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Rich Eames@bmxcommentator21 Oct 2023
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Rich Eames retweeted
Liz Truss was just an extreme example of what the Tories always do:
- Cut taxes for the rich
- Push "trickle down" economics
- Slash our public services
The Tories always put the super-rich first. And ordinary people always pay the price!
We need to kick them all out!
Rich Eames retweeted
A reminder that Norway has a £1 trillion + wealth fund for ordinary people, built over years by taxing fossil fuel giants at 78%.
Last year Norway collected $89bn in tax from fossil fuel giants.
They then used the fund to pay people’s energy bills.
That’s the alternative way.
Rich Eames retweeted
Wages don’t cause inflation, profiteering does.
Your energy bills didn’t double or treble this year because they doubled energy workers wages. Your energy bills went through the roof because energy corporations pocketed monster profits.
Nationalise energy. Tax profiteers.
Rich Eames retweeted
A firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP just two months before the PM opened up hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
Pick the bones out of that.
Rich Eames retweeted
Here's what I don't get.
All Labour has to do is say they'll shut down on their first day in office all new oil and gas projects that were greenlit between 1 August 2023 and the GE, and no firm will touch the available licences with a barge pole.
It's really that simple.
Rich Eames retweeted
My quote of the day
"By announcing hundreds of new oil and gas licences, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has become a “dangerous radical” pursuing “moral and economic madness”
United Nations secretary general, António Guterres.
Rich Eames retweeted
Got to give it to the Tory Party, despite their policies benefiting less than 1% of the population they still manage to convince 25% of the electorate to keep supporting them. The UK’s longest running scam!
Rich Eames retweeted
•One onshore wind turbine under construction since Sunak became PM
•100 new licenses for oil & gas extraction granted
•UK Emissions Scheme changed to allow more pollution of CO₂
•Regular travel by private jet & helicopter
Sunak couldn’t care any less about the climate.
Rich Eames retweeted
Mexico fitted 19,000 solar panels on a single day. That’s nearly 7 million a year. That’s nearly 35 million per parliament.
Politicians in the UK will never allow this because solar is 8 times cheaper than gas. They will never allow you access to cheaper energy. It hurts profits
Rich Eames retweeted
Just a reminder that renewables are much cheaper than fossil fuels – last year they were NINE times cheaper!
Rich Eames retweeted
HSBC standard 2 yr variable mortgage rate- 6.99% interest. HSBC standard variable interest rate for savers- 1.74%.
HSBC profits in just 26 weeks- £16.9bn.
As night follows day- it’s rigged.
Rich Eames retweeted
Sunak will use a trip to Scotland to confirm 100 gas & oil licences
It takes 5 yrs from a find until oil & gas is produced from a field
It takes 6 mnths to build onshore wind farms & the energy is up to 11 times cheaper than oil & gas
The solutions are there, the will isn’t.
Rich Eames retweeted
Natural gas trading at 63p per therm, same as in May 2021 when average domestic energy bill was £1,138. Now £2,074.
900% profit hike at British gas. BP, Shell & others picking our pockets.
Govt cuts real wages, but no curbs on profiteering.
You know which side the govt is on.
Rich Eames retweeted
The Tories closed UK’s largest gas storage facility in the UK 6 years ago
It accounted for 70% of the UK’s gas storage capacity & could store 3,310,000,000 cubic metres of gas
The accident prone Liz Truss was the Minister in charge
Your bills will go up due to incompetence.
Rich Eames retweeted
NatWest has reported 6 month profits of £3.6bn up from £2.6bn last year.
No one should be in any doubt that fiscal austerity promoted by the Tories, Labour & the Bank of England, is all about the elite profiteering.
It’s greed.
