Zack PolanskiRT: @implausibleblog Left: Ed Miliband says more drilling will not cut energy bills
Right: Ed Miliband approves license for more drilling
RichRARobi#milliband has turned into #billiemad
Trying to beat #trump in the effort to destroy our environment?
#idiots #ukgovernment #starmer are all mad
Pam C@ZackPolanski Renewables will though, which is why big oil and energy companies don't want it.
inpc@ZackPolanski It's almost as if he's full of shit...
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖@ZackPolanski But… but… the Tories spaffed 90% of our reserves in the mad dash to cut taxes for political gain in the eighties. You don’t ’just drill a hole’… the drilling derrick has to be positioned, then you drill for ages, then you cap the new well whilst you move in a production platform and connect a pipe to the network that heads for shore. It’s an awful lot of time for politicians with a sight horizon of weeks. Then it’s sold on the market and you have to buy it at going rate.
Claire McNab@christineburns Amongst the many #BigLies that dominate #UKpol, the lie of Tory economic competence is one of the biggest. They thew away the #NorthSea oil/gas bonanza, asset-stripped the public sector, created a huge infrastructure backlog, and destroyed swathes of communities.
None of it was caused by honest misjudgement or by unforeseen circumstances. It was all known and planned.
It's a crime as devastating as treason, committed publicly. Yet its barely acknowledged. 😡
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@fishidwardrobe I think rhat the history of bad policy on oil is v relevant.
@fishidwardrobe the Tories are HM Opposition, and have been yelling for drilling
@2legged @christineburns @ZackPolanski and? so?
it just looks to me as if Labour have made a dreadful decision, and you're blaming the tories for it.
if you meant something more nuanced, okay. but that's not how it looks.
it just looks to me as if Labour have made a dreadful decision, and you're blaming the tories for it.
if you meant something more nuanced, okay. but that's not how it looks.
@fishidwardrobe That's a v crude and simplistic imterpretation.
My point here is that Labour is making another bad decision, partly under Tory pressure, adding to a history of bad decisions.
I noted a history of disastrous Tory policy on North Sea oil and gas. With more than 500 chars I would also have noted Labour's huge failures. If you want to treat these short observations as a full statement on a topic, we're not going to get along.
@2legged @christineburns @ZackPolanski if i thought it was a full statement on the topic i would have just blocked you. i've already said that perhaps you meant something more nuanced but didn't manage to communicate it.
when i had just that one toot, i could only go on that one toot. it didn't mention any of the stuff you've said subsequently.
@fishidwardrobe I don't see any point in continuing to engage with your strange games. #Bye!
Eric LawtonI get that politicians may have to change their mind when circumstances change.
So I propose a law that they have to demonstrate to an open, independent tribunal that the change made a material difference to their logic.
Failure to do so would lead to a fine or resignation, depending on the seriousness.
As it is, flip-flops have a major impact on our faith in politicians and representative democracy in general