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MillionMilesAway said:
An astonishing thing for Dorries to say, even on the Dorries scale.
To state that she doesn't believe another MP is plain bizarre.
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Not just that, but it's what she's claiming she doesn't believe.

it's Stanley Johnson FFS. His friends reacted to this by saying (I'm paraphrasing) 'Oh you know how Stanley is, he gropes everyone, it's harmless! You're not friends unless Stanleys felt you up!'

Literally no one else considered this didn't happen. Stanley himself didn't deny it, just says he doesn't remember, which is probably the truest thing he's said in a decade.
 
"The Party of Fiscal Responsibility"...?


www.housingtoday.co.uk

Audit MPs scathing over green homes grant

Public accounts committee 'not convinced' that business department grasps full scale of the scheme's failure
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Dame Meg Hillier, chair of the public accounts committee said: “It cost the taxpayer £50m just to administer the pointlessly rushed through green homes grant scheme, which delivered a small fraction of its objectives, either in environmental benefits or the promised new jobs.

“We heard it can take 48 months - four years - to train the specialists required to implement key parts of a scheme that was dreamed up to be rolled out in 12 weeks. It was never going to work at this time, in this way, and that should have been blindingly obvious to the department.

“That it was not is a serious worry. I am afraid there is no escaping the conclusion that this scheme was a slam-dunk fail.”

Hillier added: “We will need this massive step-change in the way our homes and public buildings are heated, but the way this was devised and run was just a terrible waste of money and opportunity at a time when we can least afford it.”

The inquiry found that the scheme had been implemented as an urgent response to the covid-19 crisis, but that the 12-week timescale to implement it was “unrealistic and BEIS proceeded with it despite its own projects and investment committee rejecting its business case”.


Key findings​

  1. The department’s failure to deliver a viable scheme has damaged confidence in its efforts to improve energy efficiency in private domestic homes.
  2. Despite clear warning signs, the department proceeded with an unrealistic implementation timescale for the green homes grant voucher scheme.
  3. The scheme’s design was overly complex and did not sufficiently address the needs of consumers and installers.
  4. The creation of jobs was a priority for the scheme, but the department failed to maximise its impact on employment.
  5. The department appointed a contractor without properly understanding whether it could deliver.
  6. The department has persistently failed to learn lessons from previous energy efficiency schemes.


Contract given to a Yank company too. Makes me wonder who, in the Tory party, benefitted from this...?

Taking Back Control and driving the country into a ditch, on a clear road. Again.
 
I was listening to someone at lunchtime trying to explain why people were still without power after the recent storm (5 days ago). He was saying that would people be prepared to fork out an extra £20 a month on their bills for the electricity system to be more resilient? My answer would be - perhaps the electricity companies should pay it out of the profits they make. Before you say - ah but lots are going bust, I will say that the big ones that aren’t going bust are making huge profits at the moment. Our son works for one of the big ones and he says that these companies are keeping quiet about it but the are making some huge profits. Mostly out of those who have had to move over from bust firms and who they can put on the maximum tariff.
 
It's the "new entry" middle-men companies going bust, because they signed up customers with low rates on long contracts (longer the cheaper) and are now buying from the generating companies at more than they are selling it on for. Others hedged and bought the fuel in advance for the customers they signed up - in their case the generating companies might want them to go bust, as they have to supply to them at well below current market rate. There is not much competition in the wholesale supply business, and as the fixed costs are the same and they can pass on the raw material costs, profits look good.

Bulb was the privatisation Rubicon - too big to fail - and maybe administrators of the companies that did go to the wall could mount a legal challenge asking why the government didn't bail them out.
 
Vic said:
It's the "new entry" middle-men companies going bust, because they signed up customers with low rates on long contracts (longer the cheaper) and are now buying from the generating companies at more than they are selling it on for. Others hedged and bought the fuel in advance for the customers they signed up - in their case the generating companies might want them to go bust, as they have to supply to them at well below current market rate. There is not much competition in the wholesale supply business, and as the fixed costs are the same and they can pass on the raw material costs, profits look good.

Bulb was the privatisation Rubicon - too big to fail - and maybe administrators of the companies that did go to the wall could mount a legal challenge asking why the government didn't bail them out.
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Unless of course you are Eon ..... who buy electricity from a company they own ...and then bill you from another company which they own (each of these companies make a profit and are used to bypass the regulations and capping set by OFGEN)

Could someone please explain to me how, if the majority of our electricity is provided by renewable resources such as wind , (which costs nothing) ...why is the cost of electricity so high and why are companies going bust?
 
Ifwecouldjust....... said:
Unless of course you are Eon ..... who buy electricity from a company they own ...and then bill you from another company which they own (each of these companies make a profit and are used to bypass the regulations and capping set by OFGEN)

Could someone please explain to me how, if the majority of our electricity is provided by renewable resources such as wind , (which costs nothing) ...why is the cost of electricity so high and why are companies going bust?
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Fred_Quimby said:
I was listening to someone at lunchtime trying to explain why people were still without power after the recent storm (5 days ago). He was saying that would people be prepared to fork out an extra £20 a month on their bills for the electricity system to be more resilient? My answer would be - perhaps the electricity companies should pay it out of the profits they make. Before you say - ah but lots are going bust, I will say that the big ones that aren’t going bust are making huge profits at the moment. Our son works for one of the big ones and he says that these companies are keeping quiet about it but the are making some huge profits. Mostly out of those who have had to move over from bust firms and who they can put on the maximum tariff.
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bluethrunthru said:
which is why it will never be the time to hold a full public enquiry - Johnson needs it to go on - cases, variants, boosters and deaths because it covers his mis-deeds
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Sadly covid is now a multi billion pound industry here and a multi trillion one worldwide.

As ever, that wealth will belong to the select few and it’s why it won’t ever go away.
 
Over 10% swing in the Sidcup and Old Bexley by-election to Labour tonight - Johnson loses his seat on that swing in a GE. Brokenshire was a much loved and respected MP who lost his seat in tragic circumstances.......here comes North Shropshire and the reviled Owen Pattersons seat up for grabs next.... Reform wreaking havoc with the much reduced Tory vote
 
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