Whilst Governments avoid bad news story lines, and can be populist/short term in their thinking, we really need to clear out the Civil Service as much of this 'blue sky' thinking/planning is beyond their comfort zone, in their basically 'personal risk averse' policy initiative and delivery environment. One of the great 'strategies' of the past to reduce CO2 emissions and reduce our future energy shortfall (in the not so distant past) was to get rid of our dirty energy consuming industries and become a service industry based economy. So now we don't make much ,have to import nearly everything, totally at risk of international supply lines and supply pressures with resultant upward costs. having invested little in a our energy generation and network before the recent push for renewables.
The politicians may leave a lot to be desired but from resource and continuity planning point the Civil Service has screwed up big style........
Apologies, I agree, I made a mistake in not highlighting both groups as being attached to the same issue. Being the first to the trough is very different from being a leader.
