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Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 7:44 am What, like the cost of fuel did a couple of weeks back?
Kind of although that fluctuates (now at the new higher range lol). The energy companies is a one off fixed amount with a specific charge increase to cover it.

Why not use the £200 for this and let the companies pay it back over longer interest free. That way they could keep standing charges much lower.
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Remember to turn down those pay rises you bunch of filthy muggles :newthumb:

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smuts wrote: Thu May 19, 2022 1:09 pm No more fines for Boris and Carrie despite being at 5 of the gatherings including the one blaring Abba out. One member of staff copped 5 fines.

He's proper dodged a bullet there.
The Met were found to be institutionally corrupt last year. This is just more evidence of that. Still, if it helps Stephen House get the job full time.

The top of the Met’s order of priorities: 1). Protect themselves as individuals, 2) Protect the Met (as doing that helps protects them as individuals), 3). Protect their political pay-masters (same reason as 2) and 4) Protect the troops and the public as that keeps some of the heat off them and the Met.
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Danny's Dyer Acting wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 8:47 am Remember to turn down those pay rises you bunch of filthy muggles :newthumb:
And in at number 222, Rishi Sunak...that'll go down well.
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DaveWHU1964 wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 9:13 am The Met were found to be institutionally corrupt last year. This is just more evidence of that. Still, if it helps Stephen House get the job full time.

The top of the Met’s order of priorities: 1). Protect themselves as individuals, 2) Protect the Met (as doing that helps protects them as individuals), 3). Protect their political pay-masters (same reason as 2) and 4) Protect the troops and the public as that keeps some of the heat off them and the Met.
Johnson avoided multiple fines as Number 10 is his workplace/home.

So easier to slap a load of fines on the plebs coming in to do the work I suppose...
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smuts wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 9:43 am And in at number 222, Rishi Sunak...that'll go down well.
To be fair it'd be hard to take a Chancellor seriously if he was on his uppers with the arse hanging out of his trousers, that'd be like trusting a skinny chef........
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mumbles87 wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 8:25 am I'd suspect this new standing charge is here to stay

Less competition means higher prices
Unless there is strict regulation, which is unlikely. You was banging the drum for nationalisation on the energy thread, it doesn't get less competitive than that.......
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smuts wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 10:18 am Johnson avoided multiple fines as Number 10 is his workplace/home.

So easier to slap a load of fines on the plebs coming in to do the work I suppose...
The Met found an excuse to not give him multiple fines. It stinks. But hey ho, this is totally in keeping with this government and the Met v2022.
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DaveWHU1964 wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 9:13 am The Met were found to be institutionally corrupt last year. This is just more evidence of that. Still, if it helps Stephen House get the job full time.

The top of the Met’s order of priorities: 1). Protect themselves as individuals, 2) Protect the Met (as doing that helps protects them as individuals), 3). Protect their political pay-masters (same reason as 2) and 4) Protect the troops and the public as that keeps some of the heat off them and the Met.
Where does Khan fit into that list?
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delbert wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 10:47 am Where does Khan fit into that list?
Below Pritti - which I know is where you'd want to be one fine day :winker:
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DaveWHU1964 wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 11:18 am Below Pritti - which I know is where you'd want to be one fine day :winker:
:newthumb: :lol:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61520212

Boris was badly advised what events he was "stumbling into" :lol:
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delbert wrote: Fri May 20, 2022 10:36 am Unless there is strict regulation, which is unlikely. You was banging the drum for nationalisation on the energy thread, it doesn't get less competitive than that.......
Nationalisation isn't run for profit so that negates one of the big problems with public assets .
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Imagine if we just taxed billionaires properly, we could do away with food banks tomorrow. Double irony is that a lot of these billionaires will be getting rich off the back of the work of people using foodbanks and claiming in work benefits because they are paid below a living wage.

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https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

That was linked to the Twitter link. I got bored halfway through but does put the ultra rich's wealth in perspective.
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https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-t ... rope-again

How the UK became the sick man of Europe again

UK GDP per capita has grown by just 10 per cent since 2015, compared with 24 per cent for Germany and 18 per cent for France

2015 to 2019 saw Germany's GDP per capita go up 13% and the UK's FALL by 6%..
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So Sue Gray met with Boris to discuss the report apparently at her behest according to number 10...which she has now denied.

What a farce this is.
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Prob wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 11:48 am https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-t ... rope-again

How the UK became the sick man of Europe again

UK GDP per capita has grown by just 10 per cent since 2015, compared with 24 per cent for Germany and 18 per cent for France

2015 to 2019 saw Germany's GDP per capita go up 13% and the UK's FALL by 6%..
Germany is about to see something of a correction given that it now absolutely has to get rid of the source of cheap energy that has been powering the economy there.
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Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 2:07 pm
Really is corruption at the highest level

I thought covid would bring out honesty and decency in office whilst we pulled together...

Alas I hoped too much
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