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Flayer posted:I have access to the billing at my work, and good lord energy prices went loving insane last month. 1 month costing more than the previous 3 combined, and this is just the start. I am dreading this reaching normal consumers. I manage the energy billing for a local authority and we just had an FOI request about it. Electricity is up around 30%/kWh, but for gas it's a 163% rise. We've spent as much already this financial year as we did up to end of January last year, and the total budget rise is measured in millions. Scary doesn't enter into it; if this passes on to retail customers we are looking at total social collapse in the UK within the next year.
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Sounds like businesses just need to go on a payment strike. Not like the owners are liable, corporate personhood ho!
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Aug 19, 2022 11:25
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Just incredible to watch the country collapse and for the Tories to put up two idiots who want to be the new Thatcher without any of the pragmatism or intelligence, for better or worse, that Thatcher had. She was devastating because she was competent, and these chucklefucks really are not.
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Aug 19, 2022 11:38
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Ms Adequate posted:These look like rejected ads for the original Wipeout t levels just makes me think of dosing testosterone lol Tesseraction posted:Just incredible to watch the country collapse and for the Tories to put up two idiots who want to be the new Thatcher without any of the pragmatism or intelligence, for better or worse, that Thatcher had. i’m simultaneously horrified and think pm truss is a hilariously absurd idea it’s horrilarious
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Aug 19, 2022 11:50
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keep punching joe posted:I mean, say what you want about the tenets of
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mediaphage posted:
Seems to me all the actually competent leaders (be they good or evil) tend to be those who clawed themselves into the establishment on the back of their own skill and achievement rather than having everything handed to them on a platter. Strangely enough playing court doesn't appear to make you a good leader when poo poo happens. Thatcher would have figured out some way out of the current mess. It would probably involve industrial scale misery but it's not quite the same as letting the country turn into a Mad Max sequel accidentally.
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Aug 19, 2022 11:58
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Tesseraction posted:I mean Lough is just the Gaelic form of Scots Loch "Well actually" Loch is the Gaelic form, Lough is anglicised. Lough Neagh is Loch nEachach in Gaelic.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:14
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 Only Kindness posted:These people have a different word for everything!   How far is it from there to Mount Ben Nevis?
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Aug 19, 2022 12:16
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I'm about to come back to the UK for 6 months after 12 years in Australia. Didn't want to miss out on the country imploding!
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Tomberforce posted:I'm about to come back to the UK for 6 months after 12 years in Australia. Didn't want to miss out on the country imploding! Congratulations, you are just in time to be deported in Rwanda. Guavanaut posted:
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Aug 19, 2022 12:17
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Z the IVth posted:Thatcher would have figured out some way out of the current mess. It would probably involve industrial scale misery but it's not quite the same as letting the country turn into a Mad Max sequel accidentally. Well for one thing she actually raised benefits in line with inflation, which would have cut off half of this issue. She would likely also have not allowed the price cap to rise as batshittily as what happened.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:18
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Tomberforce posted:I'm about to come back to the UK for 6 months after 12 years in Australia. Didn't want to miss out on the country imploding! we had some balmy weather
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Aug 19, 2022 12:19
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According to this Nessie is roughly 16km long. Like the gently caress, is everyone looking for Nessie blind? Bastards a bloody mountain.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:19
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Tomberforce posted:I'm about to come back to the UK for 6 months after 12 years in Australia. Didn't want to miss out on the country imploding! Don't forget to pack some food rations, and maybe a spare suitcase filled with cheap foreign electricity
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Aug 19, 2022 12:20
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To think that the current government is so poo poo and abjectly failing that I'm having to praise Thatcher in comparison.
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Tesseraction posted:To think that the current government is so poo poo and abjectly failing that I'm having to praise Thatcher in comparison. https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?t=4lpmVINAjFgk2EAJsR35YQ&s=19 This, but with that
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Aug 19, 2022 12:22
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dr_rat posted:According to this Nessie is roughly 16km long. It's very deep. It's long, narrow & deep. Like, at its widest point it is not even 2 miles across, but you don't need to go very far from the shore for it to start going from ankle deep to dropping off. It's the largest body of fresh water in the British Isles by volume. So basically Nessie is definitely a bottom feeder
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Aug 19, 2022 12:26
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Z the IVth posted:Thatcher would have figured out some way out of the current mess. It would probably involve industrial scale misery but it's not quite the same as letting the country turn into a Mad Max sequel accidentally. Thatcher was a competent leader though - evil, but in a way to not let EVERYTHING fall apart. Just like Cameron or to some extent May. Cameron was overconfident with the Brexit vote, May fell as she was trying to square a circle with Brexit. Both knew how to actually run a country. Boris thought he could bluster his way through everything and keep moving past his mistakes. Thatcher from Wish we're about to get has no idea how to even get out of her own press conference. The Tories are running on fumes - The base love Truss, but she's Boris but dumber. Sunak would be better at running the country, but he's already tarnished. They had a couple of people who would have made..... stable(?) PM's but they lost out to the rabid faction. When the Tories lose an election and go into the wilderness for a few years, it'll be interesting to see what they come back as.
