Julia Hartley Brewer's epic clash with Insulate Britain

Julia Hartley Brewer clashes with Insulate Britain spokewoman Tracey Mallaghan, after the group reportedly warned it would "unleash hell" if its demands are not met.
It comes as London’s transport network has been granted a High Court injunction against the group aimed at preventing them from obstructing traffic.
Transport for London (TfL) said the civil banning order applies to 14 locations around the capital including some of its busiest roads and it follows several previous injunctions against members of the group.

[@SuperChudley]

My house is fully insulated but my bills have not shrunk by 90%, Tracy is living on another planet.

[@Security848]

She is just a leftie trouble maker.

[@johnlongstaff4532]

I wish her and her naive comrades were living on another planet. Perhaps Mercury as that should be warm enough for them but then they would want insulating to keep cool.

[@kelliejackson3563]

Tracy needs to get her gob insulated never mind her house.

[@stewartmcintosh1073]

Woodhouses in the last 40 years have been built with insulation brick houses insulating old houses I don't know where she's getting these facts right company that make insulation in this country

[@neilashdown6854]

You can only save 90% if you are starting from zero no insulation and the theoretical 90% is what you could achieve if you super insulated. So you would have to assess your current level of insulation to see where you are between 0 and 90% then calculate what it would cost you to increase towards 90% then look at you return on investment based of predicted future energy costs.

[@nichan2475]

The elitism and arrogance from these extremists is getting a little annoying. Why do they keep getting airtime?

[@loulou6760]

They're funded by the government. Hense no arrests

[@Thedownliner2015]

Because they exist only to force Government to change the rules on protesting. These people don't even work yet they still have the time and money to glue themselves to roads? Look at the funding and you find your motives.

[@chrisking3729]

Handing morons the microphone helps real public opinion

[@michaelbashford2733]

Getting?

[@theirishcontrarian4626]

Is it not better that they are given a platform and asked to explain their position? Sad to see people believe it's best to prevent communication instead of promoting it.

[@welcome2insanity]

I've been sober for 10 years and after 5 minutes of listening to this woman I've drank half a bottle of whisky.

[@leebee6510]

😄 i know exactly what you mean

[@jonlcfc1]

What, after listening to Hartley-Brewer? I don't blame you!

[@shaun4443]

🤣

[@darranlaidlaw5310]

🤣🤣

[@charlesgallacher184]

😂😂😂

[@johnroberts8093]

People don't agree with our wacky views so "that's why we sit on roads?". They're insane.

[@daylehudson6810]

Sit at a job sweetheart

[@petercolvin4150]

Absolutely astounds me that these people don't realise how strange they are. Her poor kids.

[@Solitude11-11]

I’m an OAP, I lived 13 years in a building with single skin walls, no insulation or double glazing and no heating. On a very low income. I survived. There’s extra clothing, thick curtains, hot water bottles…in bad winters it was a bit rough but I didn’t come close to dying. A lot of people expect to sit indoors in a t shirt these days. And that woman is a complete and utter idiot.

[@snowysnowyriver]

Spot on! I'm 65 and remember living in a house with no insulation, no double glazing, and one coal fire which heated the water. We used paraffin stoves to heat upstairs before going to bed with hot water bottles. My grandparents lived way out in the country and didn't get electricity until the mid-1960s, long after they retired.

[@davejohnson3474]

I've got a few mates who seem to think thermostatic Hive or Nest heating is essential to their everyday lives. I only have gas central heating haven't needed anything else but fitting double glazing recently has made alot of difference to keeping heat in.

[@maida-vale]

I have just moved back to England after 30 years from a 12th. centuary building without heating. I am 72 and winters were often -16°c I have survived in the way you describe and yet I had my choices and would not complain but I didn't have TV or a mobile phone and a four wheel drive car nor did I drink or smoke and my only income was a reduced pension. I live in dead mens clothes as only a fool would waste £100 on a brand new jacket. I am content, with nothing to prove and no social status to seek (I had that as a young man). Fat dogs sleeping on my bed kept me from freezing and often I had to make the choice, do I feed me or do I feed the dogs and ducks?? The livestock won! I finished their left overs Ha! Ha!

[@ruthbashford3176]

Indeed she is!

[@neilashdown6854]

You absolutely nailed it with the tee shirt analogy. The best place to insulate is at source and as you very rightly point out by adding additional layers of clothing enables you to turn down the thermostat. So if you turning down the thermostat 1C equates to a 4% saving in energy so add another layer and turn it down another 1C and so on. So if your struggling to pay the bill turn the stat down to 15C add warm clothing and if you normally heat the house to 21C you have saved 24% on your energy bill without any personal discomfort by just adding some additional layers nobody stays indoors because it’s to cold to go out because it’s 15 C outside you put a coat on and end up taking it off when your moving about and put it back on if you stop moving layers are the clothing equivalent of a thermostat.

