I really hope the UK does join up with the EU on this, it’s a win-win and as a result of Russian retaliation against sanctions which the UK and EU have coordinated with others on.
Ultimately there is more that binds us than divides us and we have shared interests in the prosperity of the continent and the security of Ukraine.
That said, the EU has done very little to charm us and has gone so far to remove the UK from Horizon and Galileo despite similarly and repetitively inviting the UK to a security summit. The UK is already making a great sacrifice in providing energy to the continent at the expense of our own electricity prices, the EU inviting us to another summit will just appear as if they want us to burden more of the costs for its own failures.
We have a new PM so there is a chance of renewing our lost ties but the EU has to do more than to just invite us on board as it’s paypig.
currently almost 8% of the electricity produced in the UK is being exported to the EU, we’ve been sending more and more gas over to help them prepare for winter and this is their response.
>Ms Starks told me that normally, energy flows very freely across electricity and gas interconnectors, but if the EU, for example, managed to lower prices before the UK, then Brussels would “need to take steps to ensure its cheaper power and gas did not ‘leak’ to the UK”.
>While Ms Starks says it would be highly unlikely that the EU would shut the interconnectors unilaterally, there would have to be some sort of regulation of trading and flows, in order to prevent leakage.
I worry that the UK will refuse on principle. This government is so ideological it would rather fuck the population over than change its stance and see them suffer less, especially if it would involve shining the EU in any form of positive light.
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I really hope the UK does join up with the EU on this, it’s a win-win and as a result of Russian retaliation against sanctions which the UK and EU have coordinated with others on.
Ultimately there is more that binds us than divides us and we have shared interests in the prosperity of the continent and the security of Ukraine.
That said, the EU has done very little to charm us and has gone so far to remove the UK from Horizon and Galileo despite similarly and repetitively inviting the UK to a security summit. The UK is already making a great sacrifice in providing energy to the continent at the expense of our own electricity prices, the EU inviting us to another summit will just appear as if they want us to burden more of the costs for its own failures.
We have a new PM so there is a chance of renewing our lost ties but the EU has to do more than to just invite us on board as it’s paypig.
currently almost 8% of the electricity produced in the UK is being exported to the EU, we’ve been sending more and more gas over to help them prepare for winter and this is their response.
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
>Ms Starks told me that normally, energy flows very freely across electricity and gas interconnectors, but if the EU, for example, managed to lower prices before the UK, then Brussels would “need to take steps to ensure its cheaper power and gas did not ‘leak’ to the UK”.
>While Ms Starks says it would be highly unlikely that the EU would shut the interconnectors unilaterally, there would have to be some sort of regulation of trading and flows, in order to prevent leakage.
I worry that the UK will refuse on principle. This government is so ideological it would rather fuck the population over than change its stance and see them suffer less, especially if it would involve shining the EU in any form of positive light.
Please Liz, DON’T FUCK THIS ONE UP.