For two years the government has added more renewables, told us they are cheaper, and watched as electricity prices have been rising.
When challenged they tell us prices have only gone up because electricity prices are often based on the price of gas generated electricity.
So here are their options
1 Change electricity pricing so renewables and nuclear do not get the gas based electricity price
Or
2,Remove the high carbon tax/emissions trading costs imposed on gas generators
And or
3. Get more of our own oil and gas out.This will bring big increases in tax revenue as the UK collects it instead of passing lots of tax to Norway and US for imported gas.Use the extra tax revenue to cut energy prices.
4. End high guaranteed prices for renewables for future projects and contracts.Our historic contracts offer dear power.
5 Commission more new combined cycle gas power stations to keep the lights on.
June 6, 2026
When challenged they tell us prices have only gone up because electricity prices are often based on the price of gas generated electricity.
And they fully know like also the Tories when they were in power that there’s not a lot your average Joe Public can do about it, we need to go back a few years and be dependent on our own resources after all we are a bloody island surrounded by gas taps and tidal waves and also shale on land let’s just get on with it and kick this fascination with the climate rubbish into the long grass and start looking after ourselves for a change
June 6, 2026
You offer five options. Labour will just repeat their claims and carry on regardless.
Starmer refuses to recognise a ‘two tier’ policy, despite the fact that it is his long time nickname.
He would tell you black was white with a straight face.
Challenge Labour by all means, just don’t expect a response – let alone a sensible one.
Miliband offers a master class in avoiding interviews and flying under the radar.
June 6, 2026
Fully agree
June 6, 2026
Starmer suggests US ‘trying to interfere in our democracy’ over JD Vance’s comments on Nowak’s murder.
He is just offering you helpful advice Starmer just as Trump told you close the borders open the North Sea, drill frack and spend more on defence.
So our one “working” sick joke, sitting duck, Aircraft Carriers (with rather few and rather unsuitable aircraft and no catapults and arrester wires) The HMS Prince of Wales has broken down yet again. Perhaps they have run out of spares from the other one the Queen Elizabeth II.
UK defence procurement has been rather a farce all my life so far – circa 60+ years. But then the government cannot even sensibly contract to build 100 miles of rail track.
June 6, 2026
nor adequately monitor and control the Channel, even the narrow 20 miles wide part.
June 6, 2026
If JD Vance is just “offering helpful advice”, so was Barack Obama back in 2016.
Plenty of commentors on this site didn’t treat that as such.
June 6, 2026
“Back of the line/queue you mean?” Well A. it was not helpful advice is was very duff advice and B. it was surely Cameron who asked him to do this. This while Osborne and Carney were inventing their evil threats if voters dared to leave:-
“George Osborne says he will have to slash public spending and increase taxes in an emergency Budget to tackle a £30bn “black hole” if the UK votes to leave the European Union.
The chancellor said this could include raising income and inheritance taxes and cutting the NHS budget.”
Translation “Vote leave and we will mug you” Osborne and Cameron then pathetically abandoned ship!
June 6, 2026
Trump – as President – is like Potter from It’s A Wonderful Life.
I hope the USA gets a far more intelligent, civilised and down-to-earth Republican leader like George Bailey so that the USA is more like It’s A Wonderful Life under George Bailey than under Petter – Pottersville.
And A Wonderful Life for our great nation too.
June 6, 2026
Ed M,
‘Every time a bell rings I hate you some more’
Half Man, Half Biscuit.
June 7, 2026
The world is full of hate (and costs our country billions and billions in terms of crime, addiction, low productivity, health issues etc).
And people who hate others, ultimately hate themselves.
And you can be sure back in 1946, most Brits, including WW2 soldiers loved it’s A Wonderful Life. So many today would hate the film because they’re full of hate for themselves and others (and look down on others as ‘biscuits’). That’s the kind of world we live in today compared back to the UK (and the USA) in 1946.
June 7, 2026
Also, in 1940 the UK government banned bell-ringing because of those bad guys flying over London dropping bombs. Five years later, those bells rang like crazy again to celebrate the end of WW2. That’s one reason why soldiers and others would have loved the bells in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Lastly, it was also James Stewart’s (George Bailey in the film) favourite film of all his film.
Stewart had a distinguished military career. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for actions as deputy commander of the 2nd Bombardment Wing, the French Croix de Guerre with palm, and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.
June 7, 2026
Lastly, Lady Thatcher would agree with me. She might say my views – sometimes – are a bit quaint (but she would respond with humour not viciousness – viciousness, not humour, is increasingly what we’re seeing more of in our ‘modern’ world). But she’d definitely agree with me – on hindsight – for need to develop our high tech / car industry. And other things (there is noting I can think of where I vary in anything dramatic to Lady Thatcher’s political views).
Also, regarding ‘bells.’ Lady Thatcher was a young woman during WW2. How different our values now are compared to people back then. Our modern world is becoming so rogue and atomised, that she’d be asking: how can you even govern a country, when people are becoming more and more like this.
