Some five years ago the Royal Commission on Environment Pollution (RCEP) declared rather naively that the provision of energy was

"...a radical challenge for the UK; a challenge that cannot be met successfully unless the government's energy policies & its environmental policies are coherent."

Of course the eagle eyed among you will have spotted the oxymoron contained in this statement from the publicly funded Royal Commission: ‘government’ & ‘coherent policies’ used in the same sentence especially when the numpties is question can’t be trusted to run a bath, let alone the country. So, as the demand for energy rises, the government in a vain glorious attempt to pander to the eco-vote, signs up to the Kyoto utter load of tonk Protocol & reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

With Family FM’s power consumption roughly equivalent to that of a small Baltic republic, any normal sane & rational individual might assume that the world’s forth largest economy could simply turn up the gas at the power stations – but no. That would be way way too easy – to give the customer in a so called free market what they actually want. Delivering increased dividends to shareholders is a bad thing, the government has to set about making a mess of the entire supply side of the energy business because it knows better.

According to Geological Society of London (GSL) within a decade Britain will be producing only about 80% of the electricity it needs, which is nice – just as global warming really kicks in, the air conditioning wont work. How very British. This is an issue that we can see coming down the tracks now. Its not go to suddenly erupt like an outbreak of long dormant syphilis.

The Finns have got it sorted. The blond binge drinkers simply built a few more nuclear power stations which is, I admit a slight concern if Jukka gets his mitts on the controls after a big night out in Helsinki - & believe you me, they are big nights out. Scandinavia could be glowing quicker than you can say I will have another litre of Lapu Kulta. Even Iceland a country noted for … errrrrr bright orange fishermans jumpers & that’s about it, has exploited its geothermal & hydropower resources to the point where it is a net exporter of energy & women singers with silly names & sillier songs.

The eco-nangers wouldnt let you build any more fossil fuel power stations because that would be far too logical & give people what they want as opposed to what the greenies mandate that we are allowed to have. As for renewable energy, everytime some madcap scientist comes up with something that actually works, the usual rent-a-rabble turn out in their badly fitting earthen hued sackcloth clothing to protest about it.
As Finnish MP Mikko Elo pointed

"There is very little opposition to nuclear power & that is partly because of the economic benefits it brings."

However can you imagine if one of our politicians were to come out with our statement like that? Well, it would never happen as they are all way to spineless to admit that in the long term nuclear power offers the best solution to our long term power needs. A sensible & well structured information campaign could sell the benefits & if the ironmongery through the nose brigade don’t like it, let them eat yellowcake.