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BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 05:05 AM Jan 2014

Cameron is a Total sellout

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

The prime minister's announcement, likened to a bribe by environmentalists, comes on the day that the French energy group Total becomes the first global oil company to invest in a shale gas exploration project in Britain. The FT reported on Saturday that Total is to join a shale gas exploration licence in the Midlands operated by the US company Ecorp.


I predict UK people will not stand for this.
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Cameron is a Total sellout (Original Post) BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 OP
Do you predict that? Recursion Jan 2014 #1
Cameron is going to get a whipping in the next elections malaise Jan 2014 #2
Problem is dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #4
After Blair all bets are off malaise Jan 2014 #6
"New" Labour = neoliberal labour BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 #7
Cameron is a total arsehole mr blur Jan 2014 #3
The irony is that Total, which is French, dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #5
UK defeats European bid for fracking regulations BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 #8
Water is wet. LeftishBrit Jan 2014 #9
I hear you BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 #10
Cameron is only 3 points behind Labour now. ananda Jan 2014 #11

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. Do you predict that?
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 05:54 AM
Jan 2014

I predict that unless we can come up with a more constructive strategy than "oppose every extraction we can find."

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
7. "New" Labour = neoliberal labour
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 01:45 PM
Jan 2014

Blair still has an appointment with the International Criminal Court in his future, in my not so humble opinion.

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
8. UK defeats European bid for fracking regulations
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 02:38 PM
Jan 2014
The UK has defeated European Union attempts to set legally binding environmental regulations for the continent's fledgling shale gas industry, the Guardian has learned.

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)
9. Water is wet.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 04:38 PM
Jan 2014

'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)
10. I hear you
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 05:42 PM
Jan 2014

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)
11. Cameron is only 3 points behind Labour now.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 06:02 PM
Jan 2014

That's because the people feel more financially secure.

So what was that about fracking and shale coming to the UK?

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