One Fine Day
Politics – the art of the impossible
Posted on 25 May 25
by Mark Hodgson
Almost 160 years after Bismarck opined that politics is the art of the possible, the UK’s government, and other UK politicians, seem to have turned his aphorism on its head. Full of hubris, the Labour Party’s 2024 general election manifesto promised (in its second of five numbered “missions”) to “[m]ake Britain a clean energy superpower to cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zerocarbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero.”
Also (page 31) it promised to give “certainty to manufacturers by restoring the phase-out date of 2030 for new cars with internal combustion engines…”.
On page 50, still banging on about the fantasy of making Britain a clean energy superpower [sic] they claimed that their “plan will create 650,000 jobs across the country by 2030. [My emphasis – no ifs, buts or maybes – a definite claim that it will happen].
The following page offered a little more detail regarding their “clean energy” offering:
https://cliscep.com/2025/05/25/one-fine-day/
