Oil and gas explorer loses more than £1bn of stock market value after scrapping dividend
Gearóid
I was reading a stark book on modern Africa – The Looting Machine – and Tullow came out of it looking like the only ethical oil company. Aside from the obvious of it being a fossil fuel, am I wrong in that interpretation?
This row about the kid photographed lying on the floor in A&E at Leeds General Infirmary.
It smells like fake news to me.
I can’t believe triage nurses would allow a child attached to a saline drip to lie on the floor – it’s unhygienic and the drip has to be above the child’s body to work properly.
And why has the local NHS body remained silent about this ?
There’s more to this fishy tale than meets the eye I vouchsafe.
GiggidyGoo
Triage nurses are the first point of contact in an ED. They don’t follow patients around after they’ve assessed them. Their job is triage at the point of entry into the ED.
Poor attempt to try divert from the fact that senior tories have used their pals in the media to try muddy Labour.
The facts are that:
There is photographic proof of the child in this state
There is video proof that there was no assault by a Labour person on a Tory person
BBC ITV reporters have just called themselves out as pro-Boris.
…careful now Boris…mind those banana skins…only a few days to go…a lot of people relying on you to deliver on the democratically expressed wish of the UK electorate and get Brexit done…
delacaravanio
He was waiting to be admitted. In this country nobody would be outraged as we expect to sit on a chair for 12 months before somebody will call you in A&E. In the UK it’s major news. Shows how bad our system is.
Bud Flanagan
Yup.
So the mother says I’ll take him out of the chair, put him on the floor and just take a nice photo to give to the media during an election.
I’d like to see the CCTV on this one.
And hear the mother’s side of the story.Strange she is so quiet.
millie vanilly strikes again
Another gem, buddy boy.
Do you have children? I don’t know of any mother who brings their child to hospital A&E and thinks, ah yes, what a great photo op to stick it to the Tories. If your child is ill enough to warrant a visit to hospital, political football is the last thing on your mind.
Bud Flanagan
https://mobile.twitter.com/DSheridanYEP
So,exceptionally high level of demand meant this child couldn’t be found a bed instantly and was waiting in a chair while more serious cases ahead were being dealt with.
A bed was eventually found.
And the child was discharged next morning.
It was the mother who decided to put him on the floor and take a photograph to politicise this.
Did she seriously think a bed could be found instantly for something that was clearly non-urgent.
Labour scraping the barrel here.
millie vanilly strikes again
Yeah, a twitter link to the story and your idiot assumptions don’t really cut it.
f_lawless
Regardless of the background circumstances of this particular story the NHS is in crisis. When confronted with the image for the first time by a reporter, Johnston’s instinctive reaction was to actually grab the reporter’s phone, put it in his pocket and refuse to look at it. Only after a few moments did the cogs start turning and he realised the optics were really bad so took out the phone. The leader of the nation who lacks empathy, who shuts himself off from those suffering in society. Quite a contrast to Corbyn in that regard
some old queen
And that is the one thing that has been repeatedly said about Coyrbn- that he is genuine and he does care.
Bud Flanagan
Unless you’re a Jew or an Iranian homosexual.
class wario
All the callous tory bots trying desperately to make this story out to be fake, despicable stuff
The NHS is not perfect even when properly funded but it is a sight better than the public here- and the reason is that Britain had numerous left wing governments since the Second World War. Ireland on the other hand has always been governed by right of center parties and we have adopted the US health care for profit model which- is extremely inefficient not to mention cost- this is funny.
Utter tripe.
Labour have only been in power for 27 of the 70 years of the NHS’s existence.
If the Tories were trying their damnedest to privatise the NHS they’re making a poor job of it.
Nigel
Judging by their performance on Brexit this is probably correct.
Cian
The Irish health system outperforms the NHS for Healthcare Access and Quality according to a Lancet report. Ireland came 11th; the UK 23rd.
South- GP charge plus prescription changes per visit- min €60- to 2-300. .
North- free GP and free prescriptions right across the board. .
Multiply that by every visit of every patent not covered by a medical card and no- private insurance does not count because you are paying for that separately.
Bud Flanagan
You don’t pay to stay in hospital either.
And there are not patients lying on trolleys every night of the year in every hospital as there are in Ireland.
The UK has a winter bed crisis every year.It starts at about the same time you start hearing Fairytale of New York on the radio.
Bad weather, seasonal illness like flu and senior doctors taking two weeks off at Christmas with operations not being carried out all contribute.
By mid-January you don’t hear any more about a bed crisis.
Here it’s year-round.
