Sunak Says Tough Times Ahead!

[baggieal]

Well this moron won’t have tough times with his 200 million stash and the non dom wife who is rich beyond belief!

Perhaps Sunak and his wife should swap lives for a week with a family choosing cold tinned food from a food bank because they can’t afford to heat it!

The guy really does lack any sense of reality! As for all those Tory MP’S who voted against a windfall tax on oil/energy companies - shame on you!!!

The directors of these companies will be the new U.K. Oligarchs when they have millions in bonus payments!

I hope everybody remembers this government at the next election!

[phild]

Doubt he will be turning his thermostat down come the winter or eating some plant based nut roast junk come the famine, his freezer will be overflowing with T-Bones and rib eyes.

[mickd1961]

I’m converting to solar and a power wall shortly, I’ve got a meeting with a specialist next week to organise this.

My home power bill is projected to be between £6000 and £7000 this year and that’s without further rises due this year.

I’m lucky that I can afford to invest four years of energy spend ( I suspect ) so that I save in the long term.

Many people can’t afford to make these changes which it’s why it’s incumbent on any government to do the work for their people.

We have enough onshore and offshore wind and land capacity to power this country forever.

I just can’t understand how every government from Blair in 97 and right through the next 25 years has been so negligent in this regard.


The problem with the present situation is that you just can’t expect government to pay everyone’s energy bills.

Unfortunately we are 15-20 years behind the curve in regards to becoming self sustainable in energy and possible longer than that.

I’m going to spend what I need to this summer to make my energy bills pathetically low for the future.

[Yarmbaggie]

Do people think this crisis is only happening in the UK. We all buy energy from the same market and no matter where you are you are seeing big increases in the cost of living.

I read articles on Australian and there was an piece this week from the BBCs Sydney reporter entitled Anxious Australia. After holding all the records for continuous GDP growth and financial well being it is now reported over 40% of people are struggling to meet mortgage payments due to record inflation.

They still are struggling significantly with Covid with cases at record highs and their swagger and self confidence has taken a big hit. I know this as well from updates from family members on weekly FaceTime calls. Businesses are struggling to staff vacancies and the economy is slow to recover.

The way the press and tv are at the moment you would think this is a problem unique to the UK.

[baggieal]

Do people think this crisis is only happening in the UK. We all buy energy from the same market and no matter where you are you are seeing big increases in the cost of living.

I read articles on Australian and there was an piece this week from the BBCs Sydney reporter entitled Anxious Australia. After holding all the records for continuous GDP growth and financial well being it is now reported over 40% of people are struggling to meet mortgage payments due to record inflation.

They still are struggling significantly with Covid with cases at record highs and their swagger and self confidence has taken a big hit. I know this as well from updates from family members on weekly FaceTime calls. Businesses are struggling to staff vacancies and the economy is slow to recover.

The way the press and tv are at the moment you would think this is a problem unique to the UK.

Only been back from the USA for six weeks and supermarket prices have not risen anywhere near like the U.K. Whilst petrol prices have increased they are still around half of what we pay!

Many other EU countries pay much less in energy costs than the U.K!!

Where is the money going? Meanwhile illegal
Immigrants are still coming over by the boat full so whose paying for all their costs? Perhaps one reason why we pay more!

[Yarmbaggie]

Only been back from the USA for six weeks and supermarket prices have not risen anywhere near like the U.K. Whilst petrol prices have increased they are still around half of what we pay!

Many other EU countries pay much less in energy costs than the U.K!!

Where is the money going? Meanwhile illegal
Immigrants are still coming over by the boat full so whose paying for all their costs? Perhaps one reason why we pay more!

Rather deal with actual facts. As at April 2022 inflation rate for USA is 8.3%. Year on year inflation rate 2020 to 2021, inflation rate 7%. Hardly impressive.

[mickd1961]

Only been back from the USA for six weeks and supermarket prices have not risen anywhere near like the U.K. Whilst petrol prices have increased they are still around half of what we pay!

Many other EU countries pay much less in energy costs than the U.K!!

Where is the money going? Meanwhile illegal
Immigrants are still coming over by the boat full so whose paying for all their costs? Perhaps one reason why we pay more!

The USA have massive advantages over us, they’re pretty much the size of Europe as one country, they have vast reserves of their own oil and gas and they have the climate to grow pretty much all they need.

We are a small island with a lack of useable natural resources due to the reluctance to frack and a climate that isn’t ideal to 365 day food production.

I don’t like comparing us to the USA, I’d rather live in Bilston than the USA.

We should aspire to be like quality Eu countries like Sweden.

We need to go green as a matter of urgency and we need a tax regime that attracts the best tech companies and modern industries to want to operate from here.

[Omegstrat6]

Just seen an interesting video clip on BBC where a detective constable asks Priti Patel if she could live on £1200 a month (the pay for a probationary officer). The lady who asks this has 23 years service and currently does a valuable job working with vulnerable people but she struggles as a single parent on £2300 a month (just over £27.6k pa) and has been told by a financial advisor that she would be better off working 22 hours a week and claiming benefits. Too many in this govt. truly have no idea of the financial hardships so many are facing this year and not just the poorest. The average wage is said to be £27k but this certainly only makes life financially easier if you are a couple and there a great many people earning less than this.

[DaveP67 is back!]

Do people think this crisis is only happening in the UK. We all buy energy from the same market and no matter where you are you are seeing big increases in the cost of living.

I read articles on Australian and there was an piece this week from the BBCs Sydney reporter entitled Anxious Australia. After holding all the records for continuous GDP growth and financial well being it is now reported over 40% of people are struggling to meet mortgage payments due to record inflation.

They still are struggling significantly with Covid with cases at record highs and their swagger and self confidence has taken a big hit. I know this as well from updates from family members on weekly FaceTime calls. Businesses are struggling to staff vacancies and the economy is slow to recover.

The way the press and tv are at the moment you would think this is a problem unique to the UK.

In France energy price rises are capped at 4% we are sadly at the mercy of fluctuating global prices and businesses out to make a killing, as an example a mate of mine owns a garage specialising in servicing, he buys his oil in bulk 25 gallon drums from a wholesaler, the price has risen by 30% this year, yet when he looked at the drum it had a manufacturing date of 2019! Prices here rise immediately but oddly never drop in the same manner. We are all being ripped off by the big power players the 0.1% who make money whatever…for once fair play to the French! Mind you being the militant lot they are they would revolt and not pay..