UK XI: I Want To Ride My Diecycle

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Ofgem plans to add £16 to energy bills to help suppliers recover £3bn in bad debts | Ofgem | The Guardian​
Because it's naturally your responsibility to foot the bill for account debts overseen by energy companies making record profits

[Lebowski]

Ofgem plans to add £16 to energy bills to help suppliers recover £3bn in bad debts | Ofgem | The Guardian​
Because it's naturally your responsibility to foot the bill for account debts overseen by energy companies making record profits

And is that bad debt going to be written off, or are the energy companies still going to chase customers for it, If consumers are all of a sudden responsible for other debts just by being a customer of that company where does it stop? Can EE stick a 16 charge on my bill now for people who haven't paid their phone bill? Maybe Sky or Virgin could do the same to recover money from people who have had their broadband cut off.

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Michelle Mone should not return to House of Lords, says Tory minister | Michelle Mone | The Guardian​

Water firms use up to 28% of bill payments to service debt in areas of England | Water bills | The Guardian​

Customers once again get fleeced

[Lebowski]

Mone shouldn't return her whole reason for lying is everyone else was doing it. This doesn't make it right, she gamed the system for personal profit and she feels like she's being made to be the scapegoat. She was vying for sympathy in the car crash interview she did and it just shows how tone death she is, hopefully more will get dragged into this now and will get removed. Hopefully the lawsuits brought against her claw back all the money she made by selling dodgy ppe.

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Superdry warns on profits as ‘unseasonal’ weather slows sales | Superdry | The Guardian​
Clue - Your damned prices are too high

[Lebowski]

I'm surprised they're still going as a company, i remember everyone having them T-shirts with the massive numbers on them because David Beckham wore them.

[Neon Ignition]

Yep, they have the large expensive to rent stores but their range is almost exclusively just normal casual clothing with their logo on it. Their designers must have the easiest jobs in the industry but when you're asking £30+ for a plain logo t-shirt in a world where the internet exists and everyone knows they cost pennies to make should make no shocker that they'd struggle. Just some reasonable pricing and they'd presumably appeal to more people, particularly men as men's clothing options suck

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/18/doctor-who-christmas-specials-lower-death-rates-bbc/

Doctor Who Christmas Specials save lives

[Hirst]

I'm clearly no "man of fashion" but I've always disliked Superdry, British clothes with random Japanese text on them sold everywhere but Japan. Just cheesy rubbish junk, astoundingly had a shop down the road from my hotel last time I went to Bangkok (and as empty there as back home). Was surprised they even sell it in Asia.

Anyone remember when Diesel had that bizarre partnership with Driver 2 on the PS1, so characters in the game wore the clothes and the game had incongruous billboards in it? Apparently it's a top clothing brand in Communist Cuba.

[Lebowski]

Super dry is weird I always found their sizing to be too small it kind of feels like dad fashion these days too, like the equivalent of shopping at Next or M&S

[Lebowski]

Revealed: journalist behind Michelle Mone film also worked as private investigator on her behalf

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/19/revealed-journalist-behind-michelle-mone-film-also-worked-as-private-investigator-on-her-behalf

​So more and more deception and lies, the big takeaway here is he did not reveal publicly, that, alongside his Supposedly "independent" journalistic role, he has also been working as a private investigator on behalf of Mone, Barrowman and PPE Medpro.

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Penny Mordaunt: Boris Johnson’s messages vanished from my phone | Penny Mordaunt | The Guardian​

[Lebowski]

They have a Law in the US where if you're using a social platform for government communication then it's illegal to delete or edit it, surely the UK could adopt similar rules for this type of thing where government phones are backed up to a secure cloud to stop the

"Oh no my messages relating to this important government investigation are now gone how did that happen i didn't delete them honest"

[fishbowlhead]

Penny Mordaunt: Boris Johnson’s messages vanished from my phone | Penny Mordaunt | The Guardian​

£40k to investigate what happened to the messages on her phone to find out the issue, good sweet Jesus on a jam scone, they really do make some absolute S**T up on a by the second basis. We all know what happened, you both deleted them to cover it all up you 9bob note.

There really needs to be bouncers placed into parliament to keep these clowns in check.

Lie about anything? Thats a broken finger.
Lie about the same issue twice? Thats the wrist.
Embezzlement? A finger off for each offence.
Holding up laws because you’re all bickering? ALL get a broken finger or toe, losers choice.
Giving your mates contracts they have no business getting? You get your head smashed into a wall or head butted, losers choice, but blood is mandatory.

And so on, see how they like shafting the nation when there are instant violent consequences for doing so.

Or, they can do their jobs properly?

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/28/heavy-election-defeat-could-lead-to-tory-lurch-to-right-analysis-shows

Completely expected and typical of a party that is incapable of understanding why they lost