‘Ingenious’: UK council to turn off street lights in effort to ‘save the planet’

Sky News host Caleb Bond says a council in the United Kingdom have come up with an “ingenious” plan to turn off street lights at night to “save the planet”.

“A council over in the UK … has come up with an ingenious plan to save the planet, they are going to turn off all the street lights,” Mr Bond said.

“No, I am not joking."

[RickGhastly-tycq]

But not save women walking home alone in the dark with our new "guests" running rampant

[julielittle]

Ì cant believe the UK once was a place I loved to live Its terrifying

[peecee]

The inmates are now running the asylum 🤣

[vitaluna]

What a fantastic idea. Save the planet but not women walking alone. Brilliant. We have the best in gov for sure!

[jhake]

Our planet is doing fine… the woke people are the ones who needs saving, fast!

[SalemikTUBE]

It's not about "saving" anything, it's about bringing in a curfew.

[stephengoldsbury]

Why can’t we have some normal sensible people in charge anymore.

[johnkauffman]

Awesome totally awesome. Mabe they should turn off the street lights in their neighborhoods. To start and see how it goes.

[securityrobot]

Southampton has been doing it for years, and yet they still charge for street lighting via the Council Tax.

[judymiller]

So you can't see who's stabbing you.

[echelonk]

Turning off certain unnecessary lights during the day be a much better idea, I think.

[HouMat-iffi]

Turn off surveillance cameras at banks too. That'll save the planet.

[billie]

Why don’t they turn the high street shop lights off ? .. They’re on 24/7 in every town and city in the uk…

[vanessawilkie]

Thanfully now just retired, but walking home from/to work in the pitch black was scary. Not to mention the state of the roads and pavements a real invisible trip hazard.

[rideawhiteswantrex]

Lights off in the UK ?
Watch stabbings and crime now sky rocket 🚀
Stabby stab stab stab stab ---😮😮😮

[fredmcveigh]

Come on over to the UK. A great place to holiday and be sent to prison for disagreeing with the government statistics.

[GazGuitarz]

How much energy are the tens of thousands of CCTV cameras installed by our surveillance State using each day and night?

[scarr]

So who is the rocket scientist that decided this !!

[Braneloc]

Can we have proper orange street lights back please.

[tvjunkie]

They already have rampant broad-daylight stabbings, so it probably won’t make much difference.