocon *******" handbook)
Exactly this, winters are usually dull affairs barring a week in December. Let's make it a nuclear winter, we'll all have a year round glow. Who doesn't want an extra finger and toe? Folk from Skeggy never seem to complain.
Blame everything on Covid. The days of cheap energy were over in the 1970s. They certainly are now after a period when supply could match demand to a period when demand exceeds supply. we have benefitted from cheap energy for a number of years. Who was it said we should fix the roof while the sun is shining? was it Gideon.
Yes, and this time it really would be ‘all over by Christmas.’I think the noted military expert Elvis Costello predicted the outcome of this one... “Overrun by the Chinese line, with the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne.”
If only there had been some sort of EU Internal Energy Market to protect against stuff like this. I mean you'd have to be daft to leave that in the first place, and even dafter to leave it without any plan to mitigate against the risk and issues that arise as a result. I can't imagine any government ever doing that.
Anyway, we'll all be driving round in electric cars by 2030, plugged in to sockets providing electricity we can't afford or haven't got.
