Losers

While Britain continues to lead from behind in the race to renewability (the latest wheeze is for the taxpayer to help subsidise investors in nonexistent nuclear power plants), matters are going from bad to worse for the chaps who lost the war. In the Recrudescent Imperium last year, renewables accounted for a whopping twenty-nine per cent of electricity consumption, while the enemy remained stuck on a piddling forty per cent; and the figures seem set to become yet more dismal this year. The beastly Huns are even plotting to phase out their own nuclear power plants over the next three years; which will mean, of course, that there are all the more non-existent blanched radioactive pachyderms for the British taxpayer to glow in.