Funky_Chicken
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Greed is good apparently
No I'm not, I'm repeating advice from Martin Lewis, who has spent the last 12 months bollocking tories for inaction and getting us into this situation, but we are in this situation and people need help now. If you don't want to make changes as you can afford your 3.5k bill then great for you but many can't afford to not make changes.
You're comparing Boris saying buy a new kettle to save £10 a year with tips that can save absolute hundreds at a time, even thousands in the case of pre-heating etc when people can't afford to waste money. Shouting at politicians and corporations will eventually enact change but it won't do anything to make the bloke be able to afford to stay warm tonight, whereas a £18 blanket will make an immediate difference and probably far less a fire risk if it gets left turned on.
Great post!Sunak is in parliament to support the city and global corporations that's his mandate not the people of Britain. We will see less and less state intervention into business. The sad thing is British Petroleum could have been founded part or fully state owned like equinor (formally statoil) and the whole of the uk would reap the rewards.
Fair play, and I agree fully there is only so much some people can do. Eventually you're at the bottom of the barrel. Community can do some things like food banks and warm hubs but we shouldn't have to rely on them and they shouldn't become the normal thing. Boris's idea about the kettle was laughable but there are some changes people can make they may not even be aware of which can save hundreds of quid, and as prices rise the savings get bigger. Elderly people especially won't always have the nouse to know what is expensive to run or not and they're probably the biggest users of expensive electric heaters. If they fall asleep with one on they'll wake up to a huge bill.Sorry for having a go at you if you're just trying to help.
I'm just getting a bit fed up reading comments about us all tightening our belts and being more sensible with money. Theres only so much people can do and once you've stopped using gas and electricity, cut your food bills down to the bare minimum how much further can you go.
But if you are just trying to help then I apologise.
If you regulate the profits you need to regulate wagesBut it's a very easy fix isn't it?
Regulation of the market, including windfall taxes, would enable the government to subsidise customers bills with profits, thus enforcing the sector to do what they wouldn't do itself.
Rather than do that the government chose to borrow money that the public will have to pay back.
It's morally corrupt and yet another example of public money flooding into the private sector.
Literally writing the policies for themJust announced that the government is now “considering “ a windfall tax on the energy companies. Yet another opposition policy hijacked.
People will have you believe that opposition are doing nothing
Are they making the money directly from selling to the consurmer. I imagine that we make a small margin of the profitConsumers need to target these companies that are fleecing us.
Pick one(say shell) don't use their petrol, switch from their energy and stop using their products.
66 million people in one country alone boycotting you gives you the choice of going out of buisness there or changing prices. Once they have made their choice move on to the next one
Please explain....If you regulate the profits you need to regulate wages
See BNOC (British National Oil Corporation). The British equivalent of Statoil, which was, of course, sold off.Sunak is in parliament to support the city and global corporations that's his mandate not the people of Britain. We will see less and less state intervention into business. The sad thing is British Petroleum could have been founded part or fully state owned like equinor (formally statoil) and the whole of the uk would reap the rewards.
Well if you regulate profit, they can page higher wages to negate the tax burden anyway. Create non exec roles for the big shareholders etcPlease explain....
Wages are always naturally 'regulated', because pay awards are negotiated.Well if you regulate profit, they can page higher wages to negate the tax burden anyway. Create non exec roles for the big shareholders etc
What happens when profits in the next quarter are lower. Does the company say to its workers 'we're reducing your wages now' and do the workers say 'sure, no problem'?Well if you regulate profit, they can page higher wages to negate the tax burden anyway. Create non exec roles for the big shareholders etc