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I like neeps wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:49 am

C69 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 10:20 pm I've just increased my payments from £170 to £250 a month which was £80 a month less than they suggested.
I suspect Octopus will want a bit more soon.


For me this means nothing as I have no mortgage but for most working people with no margins to work with this means a shit load of hurt.
I really don't think that many people appreciate what this will mean for society as a whole.


Only a matter of time that a wind fall tax will be done if there is any sense.

Another rise in October is going to be brutal, energy/utility Privatisation and the subsequent siphoning off of profits for our shit services being handed to cash machines off shores is a Tory disagrace

Yeah a windfall tax is inevitable but there's not too much they can do otherwise. Can't borrow too much as interest rates rise and rise they will as energy and food prices rise as much as 100% in the coming months.

I think the world is in line for severe changes. QE'd our way out of the banking crisis and the bill is coming due. Batten down the hatches.

I like neeps wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 6:37 pm German retailers have announced from tomorrow food prices are going up between 20-50%. Not long before that's the case here too.

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:03 pm Everything made using electricity - in other words...everything...is going to go up in price as the makers pass on their increase in energy costs to consumers. It's a perfect shitstorm and no mistake.

Even things like sunflower oil are running low as we depend on Ukraine and Russia for much of the supply, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60941091

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:03 pm Everything made using electricity - in other words...everything...is going to go up in price as the makers pass on their increase in energy costs to consumers. It's a perfect shitstorm and no mistake.

Even things like sunflower oil are running low as we depend on Ukraine and Russia for much of the supply, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60941091

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:52 am They want half the country poor and desperate. I have no doubt this is deliberate. Poverty, terrorising poor people, has been their go to, social engineering tool for 12 years.
You go to a private, public school, your parents pay 60 grand a year, so of course you want people who didn't to suffer. Of course you want your "education" to count. To make you feel all special, for your entire pompous, untalented, born on third base life.
Making everyone else poor as dirt, where you get to pity them will ensure that.

4% of the population have been trained, since an early age to be laughing, cruel, hateful sociopaths.
I blame f'king Hugh Grant for humanising them.
Without Hugh, the would be no David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Boris..we fucking hated the posh before Hugh. They all had to change their accents.
Giving them power over poor people is just spectacularly misguided.
They will insrantly go into pulling wings off a daddy Longlegs mode.
The last people on earth who should have the reigns of the country, have it.

If this stuff was contained in England, great..but it isn't. It affects everyone on these islands.

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:52 am They want half the country poor and desperate. I have no doubt this is deliberate. Poverty, terrorising poor people, has been their go to, social engineering tool for 12 years.
You go to a private, public school, your parents pay 60 grand a year, so of course you want people who didn't to suffer. Of course you want your "education" to count. To make you feel all special, for your entire pompous, untalented, born on third base life.
Making everyone else poor as dirt, where you get to pity them will ensure that.

4% of the population have been trained, since an early age to be laughing, cruel, hateful sociopaths.
I blame f'king Hugh Grant for humanising them.
Without Hugh, the would be no David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Boris..we fucking hated the posh before Hugh. They all had to change their accents.
Giving them power over poor people is just spectacularly misguided.
They will insrantly go into pulling wings off a daddy Longlegs mode.
The last people on earth who should have the reigns of the country, have it.

If this stuff was contained in England, great..but it isn't. It affects everyone on these islands.

Glaston wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:16 am https://reneweconomy.com.au/france-pays ... ices-soar/



Even the French are struggling with electricity prices

France uses nearly double what the UK uses.


Current figures
France 64.1 GW and importing 7.8GW
UK 35.1 GW

Glaston wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 7:16 am https://reneweconomy.com.au/france-pays ... ices-soar/



Even the French are struggling with electricity prices

France uses nearly double what the UK uses.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:12 am Sunak will likely forever regret not knifing Boris before Christmas, his moment has gone.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:02 am

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:12 am Sunak will likely forever regret not knifing Boris before Christmas, his moment has gone.

It does feel like that.

