Insulate Britain - not looking like nutters now, are they?

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5 billion is what they said it would cost to get insulating the nations leaky homes starting with social housing
With the govt spending up to £130 billion a year (predicted) to cap our energy costs, that's revenue expenditure not capital investment like insulation would have been .... which of those actions look the most sane?

I'm not sure Insulate Britain ever looked like nutters.

Its just that big business does not like the idea of people not spending money on the same thing over and over again.

To add to this, the news media is often owned by the same people who own said large corporations, and the Great British public are easily gulled into screaming about minor inconveniences caused by protests while ignoring the giant looming atrocity behind them.

However, if we are going to have warmer summers, then how do you cool an over insulated house? Mine is adequately insulated, and as an older house needs to breathe anyway, but we were having trouble cooling the house. If it got down to 21.5 in the hall, we were doing well.

It’s not the reason they were on strike that angered me, it was when they refused to move for genuine medical emergencies. If their mum had died due to their behaviour, maybe they’d be more understanding of others.

What the ones that glued themselves to the M25? Nutters.

They are absolutely courageous and history will judge them kindly.

agreed

Totally agree with the OP, was thinking the same today.

They still look like nutters to me.

The disruption they caused did nothing but outrage a lot of people. They didn’t advance their cause, if anything quite the opposite. And they’ve most definitely played a part in Priti Patel’s attack on protesting.

I’m sure climate experts at the time agreed with their message. Unfortunately they picked a very ineffective means of communicating it.

No they still look like nutters. Despite their name I had never really twigged what they were protesting for. Their actions have diluted their message.

I think their message was always fine, it was their actions which people took issue with for the reasons PP mentioned.

They also chose the worst people possible in their collective to speak to the media.

I remember one admitted he was a landlord with more than one property that he hadn't insulated or made energy efficient.

They are nutters.

I doubt someone's integrity if they are willing to superglue themselves to a motorway. Especially if it is in the name of the environment.

This whole "energy crisis" highlights the need to move away from fossil fules and how unprepared we really are.

The world is changing fast and its going to be brutal... our governments and economies are not prepared.

Despite their name I had never really twigged what they were protesting for. Their actions have diluted their message.

what does that say about you & thousands of others? is it that the message from MSM was their nutters and you believed that, like thousands of others. Rather than believe that their message in the title was to insulate British homes- which would save energy & ultimately that would save many thousands of people from being cold in the winter & some dying

Despite their name... you couldn't figure out what they were protesting about...

INSULATE BRITAIN

It's a toughie

Yeah if they thought that sort of protest was ever going to achieve anything positive they were and remain absolute nutters. As previous poster says they they helped usher in Patel's Draconian measures against protests and pissed off pretty much everyone even those who agreed with what they were trying to say. The point of protest is to achieve change. They achieved no (positive) change. And set their cause back if anything.

! This says more about you than it does about them.

They still look like, and are, nutters.

To be honest I never quite understood it, I have spent winters in a few different countries where everybody has single glazing and no insulation and it is absolutely perishing inside the house (including 6C indoors in Australia, and Holland where the heating was off and bedding hung out open windows even when it was well down into the minuses).

I have lived in many houses in the UK and realise there is still a lot of older stock but in general British houses are very insulated (compared to other countries) and double glazing is the norm.

Always room for improvement but I didn't think insulation was the battle of our times.

Corporate greed and renewable energy development yes, insulation no.

They most certainly still look like nutters, going on the news as a high up member and telling the entire nation that you choose not to insulate your rental properties despite subsidies being available during the time you have owned the property. Deciding that people shouldn’t be allowed to access vital medical treatment.

Of course the other reason that they don't and didn't look like nutters is they were protesting against a government led by Boris Johnson that included Jacob Rees Mogg and Nadine Dories, so in comparison....

Yes they do and they are also terrorists. I can't wait for the PM to carry out her promise to fuck them up.

Dh is an architect - yes insulating every house to the max would help everyone. It's the obvious solution.

Insulation can also help to keep houses cool by keeping the heat out, as long as you manage it well on a hot day.

And if you read about how passiv haus works, that makes even more sense for all newly built houses.

I really cannot see why insulating our old leaky and tired housing stock is a bad idea, though, can you?

No one is saying that is a bad idea.

Stopping people from going to hospital and refusing to insulate your tenants home (despite subsidies being available during a time you owned the home) is stupid.