tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post7940529267380551828..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: Keeping the lights on: The UK's looming energy gap and the EUOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-76004959129170056632013-02-21T16:01:11.186+00:002013-02-21T16:01:11.186+00:00Today in the Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.u...Today in the Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/ - there is a series of letters on this topic led by Tony Lodge, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies who (inter alia) urges - - "David Cameron should now act in the national interest and deviate from the EU directive, instead keeping those coal and oil plants that are under sentence as an emergency energy reserve for the next five years, allowing them to be used when necessary to provide electricity. <br />The Government can still take the lead on this issue, but time is tight. Will it act?" <br /><br />This is a real crisis which could still be stopped (unlike the trivial horsemeat hoo-hah which is wrong but doesn;t appear to have harned a single soul in the least!) <br /><br />Incidentally the letters unclude one from John Hayes the Minister of State for Energy which is not in his normal robust frame of mind but reads like a civil service draft of total blandness. <br /><br />This is a time for Cameron to ACT in the national interest TELLING the EU that we cannot comply with these undertakings for if we did we would ruin our country. No IFs - no BUTs - no PERHAPs - Just DO IT. christina speightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-46578456470441825812013-02-20T16:57:01.367+00:002013-02-20T16:57:01.367+00:00Well,
"In an ideal world, the Government wou...Well,<br /><br />"In an ideal world, the Government would disregard the European Commission’s emissions strictures on grounds of pressing need"<br /><br />says the Telegraph View today.<br /><br />From which I conclude that the Telegraph leader writer implicitly believes that we could never be a self-governing country except "in an ideal world"; it's a kind of utopian dream which we must set aside, instead accepting the dystopia of government by the EU as being the best option available to us in a less than ideal world.<br /><br />I suspect Andrea Leadsom MP and her so-called "Fresh Start" group also believe much the same thing, but are looking for a few palliatives to ease the constant nagging pain of EU membership.Denis Coopernoreply@blogger.com