General British politics discussion thread

I remember lots of traffic jams and people dancing in the streets (literally)

In more important news. Truss' energy price freeze while refusing to implement any windfall taxes, coming hot on the heels of the revelation that her single biggest donor to her campaign to lead the Tory party was 100k from the wife of the head of BP.

She wouldn't have gotten a honeymoon period because her hands are covered in the blood of the Johnson administration. The Queens death was excellent news for her and the Tories. They can bury all kinds of damaging news over the next week or two

At a time when energy supply is so precarious then it makes some sense.

It was JRM who lifted the ban on fracking and is doing so under the guise of energy market reform, this would have been prepared well before the queen passed;

I think it ironic that he states "we will extract every ounce of oil and gas from the North Sea" as if this should provide some comfort to those who will struggle to pay energy bills. Of course every ounce will be extracted, the extraction companies are making obscene amounts of money from it and the British government seem to be going to underwrite the current prices set by world markets, despite North Sea extraction costs not changing much.

It'll work the same way as companies claiming to use 100% renewable energy (they are allocated on paper a portion of the renewable energy produced, regardless of the source of the actual energy they use). It's just moving numbers around a spreadsheet but and most will be satisfied with that. It won't be an issue for several years anyway, assuming they actually produce any fracked gas at all.

I was watching the procession from Holyroodhouse to the High Kirk there and some mouth by the crowd barrier was screaming at the Mourning Party, whereupon he was yanked back away at breakneck speed.

I don't know if it was by the Police or by another of the crowd, but he deserved it for being so utterly disrespectful to his fellow citizens.

At the same time, I don't think he should be charged with anything, just given a bollicking and sent on his way.