The only concretely good thing in here is that the government is going to use it as a cudgel to impose upgrading the UK electrical grid over the objections of pathetic nimbys who value their views of rolling green fields to things like, oo, people managing to heat their homes in winter without going into debt.

If it also means the government putting the boot into local authorities to force them to permit local economic development I’ll take that too.

this is just so nakedly a scam, it’s a little startling. I feel like if your whole pitch - as it appeared to me - was “we will be like the tories but more competent and less corrupt,” then it would behoove you to at least try to appear more competent and less corrupt

the only TBI i knew of before this article was traumatic brain injury

Keir Starmer methodically applies clown makeup, ultimately transforming into a fully-realized Rishi Sunak

Terrible priorities