From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
This month’s largesse from the Department of Transport:
I make that a bung of £806 million for the Net Zero black hole.
Still, it’s only taxpayers’ money!
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Another £806 Million of Your Money Down The Net Zero Drain
But it gets worse, much worse. Of course it does. Take a relatively wealthy state that is ranked 4rth globally in GDP. A state that contibutes < 0.2% of global emissions…
“Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
https://order-order.com/2025/07/14/david-lammy-hands-singapore-70-million-for-clean-energy-transition/
Why stop there?
“New UK support to power green growth at home while tackling climate change abroad
New support will help millions of people globally deal with the daily impact of climate change, the Foreign Secretary David Lammy has today announced
…
This funding is triggered by certain warning signs—such as a weather event or forecast—to enable faster payouts and a more effective response.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-support-to-power-green-growth-at-home-while-tackling-climate-change-abroad
Faster payouts is what it’s all about. Can the Carbon neutral-not printing presses keep up with demand?
“he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.”
I thought Singapore had plenty of money.
UK “leadership” has lost its collective mind.
As if reducing Singapore’s CO2 output would make any difference at all to anything.
Does Lammy know what’s going on in China and India and all the other smart countries? Anything Lammy does about CO2 in the UK or Singapore will be swamped and negated by what is going on in the rest of the world. UK “leadership” is just spinning its wheels and leading the UK to bankruptcy for no good reason. It’s insanity. Where’s Nigel?
Trump will be coming there soon. Perhaps he will offer an opinion about how UK “leadership” is handling the CO2 hysteria.
Here is Lammy on Mastermind. Apparently, Marie Antoinette discovered Radium… Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII…
According to US MSM, Trump is just going to Scotland to play golf at his club on the US tax player’s dime. Meeting with Starmer is just to be social it seems. Negotiations on trade & tariffs apparently not a serious subject.
According to the “leftwing” MSM. Their sole purpose in life is to present Trump in the worst light possible.
‘UK “leadership” has lost its collective mind.’
‘Collective’ is the operative word for the political philosophy underlying all climate alarmism and a lot of other bad stuff.
“Hello…. hello…. Is that the IMF? Yes, thank you. Thank you. This is Rachel from Accounts, I’m trying to reach the IMF…..”
Calling Rachel….
Allo Allo zis iss Nighthawk… leesten cairfully I shall say zis only once… you’re stuffed.
Or Klaus from the WEF. Over 50 solid years of stealing our money…
https://www.reuters.com/world/world-economic-forum-launches-probe-into-founder-klaus-schwab-over-whistleblower-2025-04-22/
My favourite was Denis Healey and the aborted foreign trip…
https://www.omfif.org/2016/09/when-britain-went-bust/
Yes, we went cap in hand to the…. IMF
You must have dreamed this – according to the MMT (modern monetary theory) crowd, it’s impossible for any nation that can print money and issue debt in its own currency to go bankrupt. Why, just look at your friends across the pond…
Perhaps – although the ensuing inflation resulted in the “leadership” losing their jobs.
Forced to retire (extremely rich), oh the shame. Hopefully there will be a way to claw back some justice.
And if you still can’t afford an EV, just move to the city and ride a bicycle. Problem solved! Who says it aint easy being green? It’s easy peasy lemon squeezy.
All signed up for in 15 min cities, you will have nothing and be happy.
https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/fifteen-minute-neighbourhoods-part-londons-recovery
And London’s not the only one.
https://www.c40.org/about-c40/
https://www.c40.org/cities/
Most recent GDP per capita data (USD) (Source: World Bank)
Singapore, 90674.1
UK, 85809.9
Lammy, like every other member of the current UK government, is a disaster. An international embarrassment. I’m pretty sure he holds dual citizenship – so we have a foreign secretary whose commitment to this country is equivocal. But he does appear to have a good eye for a free lunch – perhaps his only talent?
Rule no. 27: There is nothing so unimportant that you can’t spend someone else’s money on it.
That rule is constantly promoted.
I believe it is now in the top 10.
David Lammy and the antisemite:
https://order-order.com/2025/07/25/lammy-does-obrien-show-amid-jewish-school-outrage/
Probably not the wisest media choice for the Foreign Secretary…
NET ZERO POLICY (“De-carbonising” or removing carbon dioxide, a harmless gas, essential to life) does nothing to change the climate. It is a total sham. Every policy maker should be simply asked. How exactly will Net Zero help the planet? Of course it doesn’t. Expensive policy, including crippling energy costs is being made in total ignorance of the facts. Massive renewable subsidies are doing more harm than good. The vast sums should be used to put our economy on a sound footing, not wasted.
Why will politicians and the mainstream media never engage in a discussion querying how Net Zero or De-carbonisation helps the planet? Of course it doesn’t, Carbon Dioxide is essential to life and harmless. The demonisation of fossil fuels is an invention by global power brokers to cause panic use of renewables and line their own pockets at our expense.
Sadly, if asked, they will recite, verbatim, the rhetoric of storms, vulnerable people, oceans rise, loss of crops, sleep apnea, etc., etc., etc. The one thing they will not blame on the climate is the ongoing trans tragedy.
The level of stupid is infuriating. Happy I don’t live in the UK or EU.
It’s alright for some…
Stupid is everywhere.
Still, it’s only taxpayers’ money!
Oh, just go ahead and print more.
/sarc
Story tip.
Talking of money down the drain, UK seems to be futilely pushing ahead with hydrogen.
‘Jobs unlocked as first wave of hydrogen projects sign contracts.’
They seem to be trying to repeat their alt-truth catch phrases as many times as possible.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jobs-unlocked-as-first-wave-of-hydrogen-projects-sign-contracts
….. into the abyss
In 2011, Gus O’Donnell, the Blair-era cabinet secretary, said publicly, “I argued for the most open-door possible for immigration. I think it’s my job to maximise global welfare not national welfare.”
Similarly the energy and transport policies of the UK – Labour, Conservative, Liberal, Plaid, SNP all alike – are directed solely to a fantasy about doing things which are supposed to have some effect on global temperatures. Though no-one can explain what effect, or how much of an effect.
They really think their mission is somehow to improve the planet, not improve the country they live in, the one which elects and pays them. Yes, that one.