Farage: There will be record consumption of fuel in 2025

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Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage predicts “2025 will be a year of record consumption of fossil fuels” as he pitches his party to Scottish voters. He continues saying, "there'll be more coal burnt this year than has ever been burnt in the history of mankind".      Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Good morning, everybody. It's good to be here in Aberdeen. And congratulations on beating

00:06Celtic last week, no doubt. It's been a week of some celebration, clearly some Aberdeen

00:11supporters in the audience. We're very pleased today to be joined by several prominent businessmen

00:17and businesswomen who are very, very thoughtful and very, very worried about the future of

00:23the oil and gas industry, and indeed, all the related businesses and industries that

00:27go around that, and perhaps what might happen to the future of Aberdeen and the surrounding

00:33area itself. Reform has made remarkable strides in Scotland over the course of the last year.

00:40We managed to field candidates for every seat in the general election, but to be honest,

00:44it was pretty much a paper exercise. Since then, we've managed to build branches. We've

00:49been contesting by-elections every Thursday for councils wherever they come up. We've

00:55had a steadily rising score. We, if you believe the polls over the weekend, are beginning to

01:01eclipse Labour to be the second most popular party in Scottish politics. And of course,

01:08we have the Hamilton by-election taking place this Thursday. But the purpose of this visit,

01:15and I guess it was really the news that Harbour Energy were laying off yet more people, the

01:20fact that this industry is in serious decline, and that, to a large extent, it is wholly unnecessary.

01:28These are decisions that we have taken here in our own country. The tax rate, the super tax

01:36of 75 percent that was imposed by the Conservatives in the last time, in the last period of their

01:4214 years of government, was a disaster for the industry. Labour have only added to that by putting

01:48it up to 78 percent and stopping the application of new licenses. Yes, the oil price is low at this

01:57moment in time, but after 20 years as a commodity trader, these things do move in cycles. 2025

02:05will be a year of record consumption of fossil fuels. We can con ourselves as much as we like.

02:15There will be more coal burnt this year than has ever been burnt in the history of mankind. And the

02:20same applies to the use of gas and oil. Even the most ardent proponent of net zero has to accept the

02:27world will still be using oil and gas up until 2050 and beyond. And yet we've decided to

02:34sacrifice this industry as a consensus around net zero has emerged. Of course, I say net zero.

02:42It isn't really net zero. All we're doing is exporting carbon dioxide production. And into the bargain,

02:49we are seeing Scotland and many parts of England and Wales literally de-industrialising before our very

02:56eyes. Yes, there are arguments around new industries, but for every job created in a new industry,

03:01many more have been lost in conventional industries. We now have the most expensive energy prices,

03:08commercial energy prices in the world, and the whole thing is complete and utter madness. Richard Tice and

03:15I have been standing up and fighting and speaking on these issues for many, many years. It's also worth

03:22adding shortly after the Prime Minister's so-called EU reset that if we look across the other side of the

03:29North Sea to Norway, not only do we see a country that has championed its oil and gas industry,

03:36a country that sells an awful lot of gas to us, a country that also has a 200-mile exclusive economic

03:48zone for fisheries, a 200-mile EEZ. Just imagine what anything like that would do for all these towns and

03:57cities on the east coast of Scotland. So whichever way we look, we're getting things wrong. They must be

04:04laughing themselves silly in Norway that now, actually, we have to import a significant amount

04:08of our electricity from them as well. It is almost – the madness of this is almost completely and utterly

04:14beyond belief. One of the reasons that we've been doing well in Scotland is we've been attracting some

04:21very, very good, fresh talent. There have been several Conservative councillors that have come to us and

04:27there will be a Labour councillor coming to us this afternoon when we get to Hamilton. But Duncan Massey

04:34has been not just a city councillor here in Aberdeen over the course of the last few years, but somebody

04:40who has spent 20 years working in the oil and gas industry. And it's my happy duty to welcome Duncan as a

04:50reform councillor here in the city of Aberdeen today. Duncan.

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