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The Telegraph said blackouts could be ‘just the ticket’ for young people – only 9 responses you need

Poke Staff. Updated October 13th, 2022

To the world of Telegraph columnist Robert Taylor, who’s been having a good think about the possibility of energy shortages in the UK and across Europe this winter and come up with a ‘silver lining’ you (or anyone else) might not have thought of.

We’ve read a bit of it so you don’t have to and, well, here’s a bit of what the Telegraph columnist had to say.

‘Blackouts could be just the ticket to shake some of today’s youngsters out of that sublime sense of entitlement and self-righteousness.

‘At a time when the sensitive ones need counselling after watching Rod Liddle on Question Time, the horror of losing the means to power up their phones might jolt them back to reality – and back to real-world problems, rather than obsessing about whether Baden-Powell should be cancelled and tapes of Fawlty Towers burned.

‘Meanwhile, a blackout or two might demonstrate the naivety of the extreme net-zero agenda.

‘It’s all very well asserting the evils of fossil fuels when you’re sitting in a junior common room sipping tea, or blocking the M25 on a frantic Friday. But things become trickier once the lights literally go out. Suddenly, you’re grateful for a bit of Norwegian crude.’

That’s quite enough of that. And these responses surely say it best.

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