GiggidyGoo
I had a look at that report. It’s based on estimates. A lot of it is based on notional ‘facts’.
It is based a lot on mortality.
It specifically refers to Cancer throughout. (think about that in relation to Ireland, and about where the Lancet gets its information)
The number of people mentioned at the end that contributed in some way, is almost as long as the report. There is a further listing of some contributors who were prepared to declare sops from the from the Pharma industry
That report is far from proving anything.
Cian
My point is that our health service (with all it’s failings) is equivalent to the NHS (with all it’s failings) or better – albeit more expensive.
Ireland now has a higher life expectancy than the UK – this is a reflection of the health care available.
Bud doesn’t actually care to consider the credibility of the analysis – he’s more concerned with the amount of Twitter followers the person has
GiggidyGoo
44c per day – D4bes on her quest to try keep her job. With all of the fanfare upon her arrival on the TV scene here a few years ago, we are (yet again) left with another government – appointed failure. We had a few of them in the HSE and the banking areas too mind you.
44 in Bingo terms? https://www.thejournal.ie/dee-forbes-oireachtas-committee-4924693-Dec2019/
Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop
FFS!
Mary Kennedy is on Dancing With The Stars… now I’m going to have to watch it!
garrett
Dee Forbes assumption that 100& of households have a TV needs to be called out.
If the product is so good, charge for usage!
“I think that this is fair value for 44c a day per household……………..none of which offer anywhere near this level of Irish perspective or output.
Irish perspective:
RTE 2 tonight:
In league with Gadaffi
Ted2
Class of 92
RTE1
Fair City
Home rescue
News
Prime Time
The Disappearance of Deirdre Jacob
I wouldn’t pay 4c a day to watch that rubbish
Charlie
Don’t suppose you saw the In league with Gadaffi documentary last night? Fabulous stuff. More of this kind of thing please RTÉ.
class wario
Hopefully going to catch this tonight on the Player, very well received by all accounts. The exact sort of thing RTE should be looking to push out but will always have fellas like this complaining about it regardless
Charlie
The standard of documentary making in this country far outweighs it’s drama efforts. Far too much below average dross being funded.
millie vanilly strikes again
+1
I’d happily never see another RTE funded ‘comedy’ again in favour of their documentary and cultural programmes. They should stick with what they do best.
Cian
A lot of Irish-produced content tonight.
MaryLou's ArmaLite
Images of Dee when she took over RTE show a happy, energetic young woman. Not so much anymore.
Brother Barnabas
marriage ?
GiggidyGoo
…… to the mob?
(the FG mob)
Spaghetti Hoop
I was a happy, energetic young woman when I first came across Broadsheet…
some old queen
Despite this election being a game of 3D chess- the narrative is boiling down to a binary NHS or Brexit choice- which is quite clever. The NHS has always been a Labour endeavour and is hugely popular with the general public.
The Tories must get an outright majority because nobody else will go into collation them but Labour do not, which is a huge advantage- just holding their own will be suffice. Tories vs everyone else so.
Bud Flanagan
Labour endeavour ?
It was a Conservative Health Minister, Henry Willink, who first proposed the National Health Service in 1944 with the publication of a White Paper “A National Health Service”.
Labour merely put his plans into practice when they came to power in 1945 and Atlee appointed Bevan Health Minister with instructions to enact William’s plans.
As mentioned earlier the Tories have been in power for 53 of the NHS’s 70 years of existence.
You really do talk cobblers at times.
some old queen
Snipe all you want but the people are looking beyond Brexit to a comparison between British and American social models- and they do not like what they see.
Jibjob
You yourself previously said 27 years out of 70 under Labour.
70 – 27 = 43, not 53.
By the way, 27/70 = 39% to the nearest percent.
Free Tea & Biscuits
…because nobody else will go into collation them but Labour do not, which is a huge advantage-…
For the love of God…
The British are lucky that you aren’t eligible to vote in their elections.
some old queen
The only ones who would go into coalition with The Tories is Farage and he is floundering- so who else would?
Labour has SNP, Greens, DUP, SDLP (assuming), and if push comes to shove, Lib Dems because they solid remain- not sure about the welsh.
Please tell me where I am wrong in the above?
MaryLou's ArmaLite
The DUP and Corbyn? Really?
I can’t see that happening
some old queen
I can- for sure. The DUP’s priority is as they see it, to protect the union, and at the moment they are way more aligned to Labour that Johnson’s Brexit on that point. Also, they are very pro NHS and would have no issue with the nationalisation of water and rail services.
It is one of the peculiar idiosyncrasies of NI where all the political parties are economically left wing- UUP maybe not so much.