[@Rambo9700]

My house is insulated and my bills are still sky high.

[@mrsthatcher9815]

same - its so thick i cant go upstairs in summer

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

@@mrsthatcher9815 All summer I have fans and aircon units on all over the house, and I have to shower twice a day.

[@johnowls]

I had my wall cavities insulated and ever since I have mould on my walls. The wall cavities are there so air can circulate and the insulation has enabled the damp to cross to my inner walls, My house is now colder than before, don't insulate your wall cavities.

[@johnwilkes681]

Mine is insulated as well. Hasn’t made a lot of difference. You still need gas or electric to cook and for hot water and use of electrical appliances. High fuel prices are the problem.

[@alexwright3301]

Same here. In summer my house is like an oven, normally about 5 degrees hotter than outside even with windows wide open, sometimes more yet my energy bills are still rediculously high.

[@craftyclare7594]

Tracey is coming across as someone who has been brainwashed to the extreme, she isn't listening what Julia is asking her and is unable to answer the questions without condescending to patronising and abusive language IMO.

[@individualhuman7980]

Agree

[@steveedwards3217]

typical climate loon

[@chrisking3729]

Belief rather than knowledge

[@Stripple70]

She's a prime example of a "weaponized lunatic"

[@bumblingbongo7969]

watch her eyes so telling

[@adriansolomon6805]

I wonder how this woman manages to avoid being declared insane!!! Can the press not have a look at her background and let us know what is going on in her crazy life? Why are we giving her air time???

[@alib1919]

Not only that but she constantly rants about how awful the government is, all the while happily living off their benefits hand-outs. 🙄😤🤦🏻‍♀️

[@stevetayler8833]

I don’t think this lady is well she seems like she’s having a nervous breakdown.

[@wendywilson8138]

She claims that she is an ex nurse who is now on disability benefits

[@motoartdesign]

I assumed they’d dumped Liam because he was utterly useless, but no, Trace is equally hopeless.

[@christye4246]

I miss Liam. He was the idiot’s idiot. This one is as idiotic but seems to have a nasty streak.

[@agent7947]

@@Mugsh0t comment of the day.....................and 100% accurate :))

[@13thcentury]

They are all bellends

[@factorylad5071]

Liam was their Trotsky with a trowel , exactly like something out of a 40s soviet propaganda film but unfortunately he did not learn how to put his brain into gear before his mouth started moving. I would go so far as to say he was even put on the casting couch first.

[@myheathenheart1259]

They all are

[@MrCameroland]

British people are laughing at tracy

[@posteveryside-beatsnews]

Tracy is getting airtime which is all she wants. Why aren't anti lockdown protesters granted the same privilege?

[@maccagrabme]

Lets build more nuclear power stations and get these clowns out of here.

[@sonny1987100]

Yes...I didn't know Harry Hill was in Insulate Britain..atomic kitten - insulate Britain...you have to have a system. This woman is clearly brainwashed, and part of this new the end of the world death cute...when she said ' our leader '. Sums it up.

[@joycegibbs5267]

but they're winning !

[@emmajanewatts4388]

I’m just wondering how her and her background are the same colour?

[@BassistPaul]

What a nasty, self-important and patronising woman. She certainly can't handle dealing with a real journalist.

[@TheMonk72]

Don't know if I'd call this journalism, it's talk radio. Julia does her research though. And this is a classic activist: all noise, no substance. She's been convinced that they MUST do something, but she really can't back up WHY. Her 'facts' are wrong for a start. 90% reduction in heating costs? Not even close to realistic.

[@bulldetecting2230]

They don’t get any practice dealing with proper journalists because most of the other ones are left wing green activists themeselves. These turds normally get a very easy ride.

[@bulldetecting2230]

@Futures guess she’s not left wing enough for you.

[@thejeffersongroup]

Insulate Britain….. comedy gold every time. 😂😂😂

[@gavin.d.m]

If Tracey is convinced she'd save 90% of her heating bills through insolation, perhaps she should take out a cheap loan and repay it from the savings.

[@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304]

She basically just admitted she hasn't insulated her own house. These people are just out for notoriety.

[@jeremysmith8035]

Yes suddenly all the fascists are going for climate change .its noticabke all fascist channels are doing the same

[@factorylad5071]

It's a Pyramid scheme using brainwashed numptys as influencers by a couple of unknown (?) Individuals.

