Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Has any minister in history seemed more hopelessly unfit to do his job?

Daily Mail
"Yesterday, after Mr Huhne issued his first annual statement on Britain's energy future, it was clear that we should all be very, very concerned about the future of Britain.As was only too predictable, the overall theme of Mr Huhne's message was that 'climate change is the greatest global challenge we face'.We must do everything we can and more to cut down very drastically on our 'carbon emissions', as we are now legally committed to do by the Climate Change Act - at a cost of £18 billion a year. ....The Huhne solution to producing Britain's energy is naivete verging on madness.But, most disturbingly of all, Mr Huhne is so infatuated with wind power that he seems to have convinced himself that, in cash terms, it is 'intensely competitive' with other means of making electricity. .....It is hard to recall any minister of the Crown in history who has seemed in practical terms more hopelessly unfitted to do his job than Mr Huhne.Here is the man we all need to be capable of getting his head round a few very basic, practical realities, such as how much electricity does Britain require to keep its computer-dependent economy functioning, and what are the cheapest, most effective ways of supplying it.Yet on every single count it seems he has not even got to square one in knowing how to do that job."

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