Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t MrGrimNasty – “Keir Starmer just backed making you poorer – while rest of world laughed at him”
Keir Starmer just backed making you poorer – while rest of world laughed at him
Is it any wonder our enemies on the world stage think Britain is a joke?
By Esther McVey
18:00, Mon, Nov 10, 2025Keir Starmer jumped on a jet last week and headed to Brazil. A 12,000-mile round trip to a climate summit where he re-committed the UK to Carbon reduction targets that will further impoverish people in the UK – without making a blind bit of difference to global temperatures – and either collapse or relocate abroad our once world-leading manufacturing industries.
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Starmer’s obsession with net zero is putting a giant, self-inflicted nail in the coffin of UK PLC. …
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I had a meeting last week with the UK’s chemical industry leaders where they explained to me how a combination of high energy prices, environmental regulation and carbon prices were killing the sector and, worse still, destroying critical supply chains and making us dependent on China for chemicals for even the most basic of things like purifying our water.
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How ironic that Labour used to be the party that championed heavy industry and the working-class, whereas now it’s consigning those workers to the dole queue.
Read more: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2132117/keir-starmer-make-you-poorer
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You might wonder at the complacency of labor unions in the face of job losses and industry shutdowns, but I received some insight into this paradox from a speech by far left British politician George Galloway, who explained why unions were so open to climate alarmism – from memory his words were “Corporations have stuffed up everything else, so why not the environment and the planet as well?”.
I suspect what remains of climate support in the UK hinges on people like Galloway. Galloway is a skilful public speaker, who once appeared before the US senate and put on a strong performance, answering questions about his relationship with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. If people like Galloway ever turn on the climate movement, what is left of the climate consensus in Britain will collapse.
But everyone laughs at Kier Starmer – what’s new?
That’s because he’s eerily reminiscent of Bazza McKenzie –
won’t upload a pic of Bazza for some reason 🙁
try this
or this
I give up 🙁
It might be too large a file- I’ve noticed that.
Have we ever figured out why some people have the image upload icon and others don’t?
Either they don’t have that icon or they’re trying to upload an image file type the site doesn’t like. Or it’s just too big- which I’ve experienced- then I shrunk it and it uploaded.
seems it was blocked by a new security function I didn’t know was on my new computer.
The nanny state doesn’t even bother asking us what we want and don’ want to see now 🙁
JZ I don’t have the icon so I can’t experience the other problem. I don’t think it’s a security function for me as Mr had, since it’s across multiple computers all with different OS’s
That’s weird. So, just to be clear, if you click on reply you don’t see a little icon in the lower right- a square with a few things in it?
JZ I do not. I would post a screenshot but… 🙂
The last icon on the bottom is [+], and there is nothing at the right side.
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.
Because The Science is Settled. They would no more argue about AGW than about 2+2=4.
No field of science is that settled, except possibly Mathematics, and even Math is provably incomplete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_theorems
Sounds like my joke settled to the bottom of the septic tank 🙂
They do not engage because they would lose the discussion.
That’s why they’d set up a set of firewalls to keep a discussion from happening. ( ignorance is stregtn)
1) the science is settled, so STFU .
2)You are a climate denier (a nonsensical term but with a very high negative associative power -noone listens to a Nazi)
3)declaring co2 a pollutant
4)people who argue against AGW are paid by the fossil fuel industry
etc
The bigger the lie the less dialog can happen if you don’t want to lose your believers
and the control about the narrative.
And you can imagine how big a lie is if you must declare co2 a pollutant (if co2 is a pollutant then what on earth is not?) and call others Nazis for just questioning the official narrative..
To paraphrase Tacitus
“If you want to know how big a lie is find out how much you are allowed to discuss/criticize a mandatory truth.”
“They do not engage because they would lose the discussion.”
Not just in the UK. Here in Wokeachusetts, there is absolutely ZERO discussion about Net Zero other than it’s glorious and will save the planet and lower our energy costs.
Ed Miliband blasted for 12,000-mile round trip twice in two weeks for eco summit
The Energy Secretary headed to Brazil earlier this month to meet Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Prince William in Rio de Janeiro before they flew to Belem for the Cop30 summit.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/ed-miliband-blasted-for-12000-mile-round-trip-twice-in-two-weeks-for-eco-summit/ar-AA1Qdk02
Then there and back again. Add in a hotel room at £1,250 per night….
Don’t forget the cost of the …”entertainment” ladies.
I question whether any lady would be that desperate for the money….
Government has no business controlling the energy business or any other business. No individual, council, committee or any other gaggle of humans can out perform the population at large for the simple reason that government isn’t allowed to fail. The rest of us are mostly expected to fail and that is a good thing, that is how we learn what not to do. Government doesn’t have that luxury, they are condemned to remain ignorant. Starmer is proof of that.
Of course governments don’t have expertise in oil, especially the construction of infrastructure like pipelines…just look at the cock-up that was the Justin Trudeau government taking over construction to expand an oil pipeline from Alberta to the sea in BC. Delivered to us at 3 to 4 times the cost of the private sector. Now that ninny is swanning around with a (one time) pop diva
I did see a “conspiracy theory” at the time that postulated that the Trudeau 2.0 government was encouraged by some environmental groups to buy the pipeline with taxpayer funds and then drag out the construction works indefinitely.
Funny how so many of these “conspiracy theories” are substantially based in truth.
Their somewhat stable policy and economy days are numbered. The energy and industrial math is about to turn against them without enough offsetting tax sources to hide it.
I think Britain sadly is about to experience a Southern European style economic collapse. They’re chasing off all their productive economy.
Losing 1000 jobs a day since Two Tier Kier and his inept Chancellor took over. The only growth we are seeing under Labour is in unemployment, benefits claimants, inflation and illegal immigrants.
On this day of remembrance I share with you all a most poignant yet uplifting poem from a Canadian Dr. in WWI. The fields he writes of were real, the crosses did literally mark the graves of the fallen, potentially members of your family that never got to live a full life or even dream of the advances we have today. We live in the best of times because of people who fought and died for our freedom, do not let their sacrifice be in vein.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
His birthplace was three blocks from my family home in Guelph.This was Colonel John McCrae.
John McCrae – Wikipedia
News flash: climate alarmist “solutions” have always been on the backs of the poor. Raising the price of gas, electricity, fertilizer, etc. always hits the poor first and hardest. The poor of Africa, South America, and even in the First World are cannon fodder for the globalist billionaires pushing carbon taxes and mud huts. Induced famine starves the poor, not the rich. The alarmunists want to steal everything. The poor will own nothing. The youth of today think they will never own a home, and they might be right. The Left did that to them. The Right has been complicit.
They were clear. “You will have nothing and you will be happy.”
Galloway has always been unhinged.
He doesn’t look very bright. Like, maybe he should be managing a doughnut shop. 🙂
He would even fail at that.