Russia was the biggest gas exporter until the 2022 sanctions. It is still heavily dependent on black and grey market exports.
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makingrain@lemmy.world 20 hours agoSo many to choose from! Proceeds to list zero policies 😀
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”
Scrapping the licence fee… that 1/2 of the population who should pay, don’t.
Thanks for responding at least.
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
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
makingrain@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 hours ago
I listed three. You might like to pretend they’re not policies or something, but Reform put them in their manifesto.
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.
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.
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.