Interesting mixed tone doing the rounds on renewable energy.
Truss and her new environment minister want to ban solar farms from some of the less productive prime farmland:
Exclusive: Environment minister seeks to expand definition of prime farmland in drive for productivity
www.theguardian.com
Its something apparently she feels strongly about. She used to be the minister in this department, so clearly it's important to her that this is a hill worth attacking.
It's fucking moronic, misguided and based on incorrect assumptions but that's apparently her position.
Jacob Rees Mogg has written a piece in the guardian today defending renewable energy and the government's record on it.
Critics suggest our growth agenda conflicts with the need to achieve net zero. They couldn’t be more wrong, says business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg
www.theguardian.com
Not exactly subtle dissent by the honourable member for the 18th century.
When you have that level of cabinet indiscipline, combined with the absolute shitshow that apparently was her performance in front of the 1922 committee, that's it, she's done. She has no control, and is highly unlikely to ever gain it. Government is finished, they'll struggle to get anything at all passed and an election is only a matter of time
Those reactions are comedy gold though:
And this is extraordinary, only a month into her premiership. A cabinet member saying that?? Jesus.
