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[Juan Pablo Guanipa @JuanPGuanipa]

El acuerdo petrolero anunciado ayer es una decisión que puede determinar décadas de nuestra historia y requiere una lectura calmada.

Tenemos que empezar con lo básico: La destrucción de PDVSA es el acto antivenezolano más grave del chavismo.

Nuestro país no podrá recuperarse si dejamos nuestras enormes reservas en el subsuelo. Hay que explotarlas, agregarle valor y venderlas.

Es evidente que no podremos explotar nuestra riqueza sin una cuantiosa inversión privada extranjera.

Este acuerdo tiene el potencial para que nuestra industria se reactive.

Sin embargo, el punto central para que este acuerdo sea duradero es que los venezolanos veamos los beneficios directos.

Si vemos nuevos trabajos, más inversión, más ingresos y un nuevo repunte económico, este acuerdo contará con un espaldarazo.

Pero si no lo vemos, poco a poco, se producirá un repudio popular.

Y por eso voy a mi último punto.

La estabilidad y éxito de la industria petrolera venezolana depende de que se hagan las cosas bien esta vez.

Y mientras tengamos a la gente que destruyó el país y PDVSA manejando el dinero que salga de este acuerdo, pues se está construyendo un rascacielos con pilares de barro.

La única manera de verdaderamente reactivar a largo plazo la economía venezolana y hacer que este acuerdo beneficie a ambas partes es con una elección libre que lleve a un gobierno representativo, a reglas claras de juego, a estado de derecho, a instituciones que permitan manejar nuestros recursos transparentemente y en beneficio de la nación.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Kemi Badenoch declared that the Aberdeen South by-election was going to be a referendum on our oil and gas industry.

The election of the Conservative candidate Douglas Lumsden – on almost 50% of the vote – proved her right.

Douglas has spent two decades working in the oil and gas industry, so he knows more than most what is at stake because of Labour’s ban on new licences and the crippling taxes they are imposing on the sector.

We are losing a thousand jobs a month as Labour’s policies take their toll.

Families are making the agonising calculation of whether to uproot and move abroad, or stay and watch as the industry that built their city is suffocated by a government that has decided it is worth sacrificing on the altar of Net Zero.

Aberdonians can see that just on the other side of the North Sea, the Norwegian oil and gas sector is thriving.

Norway is drilling new wells, reopening old fields, and making new discoveries – including some which butt right up against the border they share with us.

Only someone as deluded as Ed Miliband could think that oil and gas deposits respect geopolitical borders drawn down the middle of the North Sea.

The truth is that none of this matters to Ed.

He doesn’t care about the thousands of people who are losing their jobs, or the fact that we are becoming more dependent on foreign imports with higher emissions and harming our economy.

He doesn’t engage with any of the arguments. He is much more comfortable repeating tired old slogans about 'climate leadership' and 'green jobs’.

This is an ideological crusade and nothing will make him admit he is wrong.

Which is why the result in Makerfield should concern us as much as Aberdeen encourages us.

Andy Burnham is now in Parliament – and the job destroyer-in-chief is reportedly set to be rewarded with a promotion to Chancellor.

Given the damage he has already done to Aberdeen and other vital industries like refining, chemicals, and ceramics, the prospect of Ed Miliband being put in charge of the British economy should fill every family with dread.

The result in Aberdeen South was a vote to return to energy realism.

It was a vote to end Labour’s mad ban on new licences, scrap the taxes that are crippling the industry, and to finally give the go-ahead to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields that have been sat on Ed Miliband’s desk gathering dust for a year.

That is the argument that Douglas will make as he takes his seat in Parliament this week, and it is the argument that the Conservatives will continue to make at every opportunity.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is what it feels like when common sense wins.

Aberdeen backed oil and gas, jobs, energy security and a local champion who will fight for the city he calls home.

Congratulations @DLumsden_MP. Let’s get Britain working again.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look.

2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look.

3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter.
I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter.
Everyone matters.
Henry Nowak matters.

[Dr Kieran Mullan MP 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @KieranMullanUK]

It cannot be right that teenage boys can commit brutal crimes of rape like this & avoid prison entirely. I have appealed these sentences to the AG. The excuses of ADHD for a crime like this are an offence to justice.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Sprinting away would also be acceptable.

[Crewkerne Man @CrewkerneMan]

Incredible clip: Kemi Badenoch takes apart a hard-left, pro-Palestine agitator, stands her ground, and makes clear she’ll defend British Jews without apology.

Serious steel on show here.

Don’t mess with Kemi 💪🇬🇧

[Anthony O'Neill @AnthonyAinsdale]

The country paying the highest energy bills in the world is the only country left still doing net zero. It's pure madness.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

The world is getting more dangerous. We need an Energy Resilience Strategy:

Back the North Sea.

Make electricity cheap.

Double down on nuclear.

Stop crippling industry with Carbon Taxes.

