Carl Lids

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@DailyMailCeleb A Nepo Kid. This is Really Boring. The fact that even one person, finds this of interest. Makes me question the average IQ of the public

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@DailyMailCeleb I confess

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@DailyMailCeleb And I confirm

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@rocourt62 @Katie_Lam_MP As you have to respond with Insults. Which I find Amusing. It shows you are Upset And triggered. I find you mildly Amusing. 🤣🤣

@CarlLids @Katie_Lam_MP It must be past your bed time now . Get mummy to tuck you in if you know who she is .

Under this Government, energy bills have gone up - and the war in the Middle East could see them climb even higher. Yet Ed Miliband still refuses to use our oil and gas reserves in the North Sea. He says that it wouldn't make a difference, but that's nonsense. Here's why 👇 First, some context on the North Sea. As a country, we’re exceptionally fortunate to have vast oil and gas reserves under the North Sea. If we actually used them, they would be enough to meet half of our needs. The Jackdaw gas field alone has enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes, and could be up and running in a few months. But because of this Government’s obsession with Net Zero, they’ve refused to grant any new exploration licenses, meaning that companies aren’t allowed to search for new oil and gas reserves in previously untapped areas. They’re also refusing to let companies extract more oil and gas from the reserves that we already know about. Instead, they’re spending huge sums of money on intermittent forms of energy, like wind and solar, which don’t work all year round, and which can’t insulate us from shocks like the one that will result from the war in the Middle East. People like Miliband say that there’s no point using these reserves, because doing so won’t bring down prices. They say that the price of oil and gas is set entirely on the international market, which means that increasing our domestic supply would only have a tiny impact on the overall price. But this is totally misleading. First of all, let’s look at gas. It’s true that there are ‘benchmark’ prices for gas internationally. They’re based on the global level of supply and demand. If the supply goes up but demand stays the same, or falls, the benchmark price will come down. If the supply drops but demand stays the same, or increases, then the benchmark price will go up. But this is a rough, international rule-of-thumb. It doesn’t mean that all consumers pay the same price everywhere in the world. After all, if that were the case, then why do American consumers pay so much less than British consumers? To understand how gas is actually priced, you have to look at the two main ways that gas moves around the world. The first way is through pipelines. These are mostly used for moving gas over relatively short distances. Generally, the buyer and seller will negotiate a price structure, and maintain that agreement over a long time. But increasingly, the gas market relies on LNG - liquefied natural gas. This is gas which is turned into a liquid, loaded on ships, and transported globally. Ships can be directed to whoever is able to offer the best price. The further those ships have to travel, the more expensive it becomes to deliver the gas. So, if we’re relying on gas imports from a long way away, we’ll need to spend more money to bring that gas to the UK. That’s what’s happening at the moment. We currently import about half of the gas that we consume, meaning that we need to bid with other countries for the gas on ships that are travelling around the world. Michael Cembalest of JP Morgan puts it very well: “Unlike oil markets, natural gas pricing is more localised…the majority of natural gas is consumed by countries that produce it…European pipeline/LNG prices are spiking…in contrast, US Henry Hub natural gas prices have barely budged…the same is true in Australia and Canada which also produce a lot of gas.” The vast majority of homes in the UK – 87 percent – use gas for heating. If we produced more gas domestically, then it would be cheaper to buy gas, because it wouldn’t have to travel as far – meaning that heating bills would, in fact, come down. It would also make us more resistant to shocks. If we lost access to gas from the Middle East, for example, we’d be able to rely on the gas that we produce domestically. So not only would bills come down, but we’d also avoid sudden increases to bills as a result of falling supply elsewhere in the world. The oil market operates a little bit differently, but it’s just as important. 97 percent of transport in the UK - cars, lorries, planes - relies on oil products, including petrol and diesel. If fuel prices increase for these companies, it becomes more expensive for them to transport goods that we all need - like food, or clothes. In order to cover their transport costs, companies will need to put up their prices. So when oil prices go up, it not only makes it more expensive for you to drive your car - it also makes it more expensive to buy everything else. The oil price is genuinely determined by the level of supply and demand around the world. However, that doesn’t mean that producing more oil in this country couldn’t bring down prices here in Britain. The companies which extract oil pay a huge amount of tax - more than £350 billion since the 1970s. If they’re able to extract more oil in this country, they’ll make more money selling it, which means that they’ll pay more tax. And the money from that tax can be used to reduce the price that consumers pay for oil. That’s because, when you pay for oil at the petrol station, 55 percent of the money that you spend actually goes to the Government in tax. In particular, whenever you buy petrol, you pay VAT and Fuel Duty. The Government want to put up Fuel Duty, which will mean that you pay more for petrol, at a time when the global price of oil is already increasing. But if we let companies drill for more oil in the North Sea, we could spend the extra tax money that we’d raise on keeping Fuel Duty down. It could save you hundreds of pounds. And it would also mean that the companies which transport goods like food and clothes would pay less too. They wouldn’t need to put up their prices, so you’d save money on the things that you buy every day. Miliband’s claims about oil and gas just aren’t true. If we extracted more oil and gas from the North Sea, we could end up with lower household bills, lower petrol prices, and less sudden price increases on everyday essentials. It would make us all better off. But his obsession with Net Zero ideology means that Miliband would rather leave the oil and gas in the ground. He’s choosing to make us all poorer.

