Blown Out

Given the current state of both the climate emergency and the poverty crisis, it is only natural that progress on expanding the country's capacity for onshore wind generation should remain at its accustomed level of Britishness, even though His Majesty's Government has modified its attitude from active hostility to hostile apathy. The planning rules by which the glistening pink Head Boy pushed back the green crap during the first Bullingdon Club administration have been made less obstructive; but, doubtless with the best interests of his chums at Shell and BP at heart, Fishy Rishi will go no further in making onshore wind projects any easier to develop than waste incinerators. In motivating the Government's refusal, advice to the contrary from mere experts at the National Infrastructure Commission was presumably second only to the horrid prospect of lowering the little people's energy bills.