I think that the current government thinks we are! Yes it is great that we have a plan (announced today) to provide more greener energy as an alternative to fossil fuel based energy generation.
But hang on a bit! If we now have all this new energy, how do we get it to the users? Well, it seems as per the article referenced above, that the government in their wisdom have failed to understand that all the new energy generated by the wind farms needs a better infrastructure than currently exists to deliver this new found green energy to the final consumer.
Estimates for the new super grid run at around £10 billion with no firm plans as to how this will be financed. Very clever joined up thinking; not!
It’s a bit like, lets build two new aircraft carriers, yet we don’t have any planes as yet to put on them, why? Well we haven’t ordered them as yet!
Yes, the government may think that we don’t know, or are not interested in these minute details. But I have a thought, I think we are interested, very interested in making sure that the short-sightedness of politicians and their supposed vote grabbing is seen for what it really is; vote grabbing with a huge cost to the public purse.
We must make any future government fully accountable to us for any further public spending and they must realise that we want real value for money, not just lip service for a tick on the ballot paper.
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