We must welcome Kemi Badenoch’s promise to make the most of our North Sea reserves of oil and gas. In a speech to the Society of Petroleum Engineers Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen this week, she declared:
"Under the Conservatives, British energy will power British prosperity.
Labour sees the North Sea as a relic of the past; we see it as a cornerstone of Britain's future.
By restoring common sense to energy policy, we will unlock billions in revenue, secure our supply, and rebuild confidence in the UK economy.
According to the Mail:
The Tories have pledged to unshackle the industry after Labour banned new oil and gas licences.
Mrs Badenoch has also said her party would reverse a block on providing "financial or promotional support for the fossil fuel energy sector overseas".
The North Sea Transition Authority would be renamed the North Sea Authority and given the overarching mandate to "maximise the extraction of our oil and gas".
However, the real question is whether the green wing of her party will let her get away with it. As on so many issues, the Tory Party is hopelessly split down the middle, from Brexit to mass immigration and fiscal competence to Net Zero.
Green Tories are extremely well organised through the think tank Bright Blue, which boasts a large number of Tory MPs and Peers. And you may recall Chris Skidmore, one of the leading proponents of Net Zero within the party, resigning his seat last year in protest against
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Bless her. She thinks she’s going to carry on as Tory leader after they get bludgeoned in the local elections in May.
I would only trust an energy expert not in anyone’s pocket, eg Kathryn Porter. Politicians have to juggle far too many balls. They have to juggle practical energy solutions and impractical ones. They have to juggle ESG and Sustainable Development alignment with affordable reliable energy. They have to juggle avoiding blackouts with net Zero being enshrined in law. In short, politicians have put us in a state of total energy absurdity by pretending that failure is success because they have judged success based on compliance with silly International Agreements and Treaties that are causing nothing but misery and all for NOTHING.
That’s true but even that overstates it.
Net zero may be “enshrined in law” but it can equally easily be unshrined. The law can be changed.
Reform have pledged to repeal the Climate Change Act. After that it won’t be “enshrined in law” any more.
Even the Paris Agreement (which we could back out of) does not commit us to Net Zero.
Net Zero is woke virtue signalling from a political class that really doesn’t care one jot about the country’s interests.
‘Green Tories’, like ‘One nation Tories’, are just not Tories. In my view it is a clear example of entryism. They aren’t Tories at all. They blagged their way into the Tory party aided by the arch non-Tory, Cameron, and ever since their absurd, hysterical and disruptive response to Brexit, they’ve been beavering away to undermine the Tory party from within.
Secret Libdem element within
I got two paragraphs into this article before i realised – whats the point of reading it? The Tories are finished. I have better things to do with my time.
Even if you give Kemi the benefit of the doubt and assume that she actually means what she says about north sea oil, there is the little problem of the rows of fake conservatives on the benches behind her who do not. She will need to rely on their votes and she will find, like Johnson, Truss and Sunak did, that they cannot be relied upon.
I had high hopes for Kemi, but she’s been far too quiet, and no longer has a party backbone behind her, so it’s only Reform now that can save the day.
On topic (a la Rayner), We shoild maybe use Truth avoidance and truth evasion when talking about our politicians pronouncements. They think they’re telling the truth by not takking to their experts (party) = avoidance. OR they know the truth and are just lying = evasion
No, she is a Tory. That whole “brand” says serial liars.
Why do you ask?
14 years was enough. Even if she promised to cancel Net Zero, revoke ECHR, deploy the RN to sink migrant boats, halve tax, cancel HS2, proper enquiry into Vax deaths, I’d still not vote for them.
Agreed. Never again.
Agreed – they need to go
Huge queues in lovely weather at NEC for Reform conference.
No. She went to Davos and came back singing a different tune. That’s enough for me.
Exactly, I forgot about that.
The evening of the same day she became leader.
Just a coincidence surely! 🤣
No.
Supported all the lockdowns. And hasn’t come clean about it all. Just as with 95% of the rest of “our democratically elected representatives”.
Initially I rated her, but that quickly evaporated.
Need I add more?
The point is it doesn’t matter if you can trust Kemi, you cannot trust her party.
So maybe Starmer is catastrophically shafting the Davos/WEF Agenda 2030 megaproject by cack handedly turning everyone against it, so now they’re trying the Tories again and feeding them ‘populist’ lines?
The only way to truly know would be to be reincarnated as a fly at a Bilderberg meeting. Or get Wes Streeting in a chair and start waterboarding him.
No
“Green Tories are extremely well organised through the think tank Bright Blue, which boasts a large number of Tory MPs and Peers. And you may recall Chris Skidmore, one of the leading proponents of Net Zero within the party, resigning his seat last year in protest against Rishi Sunak’s relaxation of Net Zero targets, which he called “the greatest mistake of Sunak’s premiership”. In response to Skidmore’s resignation statement, Karl McCartney, Tory MP for Lincoln, tweeted:
Unfortunately, Karl McCartney lost his seat at the last election and we now have Hamish Falconer, a Blairite globalist to the core. His Wikipedia entry says it all!
No!
If you want cheap, reliable energy, vote Reform.
(And Reform need to get David Turver and Kathryn Porter on board as energy (particularly electricity) advisors)
Somewhat academic as the chances of her and the Tories getting anywhere near government are pretty small. As I keep saying, I might trust her more if she showed some (believable) contrition regarding her part in the “covid” debacle.
Yes, a simple “we were wrong, sorry” would help, but very very few Covidians have managed that.
Not only were they wrong on the facts, but they were wrong on the principles – well, wrong in my book anyway.
Covidian Nazism – never apologised for. 50 K old people murdered behind closed doors. 100 K killed from the quackcines. Record cancer levels etc. For a non existing virus (the only possible explanation is the bioweapon one. Even then, the death rate was 0.3% and the flu disappeared, so that arg is a weak one).
Why would anyone support a party where Fat Boy Johnson et al implemented a tyranny?
She seems to have doubled down – she’s far more worried about misinformation from Facebook groups than the debacle that actually ensued.
No. Don’t be silly. She knows the words to say but not what they mean. Its all just throw away stuff to try and match Reform. There is a significant difference between healing the sick, and raising the dead. She doesn’t get that either.
How could we trust her?
She was part of the Tory government that not only failed to keep their promises (reduce immigration, etc) but enthusiastically embraced every single woke cause they came across.
Four days ago, according to the CEN website, enjoy/endure this bllx from Sir Cleverly,
“….Our ambitious policies drove investment and positioned the UK as a global clean energy powerhouse…”
And more,
“… The UK under Conservative governments has made major strides in offshore wind and next–generation solar technologies, making sure we are increasingly energy independent. We have laid the foundations for scaling up hydrogen production, vital for decarbonising industries from steelmaking to transportation… ”
And, Heaven help us all, there’s more,
“… Britain must lead. We must keep pushing and go further, and go faster, and be smarter. We must set the pace, we must seize the opportunities. By investing in green manufacturing, we create jobs, we stimulate growth, and we drive down costs. And thanks to Conservative–led policies, the UK hosts four of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, providing abundant, clean energy, generated domestically, not in countries that do not share our values and should not be relied upon… ”
And, apparently,
“This is a fantastic achievement. And…”
https://www.cen.uk.com/post/great-britain-in-a-global-world
Enough, enough already, fhs go away, all of you. Payosos! Just GO AWAY!
She’s a politician, the answer is obvious.
The Conservative party is finished, unless and until someone has the guts to make them “conservative” again, an alliance with Reform would be an obvious step back towards the Right, as opposed to their current Wrong trajectory.
The choice is stark, be Right or be Wrong!