Enforcement Undertaking

In the first three months of last year, Shell made profits of $5.58 billion. In the first three months of this year, it made $6.92 billion. In the first three months of last year, BP made profits of $1.38 billion. In the first three months of this year, it made $3.2 billion. Thank you, Donald Trump. And for allowing him to use Diego Garcia and RAF Lakenheath, thank you, Keir Starmer. This is the damage being done on our streets by the Iran War. It has been extended until 2030, but the Energy Profits Levy that was imposed in 2022 over Ukraine applies only to profits made from extracting oil and gas in the United Kingdom, extraction to which the Government is actively hostile.

Meanwhile, here in England and Wales, we have the only fully privatised water in the world apart from the system imposed on Chile by General Pinochet, and we pay ludicrous amounts of money for that most basic of resources, yet our rivers, lakes, seas and sometimes even streets run with sewage because the Environment Agency allows the water monopolies, 70 per cent of the shares in which are foreign-owned with a considerable number owned by foreign states as such, to avoid prosecution by making donations to environmental charities that therefore had a vested interest in there being as much pollution as possible. Only half of one per cent of complaints against the water monopolies lead to a prosecution, and even of those none has been completed in years. Those charities should take the money and pool it, so to speak, with a view to launching private prosecutions.