[@cestparti7577]

Julia Hartley Brewer You are probably the best interviewer with IB . You seem to be the only interviewer who has done their homework and takes them to task on their ridiculous claims. Thankyou MORE ! " I hope you play this back later and see how ridiculous you look" is the gem! Julia please please please do more of these interviews and keep them on longer its golden.

[@Docksidestudio1]

Tracey, the best way to reduce your heating bills by 90% is to make sure you only turn your heating on for 10% of the time

[@richardsellers8671]

"Oh come on Julia, you didn't listen to me" No, she didn't, none of us do.

[@chijavier1869]

She looks like she has a nice house for someone who is in crisis, living in poverty, and victims of non insulation. 🙄

[@nightowl7459]

She's a typical well off leftard loony with too much time on her hands and wants some to occupy her very tiny mind.

[@allamasadi7970]

@@nightowl7459 its the middle class people like this that have ruined this country, the working classes would execute the worst criminals like rapists the super rich would put rapists into forced labour.. but the middle classes complicate things and put rapists up for probation boards

[@nightowl7459]

@@allamasadi7970 That's very true, the leftards have well and truly screwed this country up, that's why we had 50 criminals ready to board a plane with a one way ticket back to their own country and because of these virtue signaling simpletons only 7 were actually put on board, these horrible people have ruined the future of future generations of the British people.

[@mrsthatcher9815]

socialism is a disgrace

[@mrsthatcher9815]

@@mariogmajner6549 you are delusional dear - IB are a laughing stock.

[@cheltenhamSpa]

Don't think she is capable of unleashing anything is our Tracey. Someone else always has to pay and the world owes me a living.

[@benjaminsavage4204]

Is she capable of unleashing a change in the seasons to make it suddenly cold and wet? A shock that would be, to the British people this year...

[@maccagrabme]

This f00l like every other climate extremist wont mention a thing about the millions of people being allowed to come here and settle who are all making a mockery of these ridiculous emissions targets. What is the point of any of this if millions are coming from undeveloped nations to come here and pollute, massive con trick all of this. Nuclear power stations need to be built, get these clowns out.

[@denise4487]

Agreed my house is insulated its still bloody freezing without heating when it freezing outside the womans a moron

[@benjaminsavage4204]

@@denise4487 What should happen? Give old people money? I think this group are a cover of some sort but there is an issue with dying people.

[@joseph-be6me]

If they block roads drag them out of the way there will be deaths because of these morons

[@quintonballenden1436]

Notice how quick to anger the extremist is and how calm Julia is?

[@robertelliott2216]

She truly is a mentalist.

[@charmawow]

Isn’t it always the way.

[@SuperParatech]

@ Quinton - precisely. Ever notice that these extremists who call for tolerance and compromise are themselves the most intolerant and least compromising of all

[@factorylad5071]

Also that she is split personality . She starts interviews by being the poor vulnerable little girl and she suddenly morphs into something that is the female equivalent of mussolini.

[@Paulstrickland01]

@@factorylad5071 That's called borderline personality disorder, includes such symptoms as blame shifting, narcacissim and egotistical behaviour in its sufferers.

[@andy3408]

Tracey lives in social housing and survives off benefits. This is the reason she has the time to glue herself to the road.

[@paulrichards6894]

surely they have a better spokesperson than her........

[@adrianchase1190]

@@paulrichards6894 You'd think they would but she's apparently their best.

[@paulrichards6894]

@@adrianchase1190 all these protest groups are springing up ...i suspect there are people who genuinely believe in the cause but i suspect there is someone in that organization who is in it for the money using these saps

[@paulrichards6894]

similar to charities.....people at the top making fortunes

[@adrianchase1190]

@@paulrichards6894 Yep

[@craigfowler7098]

Selfish in the extreme. Perhaps we should stop her benefits

[@rjaymurphy]

Tracey seems to live in a sepia photo, in the land of doomsday where the sky is of course falling.

[@roberthenry3685]

It's an injuusticcee

[@bernardlandymore7372]

I bet she has lots of cats.

[@bernardlandymore7372]

@Foster Twelvetrees Spot on.

[@fen0000]

This Tracey woman appears immature and rather hysterical. She's clearly unintelligent. Are these the people who can be 'nudged' to go along with any depth of climate lies!

[@Coltnz1]

That woman is a total fruit-cake and her voice is like nails scraping a blackboard.

[@GGritsun]

A nice way of saying “thick as two short planks”.