Read more below 👇🏾

[Mike Parry @mikeparry8]

Every Xmas my Mum would buy me new pieces of Denby pottery: I have a large beautiful collection. Now the company - founded in 1809 - is in danger of closure due to huge increases in power and labour costs. It's a tragedy .. When will @Ed_Miliband and @RachelReevesMP ever learn 🥶

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“The biggest chunk (of the cost of a litre of petrol) fuel duty, that goes to the government so you’re in control of the biggest chunk of the cost that people pay at the pump”
@bbclaurak

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

It shouldn’t have taken an Iranian attack on the world’s largest gas export facility in Qatar for us to realise the benefits of being able to produce our own oil and gas.

As the world gets more dangerous, we must ditch fantasy Net Zero thinking and prioritise our own energy resilience.

All of this has shown up our luxury belief that we in Britain are better off keeping our own oil and gas in the ground while making ourselves more reliant on Qatari LNG imports.

First, let’s get the worst of the climate change lobby’s arguments out of the way.

Destroying our own oil and gas production does not mean we will need any less oil and gas.

Even the captured Climate Change Committee acknowledges that we’ll need oil and gas for decades to come.

If we are going to need it, then of course we should get as much as possible from Britain. That is just common sense.

Instead of maximising our own production, we’ve been sleepwalking into disaster and allowed the powerful green lobby to demonise an industry that is vital for our national resilience.

Yesterday, Rachel Reeves missed an opportunity at the Spring Statement to reverse the damage that has been wrought on the North Sea.

The Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, is a dangerous fantasist who has been hellbent on sacrificing our oil and gas production on the altar of Net Zero.

He’d banned new oil and gas licences and charging effective marginal tax rates of over 100% on some companies.

And for what? So we can increase our imports of higher-emission LNG from the other side of the world by 40% while British production is in freefall.

The green lobby argue that there is no point drilling more in the North Sea, because ‘all of our gas is sold on international markets’. This is nonsense.

Every single molecule of gas we extract from the North Sea goes into our pipes, making up half of our supply.

We are losing 1,000 jobs a month, squandering £50 billion of investment and becoming less secure. Not a single exploration well was drilled in British waters last year – for the first time since 1964.

Labour trumpet that the basin is just in natural decline. But Norway, which shares the exact same basin, tells a different story – last year they drilled 49 exploration wells and made 21 new discoveries.

Admittedly, my own party have not been perfect. Policies like the windfall tax or mandating the electrification of oil rigs have not helped.

When I was Energy Secretary, I signed off Rosebank, legislated to protect oil and gas licences and fought against windfall taxes – all in the face of great opposition.

The Conservatives are clear that the oil and gas industry is a national asset and we must do all we can to maximise economic recovery of our own resources.

So what should Rachel Reeves have done yesterday? First, end the ban on new licences, end the windfall tax, and scrap the Net Zero duties which are hammering our oil and gas sector. Fast-track permissions for Rosebank and Jackdaw.

Downstream, our heavy industry and refineries are in crisis. We lost a third of our refineries last year alone. We have to stop imposing crippling, escalating Carbon Taxes that are killing British industry.

We need to double down on nuclear which has the most secure energy supply chain, streamline regulations and reverse Labour’s decision to cancel my plan for another large nuclear plant at Wylfa.

We must be clear-eyed about the fact that Ed Miliband is making us dangerously exposed to China’s dominance of critical mineral and renewable supply chains.

We need to repeal the Climate Change Act that forces us to subordinate the priorities of energy security and affordability to decarbonisation.

And if we want lower reliance on oil and gas, growth, and better living standards, then we must make electricity cheap.

Our Cheap Power Plan to cut electricity bills by 20% for households and businesses would be a start.

As the world gets more dangerous, we need to prioritise our energy and industrial resilience.

[DANIEL HABIF @DanielHabif]

Irán atacó 8 países árabes simultáneamente. Ejecuta más personas per cápita que ningún país del mundo. Cuelga homosexuales de grúas. Mata mujeres por mostrar el pelo. Mató 1500 manifestantes en 2019. Financió a Hamas, Hezbollah y los Houthis. Planeó asesinar a Trump (caso Shakeri, juicio Merchant en Brooklyn). Su TV estatal emitió la imagen ensangrentada de Trump diciendo "esta vez la bala no fallará." Y los propios iraníes celebran en las calles. Pero usted pone al régimen de los ayatolás y a las democracias al mismo nivel. Siempre equidistante con las dictaduras.

[VVperiodistas @VVperiodistas_]

El pueblo iraní lleva meses pidiendo ayuda mientras es masacrado; las víctimas superan las 30 mil.

Ninguno de los que hoy critica la acción estadounidense se pronunció en favor del pueblo iraní en los últimos meses.

Así de hipócrita es la izquierda mundial.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I have no time for people virtue signalling today when they were silent when tens of thousands of unarmed Iranians were slaughtered by their own tyrannical government in recent weeks.

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Portate in gara il vostro cuore: noi saremo lì a tifare per voi.
Buone Olimpiadi a tutti gli atleti e forza Azzurri! 🇮🇹

#MilanoCortina2026
#Olimpiadilnvernali2026
#OpeningCeremony

[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

Venezolanos, llegó la hora de la libertad.