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.
The colored line chart shows a +441 change for Green councillors. I assume Greens are in favor of net zero. No?
How does this fit with the title “Net Zero Parties Annihilated …”
Reform went from 2 seats to 1453. Greens went from 146 to 587. Labor lost 1496 — only 43 more than Reform gained. Conservatives lost big, but not nearly as much as Labor. There are too many parties to say which voters went where, but it looks to me like more Labor voters went to Reform than Green. That’s the real slap in the face.
Wow, that’s way too many seats for a government. What the hell do all these people do?
Locality councils, not national government electorates.
Not quite. Mostly local councils but National Governments in Scotland and Wales.
Yes, but those national ones only total under 400 seats, whereas the local councils represent several thousand.
Apologies that should read Devolved Governments in Scotland and Wales.
Reform are the new conservative party.. taking over form the Conservatives who are no longer conservative.
Same with One Nation in Australia.. Liberal party have supported too many leftist causes for most conservative people to stomach..
So One Nation is becoming the new party for conservative voters.
26% Reform, 16-18% for Green, Libdem, Labour and Conservative was the projected national share of vote (as not all the country was voting last week).
That’s not ‘annihilation’, it’s a new form of multiparty politics. And actually, Reform’s vote share dropped compared to 2025, whereas the Green vote rose significantly.
First Past the Post election system doesn’t always reflect well on the actual thoughts of the electorate.
Sadly the Green party appeals to the radical anti-establishment youth. it is a dangerous radical party with values similar to Antifa. Presage!
And what happens when they BECOME the establishment?
Never trust anyone over 30…unless they are very attractive.
Death camps ala the Copenhagen Age Care model or worse, meat and fossil fuels banned from society, traditional Western views and values e.g. Judeo-Christianity, outlawed ….
You can be arrested for praying silently in public, in parts of Britain.
Source?
Some pro life person kneeled down outside an abortion clinic IIRC.
So I guess it’s this one
https://www.humanism.scot/2025/02/20/abortion-buffer-zone-arrests-a-fact-check/
As always, perpetual victimhood while tyrannizing others
A man in Northern Ireland was just convicted of reading Bible verses in public.
Same **** – these people are the reason why there need to be safe zones. Just behave like a normal human being instead of tyrannizing others and whine when consequences arrive.
The green fantasist leader Zach the Vagrant – and now council tax cheat – says that those who have right wing views should not be part of society. He seems to have similar views on Jews so I wonder where that takes us…
Then they tear it all down and declare themselves dictators.
75 years of communism
It used to be a bit potty but harmless provided it didn’t get its hands on the money.
It is now extremely potty and dangerous, led by a weird charlatan indulging in student politics.
The Greens used to be an environmental party, and who knows, back then they may well have been in favor of Net Zero. But no-one remembers that now and its very poor manners to recall those days. Their new thing is Gaza. Ask them about Net Zero and they won’t know what you are talking about.
Ask them why they are wearing tea towels around their necks while you are at it.
That’s a joke with a particular English context.
The Greens ran with Net Zero in their manifesto in this election.
“The Greens ran with Net Zero in their manifesto in this election.”
Shows how much they want to totally destroy modern society !!
What they ran their campaign on depended on what the political views of the electorate in any particular area were. But the party leader has an interesting history to say the least.
Donald Trump has an interesting history, particularly in the bankruptcy courts and in legal tussles with women he may have had sex with….
Its like the Cheshire Cat’s grin, which remains after he himself has vanished. Its like Clause 4 was to the Labour Party, until Tony Blair dropped it. Its a relic of a vanished era. Its not even lip service, its leave it alone and don’t give it the attention that removal would bring to it.
The focus of campaigning has nothing to do with the environment any more. Depending on where in the country they are campaigning the focus is on quite other things, many of which are incompatible with each other.
In a Muslim area the focus is on Gaza and anti-semitism. In a university town its on legalizing drugs, open borders, cancelling the police and jail, self declaration of whether you are man woman or a different one of the 2, 3, 4 or 122 genders. Whatever it is, you can find a Green who wants to abolish it – it could be meat, it could be landlords, it could be cars. In Scotland they are of course pro independence.
The Greens were once a party with a real focus on environmental issues. You might think Caroline Lucas was misguided, but she was the real thing. Under Polanski they have become a weird alliance of convenience between British Islamism and anti-semitism and every fantasy of every student radical.
Its not serious, its not environmental and its not sustainable, Sooner or later the student radical social liberalism, do what you want with whoever you want while taking whatever you want, will come head to head with the authoritarian Islamist social conservatism which its currently acting as a cover for.
