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The Great British Greenwash: Big Flags, Tiny Buds

Ed Miliband says going green is patriotic.
Net Zero, he insists, is a “moral mission.”
And if you listen carefully, you can just about hear the Union Jack rustling atop the wind turbine.

But here in @BirminghamCityCouncil territory, where the lights run mostly on fossil fuel, I say this:
Cut the bunting, Ed — and sort out the grid.

Because if you look past the speeches and slogans, our energy policy is a bad pantomime with a green curtain.

Last year alone, this country spent over £500 million paying wind farms to switch off.
Yes, off.
The electricity grid couldn’t handle the surplus — so we paid generators not to generate.

We’re literally binning clean power.

Even worse, we’re importing gas from 3,000 miles away — while ignoring perfectly serviceable fossil fuels buried just 50 miles beneath our feet.
We’re not burning British coal, but we’re pretending Qatari gas is “green.”
That’s not strategy. That’s spin in a turbine.

We’ve built wind power but not the pipes, pumps, or storage to make it useful.
Across Europe, they convert spare electricity into heat and store it.
Here, we waste it — then gaslight voters into paying the highest fuel bills in the developed world.

And when we dare question it?
We’re told that Net Zero is too sacred to challenge. That to criticise is to betray the mission.
But who are we kidding?

This isn’t about morals. It’s about muddle.
And the green credentials of this government — and indeed, @UKLabour’s opposition — shrink alarmingly under scrutiny.

It’s all very well to wrap a speech in the flag, but when I peel back the fabric, all I find is:
– A broken grid
– Empty pipelines
– And a great big performance leaf flapping in the wind

We don’t need lectures. We need proper pipes.
We need district heating.
We need heat networks that connect our towns, homes, and public buildings.
Not just smart meters and sticker charts.

So yes, Ed, I love Britain.
I love it enough to call this for what it is.

The British energy system isn’t green. It’s just painted that way.

If we’re going to go green, let’s do it properly — without performance, without puff, and without punishing British families for a politician’s moral theatre.

Because right now, I’m not seeing a great green mission.
Just a very expensive, very shiny little green bud… clinging on for dear life.