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Friday, 23 October 2026

No relevant engineering backgrounds to manage the energy industry


From the video description - During a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee, Rupert Lowe confronts a panel of civil servants from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero for having no relevant engineering backgrounds to manage the energy industry.


11 comments:

DAD said...

If they have no engineering skills at senior management level, who is going to vet those with engineering skills who need to be employed?

A K Haart said...

DAD - good question, the answer is far from clear. Expensive consultants?

dearieme said...

C P Snow did warn us all.

Tammly said...

There's always Katherine Porter. Oh no, she's no good to them, she knows what she's talking about.

James Higham said...

Gimme question ... is Britain well managed?

A K Haart said...

dearieme - yes he did and now it is unmissable.

Tammly - they probably loathe her and wouldn't dream of actually listening to her.

James - there is only one possible answer to that.

woodsy42 said...

But when lumps of the country have massive power cuts I am confident lessons will be learned, so it's all good!

Scrobs. said...

Let them eat lanyards...

A K Haart said...

Woodsy - voters might learn some lessons but I wouldn't bet on it.

Scrobs - on each lanyard there is probably a health and safety warning about not chewing them during meetings.

Anonymous said...

It's well fucked.
Penseivat

A K Haart said...

Penseivat - intentionally too.