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But an entirely expected direction of travel.
My time and money are going to the Greens. The last thing we need is more fossil fuel being consumed.
i hope labour gets destroyed, dismantled, and abolished.
While I agree I fear for what steps into their place.
Not really. The worst that could happen is already happening with the right, conservatives are going to die the next election and reform are going to eat their corpse; unless something drastic happens.
If Kemi Badnoch or whatever stays at the head of the tories, they will 99% guaranteed die. Source :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYdzIt7p7s
The only thing that this caller says is wrong is that Rishi Sunak isn't british, and that Boris Johnson would be a good prime minister. None of the tory snakes love their country, and none of the conservative voter base see a british born person who is an ethnic indian as british.
They are not going to elect a black woman as prime minister.
EDIT : no matter how many crazy racist schemes she promises to implement.
EDIT2 : If Kemi was born like 2 years later she wouldn't even be a british citizen.
I 100% believe that the reason that Kemi was being kept around is that all of the failure of the Tories can be lumped on her (which is somewhat unfair because she's isn't bright enough to be responsible for any of it) so when it's getting close to the next general election, maybe two years out or so, their will suddenly be letters going in, and a vote of no confidence.
Only they are a bit screwed now though that Robert Jenrick has switch sides. If Farage goes down, and it looks like he's going to, maybe he'll switch back.
You made me think of something interesting; if farage gets booted out of the commons, while it's not going to derail any of his plans, it is going to stop "reform" from being able to replace the tories, if they blame everything on Kemi and replace her with someone "electable" a little bit of time before the next GE.
Do all Tories who want to win dress up as Labour? Not a single Labour MP has inspired any confidence in change after they get elected. It's the kind of blatant selfishness once localized to eastern European Soviets.
If there was a way to open new fields and guarantee the gas only fed the domestic supply and was tapered off as we decarbonise our grid I could support such a move. However I suspect the only way would be the government controlling the gas and contracting out the servicing of that to the existing oil and gas companies. Even then it would be awfully tempting for the government to slow down on the decarbonisation for cheap energy just before an election.
As it is there is no incentive for a license holder to do anything else but maximise the extraction and profits while it has the license.
Does anyone know how these licenses are normally structured?
The project is only profitable for Equinor because the UK taxpayers would shoulder almost all of Rosebank’s development cost.
Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.
These new drills would take years to come online and only drive up extreme heat, droughts and floods. Backstabbing spineless cunts
This is a really weird decision because not only will it annoy people, you don't even get any theoretical benefits (assuming that there ever are any) until well after the next general election. A cursory online search indicates that it takes between 5 and 8 years for something like this to be built up, and it'll probably be more like 8 because they don't really have any reason to hurry.
I remember reading an article about how Europe needed to have states producing more of its own natural gas in the wake of coming off Russian supply, and I remember commenting that there were few states in Europe that produced much. Norway and the UK were the most substantial, and even the UK was a net importer.
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While at the same time UK finance NGOs in poor countries to pressure then to stop exploring their oil
UK: We need a new progressive leader.
Andy Burnham: DRILL BABY DRILL
the sooner andy's government collapses the better.
Andy Burnham: we need to be unapologetically Labour and not the Tories
Also Andy Burnham: More fossil fuels. Just like the Tories. Yeahhh.
Does he even have a strategy or is he trying to piss people off even faster than Starmer did?
Presumably this means Ed Miliband is gone.
Presumably this means Ed Miliband is gone.
Ed Miliband has been named foreign secretary in Andy Burnham’s new cabinet, so hopefully this means Burnham hasn't made a decision on Rosebank.