At last government Ministers agree there could be shortages of jet fuel in the summer holiday season. They should know, because their high taxes, high energy prices and carbon tax policies have closed two refineries leaving us only 4. Both Lindsey and Grangemouth were important suppliers of jet fuel to UK airports. The government in its mad net zero way wanted to stop that and import it instead, taking its production out of our CO 2 figures to put into another country. Now it is getting difficult to get hold of imports that doesn’t look so smart.
Ministers say they are talking to remaining refiners to see if they can get more jet fuel fractions out of the oil they are processing. They should open negotiations with the new owners of Lindsey and the owners of Grangemouth to see what changes to carbon taxes and general taxes would get them to restart their works before they set about demolishing or re purposing. The UK needs these refineries. It would add employment, some extra tax revenue and some more reliable fuel supplies if they did a deal. They also need to lighten the tax and price load on the remaining 4 refineries as they could close as well if they get into heavy losses.
It would also be a good idea to add to our oil production at the same time and encourage UK supply contracts to UK refineries to add further to security of supply.
How many more times do we have to warn them of the huge damage they are doing to UK industry and to UK national security?
May 4, 2026
In all honesty if it grounds the political class it’s almost worth it.
Certainly they will not understand that actions have consequences until they suffer a consequence.
May 4, 2026
But they will never be grounded; their work is far too important. They will just switch to private jets, which are exempt from many of the flying taxes we have to pay.
May 4, 2026
A pleasing thought Lynn – perhaps ‘Never Here Keir’ will get grounded whilst on one one of his many overseas jaunts. The RN could send a ship to rescue him and that might take a year or two (especially in warm waters)
But would anyone notice his absence?
May 4, 2026
Agree completely. Another note of concern is that US Jet A imports are not currently allowed, presumably because they fall foul of emissions.. BA and others are lobbying for this to be cast aside as it would obviously be of immediate benefit.
This country is a festival of own goals.
May 4, 2026
Jet A specifications have a freeze point at -40C, which is acceptable for flying in sub tropical regions, but not in the Northern stratosphere. Jet A1 is specified at -47C. There are special grades produced for flying in Arctic regions in Canada and Russia that have even lower freeze points, and also are more flammable which also helps with starting up.
May 4, 2026
Prist.
May 4, 2026
Don’t hold your breath. Mad milibrains will see this as a positive. Less flights for the plebs but no shortage of jet fuel for never here Kier and his acolytes.
The government doesn’t want these refineries to reopen the ruinous taxes we’re meant to close them down.
We are now getting a ring side seat as to the folly of net zero. Yesterday evening gas and nuclear were providing over 50% of our electricity and we were Importing 22%.. Can no one stop thos madness.
May 4, 2026
Do your bit to pontificate how everyone shouldn’t use fossil fuels and perhaps you too could earn some sanctimony credits, so you can jet around whilst everyone else can’t.
May 4, 2026
It is hard to believe that this Government, Miliband and his “experts” are really so dim and deluded that they actually believe the insane agenda they push can make any economic, climate or environmental sense. So what/who is really pushing this lunacy? Do they actually want to damage the UK economy as much as possible, are they “influence” by people on the make in some way?
But then it was also pushed by Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris + deluded wife, Sunak and now Starmer and from the EU and King Charles. Where is this group think insanity coming from? It is certainly is not rational science. But then neither was Covid Lockdown or the Covid duff “vaccines” coerced even into to young people and people who had already had Covid who were at virtually zero risk from Covid! Nearly all the blob though the ERM was a great plan too. So what drives this serial government knows best lunacy?
May 4, 2026
I keep hearing “The Government is opening lots a community diagnostic centres…the NHS fit for the future adverts” might there be an election coming? They do not quite say vote Labour Is this political advertising with tax payers money legal?
Will they drop all these expensive adverts after the election? Then perhaps spend the money dealing with the NHS’s appalling delays. It is not as if many people have much choice but to use the NHS. They have millions of people already diagnosed and now on waiting lists this often for many years unable to get the treatments and operations they need.
Often many needing operations are not on the waiting lists as they restrict entry to the lists for political reasons with delaying tactics you need this test or scan first before we can put you on the list and the wait for that is six months, then an another consultant appointment another 5 months… then perhaps on the two year list!