The Bumblecunt is starting the campaign now for the next GE, so he can head off any leadership challenge, when the FPN finally drops on the mat inside #10

petej wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:26 am Fascinating from line6 HXFX. As the most important variable for who you vote for in the UK is age I have to ask why are the over 60's so keen on punishing families and children? They seem desperate to make the under40s in particular poor and desperate. When I look at the services cut over the last 10 years it has been services for families and children cut first and we have the highest tax burden in years not long after all these baby boomers and slightly younger have retired.

The boss of the UK's energy regulator has warned that the energy price cap is expected to rise to around £2,800 in October.

Jonathan Brearley told MPs that the price cap, which is currently at £1,971, will increase due to continued volatility in the gas market.

He said the price rises were a "once in a generation event not seen since the oil crisis in the 1970s".

The Ofgem chief executive apologised and pledged to "fix" the energy market.

I like neeps wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:25 am

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 9:02 am

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:12 am Sunak will likely forever regret not knifing Boris before Christmas, his moment has gone.

It does feel like that.

The Bumblecunt is starting the campaign now for the next GE, so he can head off any leadership challenge, when the FPN finally drops on the mat inside #10

I think Johnson is fine as Tories won't really fancy being PM during a cost of living crisis, likely recession/stagflation and the party scandal. Not a recipe for success.

ASMO wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 1:16 pm I am willing to bet that there will be an announcement of a windfall tax on the energy companies, this will give the fat controller some breathing space from the partygate pressure.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 8:00 pm To avoid my bill going to £2800 later this year, Scot Energy are very generously offering me the opportunity to fix my tariff to Aug '23 at....£4,600.

What fucking drugs are they on?

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 8:00 pm To avoid my bill going to £2800 later this year, Scot Energy are very generously offering me the opportunity to fix my tariff to Aug '23 at....£4,600.

What fucking drugs are they on?

Blackmac wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 7:39 am

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 8:00 pm To avoid my bill going to £2800 later this year, Scot Energy are very generously offering me the opportunity to fix my tariff to Aug '23 at....£4,600.

What fucking drugs are they on?

Same yesterday for me from British Gas. Cnuts.

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 8:00 pm To avoid my bill going to £2800 later this year, Scot Energy are very generously offering me the opportunity to fix my tariff to Aug '23 at....£4,600.

What fucking drugs are they on?

Dinsdale Piranha wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 8:07 am

Blackmac wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 7:39 am

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 8:00 pm To avoid my bill going to £2800 later this year, Scot Energy are very generously offering me the opportunity to fix my tariff to Aug '23 at....£4,600.

What fucking drugs are they on?

Same yesterday for me from British Gas. Cnuts.

A call from the gas company offering you a long term fixed tariff is pretty much a guarantee that prices are heading downwards. It always has been when I have been called in the past.

Glaston wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 11:59 am Wind be blowing good today .
UK at 99% of Wind generation capacity.
Think thats the highest its been for a long long time


Notification of my DD electricity rise today, from £112 to £190 /month
I came through last winter £180 in credit.

petej wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 12:25 pm

Glaston wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 11:59 am Wind be blowing good today .
UK at 99% of Wind generation capacity.
Think thats the highest its been for a long long time


Notification of my DD electricity rise today, from £112 to £190 /month
I came through last winter £180 in credit.

By the end of this decade we will have a lot of surplus from wind on windy days. Going to need those electrolysers, batteries and long term hydrogen storage. Heating directly from electricity with heat pumps should undercut hydrogen by a lot.

Dinsdale Piranha wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 12:36 pm

petej wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 12:25 pm

Glaston wrote: ↑Wed May 25, 2022 11:59 am Wind be blowing good today .
UK at 99% of Wind generation capacity.
Think thats the highest its been for a long long time


Notification of my DD electricity rise today, from £112 to £190 /month
I came through last winter £180 in credit.

By the end of this decade we will have a lot of surplus from wind on windy days. Going to need those electrolysers, batteries and long term hydrogen storage. Heating directly from electricity with heat pumps should undercut hydrogen by a lot.

I think I have mentioned this before but a friend is on a variable tariff which has, twice, paid him to charge his EV. As the amount of wind keeps ramping up this will happen more often. There has been about 6GW come online in the last couple of years and there's another 6GW due in the next 3 years.

I'm considering getting an air source heat pump and underfloor heating. If gas gets cheap again then it's marginal but it might be less susceptible to price fluctuations.