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@Buschcorner @DanielJHannan The British government did not arm & finance the capture of slaves in Africa. It spent a huge fortune stopping slavery by African slaves.

@DanielJHannan British armed & financed certain local groups to capture people from other groups, who were then sold into slavery. Generated enormous profits, which contributed to funding the Industrial Revolution. Once it was no longer economically necessary, Britain abolished the slave trade

Every country practised slavery. African nations more enthusiastically and more recently than most. So why go after Britain, which is unique in its determination to stamp out the foul trade? Why not, say, China or Nigeria or Saudi? Because Britain keeps inviting its enemies to have a go. It will not sanction countries that back motions like this. Incredibly, it would not even vote against the motion. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@andrew_lilico Slavery is not historically bad unless it involved Europeans/Americans in the supply chain? It is interesting that Boris Johnson's great great grandmother was a white slave in the Ottoman Empire so maybe he shld campaign for reparations from Islamic countries that had slaves?

So they don't care about compensation for all the murder, rape, looting, maiming, torture, oppression, arson, corrupt execution or any other injustices of history? The only wicked thing that's ever happened that matters is slavery? Good to know where they stand at least, I guess.

@RenewableUKCEO @afneil So maximising local production will lower prices?

@afneil Hi Andrew — you’re right there are regional hubs. But the UK NBP increasingly relies on LNG to balance the system, and cargoes go to the highest bidder globally. So the price here is increasingly set by the marginal LNG cargo — i.e. a global price, not a domestic one 1/2

There is no ‘global price for gas’. How can you be an energy expert and not know that?

@KathrynPorter26 @Grace_ADHDNoN @DaleVince @KemiBadenoch The key word is 'chose'. The UK is not forced to export North Sea oil or gas. The USA controls exports & Australia now does too & neither are the Russian bogeyman.

Russia has a very different system It has far greater state control over production, exports and pricing, and is willing to intervene heavily in markets The UK chose a different model: private operators, global trade, and market pricing To force lower domestic prices here, the UK would likely have to restrict exports and override existing commercial rights, raising legal risks and deterring investment You can run a controlled system or a market-based one, but you can’t easily mix the two without consequences Countries like Russia or those in the Gulf can offer low domestic prices because the state either owns the resource or captures most of the rents, then effectively recycles that value back to consumers via subsidies or price controls To replicate “cheap domestic energy” in the UK, you’d either need much greater state control or to subsidise prices directly, both of which come with significant fiscal, legal, and investment consequences Under the UK–EU TCA it could be challenged as a subsidy distorting competition, but the bigger constraints are elsewhere... WTO rules limit export restrictions and discriminatory pricing, so forcing cheap domestic sales could be challenged Even more significant are investment treaties. Producers could claim unfair treatment or expropriation and seek compensation If you nationalised the industry you'd have more flexibility but it's not cost neutral. The state would be subsidising domestic consumers which has an opportunity cost It still distorts competition and could be cha by trading partners And it creates dependencies that might not be desirable. Once consumers and industry rely on artificially low prices, it becomes politically and economically difficult to unwind That can distort investment, discourage efficiency, and leave the system more fragile, especially if the subsidy becomes unaffordable or the underlying supply tightens

.@KemiBadenoch displays her total lack of understanding of the energy sector. She argues for more drilling in the North Sea to protect us from this energy crisis - seemingly oblivious to two very important facts. The first is we don't set the price of our north sea oil and gas - we let global markets do that. So in a crisis where global prices sky rocket, how can the answer can be to produce more globally priced oil here - it’s (energy market) illiterate to say so. The answer is to take control of our own energy pricing, starting with our own North Sea, as we have already with retail energy bills. Impose a price and profit cap. If we do this as part of an entire sector move - capping all wholesale prices, then we can combat this crisis and those that are coming next. The second very important fact Kemi seems unaware of is that it will take up to five years to produce anything new from our North Sea. So even if that could help us, it can’t help us with anything soon. And it won’t help us for long because our North Sea is all but empty, there’s 10% left. Our North Sea has been in decline for 30 years, shedding jobs and production capacity - because it’s running out - this has been going on for far longer than green energy has been a thing - to blame green energy for the decline of the North Sea is ignorant (of the facts). And Global markets have been filling the gap between what we make and what we use for decades now - Kemi seems not to know this either. As for energy bills, Badenoch seems unaware that the ‘green taxes’ we have on our energy bills were added by previous Tory governments. She seems also unaware that we spend vast sums subsiding fossils fuels - £17 billion a year at the last count. She operates in a fantasy environment, or would have us do - where green taxes have ruined the country and our oil and gas industry and all we need to do is drill more - it’s delusional. It’s straight out of the mouth of Trump.

