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haven't really kept up but why are energy prices almost 3x higher in the uk than in europe right now lol. i know france is squeezing EDF and cutting some taxes, is it just govt intervention?
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i thought france partially nationalized EDF. where are you getting that 3x energy number from, or is it just electricity sorry
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Aug 14, 2022 11:29
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Britain wants to kill the poor. That's it really
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Aug 14, 2022 11:31
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like, i thought germany was doing as bad or worse than we are given so much of their generation is gas based with russia. france is unusual in nationalizing afaik but maybe i'm totally mistaken
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Maya Fey posted:haven't really kept up but why are energy prices almost 3x higher in the uk than in europe right now lol. i know france is squeezing EDF and cutting some taxes, is it just govt intervention? Because all the companies are privately owned and think they can get away with it under the cover of "the war in Ukraine is driving up prices" Also Ofgem the regulators are completely captured by the industry
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CoolCab posted:i thought france partially nationalized EDF. where are you getting that 3x energy number from, or is it just electricity sorry
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CoolCab posted:i thought france partially nationalized EDF. where are you getting that 3x energy number from, or is it just electricity sorry it was electricity sorry. but i think the chart i found was bullshit anyway
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The producers of gas have increased their prices as a result of the war despite it not really impacting them and energy retailers who actually sell it to consumers have been forced to increase it as a result or go bust which a lot of them already have. France had already had some energy price rises last year before they fully nationalised EDF. Coincidentally shell paid no tax in the UK last year despite billions in profits and in fact even received about 100m from the government
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Aug 14, 2022 11:44
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yeah fuckin all of europe is getting hit to an utterly insane and absurd degree. right now in the uk civil disobdience ie mass refusal of payment has a positive poll rating iirc and rioting if nothing is done has an utterly insanely high approval rating. poo poo is bonkers and the eu for sure ain't helping at least thus far.
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CoolCab posted:yeah fuckin all of europe is getting hit to an utterly insane and absurd degree. Just one degree? I wish
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Jose posted:Coincidentally shell paid no tax in the UK last year despite billions in profits and in fact even received about 100m from the government https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/25/tories-received-13m-from-fossil-fuel-interests-and-climate-sceptics-since-2019 They spend £700k a year on Tory bribes though
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happyhippy posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/25/tories-received-13m-from-fossil-fuel-interests-and-climate-sceptics-since-2019 Labour would do it for 15 quid and a ham sandwich
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MikeCrotch posted:Labour would do it for 15 quid and a ham sandwich Is the sandwich to keep Ed Milliband happy
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keep punching joe posted:Maybe I'm wrong but don't MPs also use shops and restaurants. Can't do that if everything had to close because the price of leccy has shot up x10 Only one MP known for going to Aberdeen, and I don't think that one would have been hungry.
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MikeCrotch posted:Labour would do it for 15 quid and a ham sandwich 
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Jose posted:The producers of gas have increased their prices as a result of the war despite it not really impacting them and energy retailers who actually sell it to consumers have been forced to increase it as a result or go bust which a lot of them already have. France had already had some energy price rises last year before they fully nationalised EDF. oil producers are responding to the global ~*~*~*free market~*~*~* see also biden's embarrassing visit to get fisted by MBS in saudi arabia to no benefit
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crepeface posted:oil producers are responding to the global ~*~*~*free market~*~*~* Good news is that he doesn't remember it afterwards
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imagine achieving your dream of becoming "the most powerful man on earth" and still being a loser
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Do what you love and it's not really work. Obama loved being president because of all the drone strikes he got to approve
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Jose posted:Do what you love and it's not really work. Obama loved being president because of all the drone strikes he got to approve That's what used to get me - if you disapproved of Trump in a comment somewhere, you would get an inundation of Trumpettes claiming 'you must love Obama then' when no, I didn't love Obomba. He was just a rather more pleasant individual that Trump but still a doer-of-evil-things.
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I respect Hillary stans way more than Obama stans. The pod Jons are loving embarrassing
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MikeCrotch posted:I respect Hillary stans way more than Obama stans. The pod Jons are loving embarrassing Pod Jons? Who he?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Pod Jons? Who he? obama's quote when someone talks to him about his longtime staffers jon, john and jhon
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The best one was when one of them was telling a heartfelt story about how he asked Obama for advice on whether to propose because he respects Obama and his opinion so much, and Obama is just "Yeah, sounds good, whatever"
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That's what used to get me - if you disapproved of Trump in a comment somewhere, you would get an inundation of Trumpettes claiming 'you must love Obama then' when no, I didn't love Obomba. He was just a rather more pleasant individual that Trump but still a doer-of-evil-things.
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Pierce m'organ
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Reminiscent of this week's telegraph headline about Sturgeon indyref plan is an attempt to break up the UK.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62539973 enjoyed this little segment; the loving bbc posted:Six people had been due to stand trial in November. Several of them had already been convicted without their knowledge via a new fast-track system, but appealed against the decisions and secured full hearings. yeah just secret convicting people like an entirely non-fascist country, very good indeed
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Pod Jons? Who he? There's a bunch of ex Obama staffers all named some variation of Jon who do a podcast called Pod Save America or something Iirc it gets boosted a lot by the US mainstream but is awful lib poo poo and toes the DNC line on everything
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kyojin posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62539973 wait what? how do you 'fast track' something like a conviction? They just flip a coin? Like I get it's dodgy as gently caress but how dodgy? Is there any defense at all? Are they just asking people in the street if they think you did it and if enough say yes you go to jail?
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Regarde Aduck posted:wait what? They have a judge rubber stamp the conviction and no there is no defence. One of the women didn't know she had a criminal record until she was asked to comment by one of the papers
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Truss will do battle with the EU and the saboteurs
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Spangly A posted:They have a judge rubber stamp the conviction and no there is no defence. One of the women didn't know she had a criminal record until she was asked to comment by one of the papers According to this it's a magistrate not a judge; https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/aug/19/defendants-face-conviction-by-not-entering-plea the loving guardian posted:The rulings, made by a single magistrate sitting with a legal adviser Presumably magistrates are carefully trained for this reponsibility? https://www.gov.uk/become-magistrate/can-you-be-a-magistrate lol 3 days
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