Proceeds to list zero policies 😀
I listed three. You might like to pretend they’re not policies or something, but Reform put them in their manifesto.
We’re using gas for the next 50 years whether it’s Reform or the Greens. That curries more favour with the US or Qatar than it does Russia. You’re reaching for that to be a “Putin policy”
Really? Are you seriously claiming that Putin doesn’t want the UK buying gas for longer? As that’s the difference between Reform and the others: Reform would build more new gas power stations, prolonging the dependency mistake, while most of the other parties will phase it out more or less quickly.
Scrapping the licence fee…
Not only, but also scrapping the BBC because they believe on-demand TV has replaced it. That’s what they wrote.
And I notice you don’t disagree that Putin would want the UK out of the European Defence Fund.
What would Putin oppose? Let’s see… the top three from Reform’s site:
- stopping the boats (I know, I know)
- defend our borders
- deport illegal migrants
Don’t make me laugh! Why would Putin oppose those? Putin would love all of them, along with anything else that makes the UK more isolated and causes squabbles with its neighbours or diverts funds from NATO-level defence to petty little border patrols. That’s why he’s paid Reform politicians like Nathan Gill so much.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Russia was the biggest gas exporter until the 2022 sanctions. It is still heavily dependent on black and grey market exports.
makingrain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Read what I said again: we’ll be using gas in 50 years.
Your cherry picked statistics for a windy day at 22:30 are a poor example. Check again at 17:00.
Maybe have a think about the majority of homes central heating.
While you’re at it: go learn about how fertiliser is made using natural gas (we import all our fertiliser now anyway, thanks Ed!)
mjr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
We’ll have to wait 50 years to know, but even if we are, it’ll be much much less under any sane government, but it would be more if left to Reform.
It’s absurd to accuse someone of cherry-picking and then cherry-pick a time when the National Energy System Operator has invited bids for the Demand Flexibility Service because the price of gas-generated electricity is too high.
A majority, but not a supermajority. Only about 60% of UK homes burn gas for heating despite all the encouragement and inducement since the 1970s in a scandal that makes promotion of diesel cars look like playschool stuff, and a farcical and pathetic target-missing attempt to encourage heat pumps in the last 10 years (target: 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028, latest number I’ve seen: 91,000 per year and no, that’s not missing a digit).
So? Buying gas and thereby driving the market price up is enough to benefit Russia. When you hear a gas boiler roar, it’s helping fund Putin.
makingrain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it’s a certainty. You and the other user are fixated on CCGT generation. My reply was to the other user, not you. They said “Gas will not last another 50 years at all.” and I am saying it has more uses than CCGT.
No it’s not. They looked at a dashboard at 22:30 and tried to portray the UK as if it is representative of a peak usage time. Let’s see how those stats are today… oh, 50% is generated by CCGT (gas) at 7pm, cool. That was my point.
Wrong. It’s closer to 85%. Where did you get the 60% figure from? I’m not replying to your irrelevant addon about heat pumps (go back up this chain to remind yourself of what we’re talking about)
They sell it for far less.