(Buckle up) Recession for more than a year
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Mr Kobayashi
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DO NOT refuse to pay your energy bill in October. Below is how you can make a stand and hurt your energy supplier without getting into debt/damaging your credit rating:
1. Cancel your DD & pay for what you use each month.
2. You then need to write a letter of complaint to your energy supplier. Once that complaint had been raised, your energy supplier can't take any debt collection work on your account, so they can't pass your details to the credit reference agencies etc. That bill gets put on hold whilst they try to resolve your complaint.
The energy company might offer you a small reduction - DON'T accept it. Keep the complaint open & hold strong.
3. Eventually, they will send you a letter of 'Deadlock'. A letter of Deadlock is a letter that is sent to you from your energy company saying they gone as far as they can with your complaint & can't go any further, so your only option now is to take it up with the energy Ombudsman.
For every complaint the Ombudsman receives, they charge your energy supplier £500 for every claim they have to investigate.
4. The energy companies also have limitations on how many complaints they're allowed open as well as a turnaround time of how fast they have to respond to a complaint & get a complaint closed. If they don't respond to them fast enough & don't resolve the complaints or they have too many complaints open, the energy firm will also get hit with a fine from the Ombudsman.
This is how your hurt an energy company. This will also put them in breach of their licensing conditions
& put their ability to trade at risk.
So if you want to fight these extortionate price hikes
1. Raise complaints
2. Do NOT close them
3. Take them to the Ombudsman
You can also submit a “subject access request” at the same time as the above. This means the energy company has a legal obligation to provide you with every piece of information they have on you; including telephone conversation transcripts, past bills, everything! This is time consuming for them to collect and is a huge hassle for them however they legally have only one month to comply.
DO NOT refuse to pay your energy bill in October. Below is how you can make a stand and hurt your energy supplier without getting into debt/damaging your credit rating:
1. Cancel your DD & pay for what you use each month.
2. You then need to write a letter of complaint to your energy supplier. Once that complaint had been raised, your energy supplier can't take any debt collection work on your account, so they can't pass your details to the credit reference agencies etc. That bill gets put on hold whilst they try to resolve your complaint.
The energy company might offer you a small reduction - DON'T accept it. Keep the complaint open & hold strong.
3. Eventually, they will send you a letter of 'Deadlock'. A letter of Deadlock is a letter that is sent to you from your energy company saying they gone as far as they can with your complaint & can't go any further, so your only option now is to take it up with the energy Ombudsman.
For every complaint the Ombudsman receives, they charge your energy supplier £500 for every claim they have to investigate.
4. The energy companies also have limitations on how many complaints they're allowed open as well as a turnaround time of how fast they have to respond to a complaint & get a complaint closed. If they don't respond to them fast enough & don't resolve the complaints or they have too many complaints open, the energy firm will also get hit with a fine from the Ombudsman.
This is how your hurt an energy company. This will also put them in breach of their licensing conditions
& put their ability to trade at risk.
So if you want to fight these extortionate price hikes
1. Raise complaints
2. Do NOT close them
3. Take them to the Ombudsman
You can also submit a “subject access request” at the same time as the above. This means the energy company has a legal obligation to provide you with every piece of information they have on you; including telephone conversation transcripts, past bills, everything! This is time consuming for them to collect and is a huge hassle for them however they legally have only one month to comply.
Just complain, not about anything in particular, just complain.
What great advice.
Its that commie bastard far left Corbyn's fault.
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Just imagine if our GDP was 4% higher. Such a pity there is no magic wand to achieve that.
FFS.
FFS.
Scottyboi
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Its all about being Tory and what that means to this shameful lot. It means free markets ( to sort stuff out ) and profits ( for all as they flow through the system)
The fiscal firepower and headroom they boast of is really mainly supported by higher prices upon which we pay VAT. Sunak as Chancellor has benefitted from higher prices at the pumps and on your bills. An awful lot of retail spending is done with the likes of Amazon who's taxes paid are pitiful vs profits.
So the markets. Well they are not really free are they? The Govt interferes by means of Offgen and Offwat both of which have proven to be useless.