May 4, 2026
Perhaps they have been taking advice from Sir (or is is Lord yet) Sadiq Kahn who seem to think the whole of Transport for London advertising budget should be used for a vast advert for himself:- To the Mayor of London every journey matters they endlessly state! That plus their “intrusive staring” is a form of sexual harassment and will not be tolerated on the network adverts!
May 4, 2026
They were all implementing UN Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 …. and still are.
May 4, 2026
Hope JR will allow this link. It’s the UN Report 2000 ‘Replacement Migration’.
Another Conspiracy Theory bites the dust.
https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/unpd-egm_200010_un_2001_replacementmigration.pdf
May 4, 2026
One has to accept that rational argument about the common good does not work with most of our politicians. They are wedded to net zero or chained to it by greater powers (WEF, EU, Bilderberg Group – whatever murky forum actually calls the shots).
Net zero is part of the agenda to impoverish and control us all, an agenda the existence of which AI vehemently insists is a “conspiracy theory”. That in itself is good reason to suspect it exists, let alone our lived experience of destructive policies being pushed upon us on clearly spurious grounds.
Reply Net zero is not a conspiracy of a few billionaires. It is the religion and culture of a whole European political class. It is open, embedded in international treaties and EU laws which too many UK Ministers and MPs have gone along with and kept in place after Brexit. If only it were a back room conspiracy of the few it would be easier to overcome. The wicked few in part go along with net zero to stay influential with the political class.
May 4, 2026
But if you scratch the surface you find it all stems from the UN and promoted by Soros. Their own propaganda admits it’s designed to deindustrialise the west in favour of the BRICs. Like most conspiracy theories it turns out to be true.
Trump is exposing the stupidity hence the backlash from western leaders enslaved to this ideology.
So much has been invested/wasted on this scam that the uniparty dare no’t admit the truth.
Reply There is no uniparty. Conservatives are pro more of our own oil and gas and cheaper energy. I have been to many UK Parliament/ govt net zero type meetings. Soros never mentioned, never present. EU derived laws drive it all.
May 4, 2026
Correct. The “driver” is the UN. The WEF (Globalist Corporations) and EU are the implementers.
UN
EU / WEF / IMF
UK
In that order. There is NOTHING democratic about it.
May 4, 2026
The world has had ice at the poles for only about 20% of the Earth’s life, the climate always has changed, CO2 warms the Earth a little but even a doubling of CO2 is not an issue – so many other factors at play, the things the governments push to reduce CO2 do not even do so to any real extent they just export it. Also man made CO2 is only a small % of total CO2 emissions and it is a vital gas for all life. Also we currently have a relative dearth of it on earth.
May 4, 2026
How many more times do we have to warn them of the huge damage they are doing to UK industry and to UK national security?
You would have thought that after the Second World War we would have learnt something but NO, we are still highly dependent on other countries to keep us going even though we had survived hundreds of years without avocados and green bananas, the same as happened with oil/coal/steel/fish and now jet fuel all in the name of net zero/ climate change/ ozone emissions these politicians have really taken us for mugs in any colour over the years it’s all a myth like Unicorns/Centaurs and gods like Zeus the sooner people wake up and smell the coffee the faster we can get back onto the road to recovery
May 4, 2026
Why would the Net Zero Fanatics who infest the Establishment, currently fronted by Red Ed, want to encourage more jet fuel production in the UK?
Look at the UK Fires Website. https://ukfires.org/industry/transport/
Their ambition is to destroy it completely. Flying (presumably apart from the Prize Pigs) is to be banned.
“International freight & Aviation: We currently have no non-emitting freight ships, so there is an urgent need for exploration of means to electrify ship power, and options to transfer to electric rail. This would require an enormous expansion in international rail capacity. There are no options for zero-emissions flight in the time available for action, so the industry faces a rapid contraction.”
They are getting the rapid contraction they desire!
The lunatics at UK Fires are funded by the British Government (and the last one).
May 4, 2026
Indeed:
The first two paragraphs on your link:
“Rail: The great efficiency of electric rail travel suggests a significant expansion in this area, domestically and internationally, is likely and would see high demand. The most efficient electric trains are aerodynamically efficient, like those designed for the highest speed operation today, but travelling at lower speeds.”
