Planning for the worst

This is a picture taken by a Danish F16 flying over the Baltic sea, it shows what a hole in an undersea gas pipe looks like at the surface. The pipeline in question is the much publicised Nord Stream 1 which apparently has two leaks at the moment, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline (which isn't operational) also has a leak. This number of leaks in close proximity to two separate pipelines is too much for coincidence, the Russians have almost certainly sabotaged it (link in Swedish). I don't think we should be surprised at this, the most likely thing that Putin will do next is to turn off all gas supplies to the West, I expect he's just waiting for the first cold front to sweep in from the Arctic to do it. The only thing we can do is to prepare for this worst case scenario, ensure that emergency supplies and suitable support is in place for vulnerable people over the Winter, we don't want to have pensioners surviving Covid just to die of hypothermia in their own houses, unable to heat or feed themselves during a cold snap! We're in a sorry state of affairs at the moment and, based on their past record, I have zero confidence in this Government to have the competence to get us through it all unscathed. You have to ask how on earth we got to this point with hardly a vote cast!