Advertiser Readers Letters: New slogan for under-performers

We now hear regularly that ‘the world has changed’ and so it has.

Professor of Energy Economics at Oxford University, Dieter Helm, said recently that “the UK has too little production, too much consumption, too little savings and too much debt” — and he is right.

In the US, the Biden administration spent hundreds of billions of dollars to push renewables, and the result was a 30% increase in US national utility prices.

But it is still the fact that, despite producing (intermittent and expensive) renewable electricity, no amount of wind and solar can make rubber or plastic or the millions of products we use, nor can they forge steel or produce cement.

President Trump’s call to reopen natural gas and clean coal plants, will bring US electricity costs back down to less expensive levels.

He also intends to prioritise the development of nuclear energy by supporting re-search into the next generation reactors and by pushing back against any fear mongering by anti-nuclear activists.

Our government says its objective is growth.

It now clearly needs to increase our armaments production to ensure our security, but it still pursues its crazy rush towards Net Zero.

President Trump’s style is not to everyone’s taste, but he is clear about his intention to Make America Great Again and he will do so.

I think that Keir Starmer’s slogan for our future might be ‘Make UK Under Perform’ or MUKUP for short and it compares so badly with MAGA.

Will we wake up before it is too late? — ROBERT SHEPPARD, Beckingham.