Brits Told to Work From Home and Use Ovens Less Amid Energy Crisis – and Reeves Can’t Help “Because She’s Maxxed Out Britain’s Credit Card”
Brits are being urged to work from home and use ovens less as the energy crisis deepens, amid worries that Rachel Reeves can’t help because she’s “maxxed out the nation’s credit card” with “runaway welfare spending”. The Mail has more.
Amid mounting concerns over global supply chains, the international energy watchdog has issued advice to cut down on car use and cook with air fryers.
The stark message comes as households start to feel the ‘Trumpflation’ impact from the Iran war, with oil and gas prices spiking.
Fears over a new wave of inflation today sent the UK Government’s borrowing costs to the highest levels since 2008 – the peak of the credit crunch misery.
That has raised more doubts over whether Rachel Reeves will be able to find the money to help families cope with the looming pain – as happened after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The Tories have accused the Chancellor of “maxxing out the nation’s credit card” with “runaway welfare spending”, as figures showed February’s public sector borrowing was the highest on record outside of Covid.
Downing Street stressed the International Energy Agency (IEA) advice was not official in the UK, saying people should behave “normally”.
The PM’s official spokesman said: “This is the IEA’s general advice for countries across the world. It is not in place in the UK.
“We have a diverse and resilient supply. People in the UK should continue to go about their days in normal fashion.”
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Good old “no new wars” Trump. He sucker punched a lot of us – very much part of the global cabal.
Looking on the bright side, there are mid-term elections coming up soon, and he is in his last term with a hard end to it.
But then who? There are certainly no Democrats that aren’t in on the whole thing… Vance maybe? I’ve come to the conclusion that the entire political class have signed up to, or are beholden to, the same project – detailed in the Toronto Protocols dating back at least 60+ years. I don’t trust a single one of them.
Choose your evil.
Trump derangment syndrome right there, do you watch bbc and abc? all the time i guess?
Here’s a question you can research for yourself, how much of Britain’s oil, gas and LNG travels through the straight of Hormuz to power Britain? I’m not going to tell you because I dont know! Use all your investigative powers to tell me why.. a war against Iran PUTS OUR FUEL PRICES UP THIS MUCH AND THIS QUICKLY!? Derr!
Here’s a clue
And, derr, do you not think the President of the US and his advisors might have considered all eventualities? You’re still playing 2D chess – two dimensions behind those running the show. I assume you still believe the way out of all this is to vote for Reform right? Or is that your remit?
Why aren’t you running the American war office, or indeed NATO, it seems you are very experienced in fighting wars, which regiment did you serve in?
“… which regiment did you serve in…”
Dad’s Army. Don’t panic!
No I think we should keep voting Labour until Mad Ed Minibrain has entirely destroyed our economy and we are all living in hovels dotted over the landscape, scratching about in the dirt trying to grow enough turnips to boil for tonight’s supper to keep us alive.
Nobody can consider all eventualities – except God.
Less than 2% of USA petroleum consumption goes via Hormuz and no gas. The USA is largely unaffected.
Do you think maybe they knew that and didn’t care about closure of Hormuz?
Great graphic. The oil heads east doesn’t it, not West.
The Straits and Oil are a diversion of course.
Jew World Order.
Trump et al do as they are told to do by the Israelis. Today Iran, tomorrow another state.
UK is right to stay out of this. Trump said he would end wars including the forever war against Russia. Still waiting.
Interesting as this graphic is, it only provides part of the picture. What it shows me is that the UK is an insignificant player for those countries that export oil via the Strait.
Some in the UK might see this as reassuring, but I don’t. Look at the big economic powerhouses who will be looking to make up the shortfall elsewhere. We’ll be competing with them on the market.
In addition, the graphic doesn’t show what proportion of the oil we use in the UK comes via the Strait of Hormuz. Say, for argument’s sake, we usually take 1% of the oil passing through. That doesn’t mean only 1% of our supply is affected. It could be significantly more.
