Tom East

@Avislafin1 @saintly_jim @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband 😖 exactly. Chop trees down thousands of miles away, mulch them with heavy machinery, transport by road, rail then ships to rail then burn them then call it ‘environmentally friendly’. Madness.

@TomEast787 @saintly_jim @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Drax!

Norway collected £50bn from North Sea oil and gas last year. We collected £4.4bn, having taxed our own producers into closure in pursuit of a #netzero fantasy. I cannot think of a cleaner example of a government failing its people @Keir_Starmer and @Ed_Miliband conservativewoman.co.uk/the-suicidal-m…

@Avislafin1 @saintly_jim @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Or importing wood chips from north America to power the grid…

@TomEast787 @saintly_jim @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Never mind Tom, We’ve still got lots and lots of coal too if we need it, which is possibly better than what all the unregulated wood burners are using?

@808hawk @entitlement4all @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Should be overcoming it but ironically we need to provide the economic environment to stimulate the tech innovation needed to solve the challenges. This needs cheap & reliable energy. In missing this crucial step we impoverish ourselves making the solutions we need more distant.

@TomEast787 @entitlement4all @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband We don’t really need oil for power, we should be overcoming that. What is left should be reserved for lubricants. The future has got a lubrcation problem in the post.

@Avislafin1 @saintly_jim @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband How long did it take to accept nuclear had to be part of the mix after years of trashing it? Nuclear is now part of the mix because the zealots are forced to accept it as wind & solar have proved they cannot provide the energy needed at anywhere near an acceptable cost.

@TomEast787 @saintly_jim @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband No we are not, nuclear is part of the mix and wind power trials have apparently been successful.

@saintly_jim @Avislafin1 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband The advantage has been they have proved they are not the answer. We need to use oil & gas while we have it to provide cheaper, reliable energy to build a stronger economy & industrial base upon which we can actually transition to cleaner, more sustainable energy such as SMRs.

@TomEast787 @Avislafin1 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband They have disadvantages but at least it’s there (at times). British oil and gas won’t be around much longer, even at the higher remaining estimates

@entitlement4all @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Windmills have to be subsidised throughout their 10-15 year life span, cannot be recycled when they’re finished & cost a fortune to maintain, especially offshore. The inconvenient truth is they cost way more environmentally & economically than we are being told.

@TomEast787 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Windmills offset their environmental impact in less than 2 years. Gas and oil never will. We are using and extracting gas and oil. It remains part of the strategic energy plan through to 2050. You've already spanked your gas and oil wealth away. All those tax cuts you "earned".

@saintly_jim @Avislafin1 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband But we’re betting the house on wind & solar?

@Avislafin1 @TomEast787 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband The 14 billion barrels figure is towards the upper end of estimates of how much oil is remaining. I've seen it quoted from a credible source, however it's still just an estimate and not something to bet the house on.

@entitlement4all @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband You mean the same rigorous environmental impact assessments that were done for on/offshore wind farms & solar? We need gas & oil. We have gas & oil. We can use it to create an economy that can transition to cleaner energy as Norway has. Instead we have the worst of both worlds.

@TomEast787 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband The tax rate is the same as Norway's. What's ridiculous about assessing the environmental impact of an activity? What do you think more extraction will achieve?

@entitlement4all @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Extraction costs are high because the industry is hamstrung by the government imposing ridiculous restrictions & prohibitive taxes. We don’t need tin, we need oil & gas. It is there for the taking & would be cost effective if the government had the will to get it.

@TomEast787 @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband And we have billions of tin on Cornwall. The problem for both is that extraction costs exceed the sale price

@InspGadgetBlogs When you have DEI promotions you get the associated intolerance of any thought or opinion other than the approved narrative. DEI breeds DEI which is anything but DEI.

The same RAF who were caught discriminating against white male candidates?

@KevinGSWatt @KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband ‘Carbon Brief’ is funded by the European Climate Foundation, office located in London. Created to push the climate change narrative & regularly publishes selective data to counter the use of oil & gas. One look at their website will tell you exactly where they are coming from.

@KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband UK North sea has been declining for 20 years. Your tweet suggests oil producers and the government have been missing an opportunity for 20 years. Could there be an economic and geological reason for reducing extraction rates and not they don't care.

