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I about fell off my chair when I heard that the brand new British PM wants to open up new drilling in the North Sea - and that was BEFORE I knew how ludicrous that whole plan is.
Source: The brilliant Cody Dahler
www.youtube.com/@mrcodydahler
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6kl7zb_z6U0
darkoshen
Perhaps tighty whity can nationalize the entire North Sea field and recoup some of that yummy money.
Bizarkly
*This* is precisely why George Washington warned Americans against parties (although he called them 'factions' back then.) You get a brand new leader with **no** elections required!
diemajorthrilldie
"Thousands" of deaths sounds wildly optimistic given the number of excess deaths from the heatwaves in Europe this far.
bgross49
I lost it at “Mephistopheles himself, Margaret Thatcher”. Well done……
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
So from bad to worse - way to go UK!
CarlBassett
We, the people, didn't get any say in this.
brassmule
Democracy in action. Only an MP is eligible to be PM, so they paid off a local MP to "retire" and let Burnham run for his seat, which he won the day before Starmer resigned. Totally coincidence, I'm sure! Burnham is magically eligible, and the King gets to be the one to ask Burnham to be MP. No nationwide snap election to yaknow, put the party on the ballot and see what the people want by voting in a clear majority or nothing. Just let the King do it. Good day, mates.
CarlBassett
Better than having Trump..... Also worth mentioning that Burnham had been an MP for 16 years before but had quit to become Mayor of Manchester.
Somnophobe
It’s nice to see someone with a full on handheld mic instead of using a lav mic pinched in their fingers.
Tenzil
I can't stand the twats who can't figure out how to clip those to their shirts.
tinybartender
And I don't want to look like a thicky thicky dumb dumb, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.
wadatahmydamie
This post isn’t about term limits, but it’s an excellent demonstration of how term limits work in a practical sense - incoming lawmakers don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, so they’re attractive to lobbyists who offer to do the actual work for them while offering a pile of money on top of it
NotSoFastener
Most bills brought to be voted on are written by the lobbyists themselves and are usually virtually unchanged by the time they are voted on.
wadatahmydamie
Pretty fucked up system TBQH. Instead, we should allow people who vote for their representative of choice
It’s not perfect, and people will vote for some pretty fucked choices, so there’s a lot of other safeguards that need to be put into place. It’s a lot of work, but building is always harder than destroying
TheWisdomCube
We're all screwed. I don't see any of this ending well at all anywhere. Scary
LokilairTTV
Mass deaths are inevitable, only really choice left is who's it going to be? 1% or 99%. French revolution? Or every doomsday day movie ever
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
The comforting thought I once had that when we die we would come back as another living thing is looking like a pipe dream. For what? We are 100% capable of solar NOW. Windows and roofs and parking lots and all sorts of things could be covered in panels. If we put 1/10th the money and effort into them we put into oil and gas subsidies every year we would be FINE. Sodium batteries are here NOW. We really are so far past needing any more fossil fuels.
freezingpilot
Yes but oil companies don't want to pivot, and they love being subsidized to make record profits. Think of the CEOs yachts!
damogen
I actually think this is a necessary move. There is a limit to how fast the green transition can go. Especially with USA actively working against it, and in the mean time we will still need fossil fuels. And with the Hormuz strait closed oil prices are going to get massively fucked very soon.
Zamerine
Look at China.
End of argument.
damogen
China is building renewables at an insane pace... but their fossil fuel consumption is also increasing. So it's actually a great example of what I mean. Even a dictatorship, which is the industrial powerhouse of the world and has it as a goal of national security to maximise green energy still can't build it as fast as they need it.
CarlBassett
True. This won't mean the UK burning any more oil or gas, just that it will be locally extracted (and taxed) rather than imported. The UK has already done a lot, like being the first (and so far only) G7 country to stop burning coal for electricity, and built a huge solar and offshore wind capacity.
thanatos777
It's a shame that limit is so slow, it's going to result in most of humanity being wiped out if we listen to people like you.
damogen
It is going extremely fast. It is moving faster than any other physical industry. The issue is that we need to replace literally every piece of industry and infrastructure in the world... that is a big project. I know because I am one of the people actually doing the work.
Andy Burnham seems to be doing it exactly right. Big long term investments in green. Quick temporary solutions with fossil, to alleviate the effects of Trump being an idiot.
thanatos777
One of the best ways to get people to figure out ways to reduce usage is by increasing costs. If he wants to provide relief to consumers, he'd be better off doing a consumption tax, and then a stipend to everyone in the country that refunds the average amount of that tax. It would greatly cut down on usage while ameliorating the impact to those most negatively affected.
damogen
This isn't just about the price of heating yor house or fueling your car. Energy prices affect everything. When the strategic oil reserves start to run low, we will see the full effect of the blockade of Hormuz and then we will start seeing double digit inflation again.
So unless you want to cut consumption of everything then your solution won't really do anything.
thanatos777
We manufacture and throw away *SO FUCKING MUCH* cheap plastic garbage. I want to cut consumption of everything. We--as a planet--desperately need to cut consumption of everything (the vast majority of which happens in Western industrialized nations, like the UK).
Like, I do not understand how in the year of our lord 2026 you think we can solve climate change *without* reducing consumption of everything.
wadatahmydamie
If only there were other sites in the entire world that produce oil
damogen
... That is the whole point... 25% of the worlds oil production has stopped because the Hormuz strait is closed. We have been running on the combined strategic reserves of all countries in the world these last months, and they are running out soon.
NKato
And the North Sea fields don't generate that much. Didn't you watch the fucking vid
damogen
Sure it won't solve everything. But every little bit counts when we're in an energy crisis.
DrSparken
That "little bit" is 3 days for every year of granting new extraction permits. Setting up the sites is probably using more than they're extracting. It's a joke distraction from real energy solutions.
NKato
Maybe use less energy and stop being afraid of nuclear power