@Davidfzc@af16051107@adamboultonTABB No we don’t because it’s bollocks. More drilling = more oil duty levies, more income tax, less reliance on overseas oil, energy security, and not paying Norway £40bn p/a for the same carbon.
You paid in for forty years. Never missed a day you could help. Never took a penny you hadn't earned.
And this is the country they handed you back.
Four million people now on sickness benefit. Half a million of them under thirty, signed off before they ever clocked a single shift.
Your taxes don't build roads anymore. They don't fix the hospital you wait eight months to be seen in. They go to a bill so big the government now spends more keeping people unwell than it raises from every wage in the land.
And when that runs short, they print. And the few quid you saved buys less every year to plug a hole you never dug.
You did everything right.
They did everything wrong.
And somehow it is you left with nothing.
Devastating assessment from Andrew Neil of Andy Burnham who has emerged from an intense bout of Labour infighting with no idea how to take a country crippled by lengthy misrule forward:
'The risk with Burnham is that he’ll join the long, depressing line of recent politicians of middling-to-minor talents and little aptitude for power who thought they were good enough to be prime minister – and quickly discovered they were not, to all our costs. Theresa May, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer all fit into this category...
Nearly every attempt to carve out distinct policy positions – from a cavalier attitude to government debt to rejoining the European Union to the billions for the Waspi women – have ended in screeching U-turns.
His whole schtick is based on a false narrative. He rails against ‘40 years of neoliberalism’, whatever that means, forbearing to mention he was comfortably embedded in Westminster for 16 of these 40 years, enthusiastically climbing the greasy pole, making it to the Cabinet.
Yet there is nothing in his track record to suggest he can be more of an agent for change than Starmer. Being mayor of Manchester with very limited powers and a £3billion budget does not prepare you for being prime minister with immense power, a £1.4trillion budget and a nuclear deterrent...
British politics has been hijacked by the internal machinations of the Labour Party in its desperate bid to hold on to power...
Labour is taking us back to the early 19th century when politics was largely determined by a small political class of the posh and privileged.
Now it’s a small, privileged political class of Labour MPs, activists and union leaders calling the shots.'
https://t.co/jVg7GrfFpo
“No one in the Middle East actually blocks intersections to pray in the streets and yell Allahu Akbar. They do it in your countries is because they're trying to assert their religious dominance over you and claim your country and turn it into Sharia law.”
Not a single woman or child. Only military-age men.
That’s because they are not refugees. They are soldiers, and this is a religious war of conquest.
Europe needs to wake up.
@Gasseous_Clay And, despite pre election purdah, every news programme publicised Burnham’s likely path to Downing Street when their coverage should have been balanced and impartial. Labour cannot repeat this trick across 600+ constituencies.