Post by Red Rackham on Jun 4, 2024 16:03:46 GMT
Starmer will be forced into a few climbdowns over his green energy plan.
When Sir Keir Starmer launched the Labour Party’s plans for Great British Energy in Scotland it was meant to be a defining moment.
The state-led energy giant that would reduce the UK’s carbon emissions to zero and cut everyone’s energy bills while creating thousands of “well-paid green jobs” would finally begin to take shape.
There were just a few snags.
It turned out the logo had been bought off the shelf for £35, and was already being used by other companies, while Sir Keir had taken a private jet up to Scotland to make the announcement.
Then there’s the issue that Labour has now confirmed that Great British Energy will not be an energy retail company, as many believed.
It will own, manage and operate clean power projects alongside private firms. This appears to be all that is left of plans we were once told would deliver “green prosperity” and cost the taxpayer up to £28bn a year by the end of the decade.
It is, surely, emblematic of the folly of the entire net zero project.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/01/watered-gb-energy-promise-symbolic-net-zero-folly-labour/
Keir 'U turn' Starmer will really have to live up to his name, or he could trash the economy I suppose...
When Sir Keir Starmer launched the Labour Party’s plans for Great British Energy in Scotland it was meant to be a defining moment.
The state-led energy giant that would reduce the UK’s carbon emissions to zero and cut everyone’s energy bills while creating thousands of “well-paid green jobs” would finally begin to take shape.
There were just a few snags.
It turned out the logo had been bought off the shelf for £35, and was already being used by other companies, while Sir Keir had taken a private jet up to Scotland to make the announcement.
Then there’s the issue that Labour has now confirmed that Great British Energy will not be an energy retail company, as many believed.
It will own, manage and operate clean power projects alongside private firms. This appears to be all that is left of plans we were once told would deliver “green prosperity” and cost the taxpayer up to £28bn a year by the end of the decade.
It is, surely, emblematic of the folly of the entire net zero project.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/01/watered-gb-energy-promise-symbolic-net-zero-folly-labour/
Keir 'U turn' Starmer will really have to live up to his name, or he could trash the economy I suppose...
