David Craig, on June 2nd, 2025Monday-Tuesday blog
One of the great lies (among so many) put out by Labour’s Mad Ed MIliband and his scientifically-challenged Labour Party chums is that UK electricity prices are so high due to high international gas prices. And, of course, they blame Mr Putin ad nauseam and claim that the only way to get UK electricity prices down is to get rid of gas and replace it with supposedly ‘cheaper’ renewables.
So, let’s just do a simple test of the veracity or otherwise of Labour’s and Mad Red Ed’s claims.
Here’s a chart of UK electricity prices from 2019 to 2025:
And here’s a chart of international natural gas prices from 2020 to 2025:
Are the two related? Certainly from 2020 to mid 2022, the two charts seem to correlate. Gas prices and UK electricity prices shot up following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the collapse in international gas prices towards the second half of 2022 back towards the 2020 level has not been in any way matched by a corresponding fall in UK electricity prices. In fact, while international gas prices were back around the 2020 level, the UK’s electricity prices remained about 40% higher than they were in 2020.
Hmmm. What could be the reason for that you might wonder. Could it be the billions we are paying every year in subsidies for Johnson’s, Sunak’s and now the Starmer/Miliband’s useless, expensive, intermittent and unreliable wind turdbines desecrating our landscape and slaughtering birds and the solar parks covering once fertile, productive agricultural land?
I think most of us know the answer. So, don’t believe the Starmer/Miliband “clean energy superpower” nonsense. We are being naturalgaslit by our incompetent, UK-hating rulers as they make our lives poorer and more miserable in their West-loathing crusade for degrowth as they enthusiastically bankrupt British companies and households with crushing energy costs in order to turn Britain into an impoverished, hopeless, basket-case Third-World country.
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It seems that in the last 30 years, no British government has acted in the UK’s best interests! Is this an over simplification? I don’t think so – because ever since B.liar all PMs have been WEF muppets, implementing UN & WEF policies which are and have been intended to drag the country down and ultimately destroy Britain. Is this because of historical actions by Britain ? Who knows. But we’ve certainly had and now got a ruling class – PMs and ex PMs that are intending the destruction of Britain!
In relation to Mike’s comment I saw this “One of the greatest successes of statism is its ability to convince everyone that it’s only the current guy in power who’s the problem, not the system itself.”