Rupert Stiglitz

Hang this in the Tate when the lights go out

Net Zero 'must be scrapped' as there are not enough minerals to do it, leading scientist will say @NetZeroWatch gbnews.com/news/net-zero-…

Why don't you condemn Ed Miliband who is stopping us drilling for our own gas? Better still, sack him.

Today I launched our manifesto and candidates here in Scotland. Let’s use devolution to cut taxes.

The government needs to speed up new oil and gas fields in the UK including Rosebank, Jackdaw, Cambo, Tornado,Buchan . We need the jobs, investment, tax revenues and lower CO 2 they can bring. I have never been paid by an oil company and have no financial interest in these.

I’m so glad Nigel Farage is saying this while so many cowardly, craven politicians shy away from confronting what people can see happening and are rightly alarmed 👇

@Ed_Miliband @energygovuk What you're not doing is what we really need... 1. Cancel the ETS 2. Cancel AR7 3. Cancel the RO 4. Cancel the EPL 5. Cancel the drilling ban

Farage’s finest hour as Reform leader.

Iran’s strike last night on the Ras Laffan facility in Qatar is a significant escalation. It risks a prolonged supply crunch on the global LNG market. Yet here at home, the Chancellor says all countries must play their part in boosting oil and gas production - while her own Energy Secretary bans new drilling in the North Sea. Ed Miliband’s position is untenable. Those desperate to shut down our own industry will say it takes too long to get our own wells up and running. They argue it won’t make a difference to the current crisis. This is bogus. By autumn, Jackdaw could be producing enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes. All of it will go into our pipes. The approval has been sat on Ed Miliband’s desk for months. If the conflict is not resolved, we will be in for difficult times. Turning our backs on the tax revenue and extra supply from the North Sea is inexcusable. However, so too is Ed Miliband’s other mistake. He has spent the last two years making electricity expensive, when he should have been making it cheaper. If you want people to use electricity to heat their homes or drive their cars, we need to address the biggest problem we have - our electricity is too expensive. Our Cheap Power plan could have been adopted by the Government by now to cut everyone’s electricity bills by 20%. Expensive electricity has stopped consumers from adopting technology which gives them options in energy price spikes. We also need to cherish our industrial power. The crippling Carbon Taxes - which have doubled because of Labour’s policies - mean we lost a third of our refineries last year alone. That makes us more reliant on imports at the worst moment. In the longer term, renewables tie us to gas as we always need flexible power that we can ramp up when the wind stops blowing. Yet Labour’s plan means that gas power gets four times more expensive. The Government must reinstate my plans for a third large-scale nuclear plant. That’s why our Energy Resilience Strategy is as follows: BACK THE NORTH SEA MAKE ELECTRICITY CHEAP STOP IMPOSING CRIPPLING CARBON TAXES ON INDUSTRY DOUBLE DOWN ON NUCLEAR

Yvette Cooper is sending £650 million to Africa. Reform will cut this waste and cut your bills instead.

This would be a travesty

What we witnessed in London at the historic Trafalgar Square, in a country built on Judeo-Christian values, was a group of people attempting dominance over our capital city and our culture. We are not going to surrender everything that was built over centuries and defended at great cost in two world wars for us to be a free, independent nation. The British people will not put up with this any longer — simple as.

Just an everyday tale of infrastructure in the UK — how to spend £179m on not building a tunnel.

Just one generation from now: The white British in the UK will go from over 70% to 33% The foreign-born & their children from 19% to over 60% The share of Muslims from 1 in 17 to 1 in 4 My new book Suicide of a Nation (link below)

We’re literally an island made of coal, floating on a bed of shale gas, surrounded by seabeds full of oil and gas - we’re being governed by idiots and the opposition parties are failing to hold them to account. A national disaster

Extracting from a mature basin requires investment and the technical expertise of the producers that have been painted as 'evil' in the UK. Norway knows this. Despite the basin’s maturity, Norway never stopped drilling, averaging forty-five exploration wells annually. In 2025, Norwegian production surged to its highest level since 2009 — the lucrative result of a record $24.68 billion investment that returned roughly $90 billion in exports. Today, the sector serves as the bedrock for 20% of Norway’s GDP and sustains 200,000 people. Britain still has its own reserves. The collapse of British exploration is a policy-driven crisis, not a geological one. By suffocating North Sea producers with a 78% effective tax rate via the Energy Profits Levy, Britain rendered long-term capital investment impossible. The result is a historic standstill. In 2025, for the first time in sixty years, not a single new exploration well was drilled in British waters.

A perfect storm is gathering over the UK. Failure to take strategic planning and energy security seriously will carry severe economic, political and social consequences. Plenty of us in the energy realist camp warned about scenarios like this throughout the 2010s. We were further marginalised in 2022. Policymakers chose to listen to Dr 9x Cheaper at Carbon Brief and the rest of the blob. Labour will seek to blame the Conservatives, but this was the product of a cross-party consensus forged by Miliband in 2008. Together, they depoliticised decisions to blow up coal power stations, engineered the managed decline of the North Sea, banned domestic gas production, and doubled down on a renewables strategy that cannot reliably meet demand. Lib Dems and Greens were in on it too. The result is not greater resilience, but greater exposure, with Britain now increasingly dependent on volatile global LNG markets. The “common sense of the epoch” turns out to have been pure folly.

The Rosebank site off Shetland, said its ready to get millions of barrels of oil a day flowing within months. But Blackout Ed say it’s “climate vandalism” and has refused permission! If you want someone to blame for your energy costs … then I suggest you blame Ed 🤡

Everyone should watch this. With the right support the North Sea can help deliver our energetic needs for years to come. It's abundantly clear that we need to support the industry. It's just common sense. youtube.com/watch?v=eDr0Z1…

🚨And there you have it. Sly News are finally GETTING IT! If Labour actually cared about reducing carbon emissions and making us less dependent on imports from Qatar they would do *MORE* drilling in the North Sea. @Ed_Miliband's entire Net Zero argument DESTROYED in 2 minutes