Government cuts to solar-power subsidies are shortsighted and irresponsibleThe Conservative party has spent much time mocking Labour for being out of touch on commerce issues,particularly Jeremy Corbyn’s support for rail and possibly energy nationalisation.
But George Osborne seems much more at home tickling the tummies of enormous, state-owned companies in China and France, or particularly with regard to nuclear power,than tending his domestic, private-sector firms. While the chancellor was out wooing on a recent trip to Beijing, and he seemed blissfully unaware that subsidy cuts to the UK’s growing army of small and medium-size “green” companies have been causing havoc.
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Source: theguardian.com