When you take account of the end connections, track maintenance, staff, indirect routes trains are rarely more efficient than cars and certainly not full cars which can go directly from A to B with up to 7 people and needing no professional drivers or staff. If trains are so efficient whey do they charge about £1 a mile per person when a car can be as low as £0.05 p per person mile and you have fewer miles too as direct door to door. So estimate of the grid expansion needed to connect up all the new spread out & often remote “renewables” and cope with the extra demand for EVs and heat pumps is up to 300 times as much grid wiring.
“Road vehicles: The transition to electric cars is already well under-way, and with increasing demand, costs will presumably fall. We already have targets for phasing out non electric vehicles, but by 2050 will have only 60% of the electricity required to power a fleet equivalent to that in use today. Therefore we will either use 40% fewer cars or they will be 60% the size. Development of auto-grade steels from recycling is a priority, and the need to control recycled metal quality may require changed models of ownership. The rapid expansion of lithium battery production may hit short-term supply constraints and create environmental concerns at end-of-life unless efficient recycling can be developed.”
The increasing demand is not real demand but government enforced demand by market rigging. They clearly plan to push people on to electricity (heat pumps, EV…) but not have sufficient electricity (or grid capacitiy) for these. So people will be cold and immobile. The dope (obviously not a competent engineer or physicist) who wrote this assumes that cars 60% of the size use only 60% of the electricity of a full size car. This is not remotely true (more like 15% less) and how will we get the family and luggage in a car 60% of the size? Take two cars I assume for that will be a 70% increase! Note also that EVs in general create more CO2 not less anyway and also cost far more per mile (in finance and depreciation costs) than just keeping your old car running does!
May 4, 2026
Also on this link under The Strategy;- “To achieve zero-emissions we need holistic strategy and policy along the supply chain which can place resource efficiency at the heart of industrial strategy. In response UK FIRES will develop new holistic analysis, benchmarks and standards to release climate resilient goods and businesses. We aim to support holistic industrial strategies and supply chains UK FIRES academic partners will create responsive strategic analysis tools. Living Lab industrial partners will apply these findings through the generation of new business models in collaboration with our Policy Champion.”
Well what a moronic meaningless sentence – clearly we can never achieve zero-emission unless we all stop breathing and even then we would rot and emit all sort of things! Why would we want to achieve zero-emissions of CO2 anyway it is tree, crop and plant food anyway?
May 4, 2026
On Saturday evening there was major disruption to the trains and the Elizabeth line was totally suspended for much of the evening with effects stretching as far as Birmingham. The cause – a sudden dip in the national grid frequency to 49.6Hz which is thought caused by a sudden drop of solar generation when the skies clouded over. The newer trains on those lines cannot cope it seems with these frequency drops, just like what happened in 2019 when we had an even greater drop. This shows how close we are coming to disaster with our power generation and ‘Net Zero’. Very little in the media about this, let us hope we soon hear the truth.
May 4, 2026
Yes, on Saturday the wind dropped and the sun vanished and we had to import 25% of our electricity to maintain frequency. This is the absolute maximum and because many ccgt plants were shutdown it took hours for them to be available. Just another short sited consequences of stupid net zero policies.
May 4, 2026
+1
May 4, 2026
+1 perhaps a major grid collapse is what is needed to get rid of the Ed Miliband agenda. It would of course kill people. The April 2025 Iberian Peninsula power outage caused several deaths in Spain and Portugal, with reports suggesting at least seven to eight fatalities directly or indirectly linked to the blackout. This was not even a particularly large grid failure.
May 4, 2026
I was in Spain when this happened, and it took down everything that didn’t have its own generating system. I think people will be amazed when it happens here, which it will. You are right that it will take a huge power outage to bring the majority out of their complacent way of life.
May 4, 2026
Indeed.
Based on legal requirements and health technical guidelines, virtually 100% of acute NHS hospitals have their own backup generators.It is a legal requirement for hospitals and critical healthcare facilities in the UK to maintain resilient backup power systems to ensure patient safety and maintain critical care.
What proportion of these will actually work in practice I wonder?
