Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Except, they have been saying for many months that Miliband was completely wrong on this policy.
The opportunists are in Labour.
Some of us on the Labour side have been consistently slagging off Miliband's incoherent policy combo of blocking new gas production while simultaneously funding new build CCGT and Blue Hydrogen, to burn gas for the next 30 years.
Building new CCGT is a sensible policy, unless you want to see the lights go out in the winter? We’re going to be burning gas for decades to come.
Carbon Capture is blooming expensive though and just adds cost with zero real benefit if the rest of the world is ignore climate change.
Former British PM Liz Truss joins me to announce the dates of CPAC Great Britain! 🇬🇧
On the basis one would presumably have to pay to listen to the former Prime Minister, I was musing on which former Prime Minister(s) I would pay to hear and how much I would pay:
Major; Yes (£10) Blair: No Brown: Yes (50p) Cameron: Yes (£2) May: Yes (I'm most interested in hearing her thoughts) (£20) Johnson: No Truss: No Sunak: Yes (£5)
I suspect this will not be a universally-held view.
Why are you most interested in hearing Mrs May's thoughts?
I confess she's the one former PM who intrigues me in terms of how she thought Britain should work and be governed. Her problem was she had to deal with the mess caused by the 2016 Referendum.
I've always thought Johnson should have followed Cameron and May should have followed Johnson - I think she'd have handled the pandemic so much better than Boris.
Israel is no democracy, they are like a Deep South Jim Crow state/apartheid South Africa.
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances.
Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European nations and rights groups
Israel’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by European nations and rights groups.
The legislation makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank found guilty of intentionally carrying out deadly attacks deemed acts of terrorism by a military court.
According to the bill, those sentenced to death will be held in a separate facility with no visits except for from authorised personnel, with legal consultations conducted only by video link. Executions will be carried out within 90 days of sentencing.
Israel has rarely used the death penalty, applying it only in exceptional cases. The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was the last person to be executed, in 1962.
BREAKING: Israeli officials have proposed a plan to Trump alleging there is a window of opportunity to topple the Iranian regime through the financial crash caused by potential strikes on energy infrastructure-N12
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Except, they have been saying for many months that Miliband was completely wrong on this policy.
The opportunists are in Labour.
They are selling the notion that licencing new fields for the future would resolve the lack of fuel at the pumps.
One could also remind Kemi that she was foursquare behind Trump's disastrous adventure in the Gulf. Without Trump's disastrous adventure in the Gulf there would be fuel at the pumps.
Kemi’s oil rig campaign will have succeeded on its own terms if it takes attention away from her enthusiastic embrace of Trump’s war in the early days.
One senses it probably has. Any mud from this seems to be sticking more to Farage.
I desperately hope that those selling Badenoch as the future win the short game.
If she leads the Conservatives into the next GE, they will not do well.
Would that be the unused oil rig sat in a dry dock
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Except, they have been saying for many months that Miliband was completely wrong on this policy.
The opportunists are in Labour.
They are selling the notion that licencing new fields for the future would resolve the lack of fuel at the pumps.
One could also remind Kemi that she was foursquare behind Trump's disastrous adventure in the Gulf. Without Trump's disastrous adventure in the Gulf there would be fuel at the pumps.
Kemi was not in the loop on the initial decision to attack Iran.
Neither was Starmer.
There is no problem with picking up the pieces in defending the Gulf states as a consequence of Trump/Netanyahu's actions. For either Starmer or Badenoch. After all, Starner is supposedly having a "great war"...
Now you are being disingenuous. After the event Badenoch and Farage condemned Starmer for not allowing the USAF to use Fairford for the initial strike.
Whatever the reality of whether Starmer knew anything before the first attack on Tehran, Team Kemi thought backing Trump was a winner. She still isn't backpedalling to her credit.
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Former British PM Liz Truss joins me to announce the dates of CPAC Great Britain! 🇬🇧
On the basis one would presumably have to pay to listen to the former Prime Minister, I was musing on which former Prime Minister(s) I would pay to hear and how much I would pay:
Major; Yes (£10) Blair: No Brown: Yes (50p) Cameron: Yes (£2) May: Yes (I'm most interested in hearing her thoughts) (£20) Johnson: No Truss: No Sunak: Yes (£5)
I suspect this will not be a universally-held view.