Reply You are wrong about Margaret Thatcher. Dont write about things you do not know
June 7, 2026
How would Margaret Thatcher not want our country to compete with Silicon Valley in High Tech or for the UK to produce its own German-style, own-branded cars?
Lastly, regarding Silicon Valley, IBM’s a great example of where Hardware leads to huge sales in Services (IBM makes more money from services than from hardware – but services based on the hardware).
And, it’s proven, that a country that produces its own branded cars (for the high-quality mass market as opposed to just sports or luxury cars) greatly increases productivity overall.
I don’t think there is anything controversial about this. But I still greatly respect your POV.
June 7, 2026
Lastly, Lady Thatcher was ultimately a Christian woman (methodist / C of E). And sure she might have struggled as all do. But please God she is in Heaven now – trillions and trillions of times more happy than this world is (great as this world is).
But I think she would strongly support me for wanting to take on THE BIG LIE that Christianity weakens our great nation. It’s actually the opposite!
1. Look at how Joseph of Egypt (who foreshadows Christ) was the second most powerful man in the world and where Egypt was blessed under Joseph.
2. The Jews only had to spend a year in the wilderness instead of 40 if they’d listened to God. The great Moses also guilty. How our Western World is sure in the wilderness today (especially as our Christian heritage and world undermined more and more). And the huge role Christianity values plays in happy family life.
3. Cyrus the Great described as anointed or holy in the Bible (Napoleon and Alexander the Great just loved Cyrus – i don’t blame them)
4. All our great institutions – Parliament, Monarchy, Oxford, Cambridge, Grammar Schools, Guilds, medieval Cathedrals and churches etc – all Christian in origin
5. The Quakers – small group of people – huge in their impact on business – and not just porridge and chocolate and top hats but finance too.
6. And then in arts and culture. Jane Austen here in the UK. Bach in Germany
7. And science – Sir Isaac Newton Biblical scholar.
God rest Lady Thatcher and God bless our great nation
June 6, 2026
And sure, socialists and WOKE are like Potter in It’s A Wonderful Life as well.
I want my country back. Not some crazy version of Pottersville like in It’s A Wonderful Life that the Western World is becoming more and more like.
June 6, 2026
Matthew Lynn today.
“Even the charity shops can’t survive in Labour’s high-tax Britain
On current trends, only a row of boarded-up store fronts will be left after this Parliament.”
If they cannot survive with 80% of council tax, often discounted or zero rent, donated stock and volunteer staff and no VAT on donated items sold then what chance has a normal trader got?
June 6, 2026
Perhaps pubs will need to become Charities with donated home brew!
June 7, 2026
Only pay if you like the pint?
June 6, 2026
Far too sensible.
It will never happen with this Government.
They cannot see they are defending the indefensible on this, two tier justice, welfare, borrowing…. the list goes on.
June 6, 2026
The reason they tie the price to gas is to justify paying renewable operators inflated prices.
When they bid, that is the price that should be paid but of course they would soon be bankrupt.
Milibrain has agreed over £100 per mwh, inflation proofed for the next 20 years and a whopping £250 for a floating windfarm.
The country will be bankrupt and none of the measures you propose will help. There is a 7 year backlog for industrial Gas Turbines so bring on the power cuts.
June 6, 2026
Indeed total insanity and this for intermittent power which is worth far less and not for on demand power like coal, oil, gas or wood at Drax. Also renewables need vastly more expensive grid wiring as they are so numerous and spread out up to 200 times as much as one or two large power stations connected to each other and to customers. The grid need to cope with wind and solar at full 100% power but on average will only carry 20% or so. This expensive capacity is thus wasted most of the time!
June 6, 2026
You are right. The bankruptcy is to be made even more certain by the inane return to PFI. Large consortia fleecing the taxpayer with their 30 years plus hugely expensive service contracts with public organisations, where £250 for changing a light bulb again becomes the norm.
June 6, 2026
Ian
In South Africa they had an app’ which told you when you were due to have your power cut. Theives soon realised that, as soon as the power went off they were safe to dog up and steal the copper wire.
I for the life of will dread once the likes of RedEd hit upon the same idea.
And for those not in the know, South Africa has decended into a Third World s***hole.
June 6, 2026
If the renewables were economically viable government could say to the providers you build and provided back up your wind farm and we will buy X MWHs off your per year at times of our choosing and at the market rate at that time. But as it is not economically viable so they would not build them. So they rig the market for them and we all have to pay absurd rates, absurd standing charges and absurd taxes too.
June 6, 2026
Exactly. And they won’t remove the Carbon Tax on gas, which increases the price’ because the money is used to subsidise renewables.
Exactly. And they won’t remove the Carbon Tax on gas, which increases the price, because it is spent on renewables subsidies.
