“This just doesn’t follow at all!” An argument breaks out between Reem Ibrahim and James Meadway over drilling for oil in the North Sea.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Anyone at this stage who is still suggesting more drilling in the North Sea lowers UK oil and gas prices is absolutely clueless on the subject or simply shilling misinformation on behalf of the fossil fuel industry

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Why is this Tufton Street goon on talking rubbish about a subject she hasn't got the first clue about?

Pump the oil, make it state owned like Saudi. The money we get from selling the oil offsets fuel duty which can then be scraped/reduced. It’s not hard. ‘It’s priced globally’ well fucking leave the market!!! Create your own. We aren’t bound to all this bullshit. Things can change.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj This woman is an idiot. There's no point engaging in a civil debate with her. She either knows what she's saying is incorrect, or she's just plain stupid. She is comprehensively wrong on everything RE energy.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Just gonna leave this here

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj More drilling in the north sea is economically illiterate.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj One of the reasons it's cheaper in the US is that they stole 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela.

@meadwaj @ReemAmirIbrahim This woman works at a think tank, the IEA, funded historically by the oil industry. Was that made clear @LBC?

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Far cheaper 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj It creates loads of jobs and you get loads of money from issuing the drilling licenses.. 🤷‍♂️

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj This statement she gave proved that she knows absolutely F all about the subject and just does what these right wing mouthpieces usually do and spout any and all of the propaganda that she paid to. Stop giving these people air time FFS.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj What a load of fucking waffle. If we produce a surplus of gas in this country the price of gas in this country comes down. Does this fellow call himself an economist? He'd have been taught that in his first class. The Permian Basin WAHA Hub averaged $0/MMBtu for all 2025

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj She beyond stupid. North Sea gas is not owned by the UK state; it is extracted by private energy companies (like Shell, BP, and Equinor). Once extracted, these companies sell gas on the open international wholesale market Domestic energy suppliers buy gas at global market rates

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj As Ms Ibrahim says at the end, what she really wants is FRACKING, despite the water contamination, high water demand, contamination of water supplies, release of methane and occasional earthquake that it would bring us in the UK.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Imagine being so retarded that you blame the price of oil on the lack of supply but also say that increasing the supply would make no difference to the price

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj so he said there is a difference but then won’t accept it

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj She talks utter fucking nonsense, why are you pretending she is a serious actor?

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj How come its 0.02cents a litre currently in Iran

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj This is bollocks. petrol in usa has risen by 37 % in the Uk by 17% and in Norway by 43%

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj It was cheaper at their pump because the countries at source promised to buy American treasuries with their profits. That's why it's the "Petro-Dollar" It has been subsidised for them. No longer. Sick of seeing uneducated 🤡🤡.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj She's such an idiot. She thinks putting on a posh voice makes you somehow intelligent. Completely out of her depth on the argument, and lets not forget she works for a think tank that is funded by a fossil fuel company. So she will say anything for her masters.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Would a better version of be some sort of state owned or sovereign supply chain solution such as Norway, where even if it was sold at the same price at at a BP etc at least the revenue in theory would go back into the country. Pls educate me if I’m way out of line

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj And they dont tax as much as we do. Oil is a global market

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj This guy in the same breath mentions cost of transport then says that the North sea wouldn't help us. He's right it wouldn't change prices, but he's also too stupid to know why he's arguing that because he gave his own counter argument

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj This programme was almost unlistenable, mainly due to Reem constantly taking over the role of host.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj She’s correct. The tax also lowers costs elsewhere. I’d happily pay £3 at the pump if I got to keep 90% of my salary.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Oh Dear Reem. Thick as a whale omelette and happy to share your stupidity with the whole nation. 🤣

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj What an idiot. Energy isn't cheap in the USA anymore.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj what is it with people being allowed to talk over each other.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj You would get tax revenue from drilling that can be used to reduce the price

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Sadly, her constant shouting over and interrupting the other panellists ruined this segment of the @IainDale show. So much of what others said was lost because of it. I love robust debate, but this wasn't it.

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Can't stand these green nut jobs! !

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj Why doesn't he want to use a resource ??

@ReemAmirIbrahim @meadwaj She’s an idiot. Drilling in the North Sea will not bring our energy prices down