The Trumpet Newspaper Issue 567 (March 23 - April 5 2022)

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MARCH 23 - APRIL 5 2022
We must end our dependence on
Putin’s oil and gas
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families now face and tackle these
rising fuel bills, the energy spike, we
must take the bold steps necessary to
end our dependence on Putin’s oil and
gas.
And that is what we are doing, in
the immortal phrase, it is time to take
back control of our energy supplies.
After years of short termism and hand
to mouth solutions, we are setting out
a British energy security strategy. And
we will make better use of our own
naturally occurring hydrocarbons,
rather than import them top dollar
from abroad and put the money into
Putin’s bank account.
That does not mean in any way that
we will abandon our drive for a low
carbon future, we’re going to make
some bets on nuclear power and big
bets on nuclear power, not just the big
projects, but also the small modular
reactors. And we’re going to take that
bull-at-a-gate spirit of the booster
rollout and use it to build more
offshore wind, double quick time, and
many other investments in clean green
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power. But if you ask me how we’re
going to pay for all this, I can tell you
that I’ve been going around the world
recently, and I’ve been talking to
international investors who are
yearning to make colossal long term
investments in British green
infrastructure. Colossal. And there’s a
reason why people want to come to
this country, many, many reasons why
they want to come. But you’re seeing
them invest massively in everything
from tech to finance to green power.
And that is that they know what
this government is doing. They know
about... I mean, you may not believe
it, but they do... they know about our
levelling up agenda, my friends, they
do. They’ve heard of it. They have,
they’re very well informed. And they
know that we have a plan to unleash
the potential of this whole country and
they can see how we are doing it,
making our streets safer with 20,000.
More police rounding up the county
lines, drugs gangs, that cause such
misery, stopping and searching the
kids with the with the knives giving
the police the powers that they need.
And by the way, giving the criminals
the serious sentences that they deserve
for the crimes that they commit.
Tackling the middle class of drugs use
by the way that helps to drive so much
of the consumption but doing
things.... Thank you for that small clap
for that. I think it’s about time that the
government stood that the
government said that we don’t tolerate
this kind of... it is driving misery
across the whole country. It’s driving
the county lines gangs and we have to
be absolutely frank about it.
But what we’re doing goes far
beyond that. And people around the
world can see what levelling up is
doing the massive extension of fibre
optic broadband and I’m just trying to
look for Nadine, where is Nadine,
perhaps she isn’t in here. But Oliver
you were doing it. Massive expansion
when you were at DCMS with full
fibre of Gigabit broadband. It is a
great thing for our country. And we
need to do it we will go further and
faster investing massively in road and
rail and not just the colossal schemes
of the integrated rail plan, northern
powerhouse rail, making sure that the
Midlands and the North of the country
finally get the kind of commuter style
rail networks that have been taken for
granted for so long in the southeast.
Huge schemes that we’re doing,
they’ll be transformative for the UK
economy but look at the little things
that we’re doing as well. Relatively
smaller schemes such as the new tram
improvements in Blackpool, which I
was delighted to see the other day. I
congratulate the Blackpool authorities
on what they are doing because it’s
driving tourism, it’s driving
investment even more investment
here in Blackpool. That’s what
Levelling up is.
I went for a run. You may not
believe it but I did. I went for a run
this morning on the beach. Absolutely
beautiful. Better than anything in the
Caribbean. That is not near gallantry.
It is true. And it’s true. I mean, that
time of the morning 6:45, sun coming
up. Unbelievable. Tide right out,
ribbed sand stretching for miles and
miles, and obviously beautiful. And as
I ran along, I saw over new hotels and
the new attractions that will benefit
from that new transport infrastructure
going in... the new tram. Of course,
government has a role. Safer streets,
better health care, better schools,
better education, creating the
conditions for that investment. But in
the end, you need the private sector.
The animal spirits of the private sector
to come in and have the confidence to
invest. That’s what it’s all about.
That’s the fundamental symmetry at
the heart of our Conservative vision.
And as I was running along the
sand, I saw a man who seemed to be
prospecting with a kind of steel pole,
or tube. And I asked him what he was
looking for, hydrocarbons perhaps.
What do you think he was looking
for? Anybody have any idea? I tell
you, he wasn’t searching for oil. Well,
he was looking for lug worms. And he
showed me some lug worms that he
had caught. And I will tell you, my
friends, the lugworm is not perhaps
the most beautiful of God’s creatures.
But bigger fish love lugworms. And I
want you to know that we
Conservatives back everybody in this
country who gets up early and invest
their time and their skill and their
energy and their effort in the hope of a
bigger return. You need to use a
lugworm to catch a bream, my friends
and I have a bream. As they say.
I have a vision of a one nation
conservatism that takes that capitalist
spirit and uses it. Uses our wonderful
free market system to make sure that
we have the revenues further for Rishi
Sunak could pay for our fantastic
NHS and the 50,000 more nurses and
the thousands more doctors that were
are hiring pay for all the wonderful
staff who are clearing the COVID
backlogs, pay for our defences, pay
for Ben Wallace’s troops, pay for our
20,000 more police officers pay for
investment in skills. Like what we’re
doing with the Blackpool and Fylde
College, the new Multiversity that’s
opening because that is what levelling
up is all about. And it is those
wonderful public services that create
the climate of confidence, which
means that private sector investment
comes in and it works, this formula
for levelling up I believe is right for
the whole country. It’s vital to
understand this. It’s vital that it works.
It works everywhere. By unleashing
talent everywhere across the UK still,
under the old model the most
imbalanced European economy, by
unleashing can everywhere you stop
the overheating and the stress and the
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