BP is slashing 8,000 jobs as Labour’s Net Zero crusade piles pressure on oil and gas firms. The cuts include 4,700 staff and 3,000 contractor roles, driven by Ed Miliband’s push to wind down North Sea oil production and ramp up renewables. Labour’s beefed-up windfall tax on energy profits isn’t helping either. So much for lofty promises of boosting jobs…
Meanwhile, Miliband has admitted heat pumps might never be cheaper than gas boilers, admitting yesterday:
“We can say to people you need to get a heat pump, not a gas boiler, potentially, at some point in the future. But I’m very wary of saying we’re going to stop people having gas boilers at a point when we can’t guarantee heat pumps are going to be cheaper for people.”
Despite this, Labour snuck a “boiler tax” through Parliament last night, fining manufacturers who don’t sell enough heat pumps, likely adding £120 to the cost of a new boiler. Net Zero short-circuiting the economy…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”