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Post by H-alphaFox on Jul 30, 2022 9:09:59 GMT
Could of just said we are turning the a/c down and you don't have to wear a tie if you don't want to and urge workplaces to do the same. Not some contrived nonsense like the above. This has been a government scheme in Japan for a decade or two.
The PM does a photo op in a short sleeve shirt and no tie at the beginning of every summer. 
Though when I mentioned here that the government recommends setting the AC to 28 degrees to save energy, everyone had a heart attack.  I just dislike the dog and pony show around it, but yeah later in the day he came out and said they are going to limit a/c to 27 in summer and 19 in winter. Should of lead with that, it does seem a bit of why bother with the a/c at all when it's mostly 30 degrees everyday on the coast where I am. I could do 27 in winter and 19 in summer. |
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Post by zagibu on Jul 30, 2022 10:18:26 GMT
28 is where I start to sweat like a pig even while sitting around and doing nothing. So 27 is fine for me.
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Post by Sarfrin on Jul 30, 2022 21:00:31 GMT
They will be wanting to heat their homes in winter next, honestly. Some numbnuts did say "we managed for hundreds of years without heating". Even Neolithic people knew how to light fires. |
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Post by minimatt on Aug 1, 2022 16:42:20 GMT
Local paper very much aiming to cater to both ends of the economy: |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 2, 2022 7:40:16 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62382624BP £6.9bn profits for the 2nd quarter, that's about £95 per person in the UK. There are far fewer households than that, there are more companies with massive profits (Shell, Centrica). Where the fuck is the windfall tax?
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Post by geefe on Aug 2, 2022 7:49:52 GMT
It won't happen. What we need (and I have seen suggested) is a mass protest by not buying BP.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Aug 2, 2022 8:08:33 GMT
My least favourite people are the Twitter apologists who regurgitate the press releases from utility and oil companies.
Oh profits aren't from the massive bills and price hikes. You see the energy market is VERY complex and then the refineries and the transport and our costs increasing...
Just a peculiar coincidence that Centrica, BP, Shell etc are making record profits.
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Post by sport✅ on Aug 2, 2022 8:12:16 GMT
You all just wouldn't understand.
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Post by deekyfun on Aug 2, 2022 8:14:58 GMT
It's exploitative doom profiteering and if they can't act reasonably in times like these then they should be forced to.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 2, 2022 8:24:13 GMT
Please understand.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 2, 2022 8:33:29 GMT
Where the fuck is the windfall tax? 'A windfall tax would not be appropriate at this time' |
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Post by H-alphaFox on Aug 2, 2022 8:41:36 GMT
If only there was some sort of way we could choose policy makers that would actually hold big business accountable? 🤔
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Aug 2, 2022 8:42:14 GMT
At this point I'm hoping for a Question Time audience to be made up entirely of protesters.
20 minutes in everyone simultaneously pulls on a V mask and stands up in silence until the show ends.
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Post by Rich on Aug 2, 2022 8:43:47 GMT
Where the fuck is the windfall tax? 'A windfall tax would not be appropriate at this time' It wouldn't encourage investment. |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 2, 2022 9:30:09 GMT
Am I mistaken in remembering that the cunts did actually say they were gonna do a windfall tax in one of their many U-turns?
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Post by Dougs on Aug 2, 2022 9:31:29 GMT
Yeah, BoJo/Sunak. To pay for the additional payments in the autumn.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 2, 2022 9:35:30 GMT
Rishi quite labouriously wouldnt actually call it a windfall tax when pressed on it, though.
And Truss has already refused to entertain the idea. We cant possibly tax wealth generators.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 2, 2022 10:29:30 GMT
It's just going to be standard Corporation tax isn't it? Fucking spineless toads.
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Post by dogbot on Aug 2, 2022 10:33:06 GMT
That rather assumes they pay tax. Shell haven't paid any UK tax on their North Sea oil and gas production (for example) for the last 5 years.
I shouldn't hold your breath for the Tories to change that, either. They might talk about it, but nothing will happen.
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Post by Gruf on Aug 2, 2022 11:17:09 GMT
Truss is proposing cutting 8.8 billion of Civil service overspending and wages, the current total wage bill is just over 9 billion.
Is this not the same fix they tried on the NHS?
This is the sort of leadership we can look forward to.
We are so fucked
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Post by Dougs on Aug 2, 2022 11:25:50 GMT
Already U-turned. See politics thread.
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Post by deekyfun on Aug 2, 2022 11:27:40 GMT
They'll have to tax them at some point soon. No one else will have any money.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 2, 2022 11:28:10 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62382624BP £6.9bn profits for the 2nd quarter, that's about £95 per person in the UK. There are far fewer households than that, there are more companies with massive profits (Shell, Centrica). Where the fuck is the windfall tax? We're all in this together, right guys? |
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Post by anephric on Aug 2, 2022 13:52:28 GMT
This will provoke violence at some point fairly soon. If you have a quarter of people already fucked, and another quarter who were getting by but will be fucked when the cap rises again and have to choose between rent/mortgage/feeding their kids and paying the fucking gas bill, you can't placate half the country by saying BuT iT wIlL dIsCoUrAgE iNvEsTmEnT when BP & co are sucking up the kind of money that would make Tsar Nicholas blush.
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Post by geefe on Aug 2, 2022 14:04:53 GMT
Yeah. Shades of poll tax riots coming.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 2, 2022 14:06:14 GMT
They'll have to tax them at some point soon. No one else will have any money. This is the part of the movie where you start to work off your life debt to amazon |
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Post by askew on Aug 9, 2022 9:57:50 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 9, 2022 10:00:37 GMT
Heaven forbid we ask for more money to cover that.
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Post by dfunked on Aug 9, 2022 10:21:41 GMT
That is going to fucking sting when my fixed rate tariff runs out. Just found out I've been overpaying by a pretty big chunk and can lower my monthly payments to £120. Then in October will have £60 taken off each bill, so will have a comfortable few months. Then it'll just be fucking BAM! Money plz.
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Post by geefe on Aug 9, 2022 10:55:47 GMT
Yeah, Liz wants to cosplay as Thatcher...well, she's got her poll tax moment coming.
Genuinely, if people are paying £4200 in January you might as well just call it a day. That's some societal collapse shit.
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