My numbers are a lot higher. I would have to be paid the following amounts to listen to former PMs:
Major; would be happy with Lord's tickets Blair: minimum $1m per five minutes to listen to him Brown: under no circumstances Cameron: under no circumstances May: as long as it was short (say no more than 10 minutes listening), I might be willing to do it for as little as $10,000 Johnson: well, it'd be entertaining. so, I'm going with a paltry $50,000. He also needs to promise to keep it short Truss: that's really funny Sunak: well, I guess you probably could pay me enough to listen to him drone on. But not sure how much
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Nothing disingenuous to adapting policy for the good of the nation by increasing tax receipts by 25 billion over10 years
And what about the 40 labour mps backing the proposals
Even the O&G lobby don’t think it would be that much. You need to net it off against the reduction in receipts (particularly in the short term, as you cut current windfall taxes) , and then pray that the economic activity develops later on and generates taxes through other paths (eg income and corporation tax).
For the umpteenth time
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Nigel Farage likes to ape Trump, but he generally steers clear of the really batty stuff. Liz Truss... I mean, she was a historically bad PM, and yet has managed to fall even further in her post-No 10 career. I feel sorry for her fans... well, 1 fan.
Iran is far from the world's only source of oil and, as @rcs1000 says, the market will always clear.
Price may go up a bit though.
A large chunk of the Middle East can't export.
The disruption means that there is already a supply chain breakdown for several countries. After they receive the cargos at sea already - there is no more coming.
Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines will run out in 3 weeks.
No-one is going to "run out".
I know revelling in hyberbole and drama is more fun, but it doesn't make it true.
Third world countries reliant on Gulf imports that can't afford higher prices might.
We won't.
Demand and supply will recalibrate again at a new price, and the supply chain will react.
The market will still clear.
Did the market for food clear during the Irish famine?
Demand and supply recalibrated at a new price, just that it was one at which many people could not afford to eat. And there wasn't even an overall deficit in food, but simply a higher price able to be paid for the food elsewhere.
A price high enough to drive a cut in demand for oil of 20% is going to leave a lot of people doing without. Probably including a bunch of farmers. There's then a real risk of the world tipping into food deficit.
The market may clear, but will everyone eat? And how many millions do you think will decide it's best to leave before the food runs out, and try to find somewhere they will be more reliably fed?
Israel is no democracy, they are like a Deep South Jim Crow state/apartheid South Africa.
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances.
Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European nations and rights groups
Israel’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by European nations and rights groups.
The legislation makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank found guilty of intentionally carrying out deadly attacks deemed acts of terrorism by a military court.
According to the bill, those sentenced to death will be held in a separate facility with no visits except for from authorised personnel, with legal consultations conducted only by video link. Executions will be carried out within 90 days of sentencing.
Israel has rarely used the death penalty, applying it only in exceptional cases. The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was the last person to be executed, in 1962.
Nigel Farage likes to ape Trump, but he generally steers clear of the really batty stuff. Liz Truss... I mean, she was a historically bad PM, and yet has managed to fall even further in her post-No 10 career. I feel sorry for her fans... well, 1 fan.
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Nothing disingenuous to adapting policy for the good of the nation by increasing tax receipts by 25 billion over10 years
And what about the 40 labour mps backing the proposals
Even the O&G lobby don’t think it would be that much. You need to net it off against the reduction in receipts (particularly in the short term, as you cut current windfall taxes) , and then pray that the economic activity develops later on and generates taxes through other paths (eg income and corporation tax).
For the umpteenth time
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Fake news
She announced the policy last September before this crisis and labour mps coming on board
Iran is far from the world's only source of oil and, as @rcs1000 says, the market will always clear.
Price may go up a bit though.
A large chunk of the Middle East can't export.
The disruption means that there is already a supply chain breakdown for several countries. After they receive the cargos at sea already - there is no more coming.
Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines will run out in 3 weeks.
No-one is going to "run out".
I know revelling in hyberbole and drama is more fun, but it doesn't make it true.
Third world countries reliant on Gulf imports that can't afford higher prices might.
We won't.
Demand and supply will recalibrate again at a new price, and the supply chain will react.
The market will still clear.
Did the market for food clear during the Irish famine?
Demand and supply recalibrated at a new price, just that it was one at which many people could not afford to eat. And there wasn't even an overall deficit in food, but simply a higher price able to be paid for the food elsewhere.
A price high enough to drive a cut in demand for oil of 20% is going to leave a lot of people doing without. Probably including a bunch of farmers. There's then a real risk of the world tipping into food deficit.
The market may clear, but will everyone eat? And how many millions do you think will decide it's best to leave before the food runs out, and try to find somewhere they will be more reliably fed?
It’s a slightly odd argument, I agree. And it also assumes a perfect market without lead times.
