Subscribe to this blog's feedYou just know issues are beginning to get well and truly cooked once the protagonists start to go over the top verbally. Is this beginning to happen with smart meters? Disconnector thinks so. There was a classic case recently when energy regulator Alistair Buchanan, at a parliamentary meeting, got a tad dismissive about those accursed EDDs (electricity display devices).
The chief exec made it patently clear that the watchdog was “violently against EDDs” and suggested that opting for that technology was akin to choosing a crippled donkey as a mode of transport over a car.
No ambivalence there, then. Where will this all end: handbags at dawn? Cue the minister. If ever there was a strong case for the firm smack of government to put us all out of our misery, this is it. Time for our Malcolm, the energy minister, to make an announcement? Not half.