The good news is that when the traffic light systems in London go down completely the traffic flows far better. The lights are there to block and constrict the traffic flows!
May 5, 2026
Major power cuts here will result in mass rioting and looting in our oh-so-enriched cities.
It will be just the excuse the Tyrants in Government need to impose Covid-style restrictions (approaching Martial Law).
May 4, 2026
Looking at the 5 minute generation data it appears there were large and rapid reductions in imports from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands simultaneously. These occurred around 4p.m. BST, and prices on the Continent took a big jump at that time. It seems the problems started there. The lesson is that importing from several different countries offers no guarantee that you won’t get cut off simultaneously. High dependence is a weakness.
May 4, 2026
I agree with most of comments here about Net Zero (and immigration and EU and Chagos and so on) but why aren’t people in right-wing circles talking about the ultimate in WOKE: Feminism that is destroying our country and people and a huge burden on the tax payer.
Not just talking about left-wing hysterical feminism but also right-wing feminism where women want to have ‘careers’ etc. Sure, a small % of women do thrive in careers. I don’t doubt. But vast majority of women get bored of their careers / hate their careers by the time they’re 27 to 30. Instead, they’re thinking of falling in love, getting married, setting up a nest of a home, having kids, organising fun holidays and parties at Christmas for family and friends. NOT a boring Christmas work party that they’re bored of / hate by time they’re 27 / 30.
This is bad for women as it turns them into men. And emasculates men turning millions into nice guy wimps from one degree to another. Which profoundly affects dating and marriage and secure family relationships and huge psychological and emotional problems leading to lower productivity and high NHS bills (for stress leads to all kinds of diseases and ill health). And all a huge burden on the tax payer. And we see this problem not just in middle class men and women but in the working classes too where men don’t want to work. When a real man should. And they’re relying on the tax payer for so much etc.
I’m not saying anything radical. Nor calling for anything revolutionary. Just that we try and return more to how things were between men and women in the 1950’s and before.
May 4, 2026
Lastly, it’s also a case where women (and men) are brainwashed into the thinking that a career is a great thing for most women. It isn’t. And then so many women going to university wasting so much money, getting into so much debt, living a hedonistic life-style, before working crazy hard for a few years in a ‘career’ that they soon come to get bored of / hate by the time they’re 27 to 30. It’s all a huge mess. And so also a case of trying to de-brainwash millions of young women (and older women) and young men (and older men) and to help them live the lives where they thrive and not a burden on tax payer etc.
May 4, 2026
“Hysterical” derives from the Greek hysterikos (“of the womb”) and hystera (“womb”), rooted in the ancient medical belief that “hysteria” was a physical condition caused by a “wandering uterus” or uterine dysfunction. Historically, it was a gendered diagnosis specifically applied to women, connecting emotional outbursts to this perceived organ dysfunction. I assume decided upon from general observation.
So is now considered rather sexist and not at all PC. Toxic Masculinity however is perfectly fine,
Far more women go to university than men almost 60/40 now they also tend to study languages, arts and humanities far more freauently. Only about 35% of STEM students are femail (as overall nearly 60% are femail at university undergraduation level this a huge under represantation). It seem young women are keen to go to univerity but not to study STEP much. Even within stem they tend to go for Biology, Medcine, Phychology,,, rather than Physics, Maths, Computer Programming, Engineering. They are however far less likely to repay their student loans due to taking career breaks and more part time work. So for women university is rather better value.
May 4, 2026
So student loans actively discriminate against men as they pay far more back – on average.
May 4, 2026
But student loans are overall a daft idea for less than 25% of those who go to university should be going to university – both men and women (whatever one’s views about women going to university and getting a career)!
So makes no difference in big scheme of things.
May 5, 2026
LL There are 2 x types of toxic masculinity:
1. Tyrant / control freak (we all agree this is toxic)
2. The Nice Guy Wimp.
We see this one most famously in Macbeth. Macbeth fails to stand up to Lady Macbeth. He’s a wimp. And secretly inside she despises him for this.
In Jane Austen’s Emma we see how Mr Knightly is a truly masculine man as he stands up to the feminine whims of Emma. Women (Jane Austen) are crying out to men to stand up to them (in the right way).
