"Dozens of people lined to get their hands on an air con unit from a Lidl in Southampton"
Posted on 06/28/2026 6:09:07 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Nice to see the UK has its priorities right.
Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown.
Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions.
They say AC, despite the heat, should serve only as a 'last resort'.
But not enough of a "last resort" to, you know, keep you from roasting to death, apparently.
Instead, authorities ordered citizens to exhaust all other forms of avoiding heat stroke.
The crackdown comes from building regulations, which demand 'active cooling' is used only after all 'passive cooling' methods, like opening windows or running fans, have been exhausted.
Yeah, open up those windows and use fans to circulate the hot air throughout your home. That'll be more comfortable.
Enforcement has been even more stringent in London:
One Londoner received orders to 'permanently remove' two cooling units from the rear of their property, The Telegraph revealed.
Camden Council's planning inspectors determined there was 'no justification' for the equipment, ruling it breached the authority's 'cooling hierarchy' policy.
During an appeal, the homeowner was advised to open windows and balcony doors in their first-floor flat to achieve ventilation 'by natural means'.
When the resident raised security concerns in the crime-addled capital, inspectors dismissed these, arguing the risk was not 'as great as those associated with ground floor windows' and suggesting windows could remain closed overnight.
So if you live on the ground floor, you get to choose between dying of heat or letting criminal migrants break into your home to kill you.
And if you decide to live like a civilized chap and install an air conditioner?
Be prepared to face the consequences.
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This is nice. A more “arid” England will make the Africans and ME folks feel like home. A nice touch. Comfy invaders. British priorities.
Makes sense to me../s
This is why I’m seeing YouTube videos of UK world cup fans stunned that our buildings all have air conditioning.
It’s like they’ve never seen it in their lives.
The UK needs a Lexington and Concord moment.
Obey. Wear a mask. Obey. Get rid of your A/C. People are simply being conditioned - these commands don’t accomplish anything except to condition and control people.
This is the real reason for Climate Fraud, a police state. Rather than drilling for oil and NatGas to have enough power to make electricity they regulate you into misrey. Ain’t Communism wonderful.
Would British authorities really take things this far, just to follow a junk science?
I thought this story might be an exaggeration, so I did a check to see if any mainline news sources were covering it.
Some are. Here’s one:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/air-conditioning-torn-homes-under-171119380.html
From that link:
“Air-con engineers told The Telegraph that they had been called out to remove perfectly operational units worth thousands of pounds across London.”
You can’t fix stupid.....or woke either for that matter.
"Dozens of people lined to get their hands on an air con unit from a Lidl in Southampton"
> Let me get this straight, in the UK, you can have an air conditioner… <
No. Evidently you cannot even have an air conditioner. And if you have one, it’s got to go. Take a look at the quote in post #8.
British genocide.
British police handcuffed a kid that had been stabbed because the animal that stabbed him told the cops the kid was a racist, and the kid eventually bled to death.
If they would do that, they would absolutely do this with no hesitation.
The UK is lost.
Wonder if the royal family and other government officials are giving up their air conditioning, to help lead by example..
You forgot: don’t call out migrant’s behaviors, allow them to gang rape your little girls, go to prison if you protest the sexual assaults.
That’s what my wife said....”I bet King Charles ain’t sweatin’”.
It might be possible to place an air conditioner upright with the condensing coil set in a shallow pan of water with the faucet running on a trickle.
All this for a stinking scam.
Face it your government(LOL) wants to kill you
For hurricane season I have a portable stand in the corner unit that just needs to be vented to atmosphere.
That could be accomplished by venting into an attic space or dedicate a room with an open window and just close the door.
I guess they don’t have those in the UK.
All these brits here for the world cup might want to hang out until October.
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