Which is why I think the solution here lies with Labour - Nixon to China and all that. Sadly, I don't think they are interested. They will bumble along without actually dealing with the fundamen… (View Post)

Indeed. But I also don't think the solutions that were developed from 1979 onwards are necessarily going to be the ones that work this time. To a large extent Thatcher had it easy. So much of th… (View Post)

It is a 3 stage problem. I think the first stage is that they are bright enough to have identified a real problem - and one that many on all sides of the debate have identified for many years so I do… (View Post)

They still have Jackdaw - which does about 40,000 barrels a day and they are non op partners in a lot of fields - fingers in pies. Total BOE production worldwide for them is about 3.7 million barrels… (View Post)

Anything is deliverable. If you are the Government you just tell them what they have to pay. The problem with Labour's plan is that it will only deliver a fraction of the money they - and we - n… (View Post)