Sir Keir Starmer challenged opposition critics with a promise to double down on net zero as he admitted the “consensus is gone” on climate change in a speech at the UN’s Cop30 summit.
The Prime Minister staunchly defended his Government’s clean energy agenda, but conceded unity on “science that is unequivocal” has splintered since the Paris Accord a decade ago.
Speaking at the international climate conference in Belem, Brazil’s city gateway to the Amazon, Sir Keir sought to make the economic case for net zero by arguing the green transition would create jobs and lower household bills.
Speaking with Reporter Jessica Woodlock and Environment Editor Chris Morrison, Talk’s Ian Collins says: “You can’t make this up!”
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right since it’s working so well in UK – highest energy costs in the world plus de-industrialization eliminating tens of thousands of jobs – how can these people be so stupid
It’s way past stupid. Stammer is deliberately destroying the UK and if he can, western civilization. That’s called EVIL. He has a thing about humanity. He hates us and wants to wipe us out. It’s twitchy, and he’s a prize twitch. It’s not about “The Science”. It’s about survival as a species in the face of utter destruction by evil.
According to the latest UK polls, the Labour Party and the Green Party combined have about 33% of the electorate supporting the net Zero Agenda! It’s a challenge convincing people they’ve been fooled.
These people are not stupid. Starmer knows exactly what he’s doing. The question is, who’s the puppet master?
Elections have consequences.
Sorry, These people ARE stupid. Unbelievably stupid
Not necessarily – they could just be in the pockets of a foreign government. I’ll give you one guess…
What do you mean – could be.
Starmer and Trump etc, do what they are told, the same as most western Goverments.
Israel tells Trump what is going to happen, the USA is not independent.
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Yes. But Britain is a democracy (of sorts). The stupid people were put there by stupid voters. Maybe more ignorant than stupid. Same result.
Britain is not a democracy, and has not been for a long time. You are living in an illusion.
Plus:
1) the UK is coddling about 10 million non British people who suck from various government tits, and who have crime rates 5 times greater than native UK people, and who will not fight for the UK, but rather undermine it with Shariah law,
2) the UK is militarizing to attack/undermine Russia to get its resources for free, in the same manner the UK has done in India and much of the rest of the world. That game was over after 1915.
“£60.2 billion
UK military budget
The UK’s military budget for 2024/25 is set at £60.2 billion, with plans to increase to £62.2 billion in 2025/26 and £73.5 billion by 2028/29. This represents an annual average real-terms growth rate of 3.8% over this period. The budget includes a significant capital budget, with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) having the largest capital budget of any government department. The UK’s defense spending as a percentage of GDP is 2.3% in 2024, which is above the NATO commitment of 2%. The government aims to increase this target to 2.5% of GDP by 2027. The UK’s defense spending has increased in recent years due to ongoing support for Ukraine following Russia’s military invasion in February 2022”
The numbers are big for any country outside the top 3, but I wouldn’t call that militarization. For reference:
“As of 2 May 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) fiscal year 2026 (FY2026) budget request was $892.6 billion, maintaining near-flat nominal growth compared to FY2025 levels.[1] On 26 June 2025, the administration outlined its priorities, emphasizing investments in drones, missiles, and modernization while reducing procurement of certain legacy systems, such as F-35 fighter jets.”
60.2/892 = less than 7%. IOW UK spends about 14x less than USA on military with about 6x less population – with giant rounding error that’s about half the cost per citizen.
What else to expect from a crazy socialist?
The Royal imprimatur?
Prince William spreads ‘climate hysteria’ during COP30 address
Does the Royal family own the seabed around the UK?
Do they collect rent for windmills tethered to the sea floor?
The Crown estate – Parliament (fronted by the puppet monarch) – ie the Treasury, owns it.
In theory he has until 2029 to make a pig’s ear of everything.
I give us regular folk ~6 months.
Speaking with Reporter Jessica Woodlock and Environment Editor Chris Morrison, Talk’s Ian Collins says: “You can’t make this up!”
No sh****t, Sherlock…
It is tragic that most politicians do not understand the science behinfd “Net Zero” and “De- carbonisation” They just do not have the effect they think they do. Climate changes all the time but this is NOT man-made nor can be changed by him. We must hold these ignoramuses to account.
It is tragic that people like you still not understand that pretended stupidity is a main MO of politicians – as every other conclusion would result in deliberate sabotage.
This, like every other new truths, has nothing to do with understanding but following a script no matter what.
And it doesn’t matter wether we talk about pronouns,wars,CBDC’s,mass invasion
– no matter how disputed the topic is, they are 100% monolithic and have the same opinion.
It is impossible to have the same opinion on this nonsense,
yet that’s exactly what’s going on with politicians.
Therefore it has nothing to do with understanding – but with scripts.
(and you can’t really expect Clown Starmer to fly 10000 miles and deviate from the narrative).
That’s an insult to decent, honest clowns.
I was talking about IT- Clowns.
You guys missed a chance on November 5th.
“We must hold these ignoramuses to account.”
How ??
When ??
By who ??
& don’t say ‘just wait until election time’; that’s a system set up by governments, so the plebs think they have some influence … we don’t, it’s just a revolving door.
Whoever you vote for, the result will be the same: a group of self-serving narcissistic career politicians, most verging on criminals, who get to mark their own homework.
The plebs abdicate their responsibility when they vote for owned people who only represent their party and will do as instructed by the hierarchy. Worst type of people with worst result.
