Re: energy in UK

On 14/04/2025 16:43, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
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The UK did trust Boris Johson, and got themselves stuck with Brexit, and
followed him up with Liz Truss, but at least the UK political system
makes it easier to dump a complete twit fairly quickly.

 Boris Johnson isn't a statesman but he managed to impersonate one long
enough to get us through the COVID pandemic relatively lightly.  He
could have done a lot better - but most of the other 'leaders' around at
the time would certainly have done a lot worse.

Actually it was the good people around him that achieved that outcome by threatening to resign if he didn't follow their scientific advice. Although typically he followed it ~2 weeks too late to do much good.
Boris was all for business as usual and letting the bodies pile high like the Mayor in "Jaws". That was why Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Liverpool Madrid match - both Covid super spreader events went ahead.
Liverpool and the NW never really recovered from that mistake in 2020.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/03/families-of-covid-victims-to-confront-johnson-at-inquiry-over-let-the-bodies-pile-high-comment

Any party that could tolerate someone as ignorant and bigoted as Liz
Truss, let alone put her in any position of responsibility, needs to
look seriously at the clique that is running it and ask if they really
represent more than a tiny fraction of its graaa-roots members.

It was the deranged grass roots activists that voted Liz the Lettuce in.
Rishi Sunak who then became PM after her halfwit Chancellor had wrecked the UK economy was dealt an impossible hand to play and did his best to fix things. He is still a very good hard working constituency MP.
Now we are stuck with a landslide Labour government and Starmer as PM - someone who manages to make "the grey man" John Major look exciting.
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Martin Brown