This interview by Peter McCormack of the energy expert Kathryn Porter, energy analyst and founder of Watt-Logic, is definitely worth watching.
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A damning verdict on UK energy policy and Net ZeroJuly 14th, 2025 |
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The international Western establishment is committed to this insanity – but the British branch of that international establishment is particularly closed-minded. And this is very much a feature of the system of governance here.
There is a lack of a system of checks-and-balances in the system of governance of United Kingdom – once the “experts” decide something it becomes “Policy” and officials ruthlessly push it, with elected politicians being little more than puppets.
And Parliament did pass the Climate Act in (I think) 2010 – although few Members of Parliament had a clue as to what it would be used for.
Again Parliament is not set up for a real difference of opinion – if one examines speeches in the House of Commons they normally have shared assumptions, with lots of angry rhetoric over details, rather than the central principles of a policy.
Real dissent gets shouted down – or just ignored. Ministers (and even most backbench Members of the House of Commons) do not understand something that falls outside the narrative prepared by “experts” and officials.
Paul:
I agree. You do not have to be particularly intelligent to be a minister, you just have to speak to your brief. An AI generated avatar could do it. Any minister with his own views, and who tries to make policy, will be accused of “bullying” and got rid of.
One of the first things a new government should do is get rid of the “Ministerial Code”, which is a trap to get rid of ministers the civil service do not like. The OBR should be the next thing to be abolished. Liz Truss tried to ignore it, but that does not work. It too has to go.
JohnK,
The first thing to is to reinstate the laws against treason and sedition which Blair removed, while giving the bureaucrats a meaningful look.
Mmm. Direct democracy.