Oil be back, terminating the Net Zero targets North of the border – politicalbetting.com
Oil be back, terminating the Net Zero targets North of the border – politicalbetting.com
Scots tend to think that it's more important for the Scottish government to prioritise extracting all North Sea oil it can than to meet its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2045Extracting all North Sea oil: 51%Meeting net zero by 2045: 36%yougov.com/en-gb/articl…
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Had we had independence already then the SNP government would have been free to pursue a policy of extracting oil and gas and having an oil refinery. My delivered today SNP leaflet says they will deliver lower energy bills. Presumably by doing the opposite of their actual policies.
Nat voters are stupid...
The question was about priorities, so fair enough. I think most Scots are wrong on the priorities.
*Because there's a limited amount of oil and gas that can still be extracted profitably
Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Wednesday to scale back Israel’s strikes in Lebanon to help ensure the success of the Iran negotiations, a senior administration official said.
. To boost off-peak travel.
TBF to Farage he has done very well to quietly condemn the Iran catastrophe without stirring up the ire of Trump.
Imports should be counted just as much as extractions against the "net" figure, or it is completely dishonest.
It is the burning of oil and gas that should be counted as a negative in the net column, not the extraction of it. Importing oil and gas is not "cleaner" than extracting it ourselves.
We need to phase out burning, not production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill
This doesn't really ring true for Starmer, but Farage...
Farage is Churchillian in oh, so many ways.
But we don't do fascism, do we? This is good old Blighty after all!
The Senior railcard is available from 60, so hardly "elderly" (although at 61 I'm probably a bit older than Horse). I always suspected it's a commercial thing, as it encourages sales of off-peak tickets that otherwise wouldn't be sold. A third off makes rail tickets seem reasonable.
I wouldn't trust Miliband to tell me the time of day. Deceit is his middle name
Trump and Farage on the other hand have some pretty rum back stories when it comes to fanboiing the man with the little moustache.
Leaders like Netanyahu and Putin have been around for a long time, since before Trump was on the political scene. If we were led by someone like Tony Blair, we'd probably get the same level of respect.
Tory MP responds to colleagues who might be open to a deal:
“Absolutely fucking not. Farage wants our voters, our candidates, and our party, and in return we’d get nothing but chaos and a mini-Trump totalitarian personality cult. No way.”
https://nitter.poast.org/JAHeale/status/2042135907893932086#m
I still don't see how a deal gets done this side of a GE, given the need for Reform or the Tories to work out who is top and who is bottom.
And Reform lite means Reform hating voters will never vote for the Tories again (once bitten twice shy) and Reform friendly voters would vote for the real deal.
Basically imagine the Lib Dems in 2015 on steroids
The stupid, Milibandish (that's really stupid but more so) obsession with reducing our own output only to import it from elsewhere is just mad or Trumpish (that's completely mad but more so). Its a false dichotomy. And a completely unnecessary argument.
But Reform and Tories are not offering that.
One of the great mysteries of our time is how feeble the response of the Conservatives has been to the rise of Reform. I know the Conservative dries think of Reform as the Conservative Party as it should truly be and the wets are... you know... wet, but these guys are eating their lunch and have been for years now.
"The Vice President, with all due respect, does not participate in the negotiations between the United States and Ukraine and the Russian Federation. And I think that if he and other officials had taken part probably... they would have understood more deeply what a "patch" is, what... the territory of Ukraine, the independent territory of Ukraine is."
https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/2042281924543103367
Admittedly with Labour and the Tories in the (relative) doldrums, the LDs stubbornly committed to maintaining 10-15%, and Reform and the Greens promising as much disruption as possible (Reform less plausibly, given they've gone full Tory in the last 6 months), it is not a great set of options.
Bart says he hates the far right.
So if he likes Bennett then Bennett cannot be far right 👍
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1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.
https://x.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/2042270608486957486
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BREAKING: The US and Iran will hold in-person peace talks on Saturday in Pakistan, per Fox News.
The US delegation includes JD Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
The Iranian delegation includes Foreign Minister Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter
Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.
https://bsky.app/profile/seanthomason.bsky.social/post/3mizzqop6ek27
Keir Starmer says Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilisation was contrary to British values
“Let me be really clear about this. They are not words I would use — ever use — because I come at this with our British values and principles,” PM tells @Peston
Walkers are the winners
And this Sean guy apparently even feels compelled to post on the tedious woke enclave of bluesky.
So is presumably one of them.
https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2042295880850591852
NEW: Keir Starmer says he is "fed up" with Donald Trump and Putin
"I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy businesses bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world"
And I’m afraid that’s the choice we have now.
Massive achilles heel for Farage imho.
He's a fucking pointless and embarrassing international statesman
"Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now
Aditya Chakrabortty"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/18/sickness-britain-novel-20-years-ago-jg-ballard
After Ukraine and Iran, it’s a rollercoaster that has induced some degree of nausea.
I hadn't realised until I read the article you linked that this was his last novel.
What a way to go out.
Seem to recall the fascists run the shopping centre: late capitalism and fascism. Brilliant.
No less important for context are the last five seconds of the video, in which Mark says: "We have a Joint Center in Poland (JATEC) where we study all the lessons you (Ukrainians) learned during your war."
So, you're great guys, keep fighting, we'll politely adopt your tricks, but you won't be sitting at the same table with us. A wonderful attitude toward the strongest army in Europe.
https://x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/2042285768140308813
"My fair assessment" is that Rutte should be out on his arse,