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Subject: Re: electricity provision
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:22:06 +0100
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by: David Wade - Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:22 UTC

On 25/07/2022 17:55, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 25/07/2022 16:43, Andy Bennet wrote:
>> On 25/07/2022 16:33, williamwright wrote:
>>> Is it true that the UK had a power emergency last week and had to beg
>>> Belgium for some leccy?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>> In hindsight I don't care.
> Not wuite.
>
> We have been exporting to France and a little to Norway all summer and
> importing from Holland and Belgium
>
> At one point spot prices rose to £9 a unit.
>
> These two 'facts' have been combined by remoaner idiots
>

So basically we got screwed because we didn't have enough capacity.
So while it appears the government can organize a piss up in a brewery
they can't do any of the other stuff governments are supposed to do....

Not sure why mentioning that is being a "remoaner".

If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.

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