[@garygriffiths154]

As Mark Twain said, never argue with an idiot, they will bring you down to their level and beat you with greater experience.

[@nonamebill7421]

That's exactly what Cameron the carpenter did the other week with Mike the concrete grower.

[@olavmortensen7175]

Except for Julia Hartley

[@annelally]

I believe that was falsely attributed to him, but yes the sentiment stands.

[@princetonburchill6130]

I was born in 1948, and grew up in a three-bedroom semi-detached house built in 1932. It had no cavity walls, had steel single-glazed window frames in all rooms and no insulation in the loft whatsoever. The only form of heating was by burning coal in fireplaces in two living rooms on the ground floor. There was no form of heating in any of the rooms on the upper floor, including the bathroom. Hundreds of British homes were built to a similar standard until the 1970s when loft insulation and central heating was being promoted by the late Tony Benn. Somehow, we got by.

[@joybraybrook5014]

Exactly, we were the same

[@jamesrobert4106]

Frost on the inside of windows is familiar to all of us in our 40s or above. It really is time to stop giving these basket cases a platform and cattle prod them if they wish to sit on highways.

[@racerroy1]

And did we complain, naah we just go on with life, our house was exactly the same and the John was 50 yads down the garden.

[@nigelfarley814]

I suffer with Asthma and Eczema. Whenever I have to go into an insulated house I start to have breathing difficulties and headaches. It also makes my Eczema worse. I’m quite happy with 16 degrees in winter and if truth be known so are many others. This Tracey woman is far more concerned with critiquing this Government rather than insulating homes. If Boris agreed to it tomorrow she would just find something else to rant about and find another reason to block roads.

[@blueotter2086]

Julia you have the patience of a flipping saint, dealing with fruit-loops like this woman! Why isn't she getting on Liam Norton's case about getting his own house insulation sorted before hypocritically pointing the finger at everyone else. He admitted to Cristo over the weekend that he actually doesn't care about insulating houses. They are completely absurd!

[@MrCameroland]

Funny

[@paulharvey964]

Fruit loop indeed :-)

[@andrewganley9016]

Julia is so sexy!

[@factorylad5071]

Because they are abbopotamus's.

[@pablocortando1]

Julia explains it succinctly and simply,pity it’s wasted on Tracy and her tribe.

[@dennisjeffs4239]

Tracey claims to be a mother, I pity her kids!!

[@rmzxr4194]

@@dennisjeffs4239 never mind the kids pity their father lol

[@sonictelephone1526]

@@rmzxr4194 Anyone daft enough to marry that deserves no sympathy

[@margaret7973]

Tracy really needs to be taken out of the gene pool

[@gilwillia]

Extreme socialism wrapped up in insulation. They should be honest about where they come from.

[@pccorner101]

When I was a kid people like Tracey used to live in care homes and go to the seaside now and again, nowadays they’re called activist.

[@paddytech11]

😅😅😅

[@danielirving1585]

😅

[@Jordan1000]

😂😂

[@ianleigh5157]

This Tracy person needs to get a proper job, like the majority of hard working people that she is stopping from going to work to pay for her benefits...

[@coranford7463]

I'm 52 and I remember the one coal fire we had in the house, some days we collected wood from the local woods. I'm still here and I am very thankful. Going with out teaches you to be resourceful and teaches you life skills. Wouldn't I change my past for anything

[@richardmorgan3647]

I had a teacher like her in school, we called her pissy Pauline because she never washed and hugged 🌳

[@coveralljohn]

🤣 We had one as well.

[@chrisclarke6344]

There was a whole gaggle of these stinky types at greenham common, then it was closed and they were then confused, now this is their new 'cause'.

[@paritoshsinghee7340]

😂😂

[@lingolarker9318]

Everyone traditionally had at least one like that😝

[@welshdai4094]

🤣🤣🤣

[@danielshagman]

The condescension this woman displays is disgusting.

[@cestparti7577]

Can you imagine if a chap called her " sweet heart" ?

[@dannybruff]

The left in general....

[@danielshagman]

@robert crampton made me chuckle and I needed that today, thank you.

[@DannyBoy89]

She seems to think their belief is far more important than the lives for example of a child who died because an ambulance couldn’t get through their blockades in time. That’s her democracy.

[@presidentelectzigenpuss3570]

@@cestparti7577 can’t imagine anyone would

[@antoncannon7279]

This “nice nasty” attitude Tracey has is basically most high school teachers!! 🤣

[@mrsthatcher9815]

@@nadirakyildiz8857 yes we do, girls grammar schools are called high schools.