Don’t be so bloody stupid. I wanted Trump to be who I hoped he was. He isn’t. What you are suffering from is the inverse of TDS – TIGS (Trump is God Syndrome). Sometimes you have to change your position based upon the evidence shoved in your face; if you can’t do that you’re no better than everyone else – blinded by your own certainty and too arrogant to consider you’ve made a mistake. I assume you haven’t read the Toronto Protocols?
Don’t be so quick to throw accusations at people you know literally nothing about.
Virtually no LNG comes to UK via Hormuz (only a little from Qatar) because about 45% of our gas is piped from UK North Sea gas fields, more is piped from Norway’s North Sea gas fields, and the bulk of LNG comes from USA, rest Libya, Algeria. Oil? UK buys very little oil from the Middle East, so maybe less than 0.5% comes via Hormuz. Most oil comes from Norway and USA. A little from our own North Sea wells. (There could be more but our lunatic Government won’t issue licences.) UK is affected by the usual supply/demand/price dynamic forcing prices up as global supply is reduced. About 85% of oil via Hormuz goes to the Far East, 40% of it to China. These Countries are now bidding for oil and LNG from sources away from the Middle East, so up go prices until other sources can increase production or the situation changes in the ME. What is worth noting is the collective stupidity of World Governments so reliant on hydrocarbons transiting an evident choke point controlled by fanatical lunatics, rather than diversifying supply or doing something about protecting the choke point of eliminating the lunatics before now… they’ve had… Read more »
Guess you would be happly living in a world where Iran is a nuclear power.
I have no idea to be honest. I think if you don’t have powerful friends then having nuclear weapons is quite attractive because it seems to stop you getting bullied, invaded or people trying to bring about regime change. So if I lived in a country without nuclear weapons or powerful friends I would be interested in acquiring one or the other or both. Does Iran pose an existential threat to the UK or the USA? Seems a bit far fetched to me. Lots of countries have nuclear weapons, many of them are not “liberal democracies” (lol – they all behave impeccably, according to “international law”). Does it pose a threat to Israel? Maybe – but Israel has nukes and Iran knows this. Israel also has the USA on its side. Is it in the interests of the USA and UK to bomb Iran? Maybe – but I have no real idea. Is it morally justified? I honestly struggle with that. I know very little about Iran – I wouldn’t want to live there but then I am English and non Muslim and not Iranian and Muslim so I would say that. I doubt that the people who run Iran… Read more »
That is a very good, fair and balanced comment.
Much appreciated.
I think that the issue with Iran is how they have tried to surround Israel with their proxies and succeeded in giving Israel a very difficult security situation. This was a direct consequence of allowing Khomeini to return from Paris in 1979 because no one has the balls to prevent it. The result is how we got to the current situation, but sooner or later Islam in Iran needed to be defanged.
As I said it’s plausible they were a threat to Israel though it’s equally plausible that ordinary Iranians felt Israel was a threat to them. I’m just not sure they were a serious enough threat to the UK or the USA to justify the enormous expense, disruption and the loss of life resulting from the attack on Iran.
Absolutely sound logic decoupled from Western brainwashing. The idea that the US and UK are a safe pair of hands because of their superior morality is hilarious. And this coming from people that are on this site because they know that the state is immoral! Makes my head hurt.
The UK and especially the USA seem to me to be objectively nicer to their own citizens than many other countries, though this distinction is rapidly disappearing especially in the UK. The USA has resisted a bit more possibly due to their more recent history in freeing themselves from tyranny. We, especially the USA, are less “nice” to other peoples and countries, throwing our weight about to pursue what someone says are our own interests. Most/all countries, tribes, groups, races throughout history have done that. For now the USA is an “ally” so we’re safe(ish) (except from our own government). I would have voted for Trump and probably still would as the alternatives are worse, but the current action seems like overreach to me. I wish I had access to more information on which to have a firmer view.
On this, we’re aligned.
