They have to accept part of the blame.

When Nulabour won the election in 1997 they should have had a viable energy policy ready to run.

If they were going to use more nuclear then they should have had plans in place then. You can't build a nuclear power station over night.

Then there is proper house insulation, that should have been in hand, so that every house built after Jan 1 2000 was fully insulated cavity walls, full loft insulation, double glazing, and as they came on the market, no vat on energy saving light bulbs , and vat on standard light bulbs. The same with energy efficent white good, high tax on the less efficant and low or no tax on the high efficent appliences.

Also they should have put up care tax in the gas guzzlers, inc RR and Bentley's, with no tax on the under 1ltr engines.

All simple and easy to do.

of course they were after headlines and spin, not good sensible government. That policy has simply been carried on by Brown when he succeeded Blair.

So as far as the above goes then the government is responsible.

There were of course other things they could have done.

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