I'll bite, how can any Government right now solve the problem of countries providing us fuel for less?
Our fuel isn't supplied by other countries, only some of it is. An example being that around 50% of the UK natural gas comes from the North Sea. The other 50% comes from Europe, but not all from Russia. The issue with gas, is that the UK consumer pays the same amount for the North Sea gas as it does for the European gas. Only Government can change that, because right now we do not have ownership or control over any of our energy. There are also issues over how we store our gas (we don't have the facility to store enough).
When it comes to energy, there is no short term reactionary solutions; it takes several years to implement the changes required to combat this and that's where over a decade of Conservative governments has let the country down badly. They have no vision for the future; I don't think we could even describe them as a functional government in any way now.
It's totally obvious that a country like the UK needs to take greater ownership and control of its abundant natural resources, because they are without doubt critical national infrastructure. That means taking decisions that lead to policies that aren't in the interest of the profits made by private business. Unfortunately, the English electorate have been conditioned by the media to be utterly terrified of policies that don't value profit over everything else.
That's why we have a prime minister who has threw in the towel completely, no functioning government to speak of, ministerial positions filled by woefully inadequate individuals.... And the electorate thinks that they're all the same and that there's no point trying to change any of it.
It's now got to the point where people like yourself genuinely think the government is irrelevant, as if there was someone else that could step in and do anything about something so massive and devastating as this.
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