I don’t doubt for a minute that USA and the uk and the rest of the western global cabal are as bad as you say; god knows they’ve had enough time to perfect their techniques and I’m certainly not a Trump is our saviour fan. however, the only push back against this view presented seems to be that “therefore the west must be evil and all Muslims, including in Iran and Palestine must be victims which we will support to the death in our superior white saviour role.” I just can’t buy that either. Had it never occurred to people that even in their most favoured groups, some people can just be little s***? if your going for true equality of humanity, then at least allow the groups you support full range of personal expression and stop making excuses for unacceptable behaviour. if you don’t do this, we are back in the old colonial mindset where races other than white need to be excused, on the grounds that whites stopped them from becoming brilliant, or that the very culture that has stopped them going forward must be adopted by the west as a sort of penance for the sins of… Read more »
I think that Iran does not need to invade this country in a conventional way. Our open borders policy makes it unnecessary.
however the fact that Iran is an ultra right wing Islamic society means that they are far more of a threat than Russia ever could be. What happens when the balance tips and the majority loyal to Islam decide that the likes of Iran should make the laws in this country through them?
your very balanced perspective will very quickly land you in jail.
Feels like a stretch to me and much more important to abandon multiculturalism in the UK. I don’t think bombing Iran is going to do much good for our domestic problems. Does the USA have a significant problem with domestic Islamism?
Oh dear. I’m glad you believe our state, which has supported child rape, mutilation, and murder, not to mention engaged in a silent genocide against its own people, can be so well trusted to do the right thing.
Good reasons for taking down a disgusting, Muhammadan lunatic regume which has been responsible for much of the Muhammadan terrorism across the world. The Mullahs in Iran want the west (that’s where you live) taken over by religious nutcase Muhammadans. They want you and your children subjugated to a filthy, evil religion that allows old men to sexually abuse young girls, by command of their evil religious book. They also want the end of days to come so we can all go to heaven. These people have been at war with us since 1979 (and the while religion of Muhammadanism since 632 AD)
Wake up, mate.
I’m not your mate. I don’t like their regime, but I don’t like ours either. And if you don’t understand that we’ve murdered and displaced millions in the name of ‘regime change’, and that that ‘regime change’ ultimately results in the increasing loss of the nation state, then I’d suggest that it’s you that needs to wake from your slumber. All you’re doing is repeating Western propaganda.
Yeah well as RW pointed out the other day, bombing Vietnam to get rid of communism was a roaring success. Can you point to other examples of where the military intervention of “western liberal democracies” has changed in the long term the political and cultural direction of a country?
It’s not a “new” war, it’s been in progress since 1979 – just that some people have recto-cranial disorder and it’s too dark for them to see clearly.
Why am I not in the least reassured by: ‘The PM’s official spokesman said . . . “We have a diverse and resilient supply”‘?
It’s ok, Ed Milliband said so.
“Diversity is our strength”
Possibly because he is either deluded or just lying.
Apart from the working from home bit, the rest seems sensible. The government shouldn’t be spending more money and if things get more expensive, then buy less.
Over on the Electroverse website, one commenter said:
“Britain restricts drilling in its own waters… while buying the very same fuel from Norway at far greater cost. The emissions are identical. The difference is that the jobs, tax revenue, and energy security now belong to someone else.”
Regarding a comment that “Earth today exists in an Icehouse Climate”, another said:
“I call it the ‘Ice House Effect’. Stated very simply, as the land cools, snowfall begins to increase as the temperature difference becomes greater between the land surfaces and oceans. As snowfall increases in frequency and extent, more incoming sunlight gets reflected into space, intensifying the cooling over land and resulting in the Ice House Effect, as arctic outbreaks become more frequent as overall snowfall continues to build. This combination eventually results in a new glacial period. The process can take time but doesn’t necessarily take thousands of years. Previous ice ages have begun in a very short time frame, some as little as 20 to 70 YEARS, going from a climate warmer than today to sudden full-blown glacial severity in a very short time, according to historical cycles of the past.”
