WHERE are we with the growing energy crisis? As usual, as Seamus Heaney said, “sucking the hind teat”.

That is, as explained in a glossary of Hiberno-English terms, “accepting being inferior” and “the weakest animal in the litter pushed to the end of the food line receiving the least milk and metaphorically the worst deal”.

In our case, literally. Already we’ve seen the woefully inadequate response from Britain to the shocking surge in heating oil prices which affects more people here than, altogether now, “the rest of the UK”.

It’s going to keep on rising regardless of whether the lying, malevolent clown in the White House walks away from the war he started.

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Who knows when, if ever, oil supplies from the Persian Gulf will return to normal?

When will people here receive their first payments to mitigate the rocketing price?

By the time the squabbling incompetents at Stormont get round to it, it looks like July at the earliest.

Will the British government bring in any special arrangements for the specific problems people face here with a more scattered rural population? Nope.

We’re not entirely........

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