Keir Starmer: 'I'm fed up' with Trump and Putin affecting UK energy costs

The last month we've had days of 90% renewables.  There's some huge new off shore wind farms given the green light too as well as some great new energy storage solutions.  Not just batteries either, but inertia storage which is more efficient.  Check out the goodnewsuk sub. 

Unfortunately, the '80s and '90s decided that tax cuts for the rich were more important.

Problem is we only ever seem to care about becoming energy independent during a crisis. Hopefully this kicks us up the ass but at the same time if the Strait reopens tomorrow I wouldn’t be surprised if we put it back on the low priority list.

Every time I hear this, I get frustrated because it's not the UK who drills the oil, it's BP/Shell etc. Yes we get to tax their profits but it's not "our oil" it's theirs and they get to sell on global markets.

If the entire UK housing stock was properly insulated to modern standards it would reduce the UKs consumption of natural gas by about 50%. The UK also happens to import 50% of it's natural gas needs. If only i) better insulation had been written into new build regulations three decades ago and ii) the post build government run external wall insulation scheme hadn't had a 98% issue rate that is going to cost the government a *lot* more than the grants to get fixed because the cowboy builders didn't know how to install it properly. Not that I'm bitter or anything. Same goes for upgrading the national grid, they don't have the trained staff to perform the necessary work to achieve any of the deadlines. The rate needed to triple six years ago to hit the carbon zero 2050 target, and every year it fails to achieve that rate means future years will have to be even faster *or* the target date will move decades further away. Guess which one I'm expecting it to be. The single best option any household can do is get solar+battery if they have the right roof and work away from home during the day. The second best cheaper option is balcony solar, when it gets legislated later this year. C**** panels with self-installation an idiot could manage that provide free electricity during the peak usage demands daytime hours. Oh and decouple the electricity price from the most expensive generation option (almost always gas), otherwise heat pumps are *never* going to be a fiscally better option than gas combi boilers.

It would be lovely not to worry about donnie.

Energy independance is extra fucked considering Reform is all but guaranteed to be the next government, and they've gone so far as to say they'll literally destroy already existing wind and solar farms for some reason. Absolute dead-end country

Shade from a couch-lover with the charisma of a damp rag

Trump is always gunning for Starmer. Loves to compare him to Churchill. Even the f****** Irish PM defended Starmer to Trump.

I'm hoping JD Vance will come over and give some of our far-right parties the ol' Kiss-Of-Death endorsements he's so good at.

this if anything will only make Starmer look more stronger in UK - not weaker !

Because Vance is in thiels pocket and Thiel wants reform in power.

Trump has had a hate-boner for Starmer ever since it came out that Labour was trying to help Kamala and the democrats in the previous election.

Trump is the best thing to happen to starmer. Before this, starmer was a useless bag of shit in a grey suit. Trump has made him look like a statesman for the ages.

Probably already has them

Epstein was friends with the late Queen's favourite son. They probably have their own files.

I imagine they've already got them. Plus ol' Charlie's going to be pissed at members of his own family being dragged through the mud (as they should be) - so why no retaliation by leaking the full thing to piss off the yanks? My own conspiracy theory is that I bet someone in the security service has probably briefed him along the lines of "if we do that, it'll be worse in the long run, because there's even more terrible things about royals in there that hasn't yet been revealed."

Most of the world's intelligence services service the billionaire/vampire class at this point. Protecting a nation from a leadership compromised by a child sex abuse operation isn't exactly a priority. If anything, releasing the files would be bad for stability, and their owners.

Be really fun if Mandelson or Andrew just happened to name a name

MI6 had evidence of Trump running for president in 2016 with the help of Russians. CIA just dropped the ball call bullshit.

Next James Bond movie plot

Won't do anything, as there are British politicians and royal family links in there too

if they had them, we'd have seen them. No way they'd just take trump shitting all over the UK the past month if they had leverage like that. My money is on no one has them. Some people have said Israel has them, but if that was the case, there would be no attempts from Trump to have any kind of Iran ceasefire. The most incriminating files were shredded years ago.

