A guffaw-inducing story comes to us today from jolly old England, where Kier Starmer has “laid down the gauntlet” to Donald Trump, demanding the incoming US President “show leadership” on climate change:
Unfortunately, I have the misfortune to live in this land of complete woke nutters. I am retired now, but I used to travel overseas extensively, including the USA. I truly wish that I could emigrate to the USA but at my age it is not really practical. I'm a power systems engineer and have worked all my life in the industry but the blob do not wish to listen to professional engineers. Engineering degrees are not required in the UK power industry, you need a degree in wokism and to be a 'yes' man (oops person).
I love it! He wants to win the race. The problem is he’s too stupid to realize it’s a race to the bottom and that the prize for winning is China will eat the UK’s lunch.
And there’s nothing wrong with $2,000 bottles of wine, if you can afford it and you’re not charging it to the taxpayers. Of course, like all good marxists, he’s living like a king at the expense of everyone else.
Keir finally talking to the only crowd that may gaf what he’s spouting about! Uk can’t stand him, just as he appears to despise them!! He is a despicable globalist lapdog, keep yapping Keir, til we put the dog out where it belongs!
By default. The Conservatives had gone Davos luxury beliefs woke, the Greens are well…green slime woke, the lib dems, aside from not being liberal or democratic are wokers woke. Sunak hastily called an election without telling anyone except bat eared Charles so Farage hadn’t had time to gather enough candidates. Conservative voters stayed at home so due yo our first past the post system, the lefties are governing having been voted in by 20% of the electorate. You can use your imagination to decide what 20%.
The majority didn't elect him. Labour overall polled less votes than the last election! People just didn't bother voting for the Conservatives who have thoroughly ruined the UK for the last 14 years. We knew what would happen ... but decided to let the left have their cake and eat it. Now even those on the left that were over the moon with the fabled 'Labour landslide' are beginning to be sorry for what they wished for.
Go ahead Starmer, and poke sticks at the man with the plan. Take the lead from Germany if you want. They are falling behind for a reason: energy policy. For every panel you put up, better have new equal base load that's reliable. You DO know, right, that the Isles are green from a cool, wet climate?!?
Two things you were so right to point out - one being the transport to Baku, which is of course 100% dependent on carbon fuels. Way to go in the leadership department.
2) the solar array - as far as I know, the capacity factor of solar in the UK barely pushes over 10%. But it is probably a sign that the demented idea of importing electricity from Morocco, via an undersea cable, is dead in the water.
Wow! 10%? It's worse than I thought. But I knew foggy old England probably doesn't get much sunshine. I'm an expert on rainy weather - living in the Pacific Northwest.
Not funny to the poor British. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire, with their PMs.
There was that one PM who seemed good for about ten minutes in between the two jokers. I guess that was the time in the air, after flying out of the pan and before landing in the fire.
On the bright side, that has brought the Reform party out of the shadows, with Farage leading it. You'd have to be an idiot to support the conservatives in the UK now. Go Reform, all the way.
Two Tier Kier proclaiming himself Climate Change savior. What a hypocrite liar! He's pretty much abandoned Nuclear Power in Britain, the only viable low carbon energy option for the place.
British company Moltex has one of the best Small Modular Reactor designs on the planet. With an electricity generation cost likely cheaper than gas. The UK refused to allow them to develop it there, while loudly proclaiming they had an SMR program. So Moltex had to move to Canada.
UK was actually 47% high carbon electricity in 2023, discounting the 9% biomass which is ACTUALLY the highest carbon emission source. Vs France @ 6.3%. 7.5X the emissions with an electricity price of $0.46 vs $0.26 for France. With UK net imports (imports @ a high price, exports @ a low price) @ 8.6%. Some success that is. France being the largest net exporter of electricity on Earth.
