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Tony Reardon
Tony Reardon
1 year ago

A few months ago I celebrated my 50th wedding anniversary. That wedding, back in 1972, took place in North London on a Saturday afternoon where it was dark by 5:30 p.m. and we were subject to a program of rolling power cuts. The whole country was living through day after day of 3 hours with power, 3 hours partial power (brown-out), 3 hours no power. It was not fun. We had a piano in the church for the wedding march (no power for the organ) and candles to light the reception from 6-9 p.m.
These power outages had been going on for some time with other restrictions such as reduced thermostat settings in work places which led to females being allowed to wear trousers.
Our dependence on electricity was not as great back then but this was still incredibly disruptive. Imagine a scenario today where we did not have reliable, affordable power 24/7. The absolute need for this has to be our top priority and green fantasies must not be allowed to disrupt millions of lives.

Will Will
Will Will
1 year ago
Reply to  Tony Reardon

Well said. I was still at primary school but clearly remember sitting in the candle lit living room with my parents. Will our stupid civil servants and politicians never learn.

Richard Bell
Richard Bell
1 year ago

“Great Britains Second Industrial Revolution and a New Prime Minister” 
The coming of a New Prime Minister got me thinking so here are some thoughts from an Englishman in the USA.
The United Kingdom is a GREAT country but looking at it from the outside for the last 20 years I now fear for the word GREAT in “Great Britain”.
My focus is on something we all use, we all need every day and is required to keep the world moving ……. “ENERGY”
Like in many other parts of Europe and the World it looks to me like crazies have taken over in the UK. Green policies and Net Zero Emissions are leading England into the madness of so called renewable energy. This is not a fanciful observation, UK and European radicals think that Solar Panels and Wind Turbines will power the future saving us from a mild manageable temperature increase which is absolutely no threat to any British person let alone mankind.
They cannot save us from a non existent threat and now Germany is in the midst of that realisation. Germany is the European poster child and has spent vast sums of money over many years to get just about nowhere. What they have ended up with are outrageously high domestic and industrial electrical prices, no Nuclear, dependence on Russian Gas and now the fact that digging up coal is about the only choice they have of keeping the lights on. If they really had been worried about Co2 emissions in the first place they would have followed the French down the Nuclear path and saved themselves a great deal of pain.
Back to the United Kingdom and its prospective new leader. None of them have yet to my knowledge mentioned Green Polices or Net Zero. The British population sits atop a vast potential supply of energy which is in the form of Natural Gas. In a similar way to the USA we could be Energy independent. We already have an existing Gas infrastructure and if we moved forward with Fracking the existing gas under our feet just think how far ahead of Europe and the World we could be in the next few years.
Residential electric bills could come down to sensible affordable levels, domestic heating costs would plummet. Industry could become competitive again which could potentially lead to new jobs. Cheaper fertiliser could be sold to our farmers and then around the world. Our food, our manufacturing industry, our population could flourish. Our people could take advantage of an amazing cost effective natural resource that is the GREAT BRITISH ENERGY of Natural Gas.
All this can be achieved NOW with current technology and in a relatively short period of time. It needs courageous leadership to get the GREAT back in Great Britain and move us forward into THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 
A small benefit would be potential reduction in the emission of British Co2 which currently only stands at about 1% so in reality not making a big difference to the world. If we did this and politicians saw the light it could be a transition to a cleaner Nuclear future, we already have the makings of small nuclear power with Rolls Royce. Has someone in our government the courage to pull the United Kingdom out of the “ Green Pit Of Doom “ and up into the Natural Gas Light of a Second revolution ?
This energy revolution was already achieved during the last administration in the United States so it is a proven pathway to cheaper energy costs and energy independence. It is also plane to see that the current Green Progressive policies of the current American government have been an unmitigated disaster and do not work, sadly the USA is following the failed policy of Germany back into the pit.
DO NOT let the UK follow like a lamb to the slaughter into the catastrophic madness of so called Green Technology. WAKE UP and smell the GREAT BRITISH ROSE that is Natural Gas Energy and let it catapult us into a NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 
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Nicky Samengo-Turner
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago

lack of power energy has a more frightening potential than anything bar a nuclear war: just imagine a total breakdown in IT? No hospitals, no A and E, no ambulances, no ability to lock premises, no cash, no functioning payment methods, roads jammed due to traffic lights not working, electric cars stopping that cannot be moved, no fuel…no food. revolution, looting, violence, anarchy

Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson
1 year ago

This is another problem with electric cars that no one talks about. Two days after the power goes out all transport grinds to a halt. It is the opposite of resilient.

David Owsley
David Owsley
1 year ago

Looking at the rather agreeable image in the header of this article makes me wonder (and be grateful to be honest) that TPTB didn’t try such tactics to encourage mask-wearing during the pandemic.

R Wright
R Wright
1 year ago

Our decline into Congo-tier state continues inexorably.

Peter Johnson
Peter Johnson
1 year ago

After the gross mismanagement of Covid – which is becoming clearer to more people – I doubt the public will be very forgiving of another entirely predictable failure of the elite and political class. I’m guessing the mood will be more ‘Blackout 77’ than Vera Lynn.