Readers’ Letters: Do not follow the example set by Germany

Keir Starmer has visited Germany where he had friendly talks with Olaf Scholz about closer co-operation.

This might not be unexpected because he intends to take UK down a path like that followed by Germany.

He should, perhaps, take note that, in March, Germany’s corporate insolvencies reached the highest level on record.

Analysts say that the main driver behind this dire trend was Germany’s exorbitantly high energy costs, mostly due to the country’s mismanaged foray into green energies — such as wind and solar — and the transition away from affordable and stable conventional energy sources like natural gas, coal and nuclear power.

That push for green energies, and away from conventional sources, began in earnest under the government led by Angela Merkel and continued under the Socialist-Green coalition government (now led by Olaf Scholz) who then pushed even more draconian policies which further exacerbated Germany’s economic and energy woes.

Some of us can remember a time when Greta Thunberg was in the news everywhere, and ‘Fridays For Future’ was leading a major youth movement towards that new future and the German Greens even moved to drop the voting age to 16, in a bid to capture more votes.

But those visions of a green utopia suddenly turned into a dystopian nightmare as the hype surrounding the Greens melted away.

The age group that seems, now, to have really woken up is German youth under age 18. In 2019 the Greens pulled in 21.7% of their vote from youth but, in recent results, only a measly 3.7% voted for them.

It seems to be all over for the Green movement in Germany.

I think that Mr Starmer should think more carefully about the control he exerts over Ed Miliband’s crusade for green energies to avoid a collapse into the ‘ruin and rubble’ now becoming apparent in Germany!

Miss Thunberg once scolded world leaders by exclaiming “how dare you” for their indifference to the climate crisis

We should all be very worried now about how unwarranted action to avoid an imaginary ‘climate crisis’ can possibly lead our economy towards the ‘holy grail’ of growth! — Robert Sheppard, Beckingham