Something’s working – the director of the vile, lying BBC could’ve held on, continuing with the BBC schoolboy politics fake routine. Something forced him out. Might’ve been Trump, as that’s what he apparently resigned over. I don’t know how UK law works, but he might have concluded that a massive lawsuit against him personally, or even against the BBC was not a good idea.
Imagine how far the fake-Labour Party can get from here without the fake-news Baghdad Bob Corporation.
great
You never really want to go full Monty Python, but there they go.
It would have been funny if a few anacondas had been snuck aboard and released on his jet for his return flight.
Anacondas are a protected species.
Poisoning them with a living bait (especially the extra toxic keir -type with more semen in the belly than between the legs) can get you several years of prison.
Just think of all the good things that will happen when the UK, responsible for about 0.8% of world CO2 emissions caused by people will be realized. Hmm. Still thinking.
The UK needs more CO2 emissions.
Roger Pielke examined the UK’s emissions reduction and chalked most of it up to de-industrialization. With energy intensive industry gone from the UK, now they have to decarbonize everyday living which will be done by buying green energy tech from Asia.
Those industries that moved to Asia now produce much more CO2 than the UK and EU ever did so annual global CO2 emissions continue to rise by half a billion tons.
i just wonder if the COP participants realized that global CO2 emissions were 22 billion tons in year 1 of the COP meetings and it’s currently 37.5 billion tons.
How can anyone take the drive to Net Zero seriously given the global emissions data?
I would opine it would be less than that.
The UK needs an awakening. Energy costs keep rising, jobs keep falling, industry being hollowed out, invaders taking control of the government and cities, freedom of speech and thought under attack, and it only gets worse.
I hear that bible verses, such as “Love thy neighbor,” could be considered hate speech.
In the past, USAs ACLU was willing to protect all speech, even in cases that I thought were obnoxious or silly. I wish they were still like that.
Where are the British men?
Eh? We have English, Scots, Welsh… and the Northern Irish.
It’s called devolution.
Still …
“Where are the British men?”
Busy “Loving their neighbours,” & hoping not to be caught (:-))
‘Where are the British men?’
Like their counterparts here in the US, being sold down the road to serfdom by their women folk.
“The UK needs an awakening.”
A hard winter (like 1946, 1962, 1978, 2009 and 2018) will do that; blackouts & deaths are the only things that will wake people up.
It was 1963, not 1962 – I was there!
So was I, the first UK wide snow was on 12–13 December 1962. Then there was more heavy snow on Dec 26/27, giving 2ft of snow in Cardiff & most roads were blocked.
On 29-30 Dec, the first blizzard produced drifts up to 20ft deep; more blizzards came in Jan & Feb 1963 & the sea froze in many places (I walked to the end of Penarth Pier … on the sea ice ). The gradual thaw started in March 63.
Correct – I got my first 2-wheeled bike on Christmas Day 1962, rode it that day and then couldn’t ride it for about 3 months as the several feet of snow we had on Boxing Day then froze (as did the sea at many shorelines).
COP 30 could be a tipping point, you know. The world after COP will look quite different: no more COPs.
Imagine there’s no COPs
It’s easy if you try
No more climate clowning
No more “we’re all going to fry”
Every time Sir Keir Starmer takes a shower, he is killing a child in Africa. Genocide.
He takes showers? I thought he relied on the odour of sanctity.
When you double down based on fake data the result is the same as playing blackjack … and the dealer cheats.
He’s a rock star–in down is up world that is.
The UK needs a good health recession to wake up, or at least a multiyear stagnation German style.
Removing Starmer and Milliband from office is a first step.
Sadly, I listened to Prince William. I thought he had a brain. This is the end of the Monarchy. An elitist entitled prat lecturing us about non-existent “tipping points “whilst swanning around in his private jet…
William is reasonably sharp but he has listened too much to his father who, although also a nice chap, is not so bright and simply believes what he is told/advised. He has conflated his environmental wishes with AGW.
When we were kids we used to play at cops and robbers. This lot give the game a whole new meaning.
My sympathy to the UK but it is great news that the fake consensus is now officially over. Something to celebrate.
At least one biased BBC director is resigning over spliced video of DJT. Hopefully many more will follow.
Make that two now.
Lie, lies and more lies. This guy is pathetic, he and his kind have put the UK in a horrible position, higher energy prices, higher inflation, more danger of brown/blackouts, shutting down reliable, affordable, clean power, mandating fewer choices, creating energy poverty, causing greater unemployment, forcing inferior products on their constituents, enabling the Met to lie and cheat on its reporting, driving business and manufacturing out and all this for no good reason. Atmospheric CO2 levels have not gone down rather they have gone up, average global temperatures have not gone down rather they have gone up. This guy is really dangerous in addition to being a liar and a cheat. You need to boot him out of office now.
“Sir Keir sought to make the economic case for net zero by arguing the green transition would create jobs and lower household bills”.
Tojours Bolleaux.
I doubt he will last to the full term of the parliament.
What are the mechanisms for being able to get rid of him so far from the next general election? Obviously internal party revolt, which isn’t happening yet, but what else?
What do you mean you can’t make this stuff up?
The BBC do that all the time….
Maybe Starmer wants to double down, but will the British public faced with increasingly high energy bills and rising unemployment numbers be willing to join him? Maybe he should be looking more closely at the polls rather than listening too closely to the alarmists.
The humans in the UK exhale ca. 70 million kilograms of CO2 everyday. To this should be added the CO2 produced by all the domesticated animals. Does Mad Ed have a plan for reducing CO2 emissions from humans and animals?
Yes. Net Zero.