Kemi Is Right: Drill, Baby, Drill – Before Labour Leaves Us Cold, Poor, and Begging

Let’s call things as they are: Britain is sitting on a golden seabed of resources and yet, astonishingly, we are told to look away, hands folded, while our neighbours get rich off the very same waters.

Norway drills, prospers, and sells us back our own lifeline at a profit. We, under the dead weight of Labour’s ideology and green zealotry, choose instead to pay through the nose for imports (which are far more detrimental to the planet by the way!).

It is economic masochism dressed up as virtue.

Kemi Badenoch is right to call time on this unilateral act of national impoverishment. Her Aberdeen speech this week is due to be more than a policy shift, it is touted as a moment of common sense, of economic self-respect. “Maximise extraction.” Words that will terrify Labour, but words that could save Britain from a slow, cold decline into dependency.

Labour, led by socialist Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband’s eco-pulpit sermons, want you shivering in your home, tethered to subsidies like a supplicant, grateful for the government’s gracious handouts. They want control, not prosperity. You will own less, use less, heat less, and smile about it. This is not energy security. It is energy serfdom.

Consider the absurdity: Britain has already decarbonised more than any major economy since 1990. We’ve borne the cost, the sacrifice, the industrial hobbling. And yet, our bills are among the highest in the developed world. Meanwhile, Labour demands we sprint further and faster towards a fantasy of net zero that even they cannot explain without resorting to magical accounting and wishful wind turbines.

And what’s the alternative they offer? More imports, more reliance on hostile or unstable regimes, more taxes to fund costly carbon-capture schemes that achieve little except fat consultancy fees. Jobs are vanishing. The OEUK warns that 1,000 direct and indirect jobs per month in the UK’s oil and gas sector will be lost between now and 2030 without policy changes. Yet, still Labour clings to its green dogma on steroids.

Kemi’s stance is refreshingly unashamed. Drill, build, grow. Take what is ours and use it to fuel British industry, British homes, British strength. Like Norway. Like every rational nation. Energy is not a sin. Energy is civilisation.

This is not about rejecting innovation or clean tech, it’s about refusing to commit national suicide while we wait for those technologies to mature. The lights must stay on. The factories must run. Families must be able to heat their homes without sacrificing half their income.

Labour wants to bind us in green chains, keep us dependent, and ration our own prosperity back to us in drips. Kemi offers something simpler: a Britain that uses its wealth, its resources, its brains and brawn to power its future.

The choice could not be clearer: abundance or austerity, drilling or dwindling, strength or supplication.
On this, Kemi is right.