[@user-so9nb5rn8n]

@@nadirakyildiz8857 always one person that tries to be smart

[@ajorngjdonaydbr]

@@nadirakyildiz8857 yes we do, secondary education comes in many forms

[@stevenicol1]

@@nadirakyildiz8857 you're not from the UK if you think that.

[@annelally]

More like all of them;

[@derekrushton1705]

If somebody invented edible radiators nobody would have to choose between eating & heating.

[@itsmeagain7825]

You sir, are a genius 👏

[@romanroad483]

When we have insulated our houses, turned down the heating, switched off lights in unoccupied rooms, etc. etc. and use less energy, the suppliers will say thank you very much, and raise prices so we pay the same for less. So people in fuel poverty will still be in fuel poverty.

[@stuartwood5448]

After listening to the insulate Britain loud mouth - am I closer to supporting her point of view or more put off? If I’m more put off, her “campaign has failed!

[@kevtheargonut]

If you want to sort fuel poverty, maybe start by removing the penalty of the extra cost on our bills for the “green initiatives” we currently have to endure. It is a sizeable percentage.

[@chrisholland7367]

Why not take their protest to the big energy companies who have been blatantly ripping off the British consumer for years with it would seem the backing of the government.

[@matthewlane5564]

How much is the percentage?

[@kevtheargonut]

@@matthewlane5564 Well, I am sure you can do the research as easily as I have if you wish but the figure stated by SSE is 13%. Other figures are available from climate enthusiasts and deniers with the appropriate adjustments either way.

[@BoxFlyHaydn]

@@kevtheargonut Crikey that's huge. That's £50 a month of my electricity bill. There's no gas here so we have to heat with plug-in electric radiators and only have immersion hot water. Our leccy bill is huge but we've never qualified for any of the gov renewable schemes. Their criteria to qualify are too strict.

[@kevtheargonut]

@@BoxFlyHaydn Same here, all electric when the house was built, the entire ceilings on all 3 floors are electric radiators plus underfloor heating on the ground floor slab. We face extortionate electric costs which have increased massively with the annual cost of basic electricity and of course the added green taxes. We are all insulated, double glazed, some weird recirculating system in the loft with vents to it in every room and still cold in winter. It is total crap compared to every gas / radiator installation I have experienced, slow and inefficient. I can’t even warm up off an incandescent bulb ‘cos they banned them too! I’ve had enough, we move out November 8th. Thank goodness according to that dopey woman 90% of my bills over the years didn’t land on my mat ‘cos the house is so well insulated and green. Yeh right! Typical green extremist exaggerating again.

[@phoebewashington2709]

Julia is brilliant (as ever) - she deals with this woman very well.

[@paulrichards6894]

it was a miss match

[@coranford7463]

Perfectly said

[@jemgeach4066]

If you think that lofts need insulating, go and insulate lofts. You do not have to wait for a government to do it.

[@charlesforeman9438]

The house she lives in would have been insulated by grant FREE with the disability benefit she is on. DWP should look into her benefits as she doesn't deserve disability benefits at all, with her running into roads in front of vehicles, & driving all over the UK, talking on here & sitting in a chair as she does. These things alone would kick her off disability by PiP's if she was able to do these things, with which she can do them easily.

[@carolempluckrose4188]

Mr Foreman, I'm not disagreeing with you for one second, but how do you know all these things are true?

[@charlesforeman9438]

@@carolempluckrose4188 Because I'm disabled, I had a grant a few years back to have my bungalow insulted free of charge by the council. Everyone on benefits should look into getting your property done, & as I said I'm disabled and I can't even get out of my property without my wife with me. She would have had to have had a PIPs assessment done on her for her disability. Judging by how able she is to travel all over the country, and able to run into the roads in front of vehicles without aids to help her. She wouldn't qualify for disability, as she herself said she is disabled & on disability

[@dennisjeffs4239]

Tracey is living in the land of make believe. I grew up in the 40's & 50's, when there were power cuts, one wood fire in the house, single window panes with thick ice ln the inside, frost on the ground that looked like snow, no fridge or washing machine, a copper with a fire underneath to heat up the water for boiling the clothes, a mangle fof wringing out the water, one radio with valves, no tv, no cellphones, Tracey has absolutely no idea what hardship is, but we were happy and survived!! Maybe if she had a proper job she'd have no time for sitting on motorways, stopping people from going about their lawful business.

[@alisonr9608]

And the ouside toilet.

[@dennisjeffs4239]

@@alisonr9608 You're right, the Nightman came once a week 😏!!