@KathyConWom @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband Extracting our own oil/gas would create high skilled jobs, support services, local jobs etc that generate opportunities & more tax income. Cheaper energy encourages entrepreneurs, business expansion & more employment. Upon this you can invest in infrastructure, health care etc.

@AllisonPearson @RAFCRANWELL On my IOTC we were presented with Ivan the Randy Red Russian Rapist as our main external threat, oh simpler times. Now our threat is internal; our governance & the placation of a religious based culture incompatible & hostile to our own. This cadet just said what we all know.

When I interviewed David Cameron after he became Prime Minister he said the thing that shocked him most was “the scale of the domestic Islamist terrorist threat”. An RAF cadet has been suspended for seeming to make the same point. @RAFCRANWELL

@DailyMail In Whittle Hall we were presented with Ivan the Randy Red Russian Rapist as our main external threat, simpler times. Now our threat is internal; our governance & the placation of a religious based culture incompatible & hostile to our own. This cadet just said what we all know.

Cadet suspended from RAF officer-training course for saying Islam is main threat to UK trib.al/jva7Wj9

@PaulEmbery The serious lack of awareness obviously runs in the family. Blood is thicker than water & these people never seem to waste an opportunity to show how thick they are.

If I were looking for a way to damage the trans cause, I would have commissioned this video of Grace Campbell and some bloke being personally abusive towards the campaigners who secured the supreme court victory for women. What were they thinking?

@BethRigby Maybe instead of a sycophantic, softball interview you could actually be the journalist you claim to be and hold this treacherous liar to account.

NEW: Anger in No 10 tonight - am told by a source that neither the PM nor his advisors were told, over a series of months, that Mandelson had been granted security clearance against the recommendation of UK security vetting. That suggests this information was held in foreign office and not shared. Big Qs now about the PM misleading the House. I am told the PM had been asking Qs about vetting and not been told this information while giving statements to parliament. Told this week PM had been trying to get answers about what happened since Tues night - Guardian got ahead of story. The critical point is that the minister has to have ‘knowingly misled’ the House, and clearly No 10 saying tonight the PM was not aware. I understand the PM had been intending to update the HoC as soon as No 10 had established facts, which they have been doing since Tues. So expect to see the PM come to HoC on Monday to correct the record I asked PM on March 16 whether he has misled the House when he said due process was followed. This is what he told me BETH RIGBY: On the Mandelson files, your national security adviser said the process was quote, weirdly rushed, and Mandelson was appointed before developed vetting had been complete. You told MPs in the House of Commons that due process was followed. Is there a possibility that you have misled the House when you said that? KEIR STARMER: No, and the independent adviser looked at that very question. I think on Thursday or Friday of last week, and answered it very robustly, that the process had been followed. The process wasn't strong enough. And amongst the changes that I intend to put into place is the fact that you can't announce someone until the vetting is finished. It wasn't an individual decision in the Mandelson case, that was the process. Well, you only have to look at that. in the light of the appointment, to realise that that needs to change. But on due process, the process that was there was followed, the problem was the process wasn't strong enough, but ultimately, it was my mistake and I have apologised for that and quite right to.

@danny__kruger @Fox_Claire No doubt if it was red, black, white & green it’d be ok.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Pretty outrageous decision by planning officer at Wilts Lib Dem council to order the landlord to paint over his flag, which has been there without complaint since the 2016 Euros. Sorry to say the investigation followed my use of the pub in a video (here x.com/reformparty_uk…)

@KathyConWom @Ed_Miliband Norway masquerades as a paragon of green tech. However, this ‘clean’ economy relies totally on the income & cheap power provided by North Sea oil & gas. You CANNOT do one without the other. Our asymmetric approach is destroying us… madness or method?

While Ed Miliband kills off North Sea gas, Norway pockets £50bn a year from theirs. Funny how that works. @Ed_Miliband conservativewoman.co.uk/what-norway-ca…

@Matt_Camenzuli Conscription? They can’t even recruit efficiently. 1000s of willing recruits rejected by a bloated, tick box based system run by scribblies. The whole process is a joke & conscription will be no different, costing £Bs to the taxpayer with profits going to the likes of Capita.

The UK is talking conscription. Their military is in a mess. They drag their veterans through the courts. Parallels Australia, people don't want to join the military. Building the case for the draft. No. No way