A billionaire global investor has led international condemnation of the UK’s new oil rush, saying he would pull his major investment from the country if the prime minister pursued “clickbait” fossil fuel policies.
HOW DARE HE NOT TAKE THE CONSERVATIVES SERIOUSLY!!
“I am a major investor here,” Forrest told Bloomberg News. “If I see this country steering itself over a cliff backing fossil fuel, I am going to start pulling out. I will push my investments over to North America … I must invest where I know I have proper leadership, not leadership which is on a clickbait cycle.”
HOW DARE HE SUGGEST THAT PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK IS A CLICKBAIT PRIME MINISTER!!
Saying you're going to pull out of the UK over fossil fuel investments and focus on North America is a pretty good indicator of how deranged the dialogue around this stuff is here.
But in Spain, which banned new oil and gas drilling with immediate effect in 2021, Sunak did find one ally – within the far-right Vox party. One of its MPs, Francisco José Contreras, tweeted his support for Sunak’s policy and said his party had opposed the Spanish ban on new oil and gas drilling.
In the US, Paul Bledsoe, an ally of President Joe Biden and a former climate adviser to Bill Clinton, said the Conservative government was increasingly seen in the US as backsliding on climate commitments, with the North Sea oil drilling scheme just the latest example.
“Far-right Tories are beginning to resemble US Republicans, a development that can only undermine UK credibility internationally and improve Labour party prospects,” said Bledsoe, a strategic adviser at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington DC.
UK = Bad
Ignoring the US hitting all time high oil production, Biden authorising more oil & gas exploration licenses than Trump, and releasing half the SPR to keep petrol prices down.
The UK's entire natural gas output last year wouldn't even top the list of most productive counties in Pennsylvania.
tbf there is no escape from this until the Tories are out. as long as they're the government we will be baddies.
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CLICKBAIT?!?
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY?!?
CLICKBAIT POLICIES?!?
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HOW DARE HE NOT TAKE THE CONSERVATIVES SERIOUSLY!!
“I am a major investor here,” Forrest told Bloomberg News. “If I see this country steering itself over a cliff backing fossil fuel, I am going to start pulling out. I will push my investments over to North America … I must invest where I know I have proper leadership, not leadership which is on a clickbait cycle.”
HOW DARE HE SUGGEST THAT PRIME MINISTER RISHI SUNAK IS A CLICKBAIT PRIME MINISTER!!
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Saying you're going to pull out of the UK over fossil fuel investments and focus on North America is a pretty good indicator of how deranged the dialogue around this stuff is here.
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AT LEAST SOME PEOPLE SEE SENSE!!
*ROMAN SALUTE TO OUR FAR-FIGHT FRIENDS*
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In the US, Paul Bledsoe, an ally of President Joe Biden and a former climate adviser to Bill Clinton, said the Conservative government was increasingly seen in the US as backsliding on climate commitments, with the North Sea oil drilling scheme just the latest example.
“Far-right Tories are beginning to resemble US Republicans, a development that can only undermine UK credibility internationally and improve Labour party prospects,” said Bledsoe, a strategic adviser at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington DC.
UK = Bad
Ignoring the US hitting all time high oil production, Biden authorising more oil & gas exploration licenses than Trump, and releasing half the SPR to keep petrol prices down.
The UK's entire natural gas output last year wouldn't even top the list of most productive counties in Pennsylvania.
tbf there is no escape from this until the Tories are out. as long as they're the government we will be baddies.
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But we’re a world leader in climate chnage
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And five of the International Booker Prize.
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