June 6, 2026
It takes a fairly large amount of fossil fuels to build the bird, bat and insect chopping windfarms, to maintain them and connect them up. They are very far from CO2 free.
June 6, 2026
The single biggest driver of high energy costs in the policy of Net Zero.
There is little point detailing good ideas to bring back lower energy costs while the Climate Change Act 2008 and its appended Net Zero legislation remains in place.
While that Act sits on the statute book, there is no way of introducing the lower cost energy options because they are considered unlawful….
The first duty of a new administration has to be, the repeal of the Climate Change Act 2008.
June 6, 2026
it amazes me the massive cycle lanes which have been built up and down the country, at vast expense, as a fashion within the public sector, which has never been in an election manifesto. such a lot of money and which in many cases are lucky to have one bike per week use them. this country wastes so much money it is ridiculous.
June 6, 2026
That would be a good start, but before that happens the government would have to admit that they were wrong, and that is never going to happen.
They would have to confront the fact that green energy will never replace what we have already, without nuclear, but they won’t do that.
Instead they will continue with their efforts to deny us cheap energy, while making us pay for their expensive deals that will only deny us a real energy supply.
It’s no use appealing to labour’s logical side – they don’t have one. Now if we could only fold socialist dogma into our logic they just might take notice.
June 6, 2026
All the time Mad Ed Miliband is in charge of energy and his dogmatic headlong rush to renewables is allowed to continue. The cost of energy will rise.
He doesn’t care, he’s a blinded zealot.
He doesn’t care because the ‘dead man walking’ Starmer supports him.
He doesn’t care because he’s a millionaire, untroubled by domestic energy cost.
He doesn’t care that he’s caused the closure of so much British industry. He can buy what he wants from anywhere.
He doesn’t care because he’s essentially a Marxist traitor to Britain.
We need a General election, pronto.
June 6, 2026
All simple and sensible suggestions John.
Too simple and sensible, so it will never happen as most of our politicians seem to like complication, delay and huge expense.
June 6, 2026
‘told us they are cheaper’ the contradiction of Government. Why does the Government take money from the rest of us to subsidies ‘cheaper’ electricity and then ensure we are charged more?
Why is the bulk of the subsidies being paid out going to foreign nationalised industries to prop up theses foreign regimes?
June 6, 2026
If the price of gas, oil, energy are set on globle markets ….why is the UKs energy x4 more expensive than the rest of the world
June 6, 2026
It is what is called the ‘Plan’ the plan to impoverish, cause malicious punishment, force division on to a Nation and its People. All because those at the top simply hate the Nation and its People and their ego has got the better of them, they wanted to ‘rule’ not serve.
The plan creates the them and us, the Politburo gets to dictate and cared for, the minions get to toe the line and pay. Its the modern day version of the Norman Conquest, the slaves/surfs/minions are forced by tyrants allow to keep them in luxury.
June 6, 2026
Our expensive electricity, soon to be also chaotically intermittent, is by design. Professor Sir Dieter Helm, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford, who wrote in 2017 the government’s “Cost of Energy Review”, ends his 24/02/2026 podcast #83 entitled “The Energy Security Gap” with: “The reason why there are so many opportunities to improve our energy security is because it is very hard to conceive of any energy policy which could be making us LESS energy secure and LESS helpful as a policy towards the defence of the realm, the primary requirement of any government before anything else is considered.”
https://dieterhelm.co.uk/publications/podcast-83-the-energy-security-gap/
The fifth column communists in charge of our energy policy are gaslighting us. Renewables are neither cheap nor secure. They claim renewables are cheap by ignoring the costs of geographic location, intermittency and grid stability. They rely upon manufacture in China (even the concrete for fixed offshore wind) who use cheap coal, cheap slave labour and who ignore the environmental impacts of mining and their manufacturing which leaves huge toxic tailing lakes. Relying upon China, a state described by our security services as “hostile” is not a recipe for energy security. So low is the ERoEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) that renewables, particularly solar, cannot produce sufficient energy to replace themselves. See David Turver’s “Why ERoEI Matters”:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/why-eroei-matters
PS:
If anyone thought that renewable wholesale electricity pricing is simple should read this article:
Chris Bowden: “The unintended consequences of negative power prices in the UK”
https://www.sqe.energy/insights/the-unintended-consequences-of-negative-power-prices-in-the-uk
June 6, 2026
6. They keep telling us how cheap renewables are so take away all the subsidies for renewables and let us benefit from all that cheapness.
June 6, 2026
Yes
June 6, 2026
In my working past I used to project manage combined heat and power installs mainly in large glass areas for growing. Came on line when needed. Heat saved to be used at night in insulated tanks. Emissions were clean so able to increased CO2 in the glass house that plants absorbed increasing the yield .
June 6, 2026
today 6th June.A day to remember.A day when my father was part of what this country stood for and fought for.He was killed in France.
RIP
June 8, 2026
All five suggestions, or any one or more in combination would be an improvement on Labour nonsense and worthlessness.