Kill the Wind

It is essential that the government reduces the cost of energy to something that we can all afford. It is therefore welcome to learn that the Energy Bill to be introduced shortly will include provisions for the reduction of wind farm subsidies by 25%. Benedict Brogan has an article about this in the Telegraph today that you can read here. Osborne is behind this admirable move although it would be better if the subsidy were withdrawn altogether straightaway instead of, if the rumours are correct, being phased out by 2020. After all the flak thrown at Osborne since the budget it has been good to see him in confident form both at the Leveson Inquiry and at the G20 Conference. At long last one has the feeling that he is growing into his job but it no doubt helps that both inflation and unemployment are going down. Will Osborne become bold enough though to challenge the fundamentals of the global warming alarmists' arguments? It is about time someone did although with the increasingly shrill cries from the alarmists about the situation being infinitely worse than at first thought they are damaging their campaign. They doth protest too much. Bishop Hill has an interesting take on the withdrawal of subsidies for fossil fuel here. Another politician who is definitely comfortable in his skin is Hague who gave a good account of himself at PMQs today standing in for Cameron and Clegg who are both away. Hague could give Cameron a lesson in the art of 'cool'. Perhaps though it is easier being the stand in as nothing spectacular is expected of you but Hague is none the less always worth watching not only for his way of dealing with questions but also for his knowledge and wit.