[@coranford7463]

@@alisonr9608 not forgetting the outside toilet 👌

[@thebritishbookworm2649]

Amazing comment. Thanks ❤️

[@PaulieD1984]

A proper job? She's disabled and on benefits and can't work according to her.......she's well enough to "protest" and ruin people's lives though

[@stg_69]

Tracey is a weird person that social media loves

[@tonyjefferson3502]

wow each one is more unstable than the last.

[@DavidSmith-ku8kw]

Check their cellars!

[@nightowl7459]

Tom Jefferson: It's probably Liam's partner.

[@1Bman]

Arrest the clowns..only solution.. lock them up for a long time

[@GAZZA.]

This woman claims benefits rather than work , how can you be bad and glue yourself to a motorway, hope the DWP are watching

[@BigJohnFury400]

If you look closely at Tracey you can actually see her shaking quite noticeably during the interview. This is a very unhinged woman who is not there to listen or hear another side, she is so caught up in her own little world and fight for what she believes in. Maybe classic case of needing a strong campaign or belief for the individual to feel like they are doing something with their lives.

[@MrMarmalizer]

She actually started wringing her hands at one point too. 😂

[@burgesspark685]

You have to understand that these people are members of a cult

[@BigJohnFury400]

I didn’t notice the other comments already picking up on this. At the end of the day when you resort to patronising comments and insults (direct or indirect) you are losing that debate. End of. It also makes it harder for the neutrals to land on your side. The boy Liam Norton puts his “points” across so horrendously it’s reaching out to absolutely nobody.

[@lindalittle1587]

Maybe she's shivering ,she should see about getting her house insulated.

[@BigJohnFury400]

@@lindalittle1587 😂😂😂😂😂

[@anyakirby2014]

‘We all are really traumatised by what we are doing…’ This Tracey woman could do with a therapy.

[@kamseihra]

I’d like to see IB stop a coach load of football fans trying to get to a match 🥊

[@simonwillis1529]

I’d pay to see that 😆

[@ClintonBaptiste.Clairevoyant]

Id love to be on that coach.

[@newstreetbridge834]

HahHAAAAAA 😂

[@taffwob]

Some Albanian drug gangs on their way to an important "meeting" getting held up by these guys might provide some entertainment.

[@ashTHFCley]

Sniffed up millwall fans

[@nigelohr]

A net zero target for loonies would be a far wiser plan.

[@margaret7973]

Tracy should have been taken out of the gene pool

[@nobsjustreason3287]

lol. quality

[@markbishop1588]

If she is fit enough to travel+block roads in the cold+wet then her benefits should be stopped.

[@thomasT4083]

I do love how these types all think we need educating.

[@tg92277]

Almost spat out my coffee when Tracey accused Julia of "misdirection" given that it's Insulate Britain's only interview tactic!

[@macca555]

Please let me come across this woman glued to a road, because I won't be stopping

[@eldubs]

My dad remembers being a child when the windows weren't double glazed having ice on the insides, no central heating. They used extra blankets jumpers, hot water bottles etc. The cold isn't a bad thing I take cold showers everyday to help strengthen the emmune system.

[@maryfarrell9231]

@Kathleen Kirkwood Me too Katherine. Happy days!

[@rozdoyle8872]

Me too , what didn't kill me made me stronger , and we saved the turf by hand on the bogs in Ireland , our only fire was a range which heated the house and cooked our food , all those Insulate fools are made of fragile stuff ,silly fools.

[@pauldover1403]

@@rozdoyle8872 We knew the ice on the inside of the windows as "Ice Flowers! because of the patterns it made, you got up in your pyjamas, drew back the curtain and breathed on them just to watch them melt.

[@rozdoyle8872]

@@pauldover1403 we wrote our names in the ice and when eventually my parents got central heating in the 80s and my husband & I returned from London for holidays he very wisely called the radiators grave stones because they were ice cold most of the time , we are both still alive and kicking despite what Liam Norton thinks , oh for the wisdom of age, common sense and a bit of ice on the bedroom windows.

[@Lumibear.]

I’ve said the same because I’m just old enough to recall the 3 day week, and these people behave like this is way worse. If lack of insulation in some homes is so bad then go fund it, buy it and apply it, you could fix something tangible instead of having a tantrum over ideology and feelings and crying that somebody should do something, then all go home.