There are already examples of the market not clearing - diesel running out at some retailers isn’t due to a reduction in supply, but increased demand from people prepping for even higher prices - and retailers were unable to adjust their prices quickly enough (contrary to the price-gouging allegations)
Israel is no democracy, they are like a Deep South Jim Crow state/apartheid South Africa.
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances.
Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European nations and rights groups
Israel’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by European nations and rights groups.
The legislation makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank found guilty of intentionally carrying out deadly attacks deemed acts of terrorism by a military court.
According to the bill, those sentenced to death will be held in a separate facility with no visits except for from authorised personnel, with legal consultations conducted only by video link. Executions will be carried out within 90 days of sentencing.
Israel has rarely used the death penalty, applying it only in exceptional cases. The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was the last person to be executed, in 1962.
Former British PM Liz Truss joins me to announce the dates of CPAC Great Britain! 🇬🇧
On the basis one would presumably have to pay to listen to the former Prime Minister, I was musing on which former Prime Minister(s) I would pay to hear and how much I would pay:
Major; Yes (£10) Blair: No Brown: Yes (50p) Cameron: Yes (£2) May: Yes (I'm most interested in hearing her thoughts) (£20) Johnson: No Truss: No Sunak: Yes (£5)
I suspect this will not be a universally-held view.
My numbers are a lot higher. I would have to be paid the following amounts to listen to former PMs:
Major; would be happy with Lord's tickets Blair: minimum $1m per five minutes to listen to him Brown: under no circumstances Cameron: under no circumstances May: as long as it was short (say no more than 10 minutes listening), I might be willing to do it for as little as $10,000 Johnson: well, it'd be entertaining. so, I'm going with a paltry $50,000. He also needs to promise to keep it short Truss: that's really funny Sunak: well, I guess you probably could pay me enough to listen to him drone on. But not sure how much
The premier league of UK PMs since 1945 in terms of speaking fees were Thatcher, Churchill and Blair. Mainly because of the huge fees they could command on the US lecture circuit where they were better known than other UK PMs and admired for their support in the Cold War, WW2 and post 9/11 respectively for the US.
Like UK pop stars, cracking the US is the real route to Prime Ministerial riches
"Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann has said England players do not play enough county cricket and selectors have overlooked talent in the domestic game."
It is currently unknown if the underground transgender mafia are responsible for this sponsorship deal.
Given that the Twitter account 'politico for you' is labelled as 'satire', I would suggest this post is a trap for the rather less intelligent section of users.
It is currently unknown if the underground transgender mafia are responsible for this sponsorship deal.
Given that the Twitter account 'politico for you' is labelled as 'satire', I would suggest this post is a trap for the rather less intelligent section of users.
We have been fooled and Truss's 1 fan saves her reputation! Kudos.
"Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann has said England players do not play enough county cricket and selectors have overlooked talent in the domestic game."
A woman who had sex with identical twins separately "within four days of each other" has been told by a panel of judges that it is "not possible" to identify which one is the father of her baby.
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Except, they have been saying for many months that Miliband was completely wrong on this policy.
The opportunists are in Labour.
Some of us on the Labour side have been consistently slagging off Miliband's incoherent policy combo of blocking new gas production while simultaneously funding new build CCGT and Blue Hydrogen, to burn gas for the next 30 years.
Building new CCGT is a sensible policy, unless you want to see the lights go out in the winter? We’re going to be burning gas for decades to come.
Build CCGT capacity, fine. But don't block gas field development so we need to import LNG from Qatar instead.
A woman who had sex with identical twins separately "within four days of each other" has been told by a panel of judges that it is "not possible" to identify which one is the father of her baby.
"The market always clears" is true in the abstract, and in the long-term, but a large, sustained supply shock necessitates demand destruction in the short-term given the lead time for new sources of supply.
You can also have genuine local supply shortages where there is no price.
If the war drags on I think we'll start to see rationing of fuel in certain countries or industry. Airlines cancelling flights being an obvious example that's more likely to happen here.
For a small fee I can solve that for you. Say 25%?
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Except, they have been saying for many months that Miliband was completely wrong on this policy.
The opportunists are in Labour.
They are selling the notion that licencing new fields for the future would resolve the lack of fuel at the pumps.
One could also remind Kemi that she was foursquare behind Trump's disastrous adventure in the Gulf. Without Trump's disastrous adventure in the Gulf there would be fuel at the pumps.
Kemi’s oil rig campaign will have succeeded on its own terms if it takes attention away from her enthusiastic embrace of Trump’s war in the early days.
