The UK's energy policy over decades (and its reliance on the market) has now bitten us in the backside;

rather than have a strategic view of energy security, our political class have been convinced that markets would offer us energy at all times because it was in the sellers' interest.

The problem with such economic approaches is they assume that our markets relations are somehow inoculated from any wider disruption... it now turns out that this is very much not the case!

#energy #politics

@ChrisMayLA6 If I was the Green party, when Labour try to scare people by claiming that they are not serious on defense, I would be trumpeting loudly my unique commitment to energy security. That takes the form of renewables and not backing wars in the gulf.

I would take the same line when they describe my economic policies as dangerous

@RobertoArchimboldi

I agree (and boosted)