The correct measurement unit of irony is not the Morissette, it’s the Miliband
“It’s like raaaaain on your wedding day!” and so on through a list of things that are not, in fact, ironic they’re just a tad annoying. Then we get to this:
Varamis is not the only freight train company affected by rising rail electricity prices. DB Cargo UK retired its fleet of Class 90 electric locomotives in favour of diesel-engined alternatives last year.
Industrial electricity costs in Britain have skyrocketed after successive Governments pledged to meet a target of the entire country’s net carbon dioxide emissions being zero by the year 2050.
The entire process has been driven by Ed Miliband - his 2008 Climate Change Act is the foundation of everything that has been done this past 17 years. The result has been some of the most expensive industrial electricity in the world - driven by that wholesale adoption of what we’re all assured is ever cheaper electricity production methods, Har, Har - and the end of that is that industrial production is dropping electrification and returning to fossil fuels. We’ve had to subsidise the move to the naturally cheaper electric arc furnaces for the steel industry as well - naturally cheaper yet still requiring subsidy.
No, no, we will not be gainsaid. The correct, natural, unit to be measuring irony with is not the Alanis, or the Morissette, it’s the Miliband. We can see a few centibands right there and the overall effect we’d say has passed through megabands and is well into the gigabands by now.
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
Yes M’am, yes.
Tim Worstall