@rocourt62 @Katie_Lam_MP If you say so. But. You sound upset, rather ruffled. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@CarlLids @Katie_Lam_MP No I’m just a grown up where as you’re an imbecilic child

@Marillionmark @LukeEdwardsTele 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@CarlLids @LukeEdwardsTele Carl, if you’re going to oppose his statement, it might be worth considering referring to a reliable source rather than a much criticised Dutch propaganda outlet where all but one of those examples shown are either false or outside the government’s responsibilities anyway! 🤦‍♂️

Keir Starmer is quietly turning into quite an impressive PM for an international global crisis. Calm, astute and strong when he needs to be. Not that he’ll get any praise for it in the media or on here of course, but he has shown real leadership in an extremely challenging situation.

@rocourt62 @Katie_Lam_MP Aw You upset?? 😂😂😂😂😂

@CarlLids @Katie_Lam_MP Oh look some has been playing with their crayons . Pathetic

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@MENnewsdesk Just paid mine, for the last time. Have Canceled my DD.

The price of a BBC TV licence has gone up this week manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of-l…

@InPoetsShoes @LukeEdwardsTele And for those on Oil Fired Heating Etc??

@CarlLids @LukeEdwardsTele My energy costs have come down.

First right was @hansharald_66, the Octopus or monkey mask as we know them was exactly £10. We've sold out of those now but let's play higher or lower shall we ♣️♦️ Are the dubiously named Big John gloves, item no 215 in your catalogue, higher or lower than the Octopus Mask?

Mad Miliband genuinely believes that countries are looking at the UKs sky high energy prices in some sort of amazement. Is he really that delusional?

Reform pretend to be on the side of working people. The reality? They’re led by snobby millionaires who have no idea how much cost-of-living support matters to families. They’re not on your side. Labour is.

#jeremyvine "An Older Guy, But I Don't Really know" Exactly you Don't Know. So stop with the Uneducated, comments

@PSCupdates @STWuk

Today, hundreds are outside Westminster Magistrates court for the verdict in the trial of PSC's Ben Jamal and @STWuk Chris Nineham. There should be no convictions for organising peaceful Palestine protests.

@phaisie And your thoughts on. The Grooming Gang Survivors, is what exactly? Remember our own Citizens

Outrageous decision by the judge. This is completely politically motivated - the facts were really not considered theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

@chessmartinez @ChrisNineham Is he also organising, a Peaceful protest. For the Grooming Gang Survivors? Our own UK Citizens

Solidarity to my brave friend, @ChrisNineham. Chris helped to organise a peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza last year (and has been a key figure in the anti-war movement for decades). This protest laid flowers to mark the thousands of Palestinian children who had been killed. This decision signifies a dark day. The right to peaceful protest is a crucial element of democracy. Without it, we veer towards a police state. What an upside-down world we live in, when protesting against state slaughter is deemed a crime by a system who are complicit in that slaughter.