Starmer Virtue-Signalling to the World While Britain Suffers

Keir Starmer is preparing to fly to COP30 in Brazil to posture as a “global leader” on climate action. But behind the international applause and photo opportunities lies a grim truth: Britain is being sacrificed on the altar of political virtue-signalling.

While Starmer tells the world net zero is “the economic opportunity of the 21st century,” millions of Britons are living with the economic consequences of that fantasy.

Standing charges have skyrocketed more than 500% in under a decade — families now pay hundreds of pounds a year before they’ve even switched on a single appliance.

Billions are being wasted on curtailment payments to renewable operators because the grid can’t absorb the power they generate. We pay them not to produce energy — and that cost lands on consumer bills.

Britain’s grid is under red constraint warnings in key regions, meaning there’s no capacity to connect the very projects politicians keep announcing.

Fertile farmland and open countryside are being stripped away to make room for industrial solar and battery storage sites, not for growing food or securing energy independence.

Manufacturing and farming are being priced out of global competition by energy costs inflated not by market forces — but by political choices.


Starmer can pose for cameras in Brazil, but here at home the reality is stark: Britain has become the world’s most expensive energy provider, a nation exporting jobs and importing costs.

This isn’t “green growth.” It’s managed decline, wrapped in the language of moral superiority.

Every speech about “leading the world” comes at a price paid by the British people — through higher bills, hollowed-out industries, and weakened energy sovereignty.

This isn’t leadership.
It’s economic self-harm dressed up as virtue.