One senses it probably has. Any mud from this seems to be sticking more to Farage.
I desperately hope that those selling Badenoch as the future win the short game.
If she leads the Conservatives into the next GE, they will not do well.
Would that be the unused oil rig sat in a dry dock
Rather sums her Tory leadership up.
You don't see that it being in a dry dock is the very fucking point?
It should be out in the North Sea drilling for oil and gas reserves.
The very point Kemi is making - to your considerable and clear consternation.
These numbers especially '74% say the UK should “produce as much of its own oil and gas as possible rather than rely on imports.” 40% believe the best approach to UK energy security is investing in a balanced mix of renewables and UK oil and gas, compared to just 26% who want a renewables‑only approach and 13% who want oil and gas only.'
A woman who had sex with identical twins separately "within four days of each other" has been told by a panel of judges that it is "not possible" to identify which one is the father of her baby.
Israelis have suffered real horrors. Palestinians have suffered real horrors. Hamas are butchers.
That kind of juxtaposition of statements is straight out of the hasbara handbook.
Cf. "be balanced and Zionist", and "explore the complexities and benefits of British relations with Israel."
No, it’s straight out of the “reality exists” handbook.
Israelis have suffered real horrors. Palestinians have suffered real horrors. Hamas are butchers. None of those propositions cancels the others, and none of them requires me to become a spokesman for Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, or anyone else.
One of the more tedious habits in these discussions is that any attempt to avoid slogan-thinking gets denounced as “hasbara” by one side and antisemitism by the other. It is a useful trick if the aim is to stop people thinking, but not much use otherwise.
If your position is that one must not mention Israeli civilians being massacred or hostages being taken because that somehow contaminates criticism of Israel, then that is not seriousness or moral clarity. It is just factionalism in a keffiyeh.
Not "no" but "yes". The technique is literally straight out of the hasbara handbook, and that is the reality here:
Did you not notice the implicit assumption that the ethnic supremacist regime has a right to exist? Against this, there is the "no platform" approach. Clothing is of no particular relevance, and reference to it can be viewed as little more than abuse.
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Nothing disingenuous to adapting policy for the good of the nation by increasing tax receipts by 25 billion over10 years
And what about the 40 labour mps backing the proposals
Even the O&G lobby don’t think it would be that much. You need to net it off against the reduction in receipts (particularly in the short term, as you cut current windfall taxes) , and then pray that the economic activity develops later on and generates taxes through other paths (eg income and corporation tax).
For the umpteenth time
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Fake news
She announced the policy last September before this crisis and labour mps coming on board
So he wants them to pay for all the economic damage done to their countries because of his stupid war .
What’s Arabic for Trump go fxck yourself !
Khaleeji Arabic is not really my thing as I specialise in the classical austerity of Hejazi but approximately: نيك نفسك
Approximate pronunciation is 'niq nafsaq'. Extra pejorative heft may be added by directing the interlocutor to direct his fucking efforts toward his sister's or mother's generative organ.
Handle with care...
Imagine a book with Nick Naphsack as the protagonist…
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Nothing disingenuous to adapting policy for the good of the nation by increasing tax receipts by 25 billion over10 years
And what about the 40 labour mps backing the proposals
Even the O&G lobby don’t think it would be that much. You need to net it off against the reduction in receipts (particularly in the short term, as you cut current windfall taxes) , and then pray that the economic activity develops later on and generates taxes through other paths (eg income and corporation tax).
For the umpteenth time
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Fake news
She announced the policy last September before this crisis and labour mps coming on board
Outside the back and forth between @Big_G_NorthWales and @Brixian59 which is moderately entertaining but nothing more, there's a discussion to be had in the light of what is happening about energy policy and energy security.
The argument for going back to the North Sea made by many in the light of what has happened misses the point we would likely still be paying more for our oil even if we produced every barrel we needed ourselves.
There's a short term policy question about fuel duty but the truth is the Government needs the £25 billion fuel duty raises if for no other reason than to pay the debt interest incurred by the excessive borrowing of successive Governments and those suggesting fuel duty should be reduced or temporarily scrapped fail to offer an alternative source for the shortfall in income (perhaps we should borrow?).
The longer term issue of energy security is important - there are legitimate environmental concerns around fossil fuels but it needs to be not an either/or but a both/and where fossil fuel extraction is part of an holistic energy management approach involving renewables and even nuclear if possible. I think it reasonable we should be trying to both reduce our CO2 emissions and, more importantly, be in the forefront of innovation toreduce CO2 emissions worldwide.