You said a lot there and better than I could have!
So you are saying that Zack Polanski, a gay Jew, actually hates Jews and wants Islam to prevail?
Interesting views….
The “self-hating Jew” is a common character with a long and rich history.
We don’t know what Greens think. Much of their electioneering was done in Urdu, the language of the future as England falls to Islam.
Green is the colour of Islam, which is an electoral benefit in many parts of the UK.
I’m campaign manager for my local branch of Reform UK. In my local area, we didn’t do that well last Thursday – but it’s a leftist stronghold. The world is changing. Hopefully, for the better.
Your efforts helped make the other successes possible. Without you your political opponents could have concentrated more resources on places where Reform did better.
It’s more than Climate Change. Immigration, crime, and social issues attributed to so called “assimilation”, taxes, free speech, all came into play. Conservatives (using US definition) worldwide are waking up to the silent but deadly Marxist revolution going on right in front of them.
That revolution has been going on for at least 60 years.
a bit like nuclear fusion electricity generation?
It’s been mostly underground, starting with the capture of schools, unions and the media.
Yes, the Russian revolution never stopped.
“silent but deadly”
I see what you did there.
It looks from here like Farage is now doing in the UK what Trump has done in the US. Except he has built a new UK party where Trump unfortunately had to ‘take over’ the Republicans.
How different are the hurdles creating a new political party, US and UK? I suspect the biggest difference is having to get on all the 50 states + DC + territory ballots.
Yup. Pandering to the demands of spoilt billionaires in the hope that he gets a slice of the pie.
Oh, you have Soros types too?
There is actually FAR MORE billionaire funding of the far left agendas that Fungal represents, than the conservative side of politics.
I heard yesterday that conservative billionaires make up about 40 percent, and Looney Left billionaires make up about 60 percent of total billionaires.
If you listen to the Leftwing politicians and Leftwing Media you would not know that Leftwing billionaires exist.
The Leftwing billionaires are the ones trying to destroy Western Society as we know it. They are a highly dangerous threat to the freedoms of all of us. They are the Enemy.
Billionaires like Pritzker…lol
Bernie is a millionaire too isn’t he.. And Pelosi, from insider trading
…..and don’t forget Ilhan Omar – she’s worth somewhere between zero and $30Million. She needs a better accountant.
She went from a declared net worth of $30million one year, to a declared net worth of $100 thousand the next.
She declared that the $30 million number, which she signed off on, was an accounting error.
Pandering to billionaires by giving plebs access to cheap energy,ending tyranny and reversing the return to EU totalitarianism,, stopping the destruction of the country and getting rid of violent people who never ever attacked a single billionaire.
Dude, you are even more insane than Griff – assuming that you are not Edward.
The whole green shit and mass invasion is a billionaires scheme. It wouldn’t exist without Wall Street and the CityoL.
And here is a little info, just for you.
Since 1992 in the US the left (run by billionaires) has been in charge most of the time ( almost 2:1), yet the number of billionaires went up by almost 1000% and 40% of all US military interventions happened during this timeframe,
while at the same time 1st houseownership age went up from 28 to 40(a 120% of working age increase ).
And I’m pretty sure we have an identical outcome in UK – or anywhere else where green energy, political correctness, mass invasion and wokeness have been unleashed on your western countries.
Hell even all the right-wing parties are lefties, so much that new parties were had to be created to represent the people and not an Agenda, by simply doing moderate right-wing policies of the 90ies.
Take all of the money off all British billionaires, and I doubt it will fund their welfare state for more than a couple of years. Then what ?
Funny how socialists never try to defend their actions. Instead they accuse everyone who disagrees with them of being some kind of evil.
I can assure you that Reform is nothing like MAGA and Farage is nothing like Trump.
Reform is doing a massive recruitment campaign for people of actual proven competence, not Nigels Chums, to run the country
An Often noted trait of Liberals is to project their own worst tendencies onto the backs of their feared opponents
Psychological Projection at it’s finest!
Accusing others of your crimes is the main MO of a narcissitic psychopath.
Someone turned this into an Ideology at one point in time.
So are Starmer and Miliband going to be around until 2029?
I imagine ole Miliband can really screw things up if given a couple of more years in power.
They might be. Leading Labour is now such a poison chalice challengers might hold back for the next cycle.
I’m an American. I don’t know what the parties in the UK and Australia really stand for. (It gets really confusing when a “conservative” in the US might be almost the opposite of a “Conservative Party”.)
But from the headline, this sounds like good news for both countries!
Its complicated. If you think RINOs and other political cross dressers in the USA are bad, UK politics is next level when it comes to deception.
