“North Sea oil workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero,” the Unite union has told Labour as it launches a campaign against the party’s “irresponsible” green agenda. Ross Clark in the Spectator has more.
In a move which has been remarkably underreported in England, the union Unite has launched a campaign against Labour’s policy of refusing licences for new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
The campaign, called ‘No ban without a plan’, demands that Labour suspends the policy. If successful, it means a future Labour Government would continue, like the Conservatives, to grant new licences, until it has come up with a plan to create at least 35,000 new ‘energy transition jobs’ in Scotland – equivalent to the current roles held by oil workers. The union’s General Secretary Sharon Graham has accused Keir Starmer of following a policy which would allow Britain to “be held to ransom by Saudi Arabia or other nations” and adds:
“Labour needs to pull back from this irresponsible policy. There is clearly no viable plan for the replacement of North Sea jobs or energy security… Unite will not stand by and let workers be thrown on the scrapheap. North Sea workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of Net Zero.”
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It is properly typed ‘DIE Regulation’ by the way – the intent is in the mnemonic.
The marxo-fascists always want someone to DIE.
I think they want everyone to die.
Smith alleges to have been called an N-word and the person she accuses of this “strongly denied” this. An investigation “found otherwise, on the balance of the evidence”, whatever that specifically means. As already stated in the text, he was then forced to humiliate himself formally in a letter to her, banned from contacting her and sentenced to 12½ days of forced labour.
Smith is upset that the guy who believes to be innocent has not shown enough remorse despite of the letter he was forced to write and demands that he must be expelled from university instead because “Durham is a very small place. He is a very intimidating guy, and he scares me.” As he’s banned from contacting her and the university administration will certainly act on this if he doesn’t comply, Smith is either lying or scared by her own, so-far baseless phantasies.
This ‘lady’ certainly doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
I was going to write that people of Uni age should strongly consider a degree apprenticeship but you might end up at some woke corporation – probably still better off than uni though. Better still go to a college and get a trade qualification. The most non-woke bunch of people I know are the builders, plumbers, electricians etc at the golf club I swim at (where I live, golf seems to be largely a working class sport).
As a Durham alumni I can only be ashamed of what that University has become. I was once proud to have graduated. Now it’s something I try to keep quiet.
Same. They’ll be calling me up to beg for money again soon. Based on this, they can go jump off Prebend’s Bridge. So long as Durham insists on being a leftwing, political institution, instead of a calm, rational, logically based place of learning, I don’t want anything to do with it. I got my degrees back in the 80’s and 90’s when it was still a bastion of reason, but people only recognise what it is today, and that is something shameful.
Go to Uni, get to be Uni-form.
DEI – That’s Division, Exclusion and Intolerance isn’t it?
Freshers Unfair, surely?