Farmer Saint

It's as if the pay rises, avoided strikes and Streeting have had the desired affect.

But SOG v Nic is so fucking boring.

Genuine question here. Why do you continue to engage with him? It's fairly easy to see why a number of posters on here continuously wind you up, because you literally cannot let anything go.

By the way, this is a common theme: Jan 2024 - 0.0% growth Jan 2025 - 0.0% growth Jan 2026 - 0.0% growth

As they mention in there the biggest downturn was in food and drink service activities, which makes sense, considering most people start a diet and tend to give up alcohol (dryanuary anyone) in January. Again, maybe you should look into the numbers in more detail before posting.

Temple Israel. Coincidence Hypo?

BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq6q8dgvp8zt?app-referrer=deep-link Live updates: Police respond to reports of 'active shooter' at Michigan synagogue - BBC News Definitely not because of the acts of Israel over the last two years. Definitely not.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c743g4yn4k8o Well, at least he won't pay any inheritance tax.

I'm over there in 2 weeks - everything is lined up but to close bank accounts I have to be there in person 😬

Jesus...God I need to complete on my place before this house of cards falls. How do his cheerleaders on here feel about this?

And that is what the US is good at refining and most of their refineries are tailored towards (heavy crude). It's why they want Venuzuela's oil, and why they are always so interested in the ME.

It's not worth it, he doesn't get it. Suffice to say, if we want more energy security then renewables is the way to go.

No it couldn't because the UK Government: (a) can't extract it (b) can't refine it (c) can't choose where it then goes That's even before the fact that there's not much there.

You're still not getting it. The only way to get energy security is to have the fully vertically integrated network. That's something that was taken away from us by Thatcher and no amount of increasing or decreasing the amount taken from the North Sea will change that.

No, you posted the following in response to my post about looking into increasing our renewables for more energy security: "We could obtain more of our own energy from the North Sea in the meantime." Just admit that you didn't understand how the energy markets worked in relation to our North Sea reserves and we can be done, or we can go through all your other posts showing your misunderstanding and that at no time in those posts were you discussing the fact that Thatcher and her Tories fucked it up for us. After all, "energy security is not solely about price."

Doesn't really help us from an oil point of view or increasing our energy security as claimed by Alex.

You said "We could obtain more of our own energy from the North Sea in the meantime". How would that work?

Why? Whoever extracts it will take it somewhere to be refined.

But we can't refine a lot of it, so that doesn't really matter.

No it wouldn't, the private companies sell it where they see fit based on global oil and gas prices. That's the issue. Have a read of something other than X: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67945281

Don't we have an issue with high cost of extraction, the fact it is extracted by private companies that sells on the open market, and the fact that we can't refine a lot of it?

Yet again we are going to see issues with inflation and shortages due to the geopolitical landscape. The quicker we transition to more renewables the better for our security, but unfortunately whilst we continue to race to the bottom from global trade shocks like this will always be around. Capitalism needs a reset.

As I asked you, if the poll is a genuine, non-doctored poll, what are the issues with it being used? You understand the difference between a poll and facts presented by an organisation I would assume.

So why is it good news for the Government?

Sorry, what's this saying? I'm not on X because it's a mouthpiece for cunts, run by a cunt and read by cunts.