Farage stands out from this puddle of slime. Because he is a straight shooter, even though he is a conservative, Farage is picking up a lot of support and candidates from the far left in Northern regions because people are fed up with cost of living and uncontrolled immigration. But those far left supporters aren’t modern “use my pronouns” types, they’re old style communist picket line battleground types.
How this will effect a future Farage government is anyones guess. Farage will have a good crack at leading them, he managed to lead and control UKIP for years, and they were like cats in a bag – pulling all directions. My guess is Britain will be divided into regions which are more or less socialist, based on local preferences. But whatever form the new Farage administration takes, it will be more aligned with fixing people’s fundamental problems, like bringing down the cost of energy, and shutting the gates to uncontrolled illegal immigration.
“shutting the gates to uncontrolled illegal immigration”..
that’s bollox unless they stick up an electric fence in the middle of the channel…quoi que….
Maybe those windfarms off Brighton could do something more useful, except they don’t produce a lot of power when it’s calm.
Mr Worrall – there’s zero anyone in the UK can do to bring prices down. We need the USA and Israel to back off and get the Strait of Hormuz open again. You need to look in a mirror and realise what Trump has done, is doing. No-one in Britain stole Venezuelan oil: Trump did. No-one in Britain went to war with Iran: Trump did. No-one in Britain blew up Nordstream II: Biden et al did.
it’s a poor argument trashing non-oil/gas energy sources whilst provoking global shut down of oil and gas supply chains.
In Australia, until a couple of decades ago we had four main parties..
Liberal Party.. which “were” essentially a “conservative” party.
National Party.. which was based outside the major cities and was also “conseravtive”
They made up what was the LNP Liberal+National Coalition
On the left we had the Labor Party, and the far-left Australia-hating Greens Party
Then a party “pretending” to be to a semi-conservative independent but heavily funded by a far-left climate wonk millionaire, called the Teals.. a sort of stinking mix of Labor and the Greens, appeared and started to eat into inner city Liberal seats.
What has happened in the last couple of decades, is that the Labor party have slid down the slope to the far-left, Greens are just totally loony.. and the once “conservative” Liberal Party has slithered to the left of centre and supports many far-left agendas and is full of CINOs.. They can no longer be considered a “conservative” party.
That has left a big empty hole on the centre-right, which is now being filled by One Nation.
ie.. One Nation is taking up the “conservative” voters who can’t stomach the Liberal’s slide to the left.
I just hope and pray Black-outs Bowen wakes up to this reality!
He won’t. I think he genuinely believes, just a few more wind turbines and power prices will start to fall. I’ve met people like that before, they seem intelligent, but they are fundamentally unable to grasp concepts which should be simple, because their vision of how things should be takes precedence over the evidence in front of their eyes.
and that’s the embodiment of ideology right there, Eric.
And rationality and ideology cannot function in the same brain space at the same time.
I think you can be ideological yet still open to reason. I commit a lot of time to WUWT because I want a better world.
You have my vote.
How is it “ideological” to want “a better world”?
That’s just instinctive self- interest, totally rational.
NOT wanting a better world (eg prosecuting Agenda 30) is ideology.
I think everybody wants a better world, even if its only better for them…
The problem comes when they try to implement ideological solutions.
BOBowen is a addicted to the green ideology and, like a gambling addict, will double-down until he wins, no matter how much of our money he has to lose.
Don’t know the situation in Australia but the Net Zero policy documents in Britain now run to well over 10,000 pages and it is impossible for any one person to know or understand the implications of them all.
Polls like this have to make certain they include questions about whether people who claim to be concerned about climate change would be willing to accept higher taxes and higher prices for gasoline, heating fuels, electricity, groceries and other consumer staples as part of the effort to fight the so-called problem. Then we’d find that their concern is not so high after all.
Right, because it’s all going so well now with fossil fuels raking in the cash
At what point do you admit renewables aren’t working? Especially in a place like Britain, which is way too far North for reliable solar.
Better something which is expensive but works, than something which is even more expensive and doesn’t work.
Actually the beauty of democracy is nobody has to admit they are wrong, the people toss the bums on the street without them ever having to admit anything.
According to the World Bank’s ‘Global Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country’ UK was rated 229th out of 230. Only Ireland was ranked lower.
We do have reasonable hydroelectric capability, reasonable wind potential and heat pumps work ok in the domestic sphere.
Energy security will always be multi-modal: it is basic risk management.
Mr Worrall, what’s certainly not working in 2026 is reliable supplies of oil and gas into Britain. The USA is the prime cause of that: Trump refusing to tell Netanyahu where to get off and so going to war with Iran, against the interests of the people of the United States.