In Pride and Prejudice we see the ultimate Nice Guy Wimp: Mr Collins
And of course Adam is the ultimate Nice Guy Wimp for failing to stand up to Eve and say ‘no’ when she offers him the fruit of knowledge forbidden for them to take in the Garden.
And it is this failure in masculinity that has been one of the biggest destroyers of Western Culture and Civilisation over the ages.
A man, marriage, family, company, country, culture and civilisation thrives when men are properly masculine – KINGS (in metaphorical sense) instead of tyrants on one hand or wimps on the other (or both at the same time).
Best
Reply I have let you run your views on this topic many times. There is little follow up interest in it so I will not be posting more of your repeats on it.
May 5, 2026
OK sir thank you. I appreciate it (allowing me to post what I’ve posted). I’m going to carry on elsewhere in Conservative circles because it’s one of the problems that is at the core of all the problems in the Western World – and costing our tax payers billions. What I say is based on the greatest psychologist of the 20th century: Carl Jung. And ideas that can’t be found reflected in Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bible and elsewhere.
Lastly, in practical terms, what the government could be doing is reintroducing some form of National Service. At least for a short while. To man-up our young men and make them more patriotic! (And also put more money into supporting more manly sports such as boxing!).
May 5, 2026
Btw, Lord Redwood, I was a soft Conservative before I came to this website. I had some sympathy for Brexiters but now I have a lot more after this website. I didn’t understand, until then, how important sovereignty really is. And that’s it’s actually a virtue. Same for patriotism. I think only had vague notions about what patriotism was until then (like most people). Then I really began to learn and think about what sovereignty and patriotism really mean. So thanks to you (I don’t agree with everything you say – in the sense I don’t put anyone on a pedestal including women, my parents or politicians – but you definitely shifted me into a much healthier political position). So best to you.
May 5, 2026
Handmaid’s tale anyone?
May 4, 2026
Government policy re CO2 import versus domestic has never been smart John.
When are we going to return to sensible policies regarding energy?
Miliband’s madness has got to be stopped.
May 4, 2026
Yes I don’t know what Starmer is doing out there in Armenia he should be home here minding the shop and not mixing it with those forty five other Europeans plus Canada
May 4, 2026
He is giving tax payer’s money away to the EU.
May 4, 2026
To Zelensky.
May 4, 2026
“How many more times do we have to warn them of the huge damage they are doing to UK industry and to UK national security?”
Firstly the purpose of the Communist hoax of CAGW and its Net Zero “solution” IS to sabotage the West’s energy, industry and national security. It’s not an unfortunate consequence. Secondly, unless this hoax is destroyed they will always be able to use their final argument that no cost in human misery is too high a price to pay to “save the planet”. Furthermore, for Communists the ends always justify the means as we saw in the last century with Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
May 5, 2026
+1
May 4, 2026
They cant see it they are like the rabbit caught in the headlights.
Or are they working to 2TK’s ‘Plan’ that requires maximum disruption, the delusional concept that political ideology, and then only his political ideology should come before all else. The focus is on punishment, disruption and the culture of hate.
The WEF have a phrase for it ‘The Great Reset’ only then can the full force of Socialism be imposed on a people and a country.
The man running the Country wanting it to fit it into his image, is one of the Countries top law officers, that moved up the legal ranks because he was better than his Piers. His persona may be as being thick, but his track record shows a more devious track, for now he is out-smarting all those in Parliament and the Country that support him.
Lord Redwood has just outlined in the last couple of days all the common sense requirements to make the country more dynamic, create wealth and a future with equal opportunity for all. This Parliament with it own chosen leader clearly are demonstrating they want a different future. The poverty an a country receding suits them fine as long as they embellish their personal ego, stay in charge and get paid handsomely.
May 4, 2026
Parliament and their leader Kier Starmer are oblivious of the people it is about them
Part of the ‘Plan’
Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel said: ‘Starmer is unpicking Brexit and planning another undemocratic hit job on British taxpayers by signing us up to a £1billion annual payment to the EU.
‘Once again, this weak Prime Minister goes to the negotiating table, comes home empty-handed, having fleeced hard pressed taxpayers with his terrible judgment.’