The obvious question is why previous administrations chose not to re-invest in the North Sea and those who were part of those administrations need to explain the line they took in those Governments otherwise this reeks of opportunism and as said short sighted fiscally if we end up borrowing even more. Had we had this re-investment in the North Sea as part of a genuine post-EU energy management policy, we might be in a better position now.
Looking at the Statista data, it seems our dependence on Gulf oil is now very low but it also seems Trump has some leverage how much of our oil comes from the US. China, by contrast, gets 50% of its oil from the Middle East.
In terms of gas, it also seems our exposure to the Middle East which is primarily LNG from Qatar, is also limited.
The issue therefore isn't so much supply as cost over which we have little or no control.
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Did anyone point out to him how many times Article 5 has been invoked; who did it; where it related to; and how NATO members reacted?
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Did anyone point out to him how many times Article 5 has been invoked; who did it; where it related to; and how NATO members reacted?
Bringing facts into a conversation with a Trump acolyte would be about as useful as bringing Amanda Spielman to a symposium on safeguarding.
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Did anyone point out to him how many times Article 5 has been invoked; who did it; where it related to; and how NATO members reacted?
Is it strictly true that the US invoked it unilaterally?
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Did anyone point out to him how many times Article 5 has been invoked; who did it; where it related to; and how NATO members reacted?
Perhaps he applied the same formidable discernment and intellect to his statement that you just did when deciding if that Truss comment was real or not.
Iran is pushing the Houthis to prepare for a renewed campaign against Red Sea shipping if there is any further escalation by the US, according to European officials familiar with the matter.
The militant group is weighing options for more aggressive action after launching ballistic missiles at Israel on Saturday, the people said, asking not to be named discussing sensitive matters.
There are divisions within the Houthis’ leadership about how involved they should be and that was partly why they only entered the conflict a month into it, the people said.
US and Saudi Arabian officials have told European allies they believe the group wants to avoid further escalation and attacks on American and Saudi assets for now, said the people.
Still, the longer the US-Israeli war against Iran goes on, the more likely the Houthis are to target the Red Sea, they added. One of the officials said an attempted American takeover of Kharg Island could prompt the Houthis to expand their attacks.
A new campaign against ships in the southern Red Sea and near the Bab el-Mandeb strait would further upend global energy markets after Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The officials said it was possible the Islamist group could delay a decision as a way of retaining leverage against the US.
A more extreme Houthi faction wants to carry out more expansive attacks while other, more moderate figures have resisted such a strategy fearing retaliation. The decision to target Israel this weekend represented a compromise between divided factions, the officials said.
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Nothing disingenuous to adapting policy for the good of the nation by increasing tax receipts by 25 billion over10 years
And what about the 40 labour mps backing the proposals
Even the O&G lobby don’t think it would be that much. You need to net it off against the reduction in receipts (particularly in the short term, as you cut current windfall taxes) , and then pray that the economic activity develops later on and generates taxes through other paths (eg income and corporation tax).
For the umpteenth time
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Fake news
She announced the policy last September before this crisis and labour mps coming on board
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
Funny how Kemi Badenoch turns up on an oil rig whose owner donated a quarter of million pounds to the Conservatives since she became the leader .
Given the crisis in the Gulf we need to drill for more oil, good on Kemi
The disingenuous opportunism of various Conservative figures in Parliament and on here is off the scale.
Nothing disingenuous to adapting policy for the good of the nation by increasing tax receipts by 25 billion over10 years
And what about the 40 labour mps backing the proposals
Even the O&G lobby don’t think it would be that much. You need to net it off against the reduction in receipts (particularly in the short term, as you cut current windfall taxes) , and then pray that the economic activity develops later on and generates taxes through other paths (eg income and corporation tax).
For the umpteenth time
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Fake news
She announced the policy last September before this crisis and labour mps coming on board
i see the PB Centrist Dorks chased away @Cyclefree
You really a loathsome, supercilious, self-regarding bunch of midwit cucks
It wasn't PBs best moment and I hope she does contribute in the future
Name names BigG and notify the mods if you feel you have a point.
Just read her posts
Does she pinpoint the guilty? I replied to her post and I thought I made some valid points politely with no "pissiness". My only regret was I spelled "are" as "care".
These numbers especially '74% say the UK should “produce as much of its own oil and gas as possible rather than rely on imports.” 40% believe the best approach to UK energy security is investing in a balanced mix of renewables and UK oil and gas, compared to just 26% who want a renewables‑only approach and 13% who want oil and gas only.'