The argument about long-term energy security is reasonable, right now the oil crisis has zilch to do with Mad Ed and zilch to do with renewables. And in the South of England a combination of heat pumps, solar and good home insulation is capable of making a domestic home energy independent in many, many cases. Scotland and the North may be different……
“with fossil fuels raking in the cash”
they have brains and bank accounts?
Is that why they are so useful ?
😉
At least fossil fuels provide something to society.. ie its very existence.
Wind and solar are “takers/parasites”.. which is why leftists love them.
How is solar ‘parasitic’? Sticking panels on your roof and storing energy in batteries is hardly death to the planet….
Yes it is. What do you think is not going well?
“ with fossil fuels raking in the cash”
If fossil fuels were not absolutely necessary.. they couldn’t rake in any cash, could they.
Wind and solar are not necessary, so they can only exist with government mandates and handouts.
Well we know why now don’t we-
Muslim group’s ‘grand deal’ with the Greens would ‘divide up the country’, report says
It’s why we all want a free Trump Straits but it’s just a matter of the Judeo Christian Enlightenment and patience with the death cult’s lack of standover bag money to pay their goons. Marxists and Islamists are two peanuts in the same shell. One promises Utopia in this life and the other in the next. Promises… promises…
Mr Jalal saying that it is for ‘Islamists’ to order the world is not going to be electorally attractive to the non-Islamic super-majority of UK citizens…..
Funny how socialists always blame the problems they have caused, on others.
fossil fuels raking in what?
Britain has a fat lot of oil and gas left thanks to successive gov policies, and imports all coal since 2015.
They closed the last coal fired power station in 2024 (were 162) while China did the exact opposite, so all the jobs dependent were exported direct to China.
They then decided to import wood chips to a power station (Drax) sitting on top of a coal field.
Here it is:- the insanity.
“The station includes 4 x 645MW biomass fired units and the renewable power it produces is 100% using compressed wood pellets, a form of sustainably sourced biomass.
Its two coal units ceased commercial operations in March 2021 and its Capacity Market obligations were completed in September 2022.” ie. more political correct gobbledeegook which our pet troll -moron keeps spouting.
Right now, the USA is shutting down the global oil and gas supply chain with its ideological war with Iran and its refusal to cut off Netanyahu completely. People are having to accept huge increases in petrol and gas prices (many homes run on gas-fired central heating systems). Trying to claim that the war ongoing is not gravely affecting oil/gas supplies is delusional at best, genocidal at worst.
What’s important to people is a reliable energy supply and right now, oil and gas may not be that reliable for too much longer. We wish that weren’t so, but pigheaded Americans don’t tend to listen to wise but humble non-billionaires.
“History teaches us that kind of desperate messianic thinking”…
WRONG.
history teaches us that history teaches us nothing.
What on earth makes you think that Reform voters are ‘Trump aligned’???
He’s been paid to say that, it’s a purely professional observation from someone looking to earn a living…..
The UK is not the USA, sure, but mutatis mutandis I think the inference that most Reform voters are ‘Trump aligned’ is a fair one. Given the choice between Starmer and Trump, for whom would they vote?
Mr Worrall
I don’t know if you realise it but Trump is driving net zero through going to war with Iran. He’s draining ALL the world’s usable energy inventories, including his own and is instituting global shut down and global famine.
The Greens are most certainly NOT Trump-aligned and they won over 500 council seats from a base not far off zero. Plaid Cymru in Wales and the SNP in Scotland are anything but Trump aligned and both topped the polls in their own nations.
The UK election was ‘out with the old, in with the new’ on both sides of the political spectrum. Reform on the right, the Greens/SNP/Plaid Cymru on the left.
Nothing to do with Trump at all.
So hard the BBC and the government are trying to tar the nationalists with their nonstop propaganda, and the fish just aren’t biting any more.
Anyone over 40 should read “Farrer presents One Nation as a genuine electoral threat rather than just a protest” and understand that one of the old/large parties will coopt a new/popular smaller party. Will this time be different? I’ve seen it happen a large number of times – people in this forum might be most familiar with US ‘Tea Party’ circa 2008. In commercial world, see US ‘Big Fructose’ and its acquisition of Snapple, Tropicana, Nantucket Nectar, Vitamin water, …
Reading below “Reform are the new conservative party” leads me to believe it is the old conservative party that will buy out One Nation. People have to eat. Running a party is a big job. It has to pay.
Does this mean more clarity in the naming of Parties or not? Since when does Trump even get involved in these elections except in the minds of armwaving political science majors.