North Sea oil and gas will be ‘cornerstone of UK economy’ under Tories, Badenoch pledges – “By restoring common sense to energy policy, we will unlock billions in revenue, secure our supply, and rebuild confidence in the UK economy.”

by bottish

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  1. According to the Cambridge dictionary on “cornerstone”:

    > something of great importance that everything else depends on

  2. “Common sense” relying on a fuel source who’s cost fluctuates based on global markets, will impact the environment and will eventually run out.

    Also this from the Tories who will piss away the “billions in revenue” to all their buddies

  3. It’s weird how this oil that was going to run out by 2020 and kill us all through poverty is now going to last forever and save us all. It’s almost as if they were lying then and they are lying now. 

  4. Fucking Independence now before they steal everything of ours.

  5. I’m about as inclined to trust the Tories on the economy about as much as I would be Jimmy Saville on child care.

  7. Are these the same Tories who repeated over and over that North Sea Oil would run out soon, and it couldnt support Scottish Independence?

  8. So by the same argument, a cornerstone of an independent Scotland’s economy?

  10. I see Kemi has done her usual level of research. Production from the North Sea basin peaked in 1999, it is never going to be the economic driver it once was. The oil that’s left is from reserves that are increasingly difficult, and therefore expensive, to extract from. Does she think all the big players have left because they got tired of making money?

  11. Andrew Six Chip Twat Bowie was on BBC Breakfast this morning telling us there’s 30 years of oil left.

    Obviously we are not getting a referendum anytime soon. The amount of oil is directly proportional to the likelihood of independence.

  12. This would be the same Tory party who wouldn’t shut up about how North Sea Oil and Gas would soon run out and couldn’t possibly support an independent Scotland….

  13. Swear we were told during indi ref it was gonna run out soon and it was finished. Drill drill

  14. I don’t think this is anything to do with the actual size and viability of Scotland’s geographic share of north sea oil reserves, but about Badenoch trying to signal how opposed she is to net zero and working to meet our climate obligations.

    Like many others, she doesn’t want to acknowledge that there’s nothing on a dead planet.

  15. Yep sounds clever, basing our economics on a finite resource which pollutes the world and use of which will eventually kill all life after doing irreparable damage to the one and only planet we can live on as a species and whilst doing all of this we are at the wimp of a global energy price and get poorer by the day….
    The SNP must be watching in glee because if the right wing does this, Scottish independence will happen like a flash as 95% of North Sea oil production would be in their territorial waters……

  16. Common sense, would be prioritising investment in nuclear and renewables. These pledges are the same old tired ideas from the same old tired Tories

  17. Oh my god, these people think so small. renewables and new technologies have the potential to revolutionise economies and make some people very very rich.

    If we had the potential to create publicly or community owned renewables the benefits would be astronomical. Small people, stuck in the past are going to doom us.

  19. gas burns quite clean in modern boilers so i have ZERO problem with a gas-based-home-heating energy economy

    people who are anti-gas and think we can live without it are DELUSIONAL

    gas is much much much cleaner than oil or coal

  20. Sorry, keep trying to think of a measured, reasonable response to this, but I just can’t get past

    Fuck

    The

    Tories

  21. I thought Thatcher had splurged all the North Sea Oil money propping up her failed economic theories? Imagine if they had established a sovereigh wealth fund instead.

  22. If you suggested or even hinted at public ownership of the profits from said natural resource id be more willing to agree to pollute the world. But pollution while the same rich cunts get richer, na no thanks. We tried that for the last 50 years, time for a new strategy.

  23. Common sense? Turning the country/planet into an oven/pressure cooker is common sense?

    It’s not like tens of thousands of scientists came to the same conclusion that using fossil fuels will destroy the planet.

  26. It won’t be the cornerstone of the UK economy, it will be the cornerstone of London’s economy, as it has been for the last 50 years, all of it pissed up the wall to satisfy shareholders rather than using it to actually improve the population’s lives like the Norwegians did

  27. Promising to extract even more revenue from Scotland is not the exciting offer unionists imagine it to be.

  28. Common sense she says, a person who openly and proudly told us that she was a grassbag in school is talking about common sense whilst lacking the common sense to see that admitting you were a grassbag in school wasn’t a good idea…

  29. We can extract oil and gas as well as build out our renewable industry. We are more than capable of doing both. We just have to stop listening to the loonies on both extremes.

  30. This the same tories that claimed in 2014 the oil would be running out soon…

  31. Not that I’m claiming that the BBC is a lying cunt, acts as a mouthpiece for Westminster and has no issues with spreading disinformation and just outright lying to the Scottish electorate in order to maintain the status quo but that’s really weird that the oil is now supposedly going to prop up the entire UK’s economy for decades and is even being called the cornerstone of the UK economy.

    I say that because back in 2014 the BBC told us Scots (and during the Scottish referendum campaign no less) that the oil was going to run dry just five years into the future in 2019.

    Fucking weird isn’t it?

    [Britain has just 5.2 years of oil, 4.5 years of coal and three years of its own gas remaining.](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27435624)

  32. Yes… because the sense of energy economic policy is “common” to the human experience.

    Wish the right would fuck off with their misuse of “common sense.”

  33. Same party who went on about how little oil there is btw

  34. I think Norway used their natural resources in the north sea much more effectively for benefiting their nation and people instead of shareholders.

  35. Tory MP’s can’t launch a vote of no confidence against Badenoch until November.

    She’s got two months left.

  37. The Unionists are really conflicted here.

    On the one hand, Scotland’s off-shore fields have enough oil and gas reserves to unlock billions in revenue for the UK economy for decades to come.

    But on the other hand, Scotland’s off-shore fields do not have enough oil and gas reserves to unlock billions in revenue for the UK economy for decades to come in the event of part of the UK (Scotland) declaring independence.

    Which statement is correct Unionists? Make up your minds. Try not to lie again. Again.

  38. Finally someone is brave enough to say that common sense is definitely digging in the sea for a finite amount of ancient goop and piping it to shore then burning the goop into different kinds of goop and then burning the goop again to make things go. All the while the goop burning boils the planet.

    There’s literally no other way of generating energy from the North Sea.

  39. It’s very easy to make promises from the outside, apparently very difficult for her to do anything while prime minister.

    This isn’t just Farage style bloviating and empty promises, she has already demonstrated that she has no desire or ability to do anything other than Sex Matters culture war garbage. Don’t trust anyone who demonstrates for years that they are not worthy of your trust.

  40. Remember when they said oil and gas was the cornerstone of indy scotland’s economy?

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