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Blob Rule: The Labour MPs Revolting Against Jobs, Wealth and Industry

by Ben Pile
6 February 2025 7:00 AM

According to the Guardian, Keir Starmer faces an “internal backlash” of Labour MPs “over the potential approval of a giant new oilfield”. Last week, a court found that the consents to exploit the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields given by the previous Government were unlawful and required a more detailed climate and environmental impact assessment. The restless MPs fear that Rachel Reeves, in her desperation to put growth into the economy, may give her backing to the project. And so the Guardian article looks like a pre-emptive mobilisation of MPs, ahead of a decision from Ed Miliband’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero about the oil fields. But who is behind it?

The issue is complicated by the fact that Labour’s manifesto promised “not to issue new exploration licences, but not to cancel ones that have already been issued”, as the Guardian puts it. The ruling putting the ball back in the new Government’s court can be argued on either side on technicalities. These would not be new licences as such, since consent was already given, but they would be nonetheless fresh. MPs are reportedly anticipating comments from the Treasury, and the Guardian cites the MPs’ anonymous threats: “This would be a breaking point for a lot of us”; “This goes specifically against what we said we were about”; “This is absolutely a line in the sand for almost everyone in the [Parliamentary Labour Party]”.


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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago

Par for the course from a load of professional arse-sitters, spouters and generalised planet savers, educated in subjects specialising in the latest fashionable drivel.

Incapable of doing a real job, a serious day’s work or understanding the principles of physics.

Keep up the good work, Mr Pile. In the long run, physics will prevail over fallacy and folly. Just a matter of when.

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10navigator
10navigator
6 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Reading your comment Art, it just occurred to me that Rayner is emblematic of the malaise afflicting our ‘governing’ party. Your three points in order: 1. She isn’t educated at all. 2.She’s never tried a ‘real job’ having been steeped in Trade Union lore prior to local government, then politics. 3.I doubt she could spell physics. ‘Room for improvement.’ as her end of term report might read would be a colossal understatement.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago
Reply to  10navigator

Ms Nobrayner is a bit of an outlier among the spouting classes. Having said that, anecdotally the two working people currently re-roofing our house have worked it all out for themselves. Work doesn’t get much more real, or educational, than being up on a roof at 8.15 in a cold, frosty February sunrise.

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10navigator
10navigator
6 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Been there, got the tee-shirt. Re-roofed our 8m x 5m barn in Yorkshire 40 years ago. Nothing like jumping in at the deep end. Never again!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

I am not convinced it has much to do with understanding of physics. I know little about physics. There are useful idiots who find comfort in the religion of signalling their virtue, and there are others who just want to lord it over everybody and have cottoned on to “climate change” (or “pandemics”) as a good way to do that.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

You know more about physics than you give yourself credit for. Less about O- and A-levels, more about grasping reality. Most career politicians don’t get that – witness Miliband (who has a physics A-level…).

Agreed on motivations – in my experience, one half of people revel in telling the other half what to do. The other half just wants both halves to work it out for themselves. Controllers vs responders, chalk and cheese mindsets.

Each to their own, live and let live. You see what you see, I see what I see, best we can do is each say what we’ve seen and discuss from there.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Some people seem to want to be told what to do.

As far as physics goes, I think it’s a case of doublethink or “there’s none so deaf as those that refuse to listen”.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Oh, I expect you’re right for too many of the people too much of the time. Bring up Feynman and Popper and watch eyes glaze over. Cue Dietrich Boenhoeffer on stupidity…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc

“…Against stupidity we are defenceless. The stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental.”

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

I don’t think using the word “stupidity” in that way is overly useful. I think most people understand “stupid” in the sense of being intellectually challenged, inarticulate, incapable of higher order reasoning. If “stupid” people “go on the attack” then they are malicious. I know malicious stupid people and highly moral ones.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Let’s not get too hung up on a single word. I’m assuming Boenhoeffer used it in good faith in the circumstance of the time he was up against.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
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I’m sure he was wiser and certainly more courageous than I am.

