DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Sir Keir Starmer's green dream is just a lot of hot air By Daily Mail Comment Published: 01:36 BST, 26 July 2024 | Updated: 01:37 BST, 26 July 2024 e-mail View comments Sir Keir Starmer 's big idea for government has been to promise a green revolution. This, he insists, will decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030, cut household bills, boost the economy with many thousands of eco-jobs and protect our energy security. And yesterday, the Prime Minister and his eco-fanatic Energy Secretary Ed Miliband unveiled how they hope to make this a reality: A giant, publicly owned quango called Great British Energy.
Yet the more you interrogate exactly how the Government's goals will be achieved, the more fanciful they become. Their claims would make a self-respecting snake-oil salesman blush with embarrassment. Seeing green: Sir Keir Starmer 's big idea for government has been to promise an eco revolution Eco-fanatic Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and the Prime Minister unveiled how they hope to make their idea a reality: A giant, publicly owned quango called Great British Energy It is extraordinary that self-professed socialist politicians believe they can swoop in and run a highly specialised energy business better than the professionals.
GB Energy's raison d'etre is to build more wind and solar farms by encouraging and subsidising new investment. But there are two insurmountable problems. First, expecting our power-hungry nation to be reliant on renewables for all o.