MaryLou's ArmaLite
I don’t see Left Vs Right being the issue, more an IRA sympathetic Corbyn being a big problem for the DUP
Bud Flanagan
Somehow I can’t see Arlene climbing into bed with the IRA-apologist who is mates with the people who ordered her father to be shot.
RTE would still be at least 30 million in the hole if every TV licence fee was paid. They need to stop beating that drum. They’re badly managed from top to bottom.
…wasn’t it Corbyn’s old mentor Tony Benn, that spoke of treason in High places when he was thwarted by the civil service…he must be turning in his grave when he sees how the son has turned out…
Bud Flanagan
I knew Tony Benn slightly.
He would be aghast at how his son facilitated Corbyn’s anti-semitism in the party and tried to thwart the referendum result.
Tony Benn was a democrat and a huge opponent of the EU.
seriously, charger, drop this “Corbyn’s anti-semitism” nonsense
you know very well that it’s boo boos
Bud Flanagan
I’m not Jewish old sport.
But some of my oldest friends in Blighty who are long-time Labour supporters are and they believe he is and that’s good enough for me.
Bud Flanagan
Labour’s Health Secretary has gone missing just as Labour try to turn the debate towards the NHS.
Top work by the Tory rapid response unit after Labour’s big score yesterday.
A great sucker punch that no-one saw coming and two more days of this slugfest to go.
Marvellous.
italia'90
More bare faced lies?
More public humiliation?
More about nationalising sausages?
More rail service chaos?
More punching down?
Marvellous news indeed, Wooster!
I can’t vote in British elections… have I stumbled upon the wrong media aggregator?
I like the plain speaking privately educated Tory if yer asking… etc
Bye Bye Tulllow.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/09/tullow-oil-shares-ghana-stock-market-value
Oil and gas explorer loses more than £1bn of stock market value after scrapping dividend
I was reading a stark book on modern Africa – The Looting Machine – and Tullow came out of it looking like the only ethical oil company. Aside from the obvious of it being a fossil fuel, am I wrong in that interpretation?
Boris,actually.
Why subject yourself to having a new hole torn by Andrew Neil when you can knock out a quick video that will get far more attention.
Tories have learned social media at last.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1204152954934177792
This row about the kid photographed lying on the floor in A&E at Leeds General Infirmary.
It smells like fake news to me.
I can’t believe triage nurses would allow a child attached to a saline drip to lie on the floor – it’s unhygienic and the drip has to be above the child’s body to work properly.
And why has the local NHS body remained silent about this ?
There’s more to this fishy tale than meets the eye I vouchsafe.
Triage nurses are the first point of contact in an ED. They don’t follow patients around after they’ve assessed them. Their job is triage at the point of entry into the ED.
Poor attempt to try divert from the fact that senior tories have used their pals in the media to try muddy Labour.
The facts are that:
There is photographic proof of the child in this state
There is video proof that there was no assault by a Labour person on a Tory person
BBC ITV reporters have just called themselves out as pro-Boris.
…careful now Boris…mind those banana skins…only a few days to go…a lot of people relying on you to deliver on the democratically expressed wish of the UK electorate and get Brexit done…
He was waiting to be admitted. In this country nobody would be outraged as we expect to sit on a chair for 12 months before somebody will call you in A&E. In the UK it’s major news. Shows how bad our system is.
Yup.
So the mother says I’ll take him out of the chair, put him on the floor and just take a nice photo to give to the media during an election.
I’d like to see the CCTV on this one.
And hear the mother’s side of the story.Strange she is so quiet.
Another gem, buddy boy.
Do you have children? I don’t know of any mother who brings their child to hospital A&E and thinks, ah yes, what a great photo op to stick it to the Tories. If your child is ill enough to warrant a visit to hospital, political football is the last thing on your mind.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DSheridanYEP
So,exceptionally high level of demand meant this child couldn’t be found a bed instantly and was waiting in a chair while more serious cases ahead were being dealt with.
A bed was eventually found.
And the child was discharged next morning.
It was the mother who decided to put him on the floor and take a photograph to politicise this.
Did she seriously think a bed could be found instantly for something that was clearly non-urgent.
Labour scraping the barrel here.
Yeah, a twitter link to the story and your idiot assumptions don’t really cut it.
Regardless of the background circumstances of this particular story the NHS is in crisis. When confronted with the image for the first time by a reporter, Johnston’s instinctive reaction was to actually grab the reporter’s phone, put it in his pocket and refuse to look at it. Only after a few moments did the cogs start turning and he realised the optics were really bad so took out the phone. The leader of the nation who lacks empathy, who shuts himself off from those suffering in society. Quite a contrast to Corbyn in that regard
And that is the one thing that has been repeatedly said about Coyrbn- that he is genuine and he does care.