[@cs.0903]

In Germany houses have been re-insulated which is highly uneconomical (you'll never get your money back on the investment) and heavily insulated houses have been built for years. Not to mention that this type of building involves using massive amounts of plastic and often styrofoam insualation (very sustainable), you end up living in a closed off plastic bag of sorts which means you need additional electric air conditioning systems that have to run 24/7 to keep off the mold. Still prices in Germany for electricity and heat have been the highest in Europe to subsidize renewables that are still not growing at the rate that is needed to transition from fossil fuels. It's insane. It's all just a huge money grab for the building industry and the energy industry. Insulate Britain is super naive in thinking that within the framework of a profit-oriented economy that any of this will benefit the poor.

[@JosephMcEwan]

Protester: You’re so not logical Says the person who sat in the middle of the road blocking traffic

[@paulm706]

Bless her! She’s just thick.

[@13thcentury]

They've had their minutes of fame, Julia. Time to ignore these childish brats.

[@sukijay4990]

Tracey isn’t the slightest bit persuasive in her beliefs and like all the insulate Britain people I’ve seen so far, resorts to insults, aggression and ludicrous claims when challenged.

[@itsmeagain7825]

Narcissists

[@CazBeaunont]

Stopping traffic and causing chaos on the roads is stopping people from getting to work, to interviews, school, hospital appointments!!! Lock them up

[@johannaodendaal4466]

AND the vehicles with engines idling use MORE oil/gas.......morons!!

[@zakoid1]

This woman brings to mind an old Scottish saying... "You wouldn't want to bring home a broken pay packet to her". She'd give a paracetamol a headache.

[@BedsitBob]

"Those people, we're sadly disrupting, are the ones who are most likely to fall into fuel poverty." Yes, because you are preventing them from going to work, to earn money, to pay their energy bills.

[@IRAPT0RI]

Big brain time 🤣

[@Dentdale23]

Put them in prison and also heavily fine them and give them a criminal record.

[@catfrab]

Every spokesperson of IB I've ever listened to sounds like they're incoherent, slightly unhinged and frankly, dim.

[@polokucoch8112]

After listening to this insanity I am no longer supporting them. Gonna fire up the Gas burner and Cook up a NICE huge Steak!!

[@cathywilson3146]

This woman is totally deranged, inadequate and extremely rude. Why should any Government pay for individuals who have bought their own house to be insulated?

[@lukegarcia3238]

"Government" you mean the tax payer

[@all4walk257]

and people ask me why im not married imagine having a mortgage with this lunatic

[@thebigredwagon]

🤣

[@kamseihra]

You would have chosen poorly

[@nickgould4521]

If you can't afford to heat your home, put on another pair of socks, another jumper, a woolly hat, and a pair of gloves, it's been done before. And I suppose they could cancel their sky subscription, and get a cheaper phone, stop smoking, and stop buying ready meals, problem solved.

[@davidtrice8307]

👍👍

[@stonedinsect]

This is what middle class people do when they retire they get bored and have way too much time on their hands

[@thething4284]

Her cardigan tells me everything I need to know...

[@jamie59685]

Well done Julia

[@jimmy2minutes]

My mum sat me down at 16 years old. " always pay your bills, never rely on anyone, work hard when you're young, because you are a long time old! And your life will be your own".

[@hilaryswan4323]

My house is fully insulated, I run a tiny car, Ive never been on holiday abroad and Im still screwed.

[@kaywaters7478]

Insulate your OWN house Tracey -nit’s not the job of the government.

[@leem609]

My home has been insulated from the ground up and I can tell you, you will not get a 90% reduction in the fuel used, this woman is deluded.

[@joolzessam1824]

Insulate Britain call for cavity wall insulation. The cavity is there for a reason. If you fill it in it causes damp.

[@anglowelshdragon4179]

Another example of them using a “working class” spokesman in a cynical attempt to try and distract from their being largely well to do, wealthy, professionals or retired people who will not suffer if their ludicrous policies are enacted.

[@cheche2181]

That Tracy is off her rocker!🙄 I wanted my house insulated…so I got it insulated. Why doesn’t she do the same?

[@mattwallis848]

You won’t be surprised to hear that she is jobless, and claiming benefits.

[@michaeldavies9533]

Matt W, Tracey lives in a social housing home ,as well as not working and claiming benefits,she told Richard Maddley on GMB.

[@jules2545]

If the earth's temperature is rising why do I need to insulate my house cat lady?

[@mrsthatcher9815]

lol

[@mrsthatcher9815]

MY CATS ARE TOO HOT IN MY HOUSE DUE TO MY INSULATION

[@mrsthatcher9815]

i cant fit anymore insulating material in my walls or loft and my bills certainly are not 90% less lol -its so thick i cant go upstairs in summer

[@disposabull]

I don't support "insulate Britain", they should be run over but I do agree with improving insulation. The problem is more complex than it seems, in order to have more energy efficient homes you have to build to passiv standard to make sure there are no air gaps or thermal bridging, you have to insulate, you have to design and position the house for solar gain and you have to install a heat exchanger. All of this means knocking down most of our housing stock and rebuilding it. Slapping on a bit of extra insulation just means more Grenfell Tower disasters.

