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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-60236456quote:Here it is: Regulator Ofgem has announced that the energy price cap will rise by £693 in England, Wales and Scotland from April. Time to invest in Bailiff and Bodybag stocks! Edit: Lol and gas companies have had best profits since 2014
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Cool. Guess I better stock up on thick clothes for winter then.
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Jedit posted:I think Johnson will resign .... <snip> I was talking about the DUP First Minister, but I agree with your points about Boris. e: Oh, and on the subject of energy prices, my friend in Denmark has seen the cost of her electricity rise over 6x so far this winter. Yes, over 600%....
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Feb 3, 2022 12:35
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can't wait for my council tax increase to swallow the cost of the rebate
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Feb 3, 2022 12:39
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54% rise lol I actually fixed for two years back in September but loving hell that's rough.
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sebzilla posted:54% rise lol I fixed in October for 2 years with Octopus literally days before the market went completely bananas. Our flats communal electric though is on a fixed rate until this summer. Dreading what it will be after that! It has to be a business tariff so don't know what's happening with those. We put the service charges up by 1% this year (they're pretty low even the 2 bed flats are only on £126 per month) but all the other stuff we have to do is going up as well.
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Apropos of nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZFxZmDNlV8
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My energy contract ends at the end of February, the variable tariff is twice what I pay now, and the fixed plans they're offering are a 3x-4x increase.
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gently caress today is just a poo poo pile of bad news. Bank of England even going 'poo poo gonna get bad for you poors yo'.
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It's not even just "poors" - energy rises is enough to bother a lot of the middle class too
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The French would presumably already be beating the poo poo out of their local representatives and setting minor infrastructure on fire - have they not been experiencing the same hikes? Maybe their nuclear capacity ameliorates the worst of it
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Failed Imagineer posted:The French would presumably already be beating the poo poo out of their local representatives and setting minor infrastructure on fire - have they not been experiencing the same hikes? Maybe their nuclear capacity ameliorates the worst of it https://twitter.com/peachlux_/status/1489217229975691266?s=21
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Imagine being less socialist than Emmanuel Macron.
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Macron to French public : I will put you in a world of poo poo British public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTU4dKpoB8
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Only Kindness posted:Apropos of nothing. This song squanders itself with its bizarre mix of revolutionary fervor and reach-across-the-aisles lib brainery It's a shame
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So, this £150 rebate coming in via council tax bills, (a) will those getting single persons' discount have 25% less rebate and (b) does this mean local authorities/councils will get £150 less per council tax bill so even less money to provide services? (Not expecting posters to know the answers, but given the Goonipedia of this place, maybe!)
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:So, this £150 rebate coming in via council tax bills, (a) will those getting single persons' discount have 25% less rebate and (b) does this mean local authorities/councils will get £150 less per council tax bill so even less money to provide services? B is almost certain to be the case. No idea about A, sorry.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Macron to French public : I will put you in a world of poo poo The Tory Front Bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JD-Y9DFbN8
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Even by tory standards this seems dumb About the only thing that might ever shift the needle properly with the grate british public is when people are directly hit in the financials, and this is taking the piss We don't care about corruption, we love racism, we revel in incompetence, and we don't mind if our lives get worse year by year as long as it happens slowly and we have the usual Hates to distract us But this is so big and obvious and in your face
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^^^ Ages ago someone pointed out (about Trump) that people don't care about rule breaking as long as its your guy breaking the rules for your benefit / your opponent's detriment. Like when the libs were demanding Biden pack the supreme court - if Trump had done the same, they'd be demanding the UN step in. Previously the middle class (in which I include ex working class small business owners fuelled politically by spite) haven't given a poo poo because the poor and disabled have been the ones getting hammered by the rise of the cost of living and profit hunting via what should be non-profit public utilities. But now that it's big enough for the middle class to be hit, it'll be interesting to see how they react. One takeaway from all this is that as soon as we all actually are all in this together (i.e. all feeling the pinch), the average brit goes loving insane because all they can really handle is an 'us and them' mentality, whether that's branding the poor and disabled 'benefits scroungers', demanding the ethnic cleansing of GRT communities, or sending the navy to hunt refugees in the channel for sport. Marmaduke! posted:100%. Even in a parallel universe where Sue Grey's report explicitly said that the PM directly broke the law multiple times, all he'd have to say is "I apologise, but I don't accept that, jumped up civil servants shouldn't be dictating the law", and the consequences would be minimal. