POLL: Corbyn will ban fracking; Swinson takes cash from frackers. As earthquakes get bigger, who’s right?
Frack site: The well in Lancashire contributes to global warming and climate change.
Who would you trust to decide who runs the UK, based on this issue alone?
A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded yesterday (August 26) at the Cuadrilla fracking site in Lancashire, following a 2.1 quake on August 24 and a 1.6 quake on August 21.
All three were well above the level at which government guidelines demand that fracking be suspended for 18 hours. For this to happen, a quake need register 0.5 on the Richter scale.
The latest event was the 94th quake recorded by the British Geological Society in the last eight weeks – and all but one of them were near the Lancashire site. If the trend continues, it seems even Cuadrilla has admitted that properties in Blackpool are likely to suffer structural damage.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he would ban fracking because of the danger it represents to the environment.
Novice Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, on the other hand, has taken £14,000 from Warwick Energy – a fracking company with several licences granted by the Conservative government.
Here’s a video of her defending that choice on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show:
Not very convincing, is it?
Now here comes the big question.
Mr Corbyn wants to hold a vote of ‘no confidence’ in Boris Johnson’s (fracking-supportive) Conservative government next week, leading to the formation of a caretaker government with him at its head, which would be limited to just two aims: stopping a ‘no deal’ Brexit and calling a general election.
Ms Swinson says she would only support such a plan if Mr Corbyn steps back and allows another MP to be nominated as leader of such a government, because she says he is unfit to be prime minister.
For the purposes of this question, ignore the fact that Ms Swinson has said she would go into coalition with the Conservatives again, and answer this question:
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You know, I have this vision of Blackpool tower falling into the sea one of these days after they cause a massive earthquake. Hope it doesn’t come true!
Jo Swinson is an hypocrite of the highest order and needs to be quiet. Hearing to her bleating about democracy was sickening.