Essay by Eric Worrall
Turns out the public has higher priorities than ensuring their great grandkids enjoy 0.01ºC lower temperatures in 100 years.
From Britain;
Reform election gains show historic shift in British politics, says Farage
Richard Wheeler Political reporter
Nigel Farage said he believes a “truly historic shift in British politics” has occurred after Reform UK won hundreds of seats and took control of more councils in England.
The Reform leader said his party was showing it could win in Conservative and Labour heartlands, adding he expected the support from voters would not be a “one-off”.
The party’s gains include winning control of its first London borough in Havering, surging to victory over the Tories in Essex and Suffolk, and picking up seats at the expense of Labour in the Midlands and the north of England.
Reform came second in the Welsh Parliament elections behind Plaid Cymru while party figures said they would be “competitive” in Scotland.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r255xlr59o
From Australia;
Farrer presents One Nation as a genuine electoral threat rather than just a protest
By chief digital political correspondent Clare Armstrong
Angry at a political system they feel is broken and unfair, the voters of Farrer walked into polling booths ready to inflict electoral pain.
The absence of a Labor candidate on the ballot paper to punish the Albanese government by proxy mattered little.
For this regional NSW electorate has known nothing but Coalition representation for its entire history, including the last 25 years as a Liberal stronghold.
And it was the Liberals who therefore copped the lion’s share of the punishment.
One Nation’s run at Farrer was a “bit of a free kick”, Nationals leader Matt Canavan observed shortly after the polls closed on Saturday night.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-10/farrer-byelection-one-nation-david-farley-pauline-hanson-result/106657708
I think it is relevant to mention President Trump in the context of these victories, because in both cases incumbent parties and mainstream media tried to paint President Trump as a bogeyman, by hilighting his connection to One Nation and Reform – a strategy which spectacularly backfired, as large numbers of voters in Australia and Britain decided they wanted what Trump aligned politicians were offering.
What can we expect in response to these victories?
One thing for sure, don’t expect climate fanatics like Britain’s Ed Milliband and Australia’s Chris Bowen to simply give up and slink into the night.
And the result wasn’t all bad for green globalists. Far left parties like the Liberal Democrats and Greens also picked up seats on Britain’s election night, though many fewer than Reform. Aussie Green aligned independent Michelle Milthorpe picked up significant additional support in Farrer, though not enough to stop One Nation’s candidate David Farley.
Britain’s next general election is 2029, Australia in 2028. Aussies and Brits still have a few years to wait until all the authors of Net Zero misery directly face the voters in national elections.
The radicals we are facing in some cases truly seem to believe they are the saviours of the planet, that the climate skeptics and populists who are soaring in the polls and tearing away formerly safe elected seats are agents of ruin, people who threaten the survival of the human race. History teaches us that kind of desperate messianic thinking can lead to dangerous consequences. At the very least I expect an uptick in globalist propaganda, and more vigorous attempts to censor populist online influences in Australia and Britain.
