We're making the classic mistake of thinking everyone can be a winner. In the real world, for the greater good, there must be losers and they will have to endure pain. We're in a fantasy bubble at the moment.
We nearly ran out of gas over the winter and we're heading straight for an energy crisis. Do we build new nuclear powered stations or give money to millionaires to build pretty windfarms?
It's not about what people *want* it's about what the country *needs* to start paying off the frankly enormous debts that our forerunnners have wracked up and left to us. That means more flights, tourists, trade and frankly more controlled pollution.
Look at France electing Hollande on a fantasy he could never deliver, reality is catching up with these numpties.