Yesterday marked an admission from the Labour government.
It has to be said, even by politician standards, [Rachel Reeves’s statement] was an awful lot of old tosh, badly spun, and effectively an admission that the brutal cut to winter fuel allowance was entirely unnecessary.
Well today, the government made an even bigger admission, one that runs in contradiction to one of their favourite projects. The Labour government has admitted that their net zero plans are basically a con.
This may sound like welcome news, and in many ways it is. It also represents the subtle admission that the 2030 grid decarbonisation plan will fail.
Labour will blast the country back into the darkest, coldest and poorest days of the 1970s, says Jacob Rees-MoggGB NEWS
But what happened to the Labour Party that promised green energy alone would be able to provide enough energy for the entire grid at lower prices?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
But with this new announcement, Ed Miliband's answer to high energy costs has been blown away by the wind. This admission is far more troubling than you may think. Not only does it clearly imply that the government is worried, as many have been warning for years, what would happen when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow in a decarbonised grid from 2030. But Sizewell C won't even be up and running until midway through the next decade.
In other words, we are looking at five years of expensive and unreliable energy with a very serious prospect of intermittent blackouts.
If the government was serious about lowering energy bills it would reopen drilling in the North Sea. It would lift the fracking moratorium, reopen the coal mines and create a genuinely free energy market that would drive down consumer and industrial prices.
So while the government may be running scared with this new nuclear power spending, make no mistake, that its energy plan will blast the country back into the darkest, coldest and poorest days of the 1970s.
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