Was the no option for carefully and judiciously eking out our modest reserves of gas and oil so that we still have some when we really need them?
At my local Tesco's, petrol up a further 2p and diesel up 3p to 172.9p per litre.
All pumps stocked and no queuing.
In London yesterday it was at 153.9p
#justsaying
Surely that was petrol?
Yes, to clarify, petrol at my local Tesco's is at 142.9p with diesel at 172.9.
The increasing differential between E10 petrol and diesel is one of the most obvious manifestations of all this - petrol was 127.9p before the first American and Israeli strikes. I'm sure diesel has risen rather more.
i see the PB Centrist Dorks chased away @Cyclefree
You really a loathsome, supercilious, self-regarding bunch of midwit cucks
It wasn't PBs best moment and I hope she does contribute in the future
Name names BigG and notify the mods if you feel you have a point.
Just read her posts
To be fair, Cyclefree asked a question and a couple of people provided thoughtful answers, which she doesn't seem to have accepted. Some others were rude however.
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
i see the PB Centrist Dorks chased away @Cyclefree
You really a loathsome, supercilious, self-regarding bunch of midwit cucks
Cry about it. She's a fucking windbag. Good riddance.
I always enjoy Cyclefree's posts, which are clever and well written, and she makes me think about things in ways I wouldn't have, which is what I'm here for. She does make genuinely good posts. I don't always agree but she obviously isn't simply a product of the demiurge that forgot to customize its character settings and that will annoy some.
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
i see the PB Centrist Dorks chased away @Cyclefree
You really a loathsome, supercilious, self-regarding bunch of midwit cucks
I missed that. What happened?
The usual mix of condescending centrist bilge, tinged with sanctimony and with an added dash of misogyny, and from the usual suspects
What makes it so intolerable is the intellectual mediocrity of the vapid bilgers, who nonetheless remain certain of their tedious certainties
I did read most of the posts (in my usual lurkiness) and didn't really see any issue. I find Cyclefree thought provoking but you can't deny that she argues a lot about very controversial topics with a lot of passion and certainty. If you put that kind of energy out then that's what you get back. I might have missed the misogyny though which no-one deserves to experience.
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Did anyone point out to him how many times Article 5 has been invoked; who did it; where it related to; and how NATO members reacted?
Is it strictly true that the US invoked it unilaterally?
As this was in the [good/bad] (delete according to taste) old days I assume that they had spoken to their allies first. But it was a unilateral invocation.
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Did anyone point out to him how many times Article 5 has been invoked; who did it; where it related to; and how NATO members reacted?
Perhaps he applied the same formidable discernment and intellect to his statement that you just did when deciding if that Truss comment was real or not.
The thing about good satire is that is only just on the wrong side of plausibility. It’s been a long day and I still have stuff to do. But yes, I fell for it (although expressing surprise and scepticism).
That said one would hope that the Secretary of State might have a reasonable grasp of international relations
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
PB Centrist Dads reject a them and us framing. That's the sort of divisive language they would quibble with, mildly.
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
Is there anything more boring, fatuous and unoriginal than using "centrist dad" as an insult?
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
Is there anything more boring, fatuous and unoriginal than using "centrist dad" as an insult?
21 months seems an unduly lenient sentence for what this scumbag did. He quite deliberately caused this woman life-wrecking injuries simply because she rejected his advances.
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
So Adolf Eichmann was the last person (formally) executed by Israel and in 1962. And here we are...
Apparently those are little gilded nooses on their lapels. Have there ever been other historical examples of nationalist death cults wearing symbols of their political necrophilia?
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
So Adolf Eichmann was the last person (formally) executed by Israel and in 1962. And here we are...
Apparently those are little gilded nooses on their lapels. Have there ever been other historical examples of nationalist death cults wearing symbols of their political necrophilia?
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
Is there anything more boring, fatuous and unoriginal than using "centrist dad" as an insult?
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
So Adolf Eichmann was the last person (formally) executed by Israel and in 1962. And here we are...
Apparently those are little gilded nooses on their lapels. Have there ever been other historical examples of nationalist death cults wearing symbols of their political necrophilia?
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
Is there anything more boring, fatuous and unoriginal than using "centrist dad" as an insult?
i see the PB Centrist Dorks chased away @Cyclefree
You really a loathsome, supercilious, self-regarding bunch of midwit cucks
It wasn't PBs best moment and I hope she does contribute in the future
Name names BigG and notify the mods if you feel you have a point.
