The trash papers are stuck not knowing what to do. Starmer is doing OK as far as the RWP are concerned. Badenoch is worse than useless and Farage is not trusted. So what can they report? Gaza is too horrific and they live in fear of being called anti-semetic, or anti-Trump. Ukraine is old news. Climate denying is just not popular. Small boat migrants are always a good headline but even here there seems to be sensible progress, and it is old news. So we have front pages occupied by Ozzy Osbourne’s death.
Foggity on LBC was banging on about “what Israel should do” as being a bad thing to say – she thinks Hamas should also be targeted around being responsible. I personally think that day has passed. Israel’s government is out of order and should be treated as a terrorist organisation. Palestine should be recognised by the UK government. Yes, of course the remaining hostages, if still alive, should be released. Israel cannot legitamately dispute the number of civilians killed as they refuse to let foreign journalists into the region.
Climate is another area ignored for want of upsetting the denyers. But the UN has just announced that solar is 41% of the cost of fossil fuels whilst onshore wing is also below 50% of the cost. And I might be wrong here, but in the UK power generation is linked to gas prices, that making green energy appear more expensive. Over the past year in the UK 37.5% has been provided by renewables and 29.8% by gas. Nuclear is 14.3% of the renewable total.
So the government should reintroduce the the supplement for energy produced and submitted to the National Grid by households. Instant injection of capital for energy production with no initial cost to government. Price paid to housholds would fluctuate with demand and supply – so no more expensive than gas. Capital investment return for households should be not be more than 8years and subsidy should be at least 20 years. Similar schemes should be created for community projects like wind generators. Come on – set my ambitions on fire and do it!