I usually use the “https://archive.is/” link to get through to the silly paywalled newspaper articles at the Daily Mail, but the site appears to have been hacked by Russians or Serbians or others of the Cyrillic persuasion.
Does anyone have an alternate that does the same thing?
If you’ve already read yesterday’s post (Never Mind The Waves) about switching offshore wind farm funding to oil and natgas, then read on. If you haven’t, read that first, then this one.
Here’s what happens when you elect a government which supports rabid eco-freaks by giving them control of the rudder. Here’s the background:
North Sea Giant Ready To Exploit UK’s Biggest Oil Field This Year
Sounds good, dunnit? And then the sting:
Britain’s largest oil field could be producing thousands of barrels a day by the autumn if Ed Miliband approves the North Sea project.
Well, that didn’t take long did it? Because Miliband is the all-time believer in the “Wind Is Going To Save Us” school of thought — in fact, he’s the fucking headmaster.
So, to sum up: Britishland is sitting close to a gigantic oil and gas field — bigger than anything they’ve ever had before, and larger than anything in the North Sea — and all that has to happen is for Rubber Band to wave the starter’s flag.
Which he isn’t going to do, even if pressure is applied to him by a core Socialist Labour Party constituency:
The powerful Unite union added its voice to the clarion calls demanding the Energy Secretary change tack in the wake of a price spiral triggered by Donald Trump‘s war on Iran.
General Secretary Sharon Graham, who has cut funding for Labour in a row over party policy, said he should not ‘let go of one rope before having hold of another’.
‘We all know that whatever happens the UK will still need for oil and gas for decades to come and the war in Iran is just the latest reminder that when we rely on overseas production our energy security is at the mercy of global events,’ she said. This comes as the Conservatives are set to force a vote in the Commons demanding an end to the ‘sheer lunacy’ of a ban to reduce prices at the pump.
And here it is:
But facing MPs today, Mr Miliband suggested it was unimportant where the UK got its gas.
‘Gas is bought and sold on the international market so whether it comes from the North Sea or imported it is charged at the same price,’ he said.
He went on to praise the amount of money raised by a renewable energy action earlier this year, saying technology like wind turbines and solar panels were ‘homegrown power that we can rely on’.
You have to marvel at the idiocy of a man who sticks to this insane policy, even when time and time again all his guff is proven to be demonstrably false — when the winds drop and the sun doesn’t shine, and areas of the country go dark and people shiver because there’s no power to provide them warmth, as happened just this past winter.
Miliband is quite literally going to bring the UK to its knees.
And at some point you have to ask yourself whether he’s doing it out of the ignorance of policy, or just out of spite. Either way, the result is going to be the same.
He doesn’t just need to be kicked out of government; he needs to be given a free ticket on Air Pinochet.
I see that the famously-tolerant Swedes are coming to their senses about this immigration business:
Sweden’s government on Tuesday said it would put forward a bill introducing a requirement for migrants to adhere to an ‘honest living’ or face deportation.
The country’s centre-right government, supported by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, came into power in 2022 and vowed to get tough on immigration. They are now trying to rapidly push through a slew of reforms in various areas ahead of legislative elections in September.
The new requirement would make it easier to withdraw residence permits for migrants.
Speaking at a press conference, Migration Minister Johan Forssell told reporters: ‘Following laws and rules is a given, but it must also be a given that we do our best to live responsibly and not harm our country. If, for example, you ignore paying your debts, if you don’t comply with decisions from Swedish authorities, if you cheat the benefits system, if you cheat your way to a Swedish residence permit… then you do not have the right to be here,’ Forssell said.
Other examples the government cited as examples included working without paying taxes or not paying fines.
That all sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Immigrate (lawfully) by all means, but once you’re here, act like an actual citizen and not like some criminal scrote, or face getting tossed out.
Loath as I may be to suggest that we learn any policy from the Scandis, this would be an exemplary one for us to implement as well. I don’t know the specifics of their policy, but it should be made that said repatriation and loss of residence status would include the entire family of the deportee, including any children born Over Here.
To be honest, the airline industry has never been one of my favorite institutions, because they (along with modern automotive corporations) have discovered that their business is really a commodity service — therefore with the concomitant low operating margins — and like the car people, are finding evermore-devious and unscrupulous ways to fleece and gouge money from their hapless customers.
However: I see that Delta has suspended their practice of privileged treatment for members of Congress, to which I can only say: good. Leave aside for the moment that politicians should never have any kind of privileged treatment or service given to them in the first place — they get more than enough of that as it is — but this is very much in the spirit that lawmakers should have to live with the effects of the laws they pass, just as we the citizens do.
So if you assholes wish to pass a law which bans private ownership of guns, for example, be aware that such a ban would extend to your own private security as well. And if you pass a law which mandates such-and-such in the name of “safety” or “security” but causes massive inconvenience or cost to the ordinary citizenry, there’s no way that you or your staff (or family, don’t get me started) should be exempt from the same.
So a pat on the back for Delta this time, with the caveat that they should never reinstate this policy, ever.
Then there’s that Ultimate Joyzee totty, Drea DiMatteo. Who she? you ask.
Oh yeah, her. Well, apparently the one-time Hollywood Mafia slut has gone the full monty with an OnlyFans account:
I’m sure there’s a market for her, somewhere… just not in my zip [sic].
…and use the money for gas. There’s an elegant solution to end the eco-nonsense boondoggle known as “wind power”, and this seems to fit the bill:
The Trump administration is pulling nearly $1 billion out of offshore wind projects off the East Coast and forcing that money into U.S. oil, natural gas, and LNG production, replacing planned wind development with active oil and gas production.
TotalEnergies paid about $133 million for a lease in the Carolina Long Bay area and roughly $795 million for another in the New York Bight in 2022, locking nearly a billion dollars into projects that are now being shut down. The company is only reimbursed if it first invests that same money in domestic energy production, including LNG infrastructure, upstream oil, and natural gas development in the United States.
Sounds good. Now read what IntSec Burgum said, and it gets even better:
“Offshore wind is one of the most expensive, unreliable, environmentally disruptive, and subsidy-dependent schemes ever forced on American ratepayers and taxpayers.”
Hell, that’s so searing a statement, I could have said it. Only with a lot more Bad Words and death threats.
Pour yourself a cuppa joe, settle back and read the whole article. If you’re not giggling like a little girl by the end of it, we can’t be friends.
As for the Greens, the reaction is typical:
More like the above, please.
