ER Editor: We’re 100% convinced that this is part of the wake-up movie. Labour’s been in power ‘this’ long (micro space) and it’s becoming a disaster by the day, dredging up failed policies that could bankrupt the country. Nobody governs like this, as we’ve been saying for an age. Angry Twitter reaction is more interesting than the story itself.
Check below. This isn’t the only piece of Labour nuttiness this week.
Keir Starmer’s crackpot pledge to meet Net Zero by 2030 will bankrupt Britain
Ed Miliband’s friends might make money from renewable energy investments, but it will cost the rest of us taxpayers over £3 trillion
Expect South Africa style blackoutspic.twitter.com/SCcjEoc1St
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) July 11, 2024
Ed Miliband has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling in the North Sea. This is a ridiculously stupid decision. It will drive up domestic energy and fuel prices and leave the UK totally exposed to the next energy crisis whilst being reliant on foreign energy import supply. pic.twitter.com/oOw05B0fhQ
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) July 11, 2024
Chief clown Ed Miliband needs to be rained in by the PM. He’s going to destroy the north sea oil & gas industry and 200000 jobs will be lost. He ‘s a lunatic. pic.twitter.com/6OsSd0S4Ei
— Anthony O’Neill (@AnthonyAinsdale) July 11, 2024
Ed Miliband has chosen economic harm and to damage our energy security.
Absolute maniac. pic.twitter.com/QdaVzSpAs3
— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) July 11, 2024
Worth listening to —
‘The public have a right to wonder whether or not there is an eco-zealot at the heart of Government!’
Patrick Christys responds to Ed Miliband ordering a ban on North Sea oil drilling. pic.twitter.com/AXcpzGYUiI
— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 11, 2024
Ed Miliband has banned new Oil and Gas licenses in the North Sea in favour of Wind Power.
Irish Green Minister @EamonRyan tried that.
He’s now quit.
Irish Government being Sued.
Ireland’s energy security is in a dire state.Stupid follow Stupid pic.twitter.com/i5FRYeH3zR
— tony wilkinson (@TheWackmeister) July 11, 2024
Ed Miliband has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling in the North Sea in a decision that overrules his own officials and risks triggering a wave of legal action.
Blocking the exploration of our resources is economic suicide. #CostOfNetZero
— Net Zero Watch (@NetZeroWatch) July 11, 2024
So, they’ve been in power less than a week, and already @Keir_Starmer has put the whole country in danger of war with Russia, @Ed_Miliband is destroying both our energy security AND our countryside, and @YvetteCooperMP is releasing violent sex abusers from prison.
THIS IS LABOUR
— Stokie’73 (@potter2207) July 11, 2024
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And for more Labour nuttiness, try this also from the Daily Sceptic (we don’t take its anti-Russia, pro-Israel stance it must be said) —
And it’s not as if Labour politicians have tried to rise above these conflicts. Time and again, they’ve eagerly embraced them. Take, for example, our new Prime Minister,Sir Keir Starmer – who, at the height of the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, proudly released a photo of himself and Angela Rayner, his deputy, taking the knee.
For another example: take Ms. Nandy herself. When campaigning to be Labour leader in 2020, she was asked whether male criminals who identify as women should be placed in female prisons. She replied: “I think trans women are women and trans men are men. So I think they should be accommodated in the prison of their choosing.”
Three years after Ms. Nandy made these delightfully compassionate remarks, Isla Bryson, who was a man when found guilty of raping two women, was sent to a Scottish female prison. The resulting uproar – which helped bring down Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s First Minister – suggested that, funnily enough, locking rapists in a building full of women can actually be quite “divisive”. Yet it was Left-wingers who’d argued for it.
And check out this Sky News report for the possibility of releasing prisoners early ‘because of Conservative policies’ —
Prisoners likely to be released earlier as part of Labour plans to tackle prison overcrowding
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Ed Miliband has ordered an immediate ban on new drilling in the North Sea – overruling his own officials and risking triggering a wave of legal action. The Telegraph has more.
In an unusual intervention into what is typically an apolitical process, the Energy Secretary has told regulators not to approve a new round of drilling that was slated for confirmation in the coming weeks.
His decision to block the licences means that companies will have wasted millions of pounds on preparing their bids, with experts warning they are likely to take legal action as a result.
The decision followed crisis meetings yesterday between Mr. Miliband and his aides after the Telegraph asked for updates on outstanding drilling licence applications.
The applications, from companies seeking to exploit up to 35 new North Sea areas, were submitted as part of the 33rd offshore oil and gas licensing round initiated by the last Government in autumn 2023.
It saw 76 oil and gas companies submitting 115 bids to drill for oil and gas across 257 “blocks” of the North Sea, Irish Sea and East Atlantic. The NSTA said these would boost U.K. oil output by 600 million barrels.
Bids for up to 35 areas were still awaiting a decision from the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), the regulator, when the election was called.
On Wednesday afternoon the NSTA said that applications were still being considered, despite the change in Government. A spokesman reiterated the NSTA’s pre-election statement that: “Further consideration is being given to a small number of remaining applications and a few more may be offered at a later date.”
However, Mr. Miliband subsequently instructed the NSTA to block them all.
In a terse statement issued late on Wednesday, his spokesman said: “We will not issue new licences to explore new fields, and will not revoke existing oil and gas licences. We will manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan.”
Worth reading in full.
Completely insane. The world – and the U.K. – is going to need oil and gas for a long while yet, even under our crazy Net Zero plans. But it appears the U.K. is going to miss out on producing it. Because who needs industry? Who needs income? Who needs affordable energy, for that matter? Not Britain it seems, at least according to Labour. Though somehow I don’t think the public is going to agree.
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