If UK had skipped the Wind & Solar and just built high efficiency CCGT and nuclear, they would be much lower emissions, far lower imports and a much lower electricity cost. They could reduce gas emissions by 40% by just using CCGT without the Wind & Solar cycling impairing efficiency. Enough to displace 1/2 of their Wind. And the other half by replacing their dirty, eco-destructive biomass with ultra-supercritical coal, at the same emissions and 1/3rd the cost. The pittance of mostly useless solar (4.7%) could easily have been replaced by coal, gas or nuclear. Same emissions at much lower cost. No dependence on imports.
I was in and around London this summer, and rode the train under a cloudy and sunless sky through ancient farms and fields many covered with useless, ugly, acres of solar panels. A blight on Ol' Blighty to be sure.
Global virtue signalling by the latest in a long line of British governments going back to Theresa May's.
Britain emits around 1% of the world's CO2 and congratulates itself on leading the world in having reduced its emissions through transitions to wind and solar. In reality Britain has exported its heavy industry abroad, and then imports the finished goods,thus transferring the emission to countries like China and India who are happy to power their factories with electricity generated in coal fired power stations.
Meanwhile the growing UK population is increasingly dependent on imported food as the land available for farming is reduced by housebuilding and solar farms.
I can only hope that your suggestion that Starmer doesn't last long comes true, but I doubt you are right, unfortunately.
Starmer's trying to destroy all the small farms, bankrupt family farms. And since he sent 100 labor MP's to campaign for Kamala in the US, now Trump is going to exact revenge on the arsehole. Big trade tariffs and a big invitation for British industry to move to the US with its much lower energy prices.
Unfortunately, I have the misfortune to live in this land of complete woke nutters. I am retired now, but I used to travel overseas extensively, including the USA. I truly wish that I could emigrate to the USA but at my age it is not really practical. I'm a power systems engineer and have worked all my life in the industry but the blob do not wish to listen to professional engineers. Engineering degrees are not required in the UK power industry, you need a degree in wokism and to be a 'yes' man (oops person).
I love it! He wants to win the race. The problem is he’s too stupid to realize it’s a race to the bottom and that the prize for winning is China will eat the UK’s lunch.
And there’s nothing wrong with $2,000 bottles of wine, if you can afford it and you’re not charging it to the taxpayers. Of course, like all good marxists, he’s living like a king at the expense of everyone else.
Keir finally talking to the only crowd that may gaf what he’s spouting about! Uk can’t stand him, just as he appears to despise them!! He is a despicable globalist lapdog, keep yapping Keir, til we put the dog out where it belongs!
This guy is truly a bad joke. How did the UK elect him?
By default. The Conservatives had gone Davos luxury beliefs woke, the Greens are well…green slime woke, the lib dems, aside from not being liberal or democratic are wokers woke. Sunak hastily called an election without telling anyone except bat eared Charles so Farage hadn’t had time to gather enough candidates. Conservative voters stayed at home so due yo our first past the post system, the lefties are governing having been voted in by 20% of the electorate. You can use your imagination to decide what 20%.
Wow! I worked forBP for 10 years and lived near London for a while. I am truly sorry for you all.
We are all hoping Trump will accept a better class of immigrant, from the motherland; an immigrant that brings capital with them!
Yep, now a 3rd World Shithole worthy of a Somalian dictatorship.
The majority didn't elect him. Labour overall polled less votes than the last election! People just didn't bother voting for the Conservatives who have thoroughly ruined the UK for the last 14 years. We knew what would happen ... but decided to let the left have their cake and eat it. Now even those on the left that were over the moon with the fabled 'Labour landslide' are beginning to be sorry for what they wished for.
In fairness, he's an expert, David. "Britain paying highest electricity prices in the world
Cost of power for industrial businesses now four times more expensive than in US" --The Telegraph, Sept 26, 2924.
Not quite highest, but very close.
Highest electricity price in the 28 countries that belong to the IEA.
Mr Potato head and his sidekick will believe anything, but will listen to nothing.
They are hellbent on destroying our farming system as well as driving everyone else into poverty.
