Tim Chapman 💙

@dsmiffy55 @dorfman_p We are doing both - additional drilling will have no immediate impact, better to put any resources available into accelerating cheaper energy sources that reduce our longer-term dependence upon expensive and depleting fossil fuels.

@dorfman_p @timchap Do both. This is just Brexit-style ideology rather than pragmatism.

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. euronews.com/2026/03/27/eur…

@PhilipPelucha Extraordinary manager, outstanding man. #YNWA

I miss this man, so much.

Let this sink in. In 2015, the Iran nuclear deal capped uranium enrichment at 3.5% with full international inspections. The IAEA repeatedly confirmed Iran was complying. Trump’s own Secretary of Defence testified it was in America’s national security interest to keep it. Trump tore it up in 2018 because it had Obama’s name on it. Iran immediately accelerated its nuclear program — exactly what the deal was designed to prevent. Eight years, a war, thousands of lives, and billions of dollars later — Trump’s envoys are now trying to negotiate the same enrichment limits and verification measures that already existed in the deal he destroyed. Read that again. He broke a working agreement. Created the crisis. Started a war. And is now trying to negotiate his way back to where we started — except now with less leverage, more enemies, and a body count. This isn’t dealmaking. This is ego dressed up as foreign policy. A man who burned down the house and is now asking for credit because he called the fire brigade. Meanwhile, the rest of the world — including Australia — is paying the price. Fuel shortages. Economic instability. A region in flames. All because one man couldn’t tolerate his predecessor’s name on a functioning agreement. The Art of the Deal in reverse.

There are a lot of right-wingers that seem to be disagreeing with my post. Maybe they should do their own research, produce some evidence or maybe read this. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@mark_slapinski He is completely deranged and in the current war scenario the world should be very, very afraid of what he might be capable of next.

MY GOD: This is the most UNHINGED video I've seen of Trump. Listen to this!

@_Paris_10 I cannot think of a more amazing and significant goal - ever.

Be sincere, you got goosebumps when this went in

Iranian trollling is getting too good 🤣

Clueless, arm waving idiot bleats about privately owned North Sea gas as if it is a panacea. Even though the hundreds of licenses her government issued in fourteen years of total failure only produced 36 days of supply. @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @ClaireCoutinho @MelJStride

@StanCollymore Remarkable side - the bowling strength just overwhelming.

The West Indies, 1984 England Tour. Batsmen Clive Lloyd(C) - Guyana Larry Gomes -Trinidad & Tobago Gordon Greenidge -Barbados Desmond Haynes-Barbados Gus Logie-Trinidad & Tobago Viv Richards-Leeward Islands Richie Richardson -Leeward Islands Wicket Keepers Jeff Dujon-Jamaica Thelston Payne-Barbados All Rounders Eldine Baptiste -Leeward Islands Roger Harper -Guyana Bowlers Joel Garner -Barbados Michael Holding-Jamaica Malcolm Marshall -Barbados Milton Small -Barbados Courtney Walsh-Jamaica "Nuff said"

Strange performance from Badenoch. Demanding an energy solution that isn’t possible caused by a war of choice she was an initial cheerleader behind Trump for. #bbclaurak

If North Sea drilling is the golden bullet to solve consumers’ energy bill concerns… Why didn’t the Tories “drill baby drill” when Russia invaded Ukraine and bills doubled? And why aren’t journalists asking Kemi and Claire this question?

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@Telegraph She’s backed the wrong horse here. Her numbers just don’t add up. There is not much oil left in the North Sea, it would take at least 5 years to extract any that isn’t already under license and the price is determined by the global market.

🔵 Kemi Badenoch will visit an oil rig on Monday to argue that ending Labour’s ban on new drilling will reduce energy prices and also generate billions in tax to spend on bringing down bills. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@SalemLola @ShipleyWrites But, as my friend Christopher Hitchens pointed out, they are all based on the same mistake.

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year Running over the same old ground What have we found? The same old fears Wish you were here

Trade secretary Kemi Badenoch in 2022: “we believe that green trade and investment will be the future-proofing force that will help us create a better tomorrow.” Mel Stride, the same year: “net zero, the shift must happen now as a matter of urgency.”

I’ve been saying two things in response to the fossil fools calling for more drilling in the North Sea - both are cutting through. First is we don't set the price of our own North Sea oil and gas, second is we have very little left, around 10%. More drilling can't help us with this energy (price) crisis and the idea of some kind of oil self sufficiency for Britain is a fantasy. Now comes this revelation - the hundreds of licences the Tories issued, over a 14 year period, in pursuit of this fantasy - resulted in just one months worth of gas being produced. The reality is starkly different to the fantasy Farage and Badenoch would have us believe. theguardian.com/business/2026/…