A diverse supply?
Not THAT is scary.
Britain would be a lot better off if our Uniparty leaders made the most of what we have in terms of gas and oil that can be produced from our own territory. Instead they prefer to produce as little as they can at home, and rely on imports from the world’s trouble spots.
The rest of Europe is the same or worse. Especially Germany which was delighted to be almost entirely reliant on Russia. And then they were astonished when something went wrong.
It’s not complicated.
We could easily be self sufficient in gas RIGHT now if we were producing shale gas. This situation is absolutely insane.
Lights are
onoff,butand no one’s home“We have a diverse and resilient supply. People in the UK should continue to go about their days in normal fashion.”
Normal? Remind me what “normal” is, please. Nothing’s been “normal” since March 2020. If it’s not “COVID”, it’s “Ukraine”. If it’s not “Syria”, it’s now “Iran”. Or the perennial “Net Zero” nonsense. Any excuse to make people’s lives shitter, and get them to like it.
When a government devoted to a permanent state of exception assures me that everything’s “normal”, excuse me if I look behind them for the gigantic Godzilla about to toss them about in its jaws. (Actually, Godzilla would be welcome right now).
Ah the new buzzword – “resilient” which goes along with “sustainable”.
Meanwhile, we have two bullies Trump and Netanyahu, throwing their weight around with abandon and virtual impunity as nobody dares to criticise and oppose their vile atrocities. Libya has never recovered from the illegal intervention by the West led, in this country, by Cameron.
The laptop class will be OK watching Netflix all day, sorry working from home, but how are millions of lower paid workers e.g. in hospitality, supermarkets, care homes etc meant to work from home?
The best way for Reeves to help the UK would be to stay at home and let someone vaguely competent do her work.
Maybe I should start using the air fryer I don’t have, because I’m not a middle class twat, in order to do my bit.
Might take a black out to knock some sense into people as to what net zero really means.
Oh I’m sure the windmills and solar panels will provide ALL the energy we need.
Oops: Gridwatch 7.30 am: Energy generation:
Gas: 34%
Inter-connectors: 30%
Nuclear: 15%
Biomass (trees) 13%
Wind: 6%
Solar: 2%
We’re obviously gonna need far more windmills and solar panels!
Far more wind turbines and solar panels????? More turbines and solar panels cannot extract more energy from the wind and sun that isn’t there no matter how many of them you have.
If Red Ed and Rachel Thieves allowed the use of our own plentiful energy we would not be in this mess, if they wound back welfare to all but the seriously ill, and disabled, and instead used the money to provide tax cuts to individuals and business including energy producers, this would have the benefit of producing jobs, and creating greater productivity and more tax for the treasury, and who knows they could use it to build up our woeful defences.
Reeves, Milliband and Starmer will constantly make excuses and blame others for their rampant willful destruction of the country and their intention to take us to their utopia of year zero
Exactly!
“cook with air fryers” hmm. Don’t have one, so am I to get one delivered courtesy of the government? Will we all get one? Pathetic bunch of eejits.
An energy crisis – the global one not the UK domestic one since 2010.
Refreshing change from the climate crisis, obesity crisis, Russia crisis, meningitis crisis.
Well we could buy from Russia* and of course use our own sitting there waiting to be dug up. And if our electricity generation was still around 60% coal-fired, fluctuations in gas prices would have less effect.
Plus, if carbon taxes were eliminated, gas-fired power station wholesale prices would be around £50 instead of £80 per MWh.
And if we didn’t have to pay £128 per MWh to wind no matter what the wholesale market price was, our electricity bills would be much lower.
Explanation required: Iran is NOT our war, but Russia/Ukraine IS our war. Which Country poses the biggest threat? Iran or Russia?
The threat from Iran is real but ignored, the threat from Russia fake and imagined.
If Iran were to achieve its determined goal and get nukes, the Middle East would fall under its domination (after it has wiped Israel off the map) and then the “energy crisis” would be permanent.