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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I was confused by an email from my (Dutch) energy supplier that my monthly payment would go down. Turns out the government slashed taxes to counter the price rises, so it'll probably go back up to where it was when my fix ends. Putting the difference aside in any case.killerwhat posted:Thanks to those who recommended the Attack of the 50ft Blockchain book recently. Very enjoyable. I also came across this very long video by noted Tobias Fünke lookalike "Folding Ideas" which covers some of the same ground (and mentions the book). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
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You could read a book or watch a video, but really you just need block chain dot png
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https://twitter.com/DrClaireH/status/1489235746368245761
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So between the suspension of competition law and record production preceding a 50% energy price hike, the UK energy supply is now a fully formed cartel? I'm impressed that there's no real effort to hide that there's no basis for any of this beyond capitalism, no "why", just "we're loving you and giving you a third back by loving your council" in a positive tone
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Guavanaut posted:You could read a book or watch a video, but really you just need block chain dot png
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Spangly A posted:So between the suspension of competition law and record production preceding a 50% energy price hike, the UK energy supply is now a fully formed cartel? I saw a cartoon around the time of the GFC of a giant robot destroying houses, with a father explaining that it was just the glorious free market doing it's thing and that they should rush out with their wallets to help it get back up when it fell down. I wish I could find it again because really it should be the response to every loving thing that gets said and done in politics for the last 20 years.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I saw a cartoon around the time of the GFC of a giant robot destroying houses, with a father explaining that it was just the glorious free market doing it's thing and that they should rush out with their wallets to help it get back up when it fell down. I wish I could find it again because really it should be the response to every loving thing that gets said and done in politics for the last 20 years. Ask in the political cartoons thread, you'll have a copy of it faster than you can say "NFT".
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Much as I dislike Starmer, the absolute brass of Johnson to stand up in parliament and say WRT Saville that it's 'the right thing for people to accept responsibility for what happens on their watch.' Whichever spad dug up the speech where Starmer accepted responsibility for the Saville thing (in the standard "I accept full responsibility but gently caress you its nothing to do with me" way these things are always meant) probably got ALL the bellyrubs from Boris that evening
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I saw a cartoon around the time of the GFC of a giant robot destroying houses, with a father explaining that it was just the glorious free market doing it's thing and that they should rush out with their wallets to help it get back up when it fell down. I wish I could find it again because really it should be the response to every loving thing that gets said and done in politics for the last 20 years. I have that somewhere, I'll try and dig it out for you when I get a sec EDIT boosh 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I saw a cartoon around the time of the GFC of a giant robot destroying houses, with a father explaining that it was just the glorious free market doing it's thing and that they should rush out with their wallets to help it get back up when it fell down. I wish I could find it again because really it should be the response to every loving thing that gets said and done in politics for the last 20 years.  Dammit, took me an extra 2 minutes to work out how the hell to get a direct link from imgur these days.
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Guavanaut posted:You could read a book or watch a video, but really you just need block chain dot png The core of crypto really is lolbertarian types who think that property rights are a law of physics and don't understand what society actually is.
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Feb 3, 2022 15:31
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You could be forgiven for thinking that given the last... however loving long where everything else has been thrown under the bus (including the literal bus) to prop up rich people. It would be nice to think I might live to see a day where that changes but it seems increasingly improbable.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The core of crypto really is lolbertarian types who think that property rights are a law of physics and don't understand what society actually is.
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Barry Foster posted:I have that somewhere, I'll try and dig it out for you when I get a sec Loonytoad Quack posted:
Thanks both, and always good to have a backup (and in a different file type too!) just in case.
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Two weed-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved the concept of anthropogenic climate change destroying the planet
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