This really is a slow-motion train wreck, only on a scale that's simply unthinkable. At any one of the reversals happening along the way, the auguries could have been heeded, and it could been stopped.
Coulda, shoulda.
But for some reason, the glaring, obvious to a blind man signs of DANGER DANGER DANGER...
...are blithely brushed off, and the devoted climate cultists continue to march the United Kingdom onward to Net Zero ruin.
The UK could be awash in warm, secure energy independence and prosperity by utilizing its considerable fossil fuel reserves to generate reliable baseline capacity in concert with its renewable goals, while also boosting the national economy through jobs and government revenue.
But, no. The Labour government ordered concrete caps over the remaining producing natural gas wells on the island and banned any further leases or exploration for oil and gas in the North Sea.
They prefer to import fuel. Hypocritically virtue-signaling.
Norway has over $1.8 trillion in a sovereign wealth fund from oil and gas revenues. The UK has no such thing.
— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) January 21, 2026
Despite having huge natural energy resources in the North Sea, the UK imports £20bn-£40bn of oil and gas a year from Norway - from the same North Sea that the Labour… pic.twitter.com/VcaQMvgG3P
...Despite having huge natural energy resources in the North Sea, the UK imports £20bn-£40bn of oil and gas a year from Norway - from the same North Sea that the Labour government banned new oil and gas licenses.
Absolutely ridiculous state of affairs. Even the Norwegian government think this. The Norwegian energy minister Terje Aasland recently said, “Norway will never turn its back on the North Sea as Britain has done. We want to develop [the North Sea] for the long-term, because the oil and gas industry and the service industry is really important. It saves jobs and creates a lot of value for Norwegian society.”
The Brits can look to renewable-crazy Germany and see how well that's going right at this very moment.
...Germany desperately needs to pray for a warm February miracle if the country is to avoid an energy disaster and a state of emergency.
Currently, there’s no danger to private households as their supply is guaranteed. The risks, however, are for industry. Should storage levels drop to even more dangerously low levels, then energy-intensive industry will be forced to shut down — a step that would cripple the already struggling German economy.
Bavarian gas storage levels at critical lows
No place is as critical as in the southern state of Bavaria. Apollo News describes a worrisome situation regarding Bavarian natural gas storage facilities, where fill levels are now significantly below legal requirements.
While the Federal Government mandates a fill level of 40% for Bavarian storage facilities by February 1st (due to their strategic importance for Southern Germany), the actual average in Bavaria is currently just 25%.
Only 6% full – virtually empty!
The situation is particularly dramatic at the Wolfersberg storage site, which is filled to less than 6%, making it effectively empty. Other sites like Inzenham-West (under 19%) and Bavaria’s largest facility, Breitbrunn (approx. 20%), are also far below the target.
But if they had a lick of common sense and hadn't sold their souls to the Green devil, what is happening before their eyes in England would be enough. I've covered it plenty.
The British are collapsing under the weight of paying for it.
Congrats on going green!
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 24, 2025
The UK is leading the world in decarbonizing and switching to renewables
Quite predictably, this means:
The UK now has some of the highest household electricity prices (36p or 46¢/kWh)https://t.co/jZWTqACX9Y https://t.co/UHFlY4zagR pic.twitter.com/shxTKeZWvi
Those consumers are paying for wind to be built, and when it produces inconvenient power, they are paying for that as well. Making wind developers rich as they become increasingly poorer and colder.
Brilliant news for British bill payers and tax payers … you contributed to a billionaire’s reported £320m dividend from his UK power business.
— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) January 23, 2026
Because it earned £millions from not supplying energy.
What an excellent business model, no risk and it doesn’t even have to produce… pic.twitter.com/CJTHaBjGiY
...What an excellent business model, no risk and it doesn’t even have to produce anything to make massive profits.
Thanks to this NetZero obsession and willful blindness, the Labour government and Energy Minister Ed Miliband's cult devotion to renewables above the British people, the UK is in a near-irreversible death spiral.
UK industry is in terminal decline
— Lukas Ekwueme (@ekwufinance) January 5, 2026
- Car production is hitting a 73-year low
- UK virgin steel production has reached zero... a 170-year low
- UK oil production is hitting a 70-year low
The reason:
The UK has the highest industrial electricity prices in the world.
The UK is… pic.twitter.com/Jsc5Lzo9He
...The UK is moving back in time to the pre-industrial era.
