Andrew Neil is Right – Net Zero is Britain’s Self-Inflicted Wound. But Here’s How We Heal It.

Andrew Neil’s column in the Daily Mail this week will have come as a shock to those who still believe the Government’s fairy tales about a “glorious renewable future.” He didn’t mince his words: Net Zero is “the most costly self-inflicted wound in modern British history.”

He’s right.

For years, ministers, quangos, and energy corporations have told us that wind and solar would deliver cheap, clean, reliable power. Instead, what we see is the opposite: ballooning bills, collapsing companies, and an industry surviving only because taxpayers are forced to bail it out.

Take Ørsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind developer and once the darling of the “Green Blob.” Twelve offshore projects in British waters, celebrated as the future. Today? A financial basket case, needing billions from Danish taxpayers just to stay afloat. This is not the story of a successful energy revolution. It’s the story of a bubble already bursting.

Meanwhile here in Britain, ordinary families are punished with standing charges that have risen by over 500%, while our industries are crippled by energy costs that make it impossible to compete with Europe, America, or Asia. Neil is right to call this a wound — but it is deeper than most realise.

Because what Net Zero has done is not just make us poorer. It has hollowed out the very foundations of our energy system. The grid is buckling under zombie projects that will never be built. Reinforcements are decades late. Ministers demand more renewables when there is no capacity to connect them. And all of it is underpinned by laws — the Climate Change Act and the legally binding carbon budgets of the Climate Change Committee — that no voter ever had a say on.

Neil diagnoses the problem. Reform UK is offering the cure.

We don’t just say “stop Net Zero.” We say:

Rebuild the grid first – with reliable AC generation, not fantasy DC conversions that leave us exposed to blackouts.

Back real British power – Small Modular Reactors made here, creating jobs and energy security.

Use our gas properly – as a sovereign resource, not imported at a premium.

Embrace rooftop solar film – like Power Roll, developed in the North East, which can deliver generation without swallowing up thousands of acres of farmland.


Britain needs energy that works — for households, for industry, for the countryside. That means ending the subsidy circus, dismantling the failed Net Zero straitjacket, and putting sovereignty, security, and affordability first.

Andrew Neil has sounded the alarm. Reform UK is ready to answer it with a plan.