@KathrynPorter26 @Grace_ADHDNoN @DaleVince @KemiBadenoch That is simply not true. The UK can restrict exports & set domestic prices if the government choose to. WTO does not control domestic activity.

@Grace_ADHDNoN @DaleVince @KemiBadenoch Because it's against WTO and similar rules And Russia doesn't set its own price. It chooses the price reference and prefers a fuel oil/gas oil formula but it doesn't fix the levels of the chosen oil indices

@SteveAkehurst The UK can ban any exports & set any prices in the UK. Choosing not to use UK assets is a political choice.

Two basic things that used to be uncontroversial: - the vast majority of North Sea oil is sold abroad, so cannot meaningfully contribute to UK energy security - gas and oil prices are set internationally, what’s left in the North Sea is too small to move it

@Nichola38180285 @KathrynPorter26 @JeevunSandher Gives companies the permission to drill & extract & if it turns out to be uneconomical then they lose?

@KathrynPorter26 @JeevunSandher At what cost per barrel to extract? At what EROEI to extract? It’s all right having reserves but if they don’t yield much net energy or cost to much to drill, they will stay as reserves…

I'd add: That there aren't many fossil fuels left in the North Sea. It's weird people who were in government for 14 years are suddenly claiming there's loads of energy there (that they didn't drill?)

@nadeemhaque @MPIainDS @Keir_Starmer If we are looking at the last 30yrs then Islam has been much more destructive. I think over the last 1400 yrs that is also true. So your argument is?

Before you declare the IRGC a terrorist organization, please declare the US Army and the British army as the biggest terrorist organizations in the world. They have together bombed more countries killed more people than any other agency in the world. Perhaps Israel should be added because they compete with these agencies for killing people.

This week I have asked a number of times about proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Today I asked the Prime Minister directly, and still, no real answer. Instead, @Keir_Starmer says the UK’s proscription powers “are not designed for a state organisation.” That sounds less like a reason and more like an excuse for inaction. The IRGC spreads terror, threatens British citizens, targets Iranian dissidents, and fuels antisemitism and extremism, including here in the UK. Other countries have acted. The United States, Canada, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have all designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. So why won’t this government? Labour should stop hiding behind process, proscribe the IRGC, and protect our citizens, particularly the UK’s Jewish community, who face rising intimidation and hate.

@FayeBrownSky @DCBMEP Cap Dale Vince's & all providers profits at 3%, tax the rest at 100% & set the price the sell at centrally?

NEW: Ed Miliband has told Labour MPs he is committed to looking at decoupling electricity from gas prices, saying it is "complicated but possible". He is said to be looking at a report by Dale Vince, which warns govt's clean energy drive won't bring down bills while gas effectively sets the price of the wholesale market... news.sky.com/story/ed-milib…

@AlanRMacLeod We are told that blaming a nation or race for what a small minority did many centuries ago is racist. This vote is racist as people who have never been slaves blame people who have never owned slaves for a slavery. Amazingly it ignores that Africans were selling the slaves.

BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.

@chenweihua @AlanRMacLeod @qcCultural It creates a hierarchy of past evil that puts the Holocaust below the transatlantic slave trade. It is also weird that the Africans involved in capturing & selling the slaves including many kingdoms that became wealthy are somehow not responsible?

@AlanRMacLeod @qcCultural Where is the conscience of those countries which vetoed and abstained???

@Miriam_Schrader @AlanRMacLeod Mohammed had slaves. More African slaves were taken by Islamic slavers than the European slavers. As Islam spread across North Africa it took many millions of white slaves from Europe (e.g. Barbary Pirates). The Ottoman empire had many millions of white slaves.

@AlanRMacLeod The west is rich because of slavery. Islam is against all slavery. Only Islam has the right view on this matter. Islam frees humanity.

@RenewableUKCEO @afneil The UK produces less food than it consumes so we shouldn't maximise food production in the UK? Please make your logic make any sense.

@afneil Hi Andrew - I support the North Sea, but it's a mature basin and best industry estimates are that it can contribute half of net zero gas demand in 2050, so it won't get us off LNG unfortunately oeuk.org.uk/oeuk-business-…

We’re relying more on LNG to set the price because we’re allowing domestic supplies to decline and depend more on imported LNG supplies. A matter of policy. A bizarre policy driven by net zero zealots. Even in a mature field like the North Sea there is still a lot more gas to get out. Ask the Norwegians. Increase that supply and UK NBP hub prices will come down. Tax revenues will rise. Balance of payments will improve. Sterling will strengthen. And more jobs will be saved/added. Simples.

