22 December 2011

Business as usual

A mild, breezy & damp morning for a brisk & early loch-side run. My first geography teacher used the memorable phrase "warm, wet, westerly, winds in winter" to characterise the UK climate, which in that respect hasn't yet changed, 45 years later.
Reassuringly, whilst cutting the subsidy for photovoltaic panels (per se a sensible move), the UK government have done it in a way which is both incompetent and illegal (ref). Reassuring, that is, for the rapid restoration of normality. What’s more, their own advisors are advising them that their “flagship” programme to improve the energy efficiency of 14 million homes is just so much piss & wind. I’m sorry, I’ll retype that….. is going to fail and only reach 2-3 million homes (ref). Which probably isn’t of huge interest to people outwith the UK, except perhaps as yet another instance of the failure of the so-called democratic process to deliver honest and effective governance, particularly when there is very little fundamental difference between the political parties.

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