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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 349354" data-attributes="member: 33">The point of a green energy company is to invest in cleaner forms of energy generation. Even if it does rely on taxpayers to bail it out I&#039;d still be happy as long as it is building the infrastructure to generate clean energy and bring about significant reduction in greenhouse gas production.I don&#039;t agree that the previous Labour government mismanaged the economy. The final crash was not something outside of the control of the government and how it responded to stabilise the economy was very good stewardship of the situation that was dropped on it. The Public Finance Initiative (PFI) to bring private money into building public infrastructure was a mistake and it would have been far better to fund those projects by rising taxes on the rich but that would have meant breaking a manifesto pledge. That Labour government had faults but I don&#039;t think corruption was one of them. I can&#039;t think of a single think they did that I would consider corruption. Contrast that will this Tory government and how PPE contracts were fast tracked to people like Michelle Mone to rip off taxpayer, how £37 billion (yes billions not millions!) was given to Mike Hancock&#039;s friend Dido Harding to implement a test and trace system which she failed to do but squandered the money in the process, and how a peerage was given to Russian oligarch Evgeny Lebedev after he donated money to the Tories. No, I don&#039;t think the Tories are &quot;doing OK&quot;, in fact they are doing spectacularly badly. Inflation is soaring, pay is falling in real terms, strikes are at the worst level they have been in decades, crime is soaring, NHS waiting lists are getting longer, life expectancy is falling for the first time and poverty is increasing as is food bank use. I could go on but that list is more than enough to explain why I don&#039;t think this government is &quot;doing OK&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 349354, member: 33"] The point of a green energy company is to invest in cleaner forms of energy generation. Even if it does rely on taxpayers to bail it out I'd still be happy as long as it is building the infrastructure to generate clean energy and bring about significant reduction in greenhouse gas production. I don't agree that the previous Labour government mismanaged the economy. The final crash was not something outside of the control of the government and how it responded to stabilise the economy was very good stewardship of the situation that was dropped on it. The Public Finance Initiative (PFI) to bring private money into building public infrastructure was a mistake and it would have been far better to fund those projects by rising taxes on the rich but that would have meant breaking a manifesto pledge. That Labour government had faults but I don't think corruption was one of them. I can't think of a single think they did that I would consider corruption. Contrast that will this Tory government and how PPE contracts were fast tracked to people like Michelle Mone to rip off taxpayer, how £37 billion (yes billions not millions!) was given to Mike Hancock's friend Dido Harding to implement a test and trace system which she failed to do but squandered the money in the process, and how a peerage was given to Russian oligarch Evgeny Lebedev after he donated money to the Tories. No, I don't think the Tories are "doing OK", in fact they are doing spectacularly badly. Inflation is soaring, pay is falling in real terms, strikes are at the worst level they have been in decades, crime is soaring, NHS waiting lists are getting longer, life expectancy is falling for the first time and poverty is increasing as is food bank use. I could go on but that list is more than enough to explain why I don't think this government is "doing OK". [/QUOTE]

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