Sir Keir Starmer

tweety said:
Our industries aren't happy paying the highest electric and gas prices in the world and are either going bust or moving production abroad. That's the Miliband effect.
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Really_here said:
I wonder why? Could it be down to supplying energy to the UK being very profitable
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The perfect summation of arguing with anti-renewable folks.

Industry is simultaneously dying because it’s too expensive to produce energy for the UK, and securing new investment is bad because it’s so profitable to do it.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
You think? As fast as the other 46 times you’ve said it’s close?

He’ll likely be in place until at least May.
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It’s an opinion of course but I fear not for the first time, you will be wrong but time will tell.

It’s not just miserable old farts on a City forum that think his position is untenable this time is it?
 
domalino said:
And how exactly does selling new exploration licenses stop that being the case?
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It doesn't and I think they should sell as many as they can. I get bored reading all the claptrap about the UK being world leader on climate change and greenhous gas reduction. We're a TINY amount of the global emissions and yet we've been paying additional taxes and levies for YEARS for nothing.
 
blueinsa said:
It’s an opinion of course but I fear not for the first time, you will be wrong but time will tell.

It’s not just miserable old farts on a City forum that think his position is untenable this time is it?
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It’s not untenable as there’d need to be someone to challenge him, which I don’t think is likely before the May elections.
 
Really_here said:
It doesn't and I think they should sell as many as they can. I get bored reading all the claptrap about the UK being world leader on climate change and greenhous gas reduction. We're a TINY amount of the global emissions and yet we've been paying additional taxes and levies for YEARS for nothing.
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As I said in the initial post, the investment in renewables is because it’s the cheapest and fastest way to increase energy capacity.
 
I might be wrong but I’m getting the impression it’s starting to blow over. Maybe people are realising that describing it as the biggest political crisis for over 100 years is extreme hyperbole and the reality is that whatever misjudgement Starmer made (and it was a big one), it wasn’t for personal gain and it wasn’t a case of him breaking rules that the rest of population had to adhere to.
 
tweety said:
We're on a knife edge with our energy supply relying on the goodwill of Norway and France to sell us our shortfall which is in part due to the reliance on wind power.
Probably the most delusional post I've read on BM and there's plenty to choose from.
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Trying to band aid this, double down and go back to fossil fuels is idiotic.
 
west didsblue said:
I might be wrong but I’m getting the impression it’s starting to blow over. Maybe people are realising that describing it as the biggest political crisis for over 100 years is extreme hyperbole and the reality is that whatever misjudgement Starmer made (and it was a big one), it wasn’t for personal gain and it wasn’t a case of him breaking rules that the rest of population had to adhere to.
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Might we be returning to politics not being dictated by social media?
 
Really_here said:
It doesn't and I think they should sell as many as they can. I get bored reading all the claptrap about the UK being world leader on climate change and greenhous gas reduction. We're a TINY amount of the global emissions and yet we've been paying additional taxes and levies for YEARS for nothing.
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I find this sort of argument so bad faith, around 25-30% of total emissions emit 1% or less. If every "small" country stopped trying, a third of the world's emissions would go unchecked.

So yeah the UK on it's own is a small factor, but when you have groups of countries in a similar boat it becomes larger.
 
domalino said:
And the fastest way to energy independence is building more wind power, increasing gas storage, gas powerplants and expanding our nuclear generation which is why the government is doing that at record pace.

It’s not by selling licenses for future exploration in a dying oil field.
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So you’re not in favour of the government stopping gas field exploration?
 
west didsblue said:
I might be wrong but I’m getting the impression it’s starting to blow over. Maybe people are realising that describing it as the biggest political crisis for over 100 years is extreme hyperbole and the reality is that whatever misjudgement Starmer made (and it was a big one), it wasn’t for personal gain and it wasn’t a case of him breaking rules that the rest of population had to adhere to.
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There’s a long way to go yet. We’re going to get the ISC releasing the files pertaining to his appointment in a few weeks which will throw it all back into the spotlight.
 
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