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bluethrunthru said:
I find it laughable that Farage's rimmers were going around saying Rose and Flavell were rubbish and had to go and Howard Davies needs to leave too. Meanwhile the Natwest Group announces profits up from £2bn to £3.5bn under their stewardship. Most firms would love that level of failure lol
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You have chosen a rather unfortunate name for someone who leans to the left, back to the point.
It’s quite easy for a bank to make money.
Loans are given at one % rate, the goal posts are then changed, the borrower , ie the customer can do nothing about it as they are hiked up.
In the meantime the Bank pays its depositors whatever rate it wants to, knowing most are not going to move.
It’s widening the net interest margin that’s making the profit, not some particular skill of one of its employees.
If your personal details were discussed over a very intimate dinner with say your next door neighbour, or even your X Mrs, knowing it could end up as local gossip you may think a bit differently about the principles involved
Perhaps the question should be did the license payer have to cough up for a posh dinner at some fancy hotel for one of its employees or did he foot the bill himself.
 
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Great way to run into a spring election by winning people on your side with crippling energy bills - though to be fair those who would be hardest hit will have already been evicted and be living on the streets anyway

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk

Sunday Express Front Page 30th of July 2023 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!

The Sunday Express reports on potential gas supply shortages, predicting another winter of steep energy bills for UK households.
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bluethrunthru said:
Great way to run into a spring election by winning people on your side with crippling energy bills - though to be fair those who would be hardest hit will have already been evicted and be living on the streets anyway

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk

Sunday Express Front Page 30th of July 2023 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!

The Sunday Express reports on potential gas supply shortages, predicting another winter of steep energy bills for UK households.
www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk
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Happens every year. When we least use it, no change in price. When the heating goes on, make mass profit.

Looks like we know where they’ll fight the election, though.
 
bluethrunthru said:
Great way to run into a spring election by winning people on your side with crippling energy bills - though to be fair those who would be hardest hit will have already been evicted and be living on the streets anyway

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk

Sunday Express Front Page 30th of July 2023 - Tomorrow's Papers Today!

The Sunday Express reports on potential gas supply shortages, predicting another winter of steep energy bills for UK households.
www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk
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That’s been known for ages though that it will go back up but no £60 a month help
 
As I keep saying most of them recognise they are done. Probably wouldn't contact Johnson for help as they know he wouldn't read anything they sent nor take their calls and in any event any promise he makes is worthless anyway

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Priti Patel takes swipe at Tory MPs who asked her for help getting new jobs

The former Home Secretary claimed that 'many' MPs have asked her for help as she appeared to hit out Tory HQ selecting career-minded candidates
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After Uxbridge, they’ve now found a war to wage as we run-up to the election. It will be really interesting to see how far they go with regard to climate issues, especially as it’s them who have set the direction under Johnson and forced Cities to implement certain measures.

If it goes as I think, they are going to argue against their own policy and that Labour are against the people and economy, and it is them that is their friend.

So much for that COP stuff, that was so yesterday.
 
bluethrunthru said:
As I keep saying most of them recognise they are done. Probably wouldn't contact Johnson for help as they know he wouldn't read anything they sent nor take their calls and in any event any promise he makes is worthless anyway

www.mirror.co.uk

Priti Patel takes swipe at Tory MPs who asked her for help getting new jobs

The former Home Secretary claimed that 'many' MPs have asked her for help as she appeared to hit out Tory HQ selecting career-minded candidates
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk
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Wow. Patel wants more say in selecting Tory candidates for the party members who wanted Johnson then Truss as PM.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
After Uxbridge, they’ve now found a war to wage as we run-up to the election. It will be really interesting to see how far they go with regard to climate issues, especially as it’s them who have set the direction under Johnson and forced Cities to implement certain measures.

If it goes as I think, they are going to argue against their own policy and that Labour are against the people and economy, and it is them that is their friend.

So much for that COP stuff, that was so yesterday.
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It's the Tory way. Utter hypocrisy.

I've pointed out the way local Tories oppose local council policies mandated by the Tory government, but if the government itself is opposing stuff that it makes councils do, we're in Wonderland territory.
 
so Sunaks latest vote grabbing wheeze is to grant new North Sea oil gas licenses "to secure our own energy supplies and security" and keep British jobs and fuel costs down with our own gas and oil.

So they allow BP and Shell to extract fossil fuels. World market price at the time is for example $10 per unit. Do they expect them to see direct to the British Govt at $5 per unit? Have they not seen the profits oil and gas companies make? They are not charities. They are money making machine who's raw material may be finite but is entering a bonanza period as it runs it down.

Yet another over simplified mis-representation of the situation by this Govt.
 
Thanet MP trying to frame it as an economic thing, and that making gas/oil here is less bad than making it elsewhere. Scare stories of lights going out and the like.
Thus missing the general argument that less gas/oil full stop may be the more important issue.

"We'll adapt" seemed to be his mantra, which I'm sure will please anyone living near sea level (like, er, Thanet?)
 
bluethrunthru said:
so Sunaks latest vote grabbing wheeze is to grant new North Sea oil gas licenses "to secure our own energy supplies and security" and keep British jobs and fuel costs down with our own gas and oil.

So they allow BP and Shell to extract fossil fuels. World market price at the time is for example $10 per unit. Do they expect them to see direct to the British Govt at $5 per unit? Have they not seen the profits oil and gas companies make? They are not charities. They are money making machine who's raw material may be finite but is entering a bonanza period as it runs it down.

Yet another over simplified mis-representation of the situation by this Govt.
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BrianW said:
Even if they found the equivalent of Saudi Arabia off Cleethorpes, the oil produced would still go on the world market at the world price and (bar such taxes as we extract) the people of this country would be no better off. That's the 'free market' for you.
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Many voters only look at the simplified version of the stories; the headlines and first paragraph perhaps. Politicians (and their media backers) know this all too well.
 
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