Extract from second
reading debate (Commons) of the Public Order Bill
(Middlesbrough) (Lab):...What
is so different between, on the one hand, the suffragettes, and
on the other, protesters such as the esteemed international
climate lawyer Farhana Yamin sticking her hands to the pavement
outside the London headquarters of Shell to
highlight the fact that the Paris agreement, which she helped to
negotiate in 2015, was not delivering...
Extracts from
Westminster Hall debate on Taxes on Motor Fuel
(Gower) (Lab):...The
Labour party has made it very clear that we will introduce a
windfall tax on oil and gas companies that are benefiting from
this increase in prices. We have seen bumper profits
from Shell and
BP in the first quarter of this year, while prices have risen and
risen for working people and pensioners, with no end in sight,
and there is no sign of action from this Government either. The
Tories are out of ideas and out of touch. They should bring in an
emergency Budget urgently, with a one-off windfall tax to cut
household bills and support businesses...
(Ealing North)
(Lab/Co-op):...As we know and as other hon. Members have said,
fuel prices are just one of many pressures hitting people’s
lives, and the Government’s response to the cost of living crisis
has fallen woefully short of what is needed. People across the UK
are seeing the biggest squeeze on their finances in a generation,
while at the same time, oil and gas producers’ profits have shot
up. As has been widely reported, BP’s chief financial officer
said that
“we’re getting more cash than we know what to do with”,
while its chief executive has said that the current rising prices
are making BP a “cash machine.” In the first three months of
2022, 28 of the largest oil and gas producers made close to $100
billion in combined profits, with Shell
for instance, making over $9 billion—almost three times what it
made in the same period last year.
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