Subscribe to this blog's feedLast week, there weren’t a lot of laughs during the final Commons stages of the Energy Bill before it went to the House of Lords, but Alan Simpson, the Nottingham MP whose amendment on feed-in tariffs generated a backbench revolt by Labour MPs, did raise a smile with the following.
Simpson said: “I have visited several German cities to examine the operation of feed-in tariff systems. When I asked the mayors what their biggest problem was, they replied: ‘Keeping up with citizens’ demand.’ Such is the momentum that, in the previous German elections, not one political party would countenance revoking feed-in tariff legislation because that would have been an act of political suicide. The current joke is that Germans will put a solar panel on anything that does not move. If a dog is asleep in a garden for half an hour, it will wake up with a solar panel on its back.”
