Market Forces Flee Disaster Zone

So efficient has the private sector proved at dealing with the climate crisis that the Government has found itself obliged to re-nationalise part of the National Grid. Apparently the flexible gumption and adaptive pluck that inevitably accompany the profit motive are insufficient to deal with the challenges of decarbonising the British way, namely by carbonising as fast as our national inefficiency permits. Having failed in their duty to the public, to future generations and to civilisation at large, shareholders will naturally be compensated at the taxpayer's expense, and a new public body with the eminently sane title of Future System Operator will be created to take the blame when the lights go out.