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576?t=4lpmVINAjFgk2EAJsR35YQ&s=19 I said in comparison. It's a case of pointing out they are failing the lowest bar
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Aug 19, 2022 12:33
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Sick and I don't mean modern kidspeak for good. https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1560164966854008832
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Aug 19, 2022 12:36
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forkboy84 posted:Nessie is definitely a bottom
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Aug 19, 2022 12:37
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Sick and I don't mean modern kidspeak for good. e: ^^ As opposed to Chuck Tingle who is at one with his kinks and also wrote the only Porber book I've ever read.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:40
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Jedit posted:Scary doesn't enter into it; if this passes on to retail customers we are looking at total social collapse in the UK within the next year. I'm in a quite optimal situation where although I'm not a high earner, I have a good fix on my power and my mortgage is solid for 5 more years... but I'm making sure to cut down on booze, buy less frivolous tat, we won't bother with takeaways, not planning any holidays, you know, all the sensible behaviours when you need to be careful with money. Now just think if everyone tried to be "sensible" like this... all those businesses that I was giving my money to, and now they're getting nothing on top of massive increases to their own bills; they're all going under.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:40
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Chilli heatwave Doritos went from a pound to £1.50 recently!!! Every product in the supermarket is up at least %10-20. My monthly shop is probably up by about £40 or so? I'm very lucky that my Union won us a pay increase very recently but man prices on everything are spiralling REALLY fast.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:45
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Grey Hunter posted:Thatcher was a competent leader though - evil, but in a way to not let EVERYTHING fall apart. Just like Cameron or to some extent May. Cameron was overconfident with the Brexit vote, May fell as she was trying to square a circle with Brexit. Both knew how to actually run a country. maggie would have been forgotten as a failure if she hadn’t fallen upon the bounty of north sea oil
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Aug 19, 2022 12:47
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Also if her plan to stop 'the Chinese' coming over here by changing the definition of British overseas citizenship hadn't landed on the desk of a revanchist general as "UK gives up outlying islands"
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Aug 19, 2022 12:50
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Tesseraction posted:To think that the current government is so poo poo and abjectly failing that I'm having to praise Thatcher in comparison. Thatcher was a scientist and could read graphs, I wonder if she would promote the whole "net zero by 2050" bullshit.
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Miftan posted:Chilli heatwave Doritos went from a pound to £1.50 recently!!! Every product in the supermarket is up at least %10-20. My monthly shop is probably up by about £40 or so? I'm very lucky that my Union won us a pay increase very recently but man prices on everything are spiralling REALLY fast. My recent perambulations round supermarkets are leading me to the conclusion that dairy products in particular are escalating in price maybe 30% in a month! (I consume a lot of dairy). Trying to cut down but it's hard when those big pots of Greek yog ('essentials' brands) are calling at me from the shop fridges.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:55
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Is hyperinflation in the cards? I want a trillion pound note with the queen's face on it
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Aug 19, 2022 12:56
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Comes to something when Thatcher is getting praise ITT. (I don't disagree. The modern Tory probably thinks she's a goddamn commie by comparison to them.)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Trying to cut down but it's hard when those big pots of Greek yog ('essentials' brands) are calling at me from the shop fridges.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:57
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Aug 19, 2022 12:57
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My freezer is full of blackberries and I'm going back for more later after finding a massive bush recently, that poo poo is expensive as hell in supermarkets.
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Aug 19, 2022 12:59
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If Thatcher was in her prime today we'd be an ultramax prison island that makes Mega City One look like a communist fantasy. Its all about the enablers
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Aug 19, 2022 13:00
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Grey Hunter posted:When the Tories lose an election and go into the wilderness for a few years, it'll be interesting to see what they come back as. Labour is also Tories, though.
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Aug 19, 2022 13:00
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When the mouthbreathers figure out that Brexit actually won't deliver on anything they wanted, all while simultaneously becoming poorer and worse off - maybe, just MAYBE they'll stop being such subservient idiots. But this is Britain so chances are slim on Bootlicker Isle. Also get bit by a cyclist Shapps. Twat.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My recent perambulations round supermarkets are leading me to the conclusion that dairy products in particular are escalating in price maybe 30% in a month! *Laughs vegan-ishly*
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Thatcher was a scientist and could read graphs, I wonder if she would promote the whole "net zero by 2050" bullshit. Thatcher also knew she’d be dead by 2050 so why bother
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loving hell. This guy must have been doing a good job.  He worked for over 10 years. He must have been amazing in interviews."A 'Walty Mitty' fake NHS boss from Devon made £1m by lying about his qualifications to secure senior jobs - and now has to pay £96,000 after Supreme Court hearing. Jon Andrewes, 63, called himself 'doctor' and put fake PhDs on his CV to become chairman of two NHS trusts and a hospice - despite being a builder. He was jailed for two years in 2017 - where the court heard the disgraced led an "outwardly prestigious life based on a staggering series of lies" - after holding top jobs in the NHS. Andrewes, from Totnes, falsified his way into roles at a hospice and two South West health trusts where he earned £643,602.91. Despite obtaining the six figure salary, the only qualifications he had were a higher education certificate in social work from the 1970s and a PGCE in teaching. He also lied about obtaining degrees from three universities - and in reality Andrewes spent most of his career as a probation officer, customs officer or youth worker. Earlier two Supreme Court judges agreed an appeal by the Crown over an original confiscation order made against him. The ruling overturns Andrewes' successful appeal against the order. The fraudster claimed he previously worked for the Home Office, entered the medical sector in 2004 and kept up the act for over a decade. He beat off dozens off candidates to land the roles, including 117 rivals to become chair of Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust and earned in excess of £1m in total. His lies were finally unravelled in 2016 when bosses finally interviewed him and discovered his impressive credentials were fabricated. In 2017, Andrewes admitted two charges of dishonestly making a false representation in relation to gain as chairman of Torbay NHS Care Trust in 2007 and Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust in 2015. He also pleaded guilty to making a financial gain in relation to his role as chief executive of St Margaret's Hospice in Taunton, Somerset, in 2004. Following his conviction, Andrewes was forced to hand over £96,737.24 - which was agreed to be the "recoverable amount" of money he had available, a spokesperson for the Supreme Court said."
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