The cost of Miliband's NetZero plans is beyond any rational reckoning. So it's not surprising that the Labour government's figures are once again a little on the low side.
The Staggering £7.6 Trillion Price Tag of Britain's Net Zero Ambition
Net zero is set to cost the UK economy billions of pounds more than public officials estimate, a new report has suggested, raising questions over the supposed savings to be made from the energy transition for households and businesses.
A new paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank, has raised questions about cost estimates shared by the Climate Change Commission, an independent public body that provides advice on net zero policy to ministers.
Energy analyst David Turner said the cash costs in the years to 2050 could hit a staggering £7.6 trillion, presenting a challenge to the government and private sector companies looking to provide alternatives to fossil fuels.
What's Miliband's answer to easing the suffering and doing his duty as energy minister to secure his country's power?
Well. Mr Miliband went to Europe today and doubled down on the death spiral, as he signed an agreement as one of the nine 'North Sea countries' to add 15GW of wind from 2031-2040.
10,000 windmills in the water.
“But people can’t keep up with their ever rising fuel bills Ed”
— That Flo Woman (@fenlandflo) January 26, 2026
Ed, “Let them eat windmills” https://t.co/d4XHK4TYcS
TEN THOUSAND
This morning the Energy Secretary signed a historic clean energy security pact between the UK Government and other European countries, known as the Hamburg Declaration, which will deliver major new offshore wind projects in shared waters ✍https://t.co/WPEdJJ7qQZ
— RenewableUK (@RenewableUK) January 26, 2026
Our Deputy… pic.twitter.com/7lm1A4ok4Z
Instead of homegrown wells, refineries, and natural gas plants working with unreliable renewables, they are condemning the energy security of the country to intermittent wind and thousands of miles of vulnerable undersea cables.
OKAY
“Energy sovereignty”, says Ed Miliband, while signing Britain into a nine nation grid that literally depends on undersea cables and foreign coordination. Sovereignty doesn’t mean shared control with Brussels by another name.
— The Enlightened Citizen (@EnlightenedCiv) January 26, 2026
Here’s the bit they never lead with. Offshore wind… pic.twitter.com/JFP4h3Mr5m
...Sovereignty doesn’t mean shared control with Brussels by another name.
Here’s the bit they never lead with. Offshore wind only works with backup, gas, imports, or both. When the wind drops, bills spike. When cables fail, we beg neighbours. And the costs? Socialised. Always. That’s why Claire Coutinho is right to flag bill hikes while the industry cheers subsidies and glossy job numbers.
Jobs aren’t prosperity if households can’t afford heat. Security isn’t sovereignty if it relies on weather apps and interconnectors. Britain needs reliable baseload first, then innovation, not ideology first and excuses later.
This pact isn’t strength. It’s managed dependence sold as progress.
It's not as if someone hasn't told them time and again they're being foolish, but then, when their foolishness bites them in the tuchus, it's all about 'how could you be so disrespectful?'
🚨 Reporter: "Why are you being disrespectful to the UK and Europe?"
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) January 21, 2026
Trump: "No, I'm not. Between immigration and energy, if they don't change their ways, bad things will happen to them."
The silent majority agree with him. pic.twitter.com/SzcnDTFD9d
IF THEY DON'T CHANGE, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN
And yet they don't. Bad things happen, and Labour plods doggedly on.
None of these cultists have ever been good at the #mathz
It's all connected. We generate less than we use, and what we generate is very expensive. pic.twitter.com/qDW9yNwxAV
— Rich (@rich_rdctd) January 26, 2026
Less was never meant to be more, nor more meant to provide less.
There is now, besides a general mood of continued frustration and outrage, a serious sense that Milibad (and the others in Starmer's beleagured cabinet) are going to jam through as much of their agenda as possible with diktats in anticipation of an internal coup and the Prime Minister's ouster by his own party.
To be sure - we have the same scenario unfolding in the Northeast today.
New England hit what looks to be an all-time record last hour, generating 43% of its electricity from oil.
— Ken Girardin (@PolicyEngineer) January 26, 2026
In 2026. pic.twitter.com/tk5xFwsUFd
Fortunately, the Maura Healeys, Phil Murphys, Kathy Hochuls, and Janet Mills destroying those places do not run the country, although we came perilously close.
But for November 5th, bad things would have happened.
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