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Check out the picture (sorry, direct link doesn't seem to work) on belgian state media:
http://deredactie.be/polopoly_fs/1.1832919!image/533723222.jpg_gen/derivatives/portrait376/533723222.jpg
which is in reference to Fracking in the UK: 'We're going all out for shale,' admits Cameron
I predict UK people will not stand for this.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I predict that unless we can come up with a more constructive strategy than "oppose every extraction we can find."
malaise
(267,791 posts)He is a greedy scumbag
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)I don't think Labour will have a different policy.
malaise
(267,791 posts)Ralph Miliband must be rolling in his grave
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)Blair still has an appointment with the International Criminal Court in his future, in my not so humble opinion.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)And, as noted above, a greedy scumbag. A clown.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)cannot do so in France where fracking is illegal.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)David Cameron has led intense lobbying against the proposals, arguing that existing rules are strict enough to keep fracking safe and that new rules would delay investment and increase costs.
On Monday, the prime minister said the UK was "going all out for shale" and announced millions of pounds of incentives for local authorities to accept fracking. But opponents have accused him of "hypocrisy" and being "cavalier", while the EU's environment commissioner says there are "clear gaps" in current safety rules.
Leaked documents from the European commission, obtained by the Euractiv news service and seen by the Guardian, show that attempts to safeguard the environment with a new legally binding directive have been defeated by the UK and its allies, which include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Instead, a set of non-binding "recommendations" covering protection against water contamination and potential earthquakes will be published on 22 January.
also from the Guardian
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)'I predict UK people will not stand for this.'
There will be protests from people whose areas are affected by this; but we have had only limited success against many other revolting policies: kicking poor people; the 'bedroom tax; tripling tuition fees; partially privatizing our precious NHS; etc. And this despite the fact that the Tories got only 36% of the vote.
Labour will be better than this lot, but they're unlikely to be great. But right at the moment, I'll settle for almost any government that doesn't include Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, or Iain Duncan-Smith.
Clegg sold out to Cameron; Cameron sold out to the likes of Duncan-Smith; and the public got sold out completely. We're fucked, oops, I mean fracked.
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)I read CiF at The Guardian quite a bit.
As far as I can tell, the UK is being squeezed in such a way that something has got to give. Your summary of the predicament is accurate. And then I read "another 30 billion needs to be cut from the budget".
We now see protest everywhere, but it's usually isolated and unerreported. I don't think it can stay that way, but indeed that may be more a case of "hope" rather than "predict".
ananda
(28,781 posts)That's because the people feel more financially secure.
So what was that about fracking and shale coming to the UK?