I've been considering a heat pump for a while, could you provide more information about this scam? I've tried googling around, but a lot of the articles are light on details, and the video suggestions seem... disreputable to be polite.

If you've got articles to explain the issue to hand, that'd be helpful, but even a light explanation as to why they're bad or not up to the task would be helpful

Sort of.

American politics are so far to the right that the comparison isn't really... Sane.

Like Bernie Sanders is considered a radical left there, whilst here he's probably (I haven't checked out his policies since 2016) he's more centrist, with a left lean iirc