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15788001/Starmer-Britain-EU-Brussels-Brexit-Labour-Europe.html
May 4, 2026
It’s all so depressing. You talk complete sense, day after day after day, as you did when you were in the House of Commons – and they take no notice. We have few, very few politicians with brains any more, let alone integrity to match, and the people pulling their strings are way out of sight. Most seats have become marginal but the whipping system silences most elected MPs. It’s tempting to emigrate – but where to? I still say, “John Redwood for PM,” – but it’s too late now. That ship has sailed.
May 4, 2026
Look to Lowe!
May 4, 2026
Well Lowe has fairly sensible policies but with first past the post his party will be lucky to get him as a single MP. Does he not understand the electoral system? How many voters have ever heard of him or his party? 3% perhaps?
May 4, 2026
He understands the electoral system. FPTP will return a lot of Restore MPs if the candidates are of the right quality.
It’s you who does not understand that LL. FPTP means democracy, PR means rule by the political class with no hope of ever gaining any power over them.
May 4, 2026
I’m going to make a prediction:
Lowe will beat all comers but specifically Reform in the 9 seats contested in Great Yarmouth.
It will make no difference how well Reform do elsewhere, unchallenged by Restore, where they are the ‘dustbin vote’.
May 4, 2026
+1
May 4, 2026
I know soooo many people who said ‘look to Farage’ and these same people are now saying, ‘do not look at Farage!’
And recently someone who used to love Farage and Lowe said to me, ‘don’t look at Lowe’ either as the way he has been ‘selected’ is more like a dictatorship and then a democracy. Something like that.
Instead look to the Conservative Party for these maverick right-wing parties are beginning to show their true colours compared to the Tory Party, that despite its ups and downs, is still the traditional right-wing party of our country for nearly 200 years old!
May 4, 2026
We have had thirty years of uncontrolled immigration, thirty years of our governments sticking two fingers up to the voters! Our idiot of a housing Minister was talking about the shortage of houses, but not linking it to the amount of immigration we have had, and are having. If they can’t see the link between those two things, how will they ever see a link between Net Zero and the destruction of the UK economy?
I don’t know if they are pursuing an agenda to destroy the UK, if that is their purpose, or if they are just as thick as two short planks. Until there is a major energy shortage, they will not wake up to the damage they are doing.
Maybe this Thursday will send a message that gets through, but I doubt it!
May 4, 2026
Actually the horror started on 22 June 1948.
May 4, 2026
The Grangemouth refinery had not been running for some time. It needed major investment, including extensive repairs to its hydrocracker unit that was capable of significantly boosting kerosene yields. The SNP government refused its plans, demanding a massive investment in carbon capture that it would not pay for. Unsurprisingly owners INEOS and Petrochina decided on closure.
The stupidity is not just from the London politicians and quangocrats: both they and the Scots need to see sense.
May 4, 2026
The Government admits? The UK Parliament and their leadership arranged it – ‘the Plan’
May 4, 2026
I will point out again that the issue is not just supply of jet fuel, although the UK is the biggest importer of jet fuel globally. A very large chunk of our imports came from the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi refineries in the AG. Diesel is also in short supply.
Domestic heating oil comes from the same part of the barrel as jet fuel (although you can tolerate a higher freeze point it needs similar properties to work safely in burners). Nearly 2 million homes depend on it for heating. It will be essential to ensure they are supplied ahead of and during winter. The £50m of bill subsidy offered to benefits households is no solution when the oil costs over £1 per litre yet is still less than half the cost of electricity in p/kWh. People in cold homes are more susceptible to illness and death: supply must come first. Access to hedged cost of supply should also be promoted/investigated. Prices could be a lot higher if the war is not resolved soon.
May 4, 2026
Well if they get desperate they will just have to go back to the one warm room in the house (with a coal or wood fire), lots of jumpers, thermals, ski jackets and perhaps an electric bed blanket or two. Just as I had when a small child – plus one bath a month with shared water for all four kids. This whether needed or not.
As me dad used to say. the wood you chop (and collect) yourself warms thee twice.
May 4, 2026
422 ‘illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 3rd May 2026 …
May 5, 2026
Completely agree.
The Net Zero CO2 emissions calculation is designed to send us back into wattle and daub huts and subsistence living.