This is an absolutely huge jump in oil prices.
It's also why Europe needs to get off fossil fuels asap (beyond climate change impact). We can't be beholden to this.
Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.
Dinner: carrot and orange salad with raisins, cranberries and pecans in a lemon honey dressing. Mangetout and green bean salad with toasted hazelnuts in a sesame and olive oil dressing. Leftovers from last night. Posted becase I thought you might like to look at something orange that isn't a cunt.
Kuenssberg: it's impossible to report freely and fairly from inside Iran.
What's your excuse for not doing so in the UK, Laura?
#bbclaurak
The people who told us austerity was crucial, Brexit would be brilliant, Boris Johnson’s amazing and Liz Truss is an economic genius, are now insisting the country should join an illegal war
#BBCLauraK
Today’s Bearly Politics post contains barely any politics.
Instead it’s a more personal reflection on the past two weeks - loss, family, grief, relief and a very strange emotional reset.
“Grelief.”
Thank you for everyone’s support.
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Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre.
Opportunistic profiteering
Companies quick to increase prices, slow to bring them down.
Govt must act. Also clawback excess profits through windfall taxes.
Well said.
I propose a new law:
Anyone who expresses support for an offensive war shall immediately be drafted to fight in it. No exceptions and no exemptions for any reason, including disability or service as a government official in any office. Presidents and congressmen shall fight in any war they start.
…….
Just a reminder.
Benefits in kind should also be taken into account.
If an MP is living in some donors multimillion pound mansion, or having huge security bills paid for, or having private jets paid for.
It all counts and it is all used to buy influence. It should be banned.
We can't have any external influence on elected and salaried leaders in any shape or form.
If the salary for the job is not enough for them, then don't apply.
MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says.
This should be accompanied by a total ban on second jobs, which in most cases is a corporate bribe. Must end all conflict of interests.
Being a MP is a full time job. MPs must act exclusively as MPs.
Every day this illegal war goes on remember how the Tory Traitors ripped apart our military. And left us exposed and vulnerable.
As a reminder
Grant Shapps
Ben Wallace
Penny Mordaunt
Gavin Williamson
Michael Fallon
Philip Hammond
Liam Fox
![The Green victory in Gorton and Denton is important because it adds to the pressure for Labour to stop trying to ape Reform. That needs to happen, because to avoid a right wing populist government, socially liberal voters need to be prepared to vote tactically between Labour and other socially liberal parties in a way that is at least as efficient as tactical voting between Conservatives and Reform. As long as Labour acts and sounds like Reform on social issues, that is just not going to happen. But equally the anti-right wing vote needs a strong Labour vote, because it is highly unlikely that socially liberal parties can defeat the right without it. [3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreihronfvoafhzngrmjt23mnlalctnbmkw5axmski25q3qvtemkclza)
The Green victory in Gorton and Denton is important because it adds to the pressure for Labour to stop trying to ape Reform. That needs to happen, because to avoid a right wing populist government, socially liberal voters need to be prepared to vote tactically between Labour and other socially liberal parties in a way that is at least as efficient as tactical voting between Conservatives and Reform. As long as Labour acts and sounds like Reform on social issues, that is just not going to happen. But equally the anti-right wing vote needs a strong Labour vote, because it is highly unlikely that socially liberal parties can defeat the right without it. [3]
The bottom line….
Please god listen, Labour.
For all our sakes you must genuinely rethink and reset. Stop gaming your moves through the nasty prism of the rightwing media and speak to your core voters instead. They can come back but only if they believe in you again.
The irony that a draft dodger with imaginary bone spurs is proclaiming that sending other people sons and lovers to the Epstein War to fight his battles is noble...
#TrumpIsACunt
Iran is run by cunts.
Israel is run by cunts.
The USA is run by cunts.
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Well said Chris Bryant!
I think any further investigation should include who else covered up his poor behaviour? The Queen, RF, his security, senior civil servants? Clearly many people knew that he was utterly unfit!😡
The RF may wish to think this scandal is nearly over, but it’s only got started!😠
Good morning and happy Monday to everyone. Fat Satan hates it when you call him a pedophile that rapes little girls. Don't spread it around the internet anymore.
Get these bastards arrested, charged and jailed!
Thousands of avoidable deaths!
"It's a bit rude..."
A former royal protection officer confirms it.
Fixed the Question Time logo for them.
The working class are paying their hard earned cash to the wealthy by every means possible
Centrica, owner of British Gas, CEO gets £3.6m bonus despite fall in profits.
Profits fell because of warmer winter, CEO gets more.
Bills still too high. Ofgem formula guarantees high prices/profits.
Let customers/employees elect directors and vote on exec pay at essential sectors.
More like ‘don’t you know who I am/was?’
