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jmyeet a day ago

> The other one is a campaign group who say there are subsidies but fail to name a single specific one.

It seems deliberately obtuse to try and deny there are significant energy (and thus natural gas) subsidies in the UK. Ok, try the Office of Budget Responsibility [1]:

> By the time of our November 2022 forecast, the Government announced a series of additional measures to support households and business, which increased our forecast of the total cost of energy support in 2022-23 to £67.1 billion (2.7 per cent of GDP).

> Insulting people who come up with facts

So you're not right wing? Cry-bullying about "personal attacks" for using an accurate political label correctly isn't helping your defense.

Pushing a conspiracy theory that a cabal of dark money is pushign renewable power and using The Spectator as a source is the UK equivalent of quoting Sean Hannity.

[1]: https://obr.uk/box/the-cost-of-the-governments-energy-suppor...