When it comes to utilities they have made a fortune for themselves and shareholders - this notion that they need the cash for investment is bollocks. Storm Arwen showed how little attention they pay to their role in keeping supplies up - money that could be spent on Land Rovers and engineers instead goes in profits and we see fuck all - so much for free markets.
They could - via Offgen - simply say the situation this year is unique and take all their profits as a windfall. Then redistribute that amongst the consumers - but of course that smacks of Socialism and also removes profits - that being the altar at which they worship the God money.
Then there is water - Offwat has failed to prevent profiteering on an epic scales. Companies raped for profits. Raising money on the back of the ownership to redistribute as payments and to shareholders in a refinancing that the Glazers would be embarrassed by - as a result they spend millions servicing debt that wasn't there before - they pump shit in the rivers and the sea and lose billions of gallons through leaks every day. Thames Water announced hosepipe bans coming soon the day after the below - its all rigged against us and we have a shameless Govt who does nothing at all
The fiscal firepower and headroom they boast of is really mainly supported by higher prices upon which we pay VAT. Sunak as Chancellor has benefitted from higher prices at the pumps and on your bills. An awful lot of retail spending is done with the likes of Amazon who's taxes paid are pitiful vs profits.
So the markets. Well they are not really free are they? The Govt interferes by means of Offgen and Offwat both of which have proven to be useless.
When it comes to utilities they have made a fortune for themselves and shareholders - this notion that they need the cash for investment is bollocks. Storm Arwen showed how little attention they pay to their role in keeping supplies up - money that could be spent on Land Rovers and engineers instead goes in profits and we see fuck all - so much for free markets.
They could - via Offgen - simply say the situation this year is unique and take all their profits as a windfall. Then redistribute that amongst the consumers - but of course that smacks of Socialism and also removes profits - that being the altar at which they worship the God money.
Then there is water - Offwat has failed to prevent profiteering on an epic scales. Companies raped for profits. Raising money on the back of the ownership to redistribute as payments and to shareholders in a refinancing that the Glazers would be embarrassed by - as a result they spend millions servicing debt that wasn't there before - they pump shit in the rivers and the sea and lose billions of gallons through leaks every day. Thames Water announced hosepipe bans coming soon the day after the below - its all rigged against us and we have a shameless Govt who does nothing at all
Islington: Flooding in north London as water main bursts
A witness told the BBC that it was the worst flooding he had ever seen in London.
www.bbc.co.uk
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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Its all about being Tory and what that means to this shameful lot. It means free markets ( to sort stuff out ) and profits ( for all as they flow through the system)
The fiscal firepower and headroom they boast of is really mainly supported by higher prices upon which we pay VAT. Sunak as Chancellor has benefitted from higher prices at the pumps and on your bills. An awful lot of retail spending is done with the likes of Amazon who's taxes paid are pitiful vs profits.
So the markets. Well they are not really free are they? The Govt interferes by means of Offgen and Offwat both of which have proven to be useless.
When it comes to utilities they have made a fortune for themselves and shareholders - this notion that they need the cash for investment is bollocks. Storm Arwen showed how little attention they pay to their role in keeping supplies up - money that could be spent on Land Rovers and engineers instead goes in profits and we see fuck all - so much for free markets.
They could - via Offgen - simply say the situation this year is unique and take all their profits as a windfall. Then redistribute that amongst the consumers - but of course that smacks of Socialism and also removes profits - that being the altar at which they worship the God money.
Then there is water - Offwat has failed to prevent profiteering on an epic scales. Companies raped for profits. Raising money on the back of the ownership to redistribute as payments and to shareholders in a refinancing that the Glazers would be embarrassed by - as a result they spend millions servicing debt that wasn't there before - they pump shit in the rivers and the sea and lose billions of gallons through leaks every day. Thames Water announced hosepipe bans coming soon the day after the below - its all rigged against us and we have a shameless Govt who does nothing at all
Islington: Flooding in north London as water main bursts
A witness told the BBC that it was the worst flooding he had ever seen in London.www.bbc.co.uk
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...ah-Bentley-2m-year-gets-727-000-windfall.html