In the parallel universe that Labour inhabits, at their national conference the Labour Leader Keir Starmer pledges to completely remove our dependence on fossil fuels by 2030.

So, can they point to an Einstein figure who has proposed a solution to this problem? Has there been a hypothesis of an energy or electricity generation system that can provide up to 45GW on demand for the UK through the winter of 2029 to 2030 or beyond without generating CO₂ without the use of gas or coal or nuclear power or biomass to generate the electricity required? 

If there is then I, and the rest of the world needs to know now. Please don’t keep it a secret because despite all the efforts of all the existing physicists and researchers and dreamers or environmentalists the world over there isn’t even a hint of such a solution.

All the other 195 signatories to the COP26 event have now decided that they need to invest in coal mining or coal burning as the cheapest and easiest form of electricity generation. We are the last member of the COP26 attendees who are in step with the army of decarbonisation warriors. All the rest have rushed off to wherever they can buy coal to fuel their domestic electricity generation needs.

We at the UK Independence Party on the other hand, after years of campaigning, know what must be done to keep the lights on. Now, at long last, desperation has proved we have been right all along, just like we were on the desire of the people of the UK to leave the clutches of the EU that was relentlessly asset stripping us.

If you want energy security and low energy bills, then voting Lib-Lab-con is not the solution. Repeating the same experiment repeatedly hoping for a different result, as Einstein stated is the definition of stupidity.

The UK Independence Party demands an end to subsidies for renewables and CO₂ emission trading schemes and the levies on burning fossil fuels and the generation of CO₂, and the return to sanity. 

There is no point in trying to save the planet at the cost of destruction of the UK. There is after all no scientific proof that rising CO₂ levels will result in catastrophic global warming, only computer models, garbage in, garbage out.

Antony Nailer

UK Independence Party - Spokesman for Energy.