Burnham to announce new North Sea oil and gas drilling plans
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
rockinchimp 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸39Says a lot about Labour that they feel they have to stick by their own made-up fiscal rules but will happily break any manifesto pledge that is inconvenient to them.
KarrieS18Zack if this proves to be the case and indeed one tends to think so what can we all do. We can keep protecting and presenting facts etc but my gut feeling is @andyburnham.bsky.social who doesn’t interact on here as he should is just unfortunately more of the same just in a different wrapper .
Steve DeVeaux17Saw this article earlier and thought the same. There is so little to be gained from this: the fields are almost depleted, it will barely help with the country’s energy security, it will not reduce the cost of our oil & gas, and it exacerbates the climate crisis. Very poor decision to go with this.
KeninDevon13This act alone would destroy Burnham’s credibility for me. Only the Green Party can be trusted to tackle the climate crisis.
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU12WTF is wrong with him? Has he been bought by Big Oil like so many other politicians?
Dawny B11Are you sure this is true?
Sylvia144Burnham “I can’t make changes that are not in the manifesto” Labour 2024 manifesto ‘We will not issue new licenses… because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis’
Will105They can't even argue it's for jobs, there's a report out that the Jackdaw Gas Field would only create 27 full time jobs. Why not create tens of thousands of jobs in the Green Economy instead?
Conor75It’s weird that they are framing this as sensible grown up politics when thanks to climate change caused extreme weather has killed thousands of people across Europe this summer and millions of people across North America can’t go outside
Ian Betteridge14Yup. A terrible, terrible signal. I am going to love to hear what Burnham's justification is. (Worth noting: sometimes "policy" gets floated by people within a politician's circle because they want to see how it flies. So we'll see. But batshit either way)
Madeley11Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The Socialist Dad9Keir Starmer "I'm the worst Prime Minister the UK has ever had" Andy Burnham "Hold my pint of ale"
Claire💚AKA InkedMum💚#FBPE#FuckDeform#KTTO 🚫NO maga 🚫5CLIMATE CHANGE! Sitting here at just after 10.30 am and I’ve had the fan on pretty much 24/7 for over a week now. I’m in Northern Ireland and we are not built for this heat!
Oisín McGann4I try not to despair over the climate crisis, but it really feels like people in power everywhere have just completely blanked it out.
Me & Taylor4Utterly bonkers. This is Blair/Starmer's Labour. Bought by corporate (short term profit) interests.
Shazzy3We're living in a critical phase of environmental awareness and action, yet the 'socialist' Labour party in the UK are playing by the Trump playbook. Wonder how well this is gonna go for Burnham? #UK #ClimateCrisis #Burnham
So Andy Burnham has repeatedly committed to sticking to Labour's 2024 manifesto, yet we're now told that his first major announcement will be breaking its commitment not to drill for new oil and gas in the North Sea.
Adam Bienkov34Greens: "With heatwaves causing deaths, wildfires and extreme weather across the country, approving new oil and gas drilling is exactly the wrong response and will do nothing to bring down energy bills."
Sylvia Booth4This will go down like a lead balloon with most people - not Badenoch obviously. We only have one planet.
Huw Jelly2He's decided the best opening gambit as is to announce oil and gas drilling and appointing the ghoulish hypocrite and anti-immigration daughter of immigrants as chancellor despite her having no experience or qualifications for the role is quite frankly an astonishing way to fail on day -2 as PM. 🤬🤦♀️
Parker2All that wearing a Fred Perry and springing about to New Order going to wear off in record time.
Mystic Monk 🏴🏴🇮🇪🏴🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦1That manifesto was drawn up with no knowledge that Trump would fuck about with the world's oil supply
Don't panic Jonesey1I hope he doesn't spend anything on redecorating No10 to his taste. If half the reports of his plans are true he won't be there long enough to make it value for money.
Andy Burnham is going directly against the 2024 Labour manifesto by doing this (as the BBC correctly and prominently notes). That opens a door that his team have tried hard to keep shut. If he can go against the manifesto for *this*, he will hear, why not for other issues?
James Ball55If his line is that he feels he can only legitimately u-turn on the manifesto on a small number of issues, the choice of this one will look even more perverse. He will never be able to outdo the tories and reform on climate denial. And north sea drilling will deliver nothing on energy prices.
Toilet banned3I’d be surprised if this has been leaked by anyone in his team though. They’ve been trying to keep a lid on things is what I understood?
Neil2Thought thus was just about honouring the existing agreements for Rosebank and Jackdaw, which was within the manifesto Are you saying he's agreeing more?
Alan Fresco1I just wish someone would lay out the facts around this issue. bsky.app/profile/alan...
What does Burnham think he’s playing at? This will break Labour’s manifesto & play into Tory & reform hands We don’t need more North Sea drilling, especially as Tories sold oil sea beds so now goes on international market It won’t make gas cheaper. Should focus on renewable energy not more oil
Samuel Karlin2If he does this, he is genuinely worse than Starmer. I don't think that a good solution for Labour to losing loads of voters to the Greens and Lib Dems is to become MORE right-wing. But what do I know? Labour, themselves, apparently think this.
Stewart Macdonald1A definite sign he’s stuck in the 80’s/90’s as we suspected,he isn’t the man for 2026 Just like he wasn’t twice for leadership before. Clowns will clown
"It is a signal that government backs the people and places that have powered this country for generations," the letter added. Residents of the North Sea must be thrilled. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Benjamin Ibañez3Burnham determined for his government to lift off with a crash landing.
Jim Obey1This will have zero effect on energy markets prices - people's bills. But if you own BP shares, woohoo!
🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎1Game over. The team is just warming up, but the ref has already blown the whistle.
Tom Spoors1I knew there was something fishy about Burnham.
Tony Yates18More North Sea Oil won't make much difference to anything, but it's interesting which manifesto commitments they are prepared to drop and why. Mahmood as Chancellor and drilling looks like a renewed attempt to go after the socially conservative voters Labour lost.
Éamann Mac Donnchada4Steam locos to be brought back?
Andrew Richards3So Burnham signals that net zero is not a priority. I wonder if Miliband will resign? Or be replaced? And The Times is reporting that Shabana Mahmood accepted the post of Chancellor because it would give her more power to control immigration. Has Burnham learnt nothing from Starmer's tenure?
Photography by Alfie Goodrich2Ironically, there were once “residents of the North Sea”. It was called Doggerland. Between 10000 and 7000BCE, the area was inundated by rising sea levels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerl...