Unless you’re a Jew or an Iranian homosexual.
All the callous tory bots trying desperately to make this story out to be fake, despicable stuff
https://mobile.twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1204193205064994819
The NHS is not perfect even when properly funded but it is a sight better than the public here- and the reason is that Britain had numerous left wing governments since the Second World War. Ireland on the other hand has always been governed by right of center parties and we have adopted the US health care for profit model which- is extremely inefficient not to mention cost- this is funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kll-yYQwmuM
Utter tripe.
Labour have only been in power for 27 of the 70 years of the NHS’s existence.
If the Tories were trying their damnedest to privatise the NHS they’re making a poor job of it.
Judging by their performance on Brexit this is probably correct.
The Irish health system outperforms the NHS for Healthcare Access and Quality according to a Lancet report. Ireland came 11th; the UK 23rd.
See Figure 3 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30994-2/fulltext
2016?
At what cost Cian?
Compare a GP visit north and south.
South- GP charge plus prescription changes per visit- min €60- to 2-300. .
North- free GP and free prescriptions right across the board. .
Multiply that by every visit of every patent not covered by a medical card and no- private insurance does not count because you are paying for that separately.
You don’t pay to stay in hospital either.
And there are not patients lying on trolleys every night of the year in every hospital as there are in Ireland.
The UK has a winter bed crisis every year.It starts at about the same time you start hearing Fairytale of New York on the radio.
Bad weather, seasonal illness like flu and senior doctors taking two weeks off at Christmas with operations not being carried out all contribute.
By mid-January you don’t hear any more about a bed crisis.
Here it’s year-round.
I had a look at that report. It’s based on estimates. A lot of it is based on notional ‘facts’.
It is based a lot on mortality.
It specifically refers to Cancer throughout. (think about that in relation to Ireland, and about where the Lancet gets its information)
The number of people mentioned at the end that contributed in some way, is almost as long as the report. There is a further listing of some contributors who were prepared to declare sops from the from the Pharma industry
That report is far from proving anything.
My point is that our health service (with all it’s failings) is equivalent to the NHS (with all it’s failings) or better – albeit more expensive.
Ireland now has a higher life expectancy than the UK – this is a reflection of the health care available.
tories have learned social media at last
https://mobile.twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1204183081009262592
Marc Owen Jones
25k followers.
* Sniggers *
Bud doesn’t actually care to consider the credibility of the analysis – he’s more concerned with the amount of Twitter followers the person has
44c per day – D4bes on her quest to try keep her job. With all of the fanfare upon her arrival on the TV scene here a few years ago, we are (yet again) left with another government – appointed failure. We had a few of them in the HSE and the banking areas too mind you.
44 in Bingo terms?
https://www.thejournal.ie/dee-forbes-oireachtas-committee-4924693-Dec2019/
FFS!
Mary Kennedy is on Dancing With The Stars… now I’m going to have to watch it!
Dee Forbes assumption that 100& of households have a TV needs to be called out.
If the product is so good, charge for usage!
“I think that this is fair value for 44c a day per household……………..none of which offer anywhere near this level of Irish perspective or output.
Irish perspective:
RTE 2 tonight:
In league with Gadaffi
Ted2
Class of 92
RTE1
Fair City
Home rescue
News
Prime Time
The Disappearance of Deirdre Jacob
I wouldn’t pay 4c a day to watch that rubbish
Don’t suppose you saw the In league with Gadaffi documentary last night? Fabulous stuff. More of this kind of thing please RTÉ.
Hopefully going to catch this tonight on the Player, very well received by all accounts. The exact sort of thing RTE should be looking to push out but will always have fellas like this complaining about it regardless
The standard of documentary making in this country far outweighs it’s drama efforts. Far too much below average dross being funded.
+1
I’d happily never see another RTE funded ‘comedy’ again in favour of their documentary and cultural programmes. They should stick with what they do best.
A lot of Irish-produced content tonight.
Images of Dee when she took over RTE show a happy, energetic young woman. Not so much anymore.
marriage ?
…… to the mob?
(the FG mob)
I was a happy, energetic young woman when I first came across Broadsheet…
Despite this election being a game of 3D chess- the narrative is boiling down to a binary NHS or Brexit choice- which is quite clever. The NHS has always been a Labour endeavour and is hugely popular with the general public.
