“After decades as an energy-secure nation, safely reliant on fossil fuel supplies from the North Sea, the United Kingdom has in the last decade added itself to the long list of import-dependent nations. The Government have been irresponsibly slow to respond to a fundamentally changed situation of loss of national energy self sufficiency at a time when world demand is increasing. And they had plenty of warning of future trends.” David Cameron 18th January 2010

“Where we can act to relieve the pressure, we must.   It’s simple – gas and electric bills can go down when our home-grown energy supply goes up.” David Cameron 11th August 2013

This mornings blog is not an attempt to deal with fracking, which was the subject that David Cameron was writing about two months ago. Nor is it an attempt to address the issues of nuclear power production which is what lies behind the final quote of todays blog below. I am incredibly confused by the complete inconsistency between David Cameron in 2010 and two months ago and George Osborne yesterday when speaking about his plans to attract Chinese Investment in our next generation of Nuclear power production. I am personally very sanguine about the UK being part of an International economy market which leaves us all interdependent on the influence of many other nations in the world. However that is not the position that David Cameron and his coalition Government have taken consistently since they were elected. They want to claim Independence from the vagaries of International markets as a policy until it suits them to take the Chinese Yuan to pay for our Nuclear Power Stations. This is just incoherent nonsense. The coalition needs to be challenged, for its hypocrisy and dishonesty. I realise that in one sense these failures are a great deal less significant than the impact this Government has had on those families that are relying on foodbanks in a manner inconceivable in 2010. However when the change is so public and has the risk of impacting our nations energy supplies as well as the impact of drilling sites in the countryside these men need to be held to account. When we were being promised that no UK taxpayers money would go into the nuclear power stations, David Cameron was telling us we need to dig up parts of Sussex to avoid buying gas from the Norwegian parts of the North Sea. In the future we will be left buying nuclear produced electricity from China, even though the power plant is built on our soil!

“if it wasn’t for Chinese investment it would have to be British taxpayers’ investment”. George Osborne 17th October 2013 speaking about Nuclear Power Stations to be built in the UK.