UK Politics Thread (Part 2)

People in the oil business are not remotely happy with this government.

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World’s shortest list, those who are.

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This sort of volatility induced by erratic policy is just catastrophic for the £. Only traders with the ability to make quick hedged plays like these conditions, businesses that are trying to make investments and adjustments are just seeing uncertainty and cost. Anyone looking at making an actual capital investment in the UK is more or less saying ‘fuck it, let’s wait a quarter and see what happens’

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Just being her adviser is improper and unethical

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Friday?

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Making fracking the point of confidence is a fine piece of patient political tactics.

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We either agree that fracking is fine or we don’t.

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Well, that sort of depends on what the basis of the objection is. For a climate campaigner, no fracking is fine. But for local concerns about contamination of ground water, unpredictable migration along diagonally-oriented strata, and proximity to communities, sometimes those concerns are baseless, but sometimes they have a very real foundation. I know people who have done fracking projects in the Horn River basin who think that the idea of doing it in a place with England’s geology and population density is absolute madness.

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With a view to what outcome?

I wonder who is left then! :astonished:

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Surely if 60+ Tory MPs voted against it they couldn’t all lose the whip?

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I was wondering where the cut off point was, it is such an unecessary position to put oneself into
I wonder if it was aimed at those who had submitted a no confidence letter - as it appears the letter then counts for nothing if the whip is removed
but removing the whip from so many MPs would surely just end the PMs career right there wouldn’t it?

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