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stewart
stewart
6 months ago

We’re now fully in the grip of a socialist, central planning regime.

It’s been advancing for 100 years but now all the major and essential elements of our economy are for all intents and purposes centrally planned.

The remaining pockets of free market are in small enterprises. Sandwich shops, bits of the tech industry, basically the scraps.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Indeed. If memory of O-level history serves right, all those canals, railways and Victorian sewers had little to do with the governments of the time, and everything to do with men with spades and civil engineers of genius.

Credit where credit’s due, government did rule the waves, abolish slavery and foster civil engineering on foreign soil (but gets little historic thanks for it from present day arse-sitting and spouting classes).

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
6 months ago
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Basically all the bits that are being forced out of business by the blob/govt.

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DiscoveredJoys
DiscoveredJoys
6 months ago

You could mage an argument that the last 50 years or so of history have all been ‘about oil’. As one philosopher proposed ‘things’ change into their opposites over time… so perhaps the current history being formed is about ‘fake oil’. Oil you don’t extract and use to fuel (pun) the economy and standard of living.

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Hester
Hester
6 months ago

Can we borrow Elon Musk

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Monro
Monro
6 months ago

What happens in America never stays in America.

A large number of exceptionally fat backsides in the climate change/green energy taxpayer rip off business will be emaciated shadows of their former selves by 2015….

Bring it on.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
6 months ago

Government Hates Wealth Creation

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Tonka Rigger
Tonka Rigger
6 months ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

This one does – but of course they do, because they are socialists.

Socialism leads to denial of reality, poverty, economic collapse, totalitarianism, famine and death. History abounds with examples.

Socialism. Always. Fails.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago

“Labour’s manifesto promise to “create new high-quality jobs, working with business and trade unions, as we manage the transition””

Do governments create jobs? Don’t “jobs” arise because people want their needs fulfilled? Didn’t people do work thousands of years before we had “governments”?

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Gezza England
Gezza England
6 months ago
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Government create non-jobs that the private sector won’t because they see no value in them. The secret of the success of Donald and Elon is that they are successful businessmen and understand value for money. Governments can destroy jobs and 100 days on from the worst budget in history from probably our worst Chancellor this one is doing just that. With inflation about to rise again after the brief blip in December, the Bank of England has been forced to gamble in reducing the interest rate to prop up the failing economy. I see far too much optimism in rate reductions for this year. And don’t expect to see your mortgage rate come down as they are driven by 10 year bond rates.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
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100%

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
6 months ago

Yesterday is a good illustration of the variability of renewable power. At the start of the day wind was producing 14GW, by the following midnight it had dropped to just 4GW. Try coping for that sort of variation without reliable, dispatchable energy

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
6 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

January is obviously a critcal month in UK. The percentage graph from Gridwatch shows nuclear as grey, gas as dull orange and wind as pale blue.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
6 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

PS You can see how pathetic solar is by the little flashes of yellow where the sun broke through.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

It’s worth mentioning that the chart is %age of power generated. The nuclear power generated does not peak each night – it continues at the same level of power but represents a larger percentage because less is generated/required overnight.

On the other hand, solar… 🙂

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Keencook
Keencook
6 months ago
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Right now CCGT (gas turbines) contributing 54.46% towards our 42.91 GW demand today in spite of a glorious clear sunny February day in East Yorkshire (solar 6.43%).

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
6 months ago

Only slightly on topic, I fell about laughing this morning watching the article about vegan pets on GBNews. The woman from PETA (not British by the way), said that vegan foods for dogs is readily available, nutritious and reduces your dog’s carbon footprint. She then held up a tin consisting mainly of jack fruit. This comes from tropical countries, so massive food miles and carbon footprint and costs about £3.00 per 400g tin. Pedigree chum costs £1.00 per tin. What planet do these idiots come from?

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Fran
Fran
6 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

You’re so right. And did you see the item on dog meat ‘made in the lab’ (for the lab??) guaranteed to reduce your dog’s carbon footprint!

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