Blogs

We all knew that the Government's cack-handed reorganisation of the way energy companies fund energy efficiency improvements to meet their carbon emissions targets would end horribly.

I'm going to throw a few numbers around, if I may and this may turn into something of a lecture. For which I make no apology whatsoever.

Once upon a time, the Budget was full of surprises. Once upon a time, a Chancellor stood up in the House to reveal the plans that he - 'twas always thus - and his civil servants in the Treasury had been working on late into the night, after night and we didn't know what was…

The question many of us are asking is, can there be any more of the wet stuff left in the sky? Surely, we say to each other, there can be no more rain since I has all fallen into our rivers, canals and field, soaking the ground and making 'squelch' the sound for January.

Woah. Talk about the morning of the long knives. Ken Clarke described Teresa May as a "bloody difficult woman" - something I'm not entirely sure wasn't a compliment - and the events of July 14 AM showed that she's not going to sort stuff out over a cup of tea and a slice of lemon…