By Paul Homewood
Andrew Montford unravels Woke ITV’s deliberately misleading attempt to blame high electricity prices on gas:
There has been a concerted campaign in recent weeks to convince the public that current high electricity prices are mostly a function of high gas prices. This argument is entirely incorrect. Robert Peston’s recent interview of Kemi Badenoch on his eponymous show on ITV appears to have been part of this campaign. At the start of the segment, Peston’s co-presenter Anoushka Asthana set out some data, apparently sourced from Carbon Brief, that entirely misled viewers and set out a false basis for the interview that followed. Her argument about high electricity bills was in two parts
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they were not due to Net Zero policies;
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instead, they were due to high wholesale costs, caused by high gas prices.
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