"Be Ready"? Yes, for Labour's warmongering and Net Zero fantasies to run out of tarmac... Fanfares for the government's latest psyop, Be Ready. They are having to condition the people to accept it meekly when the lights go out as a result of cutting ourselves off from oil and gas by a combination of reckless foreign policy and Net Zero ideology. This is the point at which it all comes together, the chickens come home to roost. The lights are about to go out. Literally. A government's first responsibility, ahead of absolutely everything else, is to keep the lights on. No power, no security, no health care, no nada. And now the government' s own experts who are running the grid are warning that this winter we face blackouts, with a high degree of probability. The grid can't cope. So Defence Secretary Streeting is wheeled out to say that the country needs a "national resilience conversation" to face up to alleged likely threats from state sponsored terrorism and God knows what else. (By the way, have you noticed how in Labour-speak the harmless word "conversation" has been twisted to mean "Listen up. I m going to issue a diktat and you are going to listen"?) You are being gaslighted (except there might be no gas...). You are being made to think that you are under threat from Russia, Iran and China and they will be to blame when the lights go out. Nothing to do with government actions (both Labour and its Tory twin) in cutting Europe off from Russian gas and oil supplies, in hounding Iran to the point where Trump and Netanyahu were emboldened to attack it, and then not only failing to try to restrain Trump but actually allowing him to use British bases. The consequences of our complicity in cutting ourselves off from Russian supplies and closure of the Gulf would not be so bad if Labour had not pursued suicidal ideology-driven policies to achieve a mythical Net Zero. By putting all our eggs into the renewables basket we have ended up not only with the most expensive industrial electricity in the world but a supply system which can't even guarantee keeping the lights on. The intermittent nature of wind and solar mean that we have to run a costly parallel oil and gas-powered system and pay billions to adapt the grid, on top of billions to wind turbine operators to restrain generation when the grid risks overloading. Allowing the Jackdaw gas field to proceed is recognition that we have been on the wrong track, but it is too little too late. And so here we are. An advanced economy with some of the highest gas, diesel, petrol and electricity prices in the world, rampant inflation, deindustrialisation, empty government coffers for public services, and the prospect of blackouts. "Be Ready"? Yes, Mr Burnham, we'll be ready, but you can shove your psyop. We will be ready to blame you and your gormless, preening Labour crew when we actually need those torches. workerspartygb.org/join