FFS! I have never watched GBeebies, but I can only surmise that @news.sky.com would be a good ersatz solution. It seems like it's providing constant promotion of #SemiBadenough, with regular failed has-beens like Gillian Keegan, Michelle Donelan and back-room Bertha, Salma Shah. 🙄

I wonder if #SemiBadenough was asked to elaborate on her previous comments, about drilling for oil and gas to reduce consumers' bills?
The amount of gas that could be extracted annually from Jackdaw, equates to ~2.26% of gas demand in 2025. 🤦‍♂️
#Jackdaw
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I'd be kidding myself that my email to #SemiBadenough might have had anything to do with her partial climb-down… even if I had to resend it to loto@parliament.uk 🤷‍♂️
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Screenshot of a post on Twitter (03 Feb 2022) by Greg Hands (@GregHands) 3rd mythbuster of 4: We do want to import less gas, but more U.K. production wouldn't reduce the global price of gas. ❌MYTH Extracting more North Sea gas lowers prices ✔️FACT We are committed to North Sea gas production for security of supply. However, UK production isn't large enough to materially impact the global price of gas.

It would appear that while #SemiBadenough was jointly a Minister of State in FCDO *and* Dept for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, she didn't pay attention to what the then SoS for Energy wrote about extracting more gas/oil from the N. Sea.
Her understanding of the subject hasn't improved either🙄

Mrs Kemi Badenoch > (North West Essex) (Con) I asked the Prime Minister six questions last week and he did not answer a single one. He has a duty to this House to answer the question. Let us see if he can do better this week. I will start with a simple one. Will the Prime Minister approve the licences for the Rosebank and Jackdaw gasfields in the North sea? Mrs Badenoch > The Prime Minister loves to hide behind legal process. I wonder what a Director of Public Prosecutions would make of the defence, "Sorry, I can't produce my WhatsApps-my phone has been stolen." The Jackdaw gasfield could be up and running before winter. All that gas would be used here in the UK to heat 1.6 million homes. That is enough to power Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex put together. Will the Prime Minister approve the licences, or is the Energy Secretary running the Government? Mrs Badenoch > The Norwegian Prime Minister is doing what is right for his country—if only our Prime Minister would do the same. Stopping all new drilling in the North sea was a reckless promise when he made it before the election; in the middle of a global energy crisis, it is catastrophic. Experts are predicting a £300 rise in bills in July. Approving new licences would show that he is serious about cutting bills. Why will he not do it?

North Sea production does not impact UK energy bills. The central energy issue in the UK today is around affordability, with millions of households still struggling to heat their homes and businesses impacted by high costs nearly five years More domestic oil and gas production makes no difference to UK energy bills. North Sea output is too small to influence global prices, and reserves are owned by oil and gas companies who sell them to the highest bidder at international market prices. In 2023, during the energy crisis, then Conservative Energy Secretary, Claire Coutinho, admitted that new drilling would not bring bills down. The UK is particularly exposed to volatile fossil fuel markets, with the cost of gas setting the price of electricity the majority of the time. Russia's war with Ukraine, which saw much larger spikes in energy prices than today, led to UK consumers paying an estimated additional £183 billion in excess energy costs, severely damaging people's finances and the UK economy. The UK has burned through most of its gas. After 50 years of drilling, the North Sea is a hyper-mature basin with just a small fraction of UK gas reserves remaining. Most of what is produced is oil, 80% of which the UK exports. According to official projections, based on expected development activity - even if new North Sea fields are developed - the UK's reliance on imported gas is set to rise from 55% today to more than two-thirds dependent by 2030, and over 90% dependent on gas imports by 2050, due to the declining basin." Opening new oil and gas fields makes almost no difference to UK dependency on gas imports. Jackdaw, one of the biggest undeveloped gas fields, if approved, would reduce our annual gas import dependency by just 2% on average; and the controversial Rosebank field, whose reserves are primarily oil destined for export, has the potential to reduce annual gas import dependency by just 1% on average:

Two consecutive weeks, #SemiBadenough has used #PMQs to challenge Starmer over extraction of oil/gas from Rosebank & Jackdaw fields in N. Sea. It's too bad she didn't consult her colleague Coutinho, who as Energy Secretary in 2023, said that drilling in these fields wouldn't reduce energy bills. 🤦‍♂️🙄

North Sea production does not impact UK energy bills. More domestic oil and gas production makes no difference to UK energy bills. North Sea output is too small to influence global prices, and reserves are owned by oil and gas companies who sell them to the highest bidder at international market prices. In 2023, during the energy crisis, then Conservative Energy Secretary, Claire Coutinho, admitted that new drilling would not bring bills down.

Why does the fuckwit #SemiBadenough persist with the notion that Starmer should grant licences to extract from Jackdaw & Rosebank fields in the light of readily available information on how much doing so, will impact domestic energy bills? The woman's a complete 🤡
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Clearly #SemiBadenough hasn't studied any history, otherwise she'd know about what Thatcher did to UK industry, nor has she heard/read about what Paddy Minford said about running down industries as a consequence of leaving the EU and the protection it aforded. She is so utterly stupid. 🙄

🧵 Ye fucking gods! #SemiBadenough never passes up an opportunity to illustrate her stupidity & ignorance. There would be no direct benefit to the country because it would not be owned by the UK, but by the oil extraction companies, that would sell it on world markets. …1/

Just imagine the quandry for #NeedyNigel & #SemiBadenough, having said:
• Starmer was wrong not to have supported 🍊 diaper filler at start of war then
• UK should not get involved in Trump's war then…

Trump asks for help from Western allies *&* China, to provide safe passage of tankers thro' Hormuz

FFS! #NeedyNigel and #SemiBadenough wanting Starmer to throw the UK's lot in with this senile old tw@!

Dead people walking around with no legs or arms. 🤦‍♂️

Apparently, @news.sky.com asked
#SemiBadenough what she would have done re offensive strikes in Iran, were she prime minister. 🤪🤪
Normally when a MP is asked a hypothetical question, they don't want to engage.
Ask this one to consider total *make believe* and she could probably go on endlessly.🙄🤦‍♂️

Mrs Badenoch "The fact is that the Type 45s cannot take out incoming missiles."

The Daring class consists of six Type 45 destroyers (HMS Daring, Dauntless, Diamond, Dragon, Defender and Duncan) that were purpose built for anti-aircraft and *anti-missile* warfare.

Hey @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk… shouldn't Kemi Badenoch, aka 'She Who Doesn't Make Mistakes', be required to return to the Chamber to correct her misleading statement about the capabilities of Type 45 destroyers? #SemiBadenough #NeverKnowinglyCorrect

Question on The Chase:
In which war did the Royal Navy develop the depth charge?

Contestant's answer: "Spanish Armada".😬
(I love the idea that she thought submarines were in existence in the 16th century)

Unbelievably, the contestant wasn't #SemiBadenough, given her specialist maritime knowledge.

Never mind the fact that #SemiBadenough didn't know that HMS Dragon's primary capability is advanced anti-air warfare, the funniest thing here, IMO, is the fact that she didn't realise why those opposite were laughing… I bet they knew. 🤷‍♂️
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I wonder what #SemiBadenough has to say to Michael Gove regarding his opinion of the appointment of Mandelson to the role of UK ambassador to US, given her effusive criticism of Starmer.
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I should have thought the defecation of #SemiBadenough to #RefUKPartyLtd would be on the cards, given how many other Dunning Kruger sufferers have already done so.

Precisely.
When (for years for which there are complete data) one checks 2024 with the year #SemiBadenough has chosen as the unfavourable period to which to return, (2006); it can be seen that something was being done well in the preceding 18 years, compared with the period since 2006. …1/2

Maybe #SemiBadenough should have a rethink over the path that has been followed, that has culminated in the Chagos deal… paying particular to the entry chronicled in 2022 ⬇️
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Oh FFS! Is she going to force me to trawl through pages of Hansard now? #SemiBadenough the fascist appeaser.