Holds? Didn't it already get broken lmao

>The UK has ZERO leverage over any of the three variables wrecking its energy market right now: Oddly enough they kind of do. There's a reason trump is so focused on the uk. Without uk bases they found their bombing runs doubled in flight time. The only ones big enough to hold their biggest bombers are in either American or British soil. Which gives them some say with Trump. >Putin's gas taps and whether a ceasefire in the Gulf holds for another week That's a brutal position for any PM to be in The uk has long made its choice in Russia. They are perfectly content backing Ukraine. >The Lebanon criticism is notable though Starmer publicly calling Israeli strikes "wrong" during an active ceasefire is a harder line than most NATO leaders will touch Seems like the uk, france and Germany all agreed a position on this one.

What's keeping the UK from investing heavily in nuclear power?

A majority of Americans are also fed up with Trump and Putin on this and so many other things. So tired of the world being run by sociopaths and outright psychopaths.

We have oil reserves but no way to get them to the European market. If you wanna fund an oil pipeline across Canada to supply Europe, be my guest. It's not like it's been tried for almost 50 years with nonstop controversy or anything.

Every time Starmer speaks out about Donald, his poll ratings climb. Mark Carney won the Canadian election on largely the same platform. Donald Trump is the most-hated man on the planet. Tying yourself to him is a mistake politically - because Donald goes back on any deal he ever makes - and personally, because voters hate Donald and anyone associated with him. It's about time politicians started doing what their citizens overwhelmingly want... which is putting Donald C*** in his place. At this point in time there is *zero* benefit to treating the US as anything other than a rogue state.

I hope you mean for energy…

Seize his golf course and turn it into a public green space. Invite Rosie O'Donnel over from Ireland for the opening ceremony. Name it the Obama Public Park.

The f\* word!!!! "fed"

Electrify *all the things*.

The second best time to do it is now, which we are doing; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advanced-nuclear-technologies/advanced-nuclear-technologies

I think there’s still space for new nuclear but I think they need to freeze non critical regulations for a project at inception. It takes say 5 years to build the plant. So year -3 they design it, year -1 they fund it, year 0 they break ground and then bring in or change the rules and they do that every year making constant design changes and set backs until year 10 when people complain why it’s not built yet and is double the funded budget.

The window of nuclear being the best and most economical option would’ve eventually closed in favour of renewables either way. It would’ve been a lot of investment (and long term waste management) for what would’ve amounted to a blip in the greater timeline of energy production. I’m as anti-anti-nuclear as they come but it’s getting harder and harder to believe it would’ve had a better outcome than going balls deep on renewables.

That sounds great. But is that not something everyone will try then? Which... drives up the price? These kind of tricks only work if nobody knows about Norway. And why would Norway sell it at a lower rate then the world prices to the UK?

If that was possible why would America give a shit about world prices they produce more than enough.

Anyone thinking Biden was a bad president has been wading too deep in MAGA propaganda.

> When Joe Biden is a MUCH better president you’re cooked. Sorry, but you're falling for the misinformation from the conservatives. In what way was he actually bad? Yes, he is old, and has speech impediment from childhood (and because of the age it was harder for him to control it), but he got a really good team in his cabinet, and he actually was much more progressive than his predecessors (IMO the media jumped on him not because of the debate but because he promised to heavily tax income above $1M, you can see that Harris used his platform, but that specific thing was removed) He also passed quite groundbreaking bills. Unfortunately trump illegally killed them. Illegally, because Republicans knew it would be unpopular to do it through legislation, so trump blocked money through the DOGE c*** effectively killing them. I think Biden was actually much better than Obama in terms of effectiveness, of course Obama is much better speaker and of course younger. Edit: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1232447088/historians-presidents-survey-trump-last-biden-14th

Not saying they are doing a perfect job but they are doing a fair bit about it. The reality is things don't just happen with a click of the fingers and people don't care because it doesn't make headlines.

What would you suggest?

Woah slow down there Nigel Mansell.

What powers does he possess that can actually do anything?

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