Go ahead Starmer, and poke sticks at the man with the plan. Take the lead from Germany if you want. They are falling behind for a reason: energy policy. For every panel you put up, better have new equal base load that's reliable. You DO know, right, that the Isles are green from a cool, wet climate?!?
Jim - See my comment, too, about rainy, foggy England.
Two things you were so right to point out - one being the transport to Baku, which is of course 100% dependent on carbon fuels. Way to go in the leadership department.
2) the solar array - as far as I know, the capacity factor of solar in the UK barely pushes over 10%. But it is probably a sign that the demented idea of importing electricity from Morocco, via an undersea cable, is dead in the water.
Wow! 10%? It's worse than I thought. But I knew foggy old England probably doesn't get much sunshine. I'm an expert on rainy weather - living in the Pacific Northwest.
Trump is showing leadership by calling out this scam
Not funny to the poor British. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire, with their PMs.
There was that one PM who seemed good for about ten minutes in between the two jokers. I guess that was the time in the air, after flying out of the pan and before landing in the fire.
On the bright side, that has brought the Reform party out of the shadows, with Farage leading it. You'd have to be an idiot to support the conservatives in the UK now. Go Reform, all the way.
Top drawer comedy from Lego hair man.
How can a man that knows ZERO about leadership demand leadership from anyone.
Two Tier Kier proclaiming himself Climate Change savior. What a hypocrite liar! He's pretty much abandoned Nuclear Power in Britain, the only viable low carbon energy option for the place.
British company Moltex has one of the best Small Modular Reactor designs on the planet. With an electricity generation cost likely cheaper than gas. The UK refused to allow them to develop it there, while loudly proclaiming they had an SMR program. So Moltex had to move to Canada.
UK was actually 47% high carbon electricity in 2023, discounting the 9% biomass which is ACTUALLY the highest carbon emission source. Vs France @ 6.3%. 7.5X the emissions with an electricity price of $0.46 vs $0.26 for France. With UK net imports (imports @ a high price, exports @ a low price) @ 8.6%. Some success that is. France being the largest net exporter of electricity on Earth.
If UK had skipped the Wind & Solar and just built high efficiency CCGT and nuclear, they would be much lower emissions, far lower imports and a much lower electricity cost. They could reduce gas emissions by 40% by just using CCGT without the Wind & Solar cycling impairing efficiency. Enough to displace 1/2 of their Wind. And the other half by replacing their dirty, eco-destructive biomass with ultra-supercritical coal, at the same emissions and 1/3rd the cost. The pittance of mostly useless solar (4.7%) could easily have been replaced by coal, gas or nuclear. Same emissions at much lower cost. No dependence on imports.
Good one, David.
BTW, I'm wondering just how much sunshine that 60 square mile are gets in rainy, foggy England? Surely not enough to justify a single solar panel.
Yep, it makes as much sense as growing pineapples in Scotland.
I was in and around London this summer, and rode the train under a cloudy and sunless sky through ancient farms and fields many covered with useless, ugly, acres of solar panels. A blight on Ol' Blighty to be sure.
Global virtue signalling by the latest in a long line of British governments going back to Theresa May's.
Britain emits around 1% of the world's CO2 and congratulates itself on leading the world in having reduced its emissions through transitions to wind and solar. In reality Britain has exported its heavy industry abroad, and then imports the finished goods,thus transferring the emission to countries like China and India who are happy to power their factories with electricity generated in coal fired power stations.
Meanwhile the growing UK population is increasingly dependent on imported food as the land available for farming is reduced by housebuilding and solar farms.
I can only hope that your suggestion that Starmer doesn't last long comes true, but I doubt you are right, unfortunately.
Starmer's trying to destroy all the small farms, bankrupt family farms. And since he sent 100 labor MP's to campaign for Kamala in the US, now Trump is going to exact revenge on the arsehole. Big trade tariffs and a big invitation for British industry to move to the US with its much lower energy prices.