Just read her posts
To be fair, Cyclefree asked a question and a couple of people provided thoughtful answers, which she doesn't seem to have accepted. Some others were rude however.
Cyclefree makes the perfectly legitimate point that Jewish people going about their daily business should not feel unsafe on British streets because of their religion. She is absolutely right. Nonetheless I would also assert that Muslim people going about their daily business should not feel unsafe on British streets because of their religion.
A lovely bunch of lads. Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
So Adolf Eichmann was the last person (formally) executed by Israel and in 1962. And here we are...
Apparently those are little gilded nooses on their lapels. Have there ever been other historical examples of nationalist death cults wearing symbols of their political necrophilia?
Ja.
I wonder what Cyclefree makes of the death-penalty-but-only-for-Palestinians law.
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Liz Truss suggests “underground transgender mafia” may be responsible for Italian chocolate heist that saw over 12 tonnes of KitKats stolen.
https://x.com/politicoforyou/status/2038627212924953012?s=46
I've always thought Johnson should have followed Cameron and May should have followed Johnson - I think she'd have handled the pandemic so much better than Boris.
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances.
https://ft.trib.al/iabissb
Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European nations and rights groups
Israel’s parliament has passed a law imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, a measure sharply criticised as discriminatory by European nations and rights groups.
The legislation makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank found guilty of intentionally carrying out deadly attacks deemed acts of terrorism by a military court.
According to the bill, those sentenced to death will be held in a separate facility with no visits except for from authorised personnel, with legal consultations conducted only by video link. Executions will be carried out within 90 days of sentencing.
Israel has rarely used the death penalty, applying it only in exceptional cases. The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was the last person to be executed, in 1962.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/israel-passes-law-death-penalty-palestinian-convicted-terrorists
https://x.com/warmonitor3/status/2038667601404965224
BREAKING: Israeli officials have proposed a plan to Trump alleging there is a window of opportunity to topple the Iranian regime through the financial crash caused by potential strikes on energy infrastructure-N12
And we should all thank God for this small mercy.
Rather sums her Tory leadership up.
Whatever the reality of whether Starmer knew anything before the first attack on Tehran, Team Kemi thought backing Trump was a winner. She still isn't backpedalling to her credit.
SECRETARY RUBIO: If NATO is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, then that’s not a very good arrangement.
That’s a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
Major; would be happy with Lord's tickets
Blair: minimum $1m per five minutes to listen to him
Brown: under no circumstances
Cameron: under no circumstances
May: as long as it was short (say no more than 10 minutes listening), I might be willing to do it for as little as $10,000
Johnson: well, it'd be entertaining. so, I'm going with a paltry $50,000. He also needs to promise to keep it short
Truss: that's really funny
Sunak: well, I guess you probably could pay me enough to listen to him drone on. But not sure how much
Nor just an ordinary Golf Complex
Ahem
40 Labour MPs, some Unions are NOT following Kemi
She has Jumped on the bandwagon
The mps ans a few unions with affected constituencies and members have had these views for years.
She is a world class opportunist
No policy, no backbone, bandwagon after bandwagon.
Demand and supply recalibrated at a new price, just that it was one at which many people could not afford to eat. And there wasn't even an overall deficit in food, but simply a higher price able to be paid for the food elsewhere.
A price high enough to drive a cut in demand for oil of 20% is going to leave a lot of people doing without. Probably including a bunch of farmers. There's then a real risk of the world tipping into food deficit.
The market may clear, but will everyone eat? And how many millions do you think will decide it's best to leave before the food runs out, and try to find somewhere they will be more reliably fed?
She announced the policy last September before this crisis and labour mps coming on board
BBC News - Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp890n51684o?app-referrer=deep-link
There are already examples of the market not clearing - diesel running out at some retailers isn’t due to a reduction in supply, but increased demand from people prepping for even higher prices - and retailers were unable to adjust their prices quickly enough (contrary to the price-gouging allegations)
It is currently unknown if the underground transgender mafia are responsible for this sponsorship deal.
Does it involve holding hands and singing kum ba yah?
Like UK pop stars, cracking the US is the real route to Prime Ministerial riches
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c70dev82np9o
https://oeuk.org.uk/new-polling-shows-public-backs-homegrown-energy-a-balanced-mix-and-clear-long-term-rules-for-the-north-sea/
#justsaying
A woman who had sex with identical twins separately "within four days of each other" has been told by a panel of judges that it is "not possible" to identify which one is the father of her baby.
https://news.sky.com/story/woman-who-had-sex-with-identical-twins-told-it-is-not-possible-to-identify-father-of-baby-13526141?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
It should be out in the North Sea drilling for oil and gas reserves.
