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Post by cubby on Aug 9, 2022 10:58:26 GMT
The grass roots of a general strike are starting. This is crazy that they think that there's nothing they can do.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 9, 2022 10:59:38 GMT
Well, there is. They are ensuring companies remain protected.
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Post by geefe on Aug 9, 2022 11:06:27 GMT
All they need to do is just tell the companies not to make obscene profits for a bit. If they just went "boom, £200 a month through winter", they're still making shitloads and Tories come out looking like heroes.
I am 100% getting solar in the next month
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Aug 9, 2022 11:12:28 GMT
Om fortunate enough to have very reasonable energy bills. Around £50 - £60 a month for combined gas and electricity.
I can't really fathom how it's going to work charging families these huge bills.
It's not a case of budgeting, it's simply not affordable. It will be a bigger cost than mortgage or rent in some situations
So you'll have big chunk of the population not paying bills and being cut off?
With Centrica making over a billion in profits clearly there are steps energy companies need to take to absorb the cost and deliver to their customers over and above paying fucking shareholders.
It's in their interests longer term as if it reaches an unsustainable level the decisions made will be out of their hands.
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Post by cubby on Aug 9, 2022 11:17:16 GMT
I bet the calculation they're making right now is how many customers can die before it eats significantly into their profits.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Aug 9, 2022 11:25:23 GMT
Pensioners and single people can die in their freezing flats and it'll get headlines locally.
You get a family with a few kids freezing to death because they can't pay bills and that's a global headline and a scandal.
The kind of scandal that destroys governments. Even one as entrenched and shitty as the current trash.
That sort of thing can circumvent all the processes and bullshit and initiative huge policy change such as nationalisation.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Aug 9, 2022 11:26:15 GMT
Even these Tory idiots must see the iceberg looming.
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Post by dfunked on Aug 9, 2022 11:30:03 GMT
Clearly not if they can't even be arsed to disturb their precious little recess with a cobra meeting. Fuckers should've all been recalled by now.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 9, 2022 11:35:48 GMT
I'm glad to see that the PM and the Chancellor have been out and about, working hard to alay public fears about this energy crisis.
Oh, wait.
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Post by geefe on Aug 9, 2022 11:39:48 GMT
For all intents and purposes, we don't have a working government right now. Boris is just not there and tbf I can see him not wanting to come straight back.
Sunak isn't chancellor anymore because he wants to be leader, which he won't be and he knows that. He also won't be chancellor come September for obvious reasons. He COULD play the long game and set some stuff up now to sort people out, which Liz will look like an utter cunt if she undoes. Then Rishi gets the plaudits.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 9, 2022 11:44:48 GMT
Even these Tory idiots must see the iceberg looming. You would have thought so but they seem preoccupied with what’s in peoples pants and the pretend migrant ‘crisis’ |
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Post by Duffking on Aug 9, 2022 11:46:34 GMT
I'm glad to see that the PM and the Chancellor have been out and about, working hard to alay public fears about this energy crisis. Oh, wait. Boris has probably been wanking himself into a euphoric stupor in his gold walled apartment that all the poors are getting fucked |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 9, 2022 11:56:04 GMT
For all intents and purposes, we don't have a working government right now. Boris is just not there and tbf I can see him not wanting to come straight back. Sunak isn't chancellor anymore because he wants to be leader, which he won't be and he knows that. He also won't be chancellor come September for obvious reasons. He COULD play the long game and set some stuff up now to sort people out, which Liz will look like an utter cunt if she undoes. Then Rishi gets the plaudits. Slight correction, he hasn't been Chancellor for a few months. Our current Chancellor has disappeared. |
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Post by cubby on Aug 9, 2022 11:57:50 GMT
Our current chancellor never actually wanted to be chancellor, he's just a chancer.
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Post by geefe on Aug 9, 2022 12:13:31 GMT
Wait...shit. yeah. Who's chancellor again?
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 9, 2022 12:17:31 GMT
Nadhim Zahawi was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 5 July 2022.
Yeah he hasn't been seen since.
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Post by geefe on Aug 9, 2022 12:33:54 GMT
Fucking hell haha. God this lot.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 9, 2022 12:35:55 GMT
The Conservatives. The party of stability.
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Post by cubby on Aug 9, 2022 12:40:07 GMT
Just look how stable those prices are!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 9, 2022 12:41:57 GMT
It's ok guys nothing to fret over, that 350m quid we used to send to the EU each week can help us with these energy bills. Crisis averted!
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Post by dam on Aug 9, 2022 16:04:07 GMT
Was feeling a bit smug as we had £1700 credit with Octopus...then noticed they hadn't charged us for electricity since December....we now have £350 credit....
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 9, 2022 16:34:49 GMT
I bet the calculation they're making right now is how many customers can die before it eats significantly into their profits. That's actually kind of true, but the calculation is how many people do they think will stop paying their bills and bring a loss in comparison to how many will pay the new extortionate costs. Obviously at the moment they have calculated they will make more money out of the people who will keep on paying so everybody else is collateral damage. |
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Post by geefe on Aug 9, 2022 16:41:25 GMT
The fact I've seen statements go out that say "don't refuse to pay a bill" says they're worried about it
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Post by dfunked on Aug 9, 2022 16:50:35 GMT
It's a pretty fucking silly idea in fairness, unless you don't care about your credit rating.
Would be impressive to watch the shitshow if they do somehow manage to get a million people to do it or whatever it is they're aiming for...
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Post by khanivor on Aug 9, 2022 16:54:42 GMT
Has a single bin been set on fire in protest yet, over months and months of near everyone getting royally fucked in the ass while the leech class laughs in your faces LOADSAMONEY ?
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Post by anephric on Aug 9, 2022 17:02:57 GMT
It's a pretty fucking silly idea in fairness, unless you don't care about your credit rating. Would be impressive to watch the shitshow if they do somehow manage to get a million people to do it or whatever it is they're aiming for... It's only a silly idea if you are solvent enough to not have to choose between which life-essential bill you are able to pay. People are going to be forced to make horrible decisions and credit-rating worries are going to be low on the list. That's a can to kick down the road. |
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Post by anephric on Aug 9, 2022 17:04:28 GMT
We laugh at the French going on strike over everything and burning tyres, but they will be fucking kidnapping EDF bosses when their protection from this melts away.
Note: the French have a noble tradition of holding bosses to ransom, literally.
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Post by technoish on Aug 9, 2022 17:09:29 GMT
Gvt already took EDF national I believe.
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Post by anephric on Aug 9, 2022 17:14:52 GMT
Yes, they'll still get kidnapped. The French will only artificially sustain the cap for so long.
Macron knows what will happen though, the banlieues will be alight.
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Post by khanivor on Aug 9, 2022 17:18:27 GMT
Seems likely that the deciders in the leech class have calculated that they will steal as much money as possible from people. Push thirds right to the edge of civil unrest. Someone will finally set a bin on fire, maybe even push it over. The police will lock that city down for days, the government will swoop in and demand a new cap on prices, which will be set way higher than previous, people will grumble but settle back down into compliant little consumers and the leeches will never figure out how to spend a tiny fraction of the billions they stole in the preceding twelve months.
Soon everyone will be bitching about how awful the World Cup is as it’s mentioned the price cap is going to be phased out in a few months…
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