[@AuntSally1]

Totally agree. In a new upstairs extension we had to have so much insulation put in to meet regulations that in late Spring, Summer and Autumn it is akin to a sauna. Indeed we are thinking of installing air conditioning to enable that room to be used. So much for saving energy lol

[@mrsthatcher9815]

@@AuntSally1 yes i over insulated and having to consider air-con now.

[@Security848]

She is not bothered about insulation she is a leftie trouble maker.

[@disposabull]

@@mrsthatcher9815 This is why things are a lot more complicated and you need to have an actual engineer involved to do the calculations. Too much you boil, too little you freeze. You can only manage thermo regulation properly with lots and lots of maths and very little energy or by spending lots of money on energy heating/cooling because you didn't do the maths.

[@allenp920]

Im wondering if she's allowed out unsupervised

[@tracymcardle1236]

I love these IB interviews this woman is a joy to watch, makes my day, don't take any notice of any of them👎👎

[@bilbobaggins8551]

This woman has escaped from an asylum.

[@Arch_Angel_Micheal]

Today Julia speaks with KAREN!!!

[@festo8885]

Loonies, I'm removing my loft insulation out of principle

[@anglowelshdragon4179]

You can see her reading from her script. That’s why she can’t engage with JHB as an interviewer. Her only tactic is to read really fast from the script Roger Hallam has given her and try and avoid taking a breath Julia can fill with a question.

[@albert21able]

This person clearly has to much time on her hands, She needs to get a job and earn a living and face the hardship of holding down a job like commuting to work everyday.

[@jamesmoran5192]

Strange how Julia never points out Tracey is a socialist.

[@mrsthatcher9815]

Does she really need to?

[@colinu406]

She has that crazed look in her eyes . To be avoided if possible , unable to engage in a rational conversation .

[@mrsthatcher9815]

i abhor socialism

[@Julie-ol3je]

She certainly looks like a lefty.

[@mr.b.4048]

It’s easy to be a Socialist when you have money …

[@yvonnehayton6753]

Whenever I see a clip advertised of Liam Norton I rub my hands with glee and dive right in. Tracey Mallaghan is a new joy. IB just keeps on giving!

[@Hpee2k]

I couldn’t agree more 🤣😂

[@factorylad5071]

There is no end of comedy gold on you tube you don't have to look hard.

[@carolempluckrose4188]

Isn't this Liam guy the same one who flounced off in a huff when the interviewer disagreed with the rhetoric said Liam was espousing? Just thought, does anyone wonder if he knows what flouncing and espousing mean?

[@yvonnehayton6753]

Carole M Pluckrose. Yes he is and no probably not😀

[@GGritsun]

I wonder if they know they are brilliant comedy viewing! I eat this stuff up with a spoon. Interviewers just tear them to pieces

[@Cumbriahandyman]

Tracy is not the sharpest knife in the draw is she?

[@Ajs_1988]

Knife? She's a spoon

[@johnashford5895]

Oh dear Tracey 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@Geoffdam123]

Julia is awesome…..so clever ….street smart…❤

[@jamescoburn6789]

They are all stark raving bonkers! 90% of her heating bill can be reduced with insulation? Does she currently live in a bus stop?

[@artistphilb]

What I don't understand with this group, when they talk about "fuel poverty" currently if you are a pensioner or are on benefits you can already get a grant and have your home insulated for free!

[@mrseski]

I remember living in an old farmhouse as a little girl, where the inside of windows were covered in ice, the gloss walls were covered in condensation and all we had was a paraffin heater and log fire to heat the house. Oh and no insulation (what was that lol?). My family and I are still alive 50 years later. We didn't freeze or starve to death as we wore jumpers in the house and had lots of blankets on the bed. What is psycho Tracy talking about? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

[@arthurmackrell8154]

I was the same, we even had an outside toilet and no electricity until I was in my teens. I frankly don't believe that 8,000 people in the UK die of cold every year.

[@devorah935]

Yes I remebre frozen windows. We had a coal fire in living room that heated water as well.

[@kenhollywood4990]

@@devorah935 yes so did we the “hot” water was always luke warm 😒

[@chriscars3578]

Me to these idiots r taking crap . It never did use problems then and we was healthy

[@1961-v9k]

I do not know anyone starving and dying of the cold in the UK