The green elites are living in dreamland

Wind turbines are subject to the same unpredictable market forces, and the same pettifogging government delays, as any other source of energy generation.

The prospects for wind power in the UK are not nearly as rosy as they seemed just six months ago.

Britain’s onshore wind farms employed just 4,400 people in 2019.

Much-touted sources of green jobs in hydrogen power, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and installing heat pumps and home insulation will barely make a dent in the government’s 480,000 jobs pledge.

Yet this has done nothing to dampen the wild green rhetoric of our political class.