Farage Trashes Net Zero, Promises to “Re-industrialise Britain” – Watts Up With That?
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Nigel Farage, whose Reform Party is on track to win the next election, just slammed the impact of Net Zero on the British Economy.
Farage bemoans ‘miserable’ Rachel Reeves amid call to ‘reindustrialise’
The Reform UK leader said ‘we need a change of attitude in Britain’.
Will Durrant,Millie Cooke Tuesday 18 February 2025 16:22 GMT
Nigel Farage has said he is on a mission to “reindustrialise” Britain, as he accused the Government of having a “miserable” and “declinist” attitude.
Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London, the Reform UK leader said that the country needs to achieve a “180 shift” in its attitude to achieve higher birth rates.
He also claimed on Tuesday that the right-wing of politics in the UK “is not split”.
Taking questions from Canadian psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson on stage, Mr Farage told activists: “The right is not split in this country.
“The Conservative Party is not on the right in any measurable way.”
While Net Zero is not top of Farage’s priority list, Farage has been a consistent opponent of expensive energy.
Reform tops a YouGov poll for the first time
4 February 2025, 7:38am
There’s reason for cheer at Reform HQ this morning: Nigel Farage’s party is leading Labour in a YouGov voting intention poll for the first time. According to the poll, Reform UK leads on 25 points with Labour in second place on 24 per cent and the Conservatives in third on 21 per cent. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are on 14 per cent and the Greens on 9 per cent. While there have been a handful of polls to date putting Reform in the lead, they have so far been regarded as outliers. In response to the poll, Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform, said: ‘Much more to come as common sense policies welcomed to save Britain and make us better off’.
Reform leads the polls. Source The Spectator / Yougov, fair use, low resolution image to identify the subject.
Farage’s upstart Reform Party represents a dramatic potential u-turn from decades of bipartisan British Net Zero zealotry.
The current British government is arguably the most extreme green government Britain has ever had, they strongly supports Net Zero and expensive energy. Their energy ideas have frequently featured in WUWT.
A lot of money appears to be lining up behind Farage’s Reform Party, for the first time in its short history. It’s difficult to untangle why this is happening, UK business has made a lot of money from Net Zero.
The issue may be artificial intelligence. In order to stay relevant in today’s global economy, UK business leaders need to embrace artificial intelligence. They may be feeling frustration at the inability of Net Zero to supply the gargantuan energy needs of all the AI capacity they need to build in the near future.
The next UK general election is not due until 2029, so they have a long wait until the British can execute any change in direction. But the momentum for change appears to be growing. A growing number of British people are utterly fed up with green orthodoxy and economic decline, and like the look of what Farage is offering.
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