Re: @Dr Syntax - "more radioactive"
Nuclear costs £92.50 per megawatt hour and was therefore decried as being a dreadful and unaffordable deal by the green critics. (eg https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c-dreadful-deal-behind-worlds-most-expensive-power-plant)
Do you realise how cheap and quick wind and solar is now? The nuke cartels are no longer opponents. The oil cartels have just shot their load.
Yes. We are currently paying 214.46p per MWh, which people with a keen sense of detail will notice is well over double the dreadful and unaffordable cost of nuclear power, precisely because of wind and solar don't actually producing anything like their supposed rated outputs even in the hottest (and brightest and therefore the most favourable conditions for Solar) summer we've had for decades.
By the end of July 2022, the UK had 11,104 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of over 24.6 gigawatts. The actual delivered output over the last week has been under a fifth of that, gusting to around a third of that output today. The shortfall between what green schemes are supposed to produce and what they actually produce is made up by gas turbines, and the faith that Wind and Solar would actually deliver the rated output (which has never been achieved) let to a decision to run down North Sea gas fields and import our gas from abroad since "obviously" we wouldn't need much gas.
The current electricity prices are entirely attributable to the green crowd pushing for solutions that cannot work, while sabotaging any solutions that do work and so reducing electricity supply as old power plants are closed. To make matters worse, you then demand additional electricity (for electric cooking, electric heating, electric vehicles) while still sabotaging any new generating capacity from being built. Demand rising above supply results in the price increasing which is why it's so bloody expensive.
Now you can try and deflect from your myopic incompetence all you want by screaming "biG oil11!!11!!" but this is a situation you campaigned for and sold to the public as deliverable. It wasn't, and isn't. You ignored concerns raised from people like me about sales brochures never bearing any resemblance to reality, about concerns about energy security and people concerned at importing everything were derided as being old fashioned dinosaurs that didn't understand the brotherhood of goodwill that exists between people in other nations who would never weaponize food or energy supplies against us.
My view is that you now own the consequences of our fears becoming a reality, having not taken any steps to safeguard against that possibility which before the lunatics took over the asylum used to be a basic required competence in statecraft and politics. These consequences are going to include severe and extreme economic damage as people stop spending money on anything other than subsistence which is going to cripple most companies and therefore economies as people stop spending and inevitably people who can't afford subsistence (especially the elderly) are going to freeze to death as a result of policies that you campaigned for.
Now you could actually do the grown up thing and rapidly pivot to some workable solutions while there is still time, or you could try and deflect blame and continue with unworkable solutions until the current situation looks like "the good old days" we fondly wish we could return to.