UK Energy Costs

[fishbowlhead]

The government needs removing before the country completely collapses, which it will at this rate.

[Golgo]

The worst thing about the £100bn price tag is the Government keeps calling it a bad move yet their own plan is going to eclipse this cost. This is how monumentally stupid a situation we're in, they're going to literally cart bodies out of frozen and unfed homes out of sheer stubborness

Yeah, for once the Libs and Labour have actually managed to corner them, and could claim it as Tories implementing their policy 100%. Hence the Tory preference for more bodies piled high in streets. Really, though, I don't think the Tories understand the **** they're in. They genuinely do seem to think the vast majority of people can simply pull another 1600 quid out of their arses this morning to cover the increase.

Actually it's quite interesting, though: usually by this time I get an email from my energy provider (Scottish Power) saying something like, "The price cap has gone up and we're going to enjoying bending you over even harder this time, but don't worry we're here to help!" Nothing this morning.

[Neon Ignition]

That the Tories have steered themselves into backing Truss, a person who isn't even PM yet and can't even bring herself to attend most of the interviews and debates she's been approached to do, should tell them everything about how utterly ****** they are with her in a General Election campaign

[Golgo]

That the Tories have steered themselves into backing Truss, a person who isn't even PM yet and can't even bring herself to attend most of the interviews and debates she's been approached to do, should tell them everything about how utterly ****** they are with her in a General Election campaign

I reckon they'll tolerate her for 9-12 months while the country burns, do another vote of no confidence, then bring Johnson back with an - ostensibly - clean sheet. Sunlit uplands and landslide again. I'd be surprised if Johnson isn't scheming for this right now.

[fishbowlhead]

No. They all need to go. Now.

[Hirst]

If Johnson comes back, I hope this rotten country sinks into the sea.

[Neon Ignition]

He'll want to come back, be tempted and even plotting it but the rot is too deep. Plus, once him and Truss are out the way it would require the others to abandon their own ambitions. The Tories are too self centred for that.

[Brad]

For dire want of a better solution I'll just put this here again:

https://dontpay.uk/

[Neon Ignition]

Listened to the radio on the way home for over an hour.

The only good thing was hearing every single caller and expert point the finger in one direction only - The Tories

[fishbowlhead]

Scott’s have been burning their bills in-front of the Scottish power headquarters. Good on them.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Warnings of it hitting £7700 next year
At those levels it's probably not worth working a minimum or even over minimum wage job because most of your wage will go on energy.

Anyone on UC will be completely ****ed. If not already. All your money will go on energy, with food and rent impossible to pay.
Small businesses will need to let staff go to keep up payments, most will close.
Most middle earners will feel the breadline closing on them like a level of Mario with a continuous moving environment.

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-08-27/energy-bills-forecast-to-hit-7700-next-year-in-worst-price-cap-warning-yet

[fallenangle]

This is all BS - newspapers who honed their hyperbole with Covid to scare the living **** out of the vulnerable are doing it again.

It is just speculation - it is not news, it is editorial based on the prognostications of 'experts', the new self-serving high priests of the social media dominated world. They've read the chicken entrails, watched for the omens and surprise surprise we're all going to freeze or starve to death. We're doomed.

This sort of thing is the reason I stopped reading newspapers and watching news programmes regularly over twenty years ago.

[fishbowlhead]

Sorry what? This isn’t some Facebook rumour? It’s happening, right now, its a fact.

[Nu-Eclipse]

This is all BS - newspapers who honed their hyperbole with Covid to scare the living **** out of the vulnerable are doing it again.

It is just speculation - it is not news, it is editorial based on the prognostications of 'experts', the new self-serving high priests of the social media dominated world. They've read the chicken entrails, watched for the omens and surprise surprise we're all going to freeze or starve to death. We're doomed.

This sort of thing is the reason I stopped reading newspapers and watching news programmes regularly over twenty years ago.

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[Neon Ignition]

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I don't really see a way the Tories can get around it other than to freeze the cap. The alternative is to hand money out regardless, allow businesses to collapse (which is very anti-them) and then have millions in debt so that when prices drop peoples bills don't because they have to repay tens of thousands in owed money unless they annul the debt later. They literally haven't come up with one sound reason against just stopping any further rise.