If he can't bring himself to acknowledge that reducing consumption is a good way to help balance supply and demand - and that it is needed now, besides in the longer term - you wonder whether he is fit to have any ministerial office, let alone that one....Kwarteng said he believed the lights would not go out this winter and said he would not give advice on the personal precautions people should take to save money on energy bills.
“Some people feel comfortable wrapped up in lots of different clothes, others wear relatively little – I think people should be sensible. I think people should do what they feel comfortable with,” he told Sky. “My job as an energy minister is not to tell people how many layers of clothing they should wear, that’s not really my job.”
This sort of bone-headed, reality-denying dogmatism will sink us all. I suppose he'll swan off to an alpine retreat when all the luxury islands and seaside resorts (and cities like London) are under water.