@simonmedhurst @StevenEdginton Goods exports to the EU are 7% of the economy & have not significantly dropped. How can that cause an 8% drop in the size of the economy? COVID & Net Zero & the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had a hugely bigger effect. Labour's policies in less than 2 yrs have done more damage

@StevenEdginton How can making trade more difficult with our nearest neighbour and largest market (without compensating with increased trade elsewhere) be anything other than negative for the UK economy?

Philip Rycroft, arch Whitehall insider who said Brexit has "slowed our progress as a nation, if not put it into reverse", called it a "wrong turn", and said the "Brexit insurgency rode a wave of divisive identity politics", wrote a report for Starmer which blocks Reform from receiving money from its biggest financial backer. Dominic Cummings warned Reform would face lawfare from the British state. Cutting off Reform's major donor base is exactly that. Rycroft is not an impartial civil servant - he constantly retweets pro-EU accounts (e.g. one talking about "Brexit cultists"), heavily criticised David Frost/Cummings' Civil Service reforms, and implied support of Labour's radical constitutional reforms.

@JoeS0ap @baylissbaghdad @tomhfh Seems to have been working in France for decades.

@baylissbaghdad @tomhfh Wouldn’t want to be near a nuclear station providing backup with it’s transformer and generator output going up n down like a fiddler’s elbow

Reeves commits to fast tracking 'full implementation' of the Fingleton Review in the next parliamentary session. If the government genuinely does this, that's very good news for British nuclear energy.

@tomhfh @baylissbaghdad France manage to use nuclear power as load following. It is entirely possible to do it.

@baylissbaghdad The backup vs baseload distinction is not one I had fully internalised until just now.

@ChristineKayNow @andrew_lilico Isn't that how markets work? If an activity starts making more profits then more resources will be allocated for that activity until enough extra is being produced that the higher profits decrease to normal levels?

@andrew_lilico A lot of people seem to regard the definition of "Price gouging" as being: "Firms making excessive profits when circumstances are favourable to excessive profit-making". #FIFY

A lot of people seem to regard the definition of "Price gouging" as being: "Firms making profits when circumstances are favourable to profit-making".

@JBlunt1018 Are you aware that outsourcing/offshoring companies have been using H-1B visas to enable offshoring? The person on the visa is sent to the client to learn how to do the job for a few years & then goes back & the job is offshored. If you think offshoring jobs is bad then stop H-1B

Borjas has no idea what the fuck he’s talking about. Any logical CEO faced with an extra $100k cost per hire will do the obvious: Move the role offshore and save instantly. That’s exactly what’s happening. Offshore firms are busier than ever. Real conversations are happening right now about moving entire departments out. So what did this “policy” actually achieve? Not protecting American jobs. Exporting them. A $100k H-1B fee isn’t some clever fix. It’s a tax on hiring in America. This is the exact opposite of pro-business policy. The same party that claims to stand for free markets is now actively distorting them. Shameful.

@ollieparrot @HollyGrayle I remember a similar gallows humour joke but the Jewish man has a gun pointed at him from behind in a Belfast side street & asked if he is Catholic or Protestant. When he says he is Jewish then the gunman say 'Then I am the luckiest Palestinian in Belfast tonight'

This reminds me of the old joke during the height of the Troubles. A Jew is walking down Falls Road and is accosted by an angry Paddy. "Are you Catholic or Protestant?" he demands. The Jew replies: "I'm a Jew", to which the Paddy replies, "Yes, but are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?".

In my country, Hatzollah operates largely in Bondi, and is a 'designated first responder'. This means that I could be a raging antisemite, but if I was drowning (on Shabbat), and 000 operators told Hatzollah to attend the emergency, Shlomo, Moshe, and Solomon would have no choice but to attend as quickly as they could, and diligently use their skills and training to save my life. They could not refuse to go. And they could not choose to provide me with a lower standard of care than they would give to their most respected Rabbi, for example. And if the nearest hospital is a Jewish hospital, they must take me there, and the Jewish doctors cannot refuse to treat me. Now, if you'd like to start a Catholic or Protestant ambulance service, and you're willing to abide by the same rules, then knock yourself out* - otherwise, sit down. *Hatzollah would have to treat your concussion too if you did in fact knock yourself out, even though you're a wanker.

@industrialpc @TheFoolishPig @mr_james_c How do you stop wind power generation when there is a negative market price?

@OurJeeBee @TheFoolishPig @mr_james_c You can very easily stop wind power generation. Within seconds. NPPs and conventional power plants also frequently produce into a negative price market.

What a lot of negative responses to this fail to understand: - If you want a functioning society, your grid CANNOT fail - If you need a gas backup renewables for your grid, you need it to be able to cover 100% capacity. - If that is the case then your backup isn't "backup", it is the basis of your grid - So why not just build nuclear instead? Does away with emissions from gas plus unreliability of renewables.