The very point Kemi is making - to your considerable and clear consternation.
You really a loathsome, supercilious, self-regarding bunch of midwit cucks
40% believe the best approach to UK energy security is investing in a balanced mix of renewables and UK oil and gas, compared to just 26% who want a renewables‑only approach and 13% who want oil and gas only.'
http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf
Did you not notice the implicit assumption that the ethnic supremacist regime has a right to exist? Against this, there is the "no platform" approach. Clothing is of no particular relevance, and reference to it can be viewed as little more than abuse.
The argument for going back to the North Sea made by many in the light of what has happened misses the point we would likely still be paying more for our oil even if we produced every barrel we needed ourselves.
There's a short term policy question about fuel duty but the truth is the Government needs the £25 billion fuel duty raises if for no other reason than to pay the debt interest incurred by the excessive borrowing of successive Governments and those suggesting fuel duty should be reduced or temporarily scrapped fail to offer an alternative source for the shortfall in income (perhaps we should borrow?).
The longer term issue of energy security is important - there are legitimate environmental concerns around fossil fuels but it needs to be not an either/or but a both/and where fossil fuel extraction is part of an holistic energy management approach involving renewables and even nuclear if possible. I think it reasonable we should be trying to both reduce our CO2 emissions and, more importantly, be in the forefront of innovation toreduce CO2 emissions worldwide.
The obvious question is why previous administrations chose not to re-invest in the North Sea and those who were part of those administrations need to explain the line they took in those Governments otherwise this reeks of opportunism and as said short sighted fiscally if we end up borrowing even more. Had we had this re-investment in the North Sea as part of a genuine post-EU energy management policy, we might be in a better position now.
Looking at the Statista data, it seems our dependence on Gulf oil is now very low but it also seems Trump has some leverage how much of our oil comes from the US. China, by contrast, gets 50% of its oil from the Middle East.
In terms of gas, it also seems our exposure to the Middle East which is primarily LNG from Qatar, is also limited.
The issue therefore isn't so much supply as cost over which we have little or no control.
What makes it so intolerable is the intellectual mediocrity of the vapid bilgers, who nonetheless remain certain of their tedious certainties
Iran is pushing the Houthis to prepare for a renewed campaign against Red Sea shipping if there is any further escalation by the US, according to European officials familiar with the matter.
The militant group is weighing options for more aggressive action after launching ballistic missiles at Israel on Saturday, the people said, asking not to be named discussing sensitive matters.
There are divisions within the Houthis’ leadership about how involved they should be and that was partly why they only entered the conflict a month into it, the people said.
US and Saudi Arabian officials have told European allies they believe the group wants to avoid further escalation and attacks on American and Saudi assets for now, said the people.
Still, the longer the US-Israeli war against Iran goes on, the more likely the Houthis are to target the Red Sea, they added. One of the officials said an attempted American takeover of Kharg Island could prompt the Houthis to expand their attacks.
A new campaign against ships in the southern Red Sea and near the Bab el-Mandeb strait would further upend global energy markets after Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The officials said it was possible the Islamist group could delay a decision as a way of retaining leverage against the US.
A more extreme Houthi faction wants to carry out more expansive attacks while other, more moderate figures have resisted such a strategy fearing retaliation. The decision to target Israel this weekend represented a compromise between divided factions, the officials said.
https://x.com/alexwickham/status/2038709865036587405
I'm not allowed to shop around
‘ NEW: Kemi Badenoch has said that the SNP winning a Holyrood majority will trigger an independence
https://x.com/scotnational/status/2038646278901411983?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2038672001959592147
The increasing differential between E10 petrol and diesel is one of the most obvious manifestations of all this - petrol was 127.9p before the first American and Israeli strikes. I'm sure diesel has risen rather more.
Wtf are those Frankenstein clodhoppers Ben Gvir is wearing? You can imagine them stamping on a Palestinian’s face, forever.
‘ VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”
https://x.com/thecradlemedia/status/2038687910589804856?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Concerned you are possibly quite a boring, fatuous c*nt with no original views?
Try this simple test at home. Do you ever find yourself nodding along in agreement with “The Rest is Politics” or “The News Agents”? Do you ever in fact spend a single minute listening to either of these podcasts?
If either answer is Yes, congratulations. You are one of THEM
That said one would hope that the Secretary of State might have a reasonable grasp of international relations
Everyone is part of us. Even you Leon, even you..
Genuine question.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86e3dpj2d9o