This is why my base case is still that Reform implode on contact with a GE campaign. Too many of them will be tempted by the 'yes, I am absolutely bats**t chad.jpg' routine and the market for that is just too small in the UK.

Even then, you can sell funds pretty quickly and funds don't have to mean equities. Plenty of money market and ultrashort bond funds will return more than a high street cash account with minimal price risk.

Nothing to make you feel old like realising holding 30 year gilts to maturity isn't going to work. Smh.

I think I shall spend the rest of my life wondering how chaos with Ed Milliband would have played out.

I know this is very much 'no, the children are wrong', but I always look at these and wonder what exactly people are expecting given [gestures at everything].

The network of public footpaths. People take it for granted that you can just go out of your front door and walk.

Not to mention, a sector that is genuinely globally competitive. Not too many of those left.

I doubt it's a coincidence that these politicians are 'spontaneously' having these doubts just as renewables plus storage is set to fall below price parity with fossil fuels.

Seriously though, if clean tech blew up people's houses with anything like this regularity, I'm pretty sure there would be some takes.

I mean the cynical answer is he's on the Saudi payroll and they are panicking hard.

I take this as a good sign that fossil producers like Saudi, who fund TBI handsomely, are panicking. The last thing keeping them in the electricity, heat and ground transport games is the cost of energy storage, and the rate of cost reductions there mean that situation won't outlast the decade.