The Tories must get an outright majority because nobody else will go into collation them but Labour do not, which is a huge advantage- just holding their own will be suffice. Tories vs everyone else so.
Labour endeavour ?
It was a Conservative Health Minister, Henry Willink, who first proposed the National Health Service in 1944 with the publication of a White Paper “A National Health Service”.
Labour merely put his plans into practice when they came to power in 1945 and Atlee appointed Bevan Health Minister with instructions to enact William’s plans.
As mentioned earlier the Tories have been in power for 53 of the NHS’s 70 years of existence.
You really do talk cobblers at times.
Snipe all you want but the people are looking beyond Brexit to a comparison between British and American social models- and they do not like what they see.
You yourself previously said 27 years out of 70 under Labour.
70 – 27 = 43, not 53.
By the way, 27/70 = 39% to the nearest percent.
…because nobody else will go into collation them but Labour do not, which is a huge advantage-…
For the love of God…
The British are lucky that you aren’t eligible to vote in their elections.
The only ones who would go into coalition with The Tories is Farage and he is floundering- so who else would?
Labour has SNP, Greens, DUP, SDLP (assuming), and if push comes to shove, Lib Dems because they solid remain- not sure about the welsh.
Please tell me where I am wrong in the above?
The DUP and Corbyn? Really?
I can’t see that happening
I can- for sure. The DUP’s priority is as they see it, to protect the union, and at the moment they are way more aligned to Labour that Johnson’s Brexit on that point. Also, they are very pro NHS and would have no issue with the nationalisation of water and rail services.
It is one of the peculiar idiosyncrasies of NI where all the political parties are economically left wing- UUP maybe not so much.
I don’t see Left Vs Right being the issue, more an IRA sympathetic Corbyn being a big problem for the DUP
Somehow I can’t see Arlene climbing into bed with the IRA-apologist who is mates with the people who ordered her father to be shot.
…can’t see anyone climbing into bed with Arlene…
Arlene has already climbed into bed with SF- isn’t that what the Stromont assembly was all about?
“…can’t see anyone climbing into bed with Arlene…”
got a small bit of vomit in my mouth on reading that
i’m ok now
Please – enough with the bed analogy.
DUP wise- tie me up and call me Rosie is a pretty good analogy I think.
for the faithful:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/dec/10/david-squires-on-football-and-the-2019-general-election
On top form there.
RTE would still be at least 30 million in the hole if every TV licence fee was paid. They need to stop beating that drum. They’re badly managed from top to bottom.
Poor old Jonathan Ashworth.
A ” friend ” has stitched him up good and proper.
What a dirty business.
Heh,heh,heh.
https://order-order.com/2019/12/10/ashworth-civil-service-machine-will-move-quickly-safeguard-national-security-corbyn/
…wasn’t it Corbyn’s old mentor Tony Benn, that spoke of treason in High places when he was thwarted by the civil service…he must be turning in his grave when he sees how the son has turned out…
I knew Tony Benn slightly.
He would be aghast at how his son facilitated Corbyn’s anti-semitism in the party and tried to thwart the referendum result.
Tony Benn was a democrat and a huge opponent of the EU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wFii8klNg
seriously, charger, drop this “Corbyn’s anti-semitism” nonsense
you know very well that it’s boo boos
I’m not Jewish old sport.
But some of my oldest friends in Blighty who are long-time Labour supporters are and they believe he is and that’s good enough for me.
Labour’s Health Secretary has gone missing just as Labour try to turn the debate towards the NHS.
https://twitter.com/Emmabarnett/status/1204362774538850305
And he surfaced.
He reckons it was all banter.
Someone tell the poor sap to ‘fess up and stop digging.
Rip-roaring stuff.
https://order-order.com/2019/12/10/ashworth-confronted-recording-politics-live/
Top work by the Tory rapid response unit after Labour’s big score yesterday.
A great sucker punch that no-one saw coming and two more days of this slugfest to go.
Marvellous.
More bare faced lies?
More public humiliation?
More about nationalising sausages?
More rail service chaos?
More punching down?
Marvellous news indeed, Wooster!
‘…isn’t that what you tend to do during an election’
Sure is feller.
And a great spectator sport it is too.
Stop engaging. It’ll pass. Roll on Friday.
Today’s Money Shot.
https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1204412868877111296
Top Brexit man and all round good egg Tim Martin confirms big expansion plans in UK and Ireland with £200million investment creating 10,000 jobs.
Brexit, eh ?
Heh,heh,heh.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/wetherspoons-plans-200m-investment-in-britain-ireland-1.4110580