Somebody talking with a little sense at last.

bit rich coming from that cnut, massive suporter of privatisation, and was a prime mover for de-regulation, taking up a cabinet position for deregulation. if only he had made that comment about thirty years ago i might have given some credence today.

the whole ethos as well of thatcherites like him was that you could import everything
 
Costero Poderoso said:
bit rich coming from that cnut, massive suporter of privatisation, and was a prime mover for de-regulation, taking up a cabinet position for deregulation. if only he had made that comment about thirty years ago i might have given some credence today.

the whole ethos as well of thatcherites like him was that you could import everything
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Redwood can snipe from the sidelines, but having wasting our North Sea bonanza under his watch, where is this massive source of energy that were supposed to not import?

Reopen all those coal mines he played a part in closing? Its still there, despite the claims made at the time.
 
EagleDay said:
And it shouldn't just apply to energy. Probably just talk though.

'You can't import everything!' Redwood slams UK reliance on foreign gas amid energy crisis

www.msn.com
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Wasn't it Redwood etc who argued vehemently against the left* in the 80s and 90s that you could, in fact, import coal, steel, ships, and whatever the fuck else you wanted if it meant decimating industry and reducing union power?

*I.e. the actual left, not the fictional woke media liberals under the bed.
 
td53 said:
Wasn't it Redwood etc who argued vehemently against the left* in the 80s and 90s that you could, in fact, import coal, steel, ships, and whatever the fuck else you wanted if it meant decimating industry and reducing union power?

*I.e. the actual left, not the fictional woke media liberals under the bed.
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Like I said probably just talk. It would be nice if one of 'em stood up and admitted they were wrong though, wouldn't it?
 
What Redwood doesn't point out in his "you can't import everything" spiel is that half of the gas we use still comes from our own gas fields under the North Sea - so is not imported. Of the rest, 13% is piped from Benelux, 12% from Norway, Russia pipes in a fraction (5%) and the other 20% comes on tankers from all over the world...and it's the tankered supply that the Chinese are looking to monopolise. All of that doesn't explain why prices to UK industry and consumers needs to rise by several hundred per cent. Someone is using the situation to make a mint!
 
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