Monday, March 9, 2026

How’s That Green Net Zero Grift Working Out for You, England? – HotAir

March 9, 2026
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The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, ‘Two Tier’ Keir Starmer, has spent the majority of his relatively short term hovering somewhere between sour milk and dogcrap in opinion polls, while skirting the edge of disaster as he lurches from one basically self-induced crisis to the next.





 The thing about constantly having to hustle and lie and tapdance your way out of monstrous controversies that never should have been encountered to begin with is that it takes an inordinate amount of time and energy. Think of all the money, energy, and goodwill wasted, say, avoiding doing the right thing about the grooming gang scandal.

Or trying to hide the truth about the Southport murderer. Going after pensioners and housewives for unflattering social media posts, or for expressing their anger over the uninvited guests you’ve allowed to flood, as one note I saw put it, ‘our formerly proud and independent country.’

Watch as the marvelous Katie Hopkins describes a beautiful ghosttown where no one will live, because, just as they finished it, a migrant hostel went in down the road.

The little village of Crowborough is fighting it, bless their hearts. But people in Britain need homes, and migrants get them first. Or they plop the invaders right where there might have been homes, and these do look awfully nice for something no one can live in.

Starmer has disgraced the British in the eyes of the Americans, and many Brits are mortified at the betrayal. The Chagos handover, the denial of RAF Fairford, and, of all things, the denial of Diego Garcia. The panicked, ‘We had nothing to do with this!’ announcement, which might well have had something to do with the late, unlamented Ayatollah Khamenei’s son – now the new guy – being one of the largest landholders on London’s Billionaires Row.





Many Brits are fed up with the giveaways of their heritage and how the woke prime minister and his minions have turned the proud symbols of British culture into red flags for radicals, hate, and, worst of all, something to be ashamed of.

Even the lily-livered French have beaten Keir Starmer to Cyprus, by land, sea, and air, which seems to be absolutely excruciating to everyone in England but Keir Starmer.

He’s rumored to have a boat headed that way…eventually. Trump said it was decent of him to want to join a war we’ve already won.

I don’t think that was too harsh.

It is getting harsh at home for the PM. Customary English patience and good grace have thinned tremendously, and it all falls right back where it belongs.

This was Saturday at the main train station in Glasgow, Scotland.





– The post shares a video depicting a tense confrontation at Glasgow Central Station on March 7, 2026, where UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears amid crowds holding Palestinian and Union Jack flags, with security in hi-vis vests managing the crowd.

– Accompanying text delivers a profane tirade against Starmer, accusing him of favoring migrants and Muslims over “UK white people,” reflecting deep-seated anger over immigration policies since Labour’s 2024 election win.

– Replies from like-minded users reinforce the hostility, including threats and memes, underscoring polarized UK discourse on national identity and foreign policy amid ongoing protests. 

People are beginning to make themselves heard wherever Starmer appears.

This was earlier today, at the Commonwealth Day Celebrations.

People are also using public venues to get the message out.





They could well be even more angry in the coming days. 

Part of Starmer’s campaign was on green energy, and he has allowed his lunatic energy minister, the risible Ed Miliband, a free hand in decimating the once mighty British fossil fuel industry, crippling the British economy, as he did so.

I’ve written many times over the course of the past two years about how very close the entire island has come to being completely shut down for lack of electrical generation, and how long-suffering Brits have paid through the nose for the promise of a greener, more affordable future that somehow never appears.

Miliband and his schemes have turned a once energy-independent British Isles into a vassal of Europe, dependent on trunk lines from the continent for the extra power needed to replace the natural gas, nuclear, and coal-fired plants they shuttered in order to preen as green. 

A year ago, even as natural gas stockpiles fell alarmingly, I wrote that Miliband kept on his suicidal course. The last remaining shale gas wells in the wilds of Lancashire were not capped; they were permanently disabled with tons of concrete, a Pyrrhic victory for Miliband and the Greens.

…Minister Miliband is doing what any supervillain would do had he the power to crush hopes and dreams – he’s concreting over the remaining two shale gas wells in Britain.

UK’s last fracking wells to be filled with cement despite dwindling gas stocks

The UK’s last fracking wells are set to be closed and filled with cement despite warnings that Britain’s gas stockpiles are dwindling.

Entombing them so they can’t ever be resurrected.





There were warnings.

A gigantic gas field was discovered under Lincolnshire at the same time.

In October of last year, Miliband’s response was to work to make the fracking moratorium in place since 2019 permanent.

Britain’s Labour government plans to permanently ban fracking, a highly controversial method of extracting fossil fuels, due its environmental impact, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said Wednesday. 

Although there is a moratorium on fracking already in place due to concerns it could trigger earthquakes, fracking is not yet fully banned in law.

‘Let’s ban fracking,’ Miliband told the Labour party conference in Liverpool.

‘It will trash our climate commitments, and it is dangerous and deeply harmful to our natural environment,’ he said.

Fast forward five months, and where is England right now?

Well. They’re not going to be thanking Ed Miliband or his boss anytime soon.

They have two days of natural gas left, thanks to those darn unforeseen events.

Could be rough going.

Britain has just two days’ worth of natural gas in storage, sparking fears of a shortage crisis as the Middle East conflict shut down the world’s largest gas facility and Iran closed a key shipping channel.

The UK’s gas reserves have dwindled from 18,000 GWh last year to 6,700 GWh, enough for just 1.5 days of demand, according to new data published by National Gas. There is a similar quantity stored as liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Europe is much better prepared to weather fluctuations in supply, with several weeks’ worth of gas stored up.

Traders have been exploiting the UK’s situation by charging it a premium price on gas, knowing it has no choice but to outbid its European competitors. The UK is now paying the highest wholesale gas price in Europe.

Disruption to the gas market is driven partly by the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which around 20 per cent of the world’s natural gas and oil flows, and also by the shutdown of production in some places.





The UK is now paying ‘the highest wholesale price’ for natural gas in Europe.

And they haven’t even priced in if they can restock it yet.

WE HAVE TO GET THAT GAS FROM ABROAD

…Natasha Fielding, head of gas pricing at Argus Media, a leading publisher of commodity data, said: ‘The price of gas in the UK has increased by more than almost anywhere in Europe. 

‘The UK gas hub price is now above the Dutch TTF [the main European gas hub] all the way from now until the end of May. Before this week, the UK was priced below the EU.’

She said this was partly because the UK’s meagre gas stockpiles leave us ‘more exposed to price spikes’, and added: ‘We can’t rely on withdrawing more from storage, so we have to get that gas from abroad.’

While underneath their feet, and right offshore, sit hundreds of millions of barrels of oil and cubic feet of natural gas.

Make it make sense.

But now they’re in a bidding war with Europe that they must win.

Ebola just texted me and said he’d just paid £50 ($67 US) for a quarter tank of gasoline for the Grand Cherokee – about 6 gallons.

It’s time for planting, and natural gas is crucial for nitrogen fertilizer.

Oh, well.

They were planning on starving them out anyway.





The valley will still be green, just with windmills, not like, food, or any of that stuff.

 


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