Gas & Electricity

[BrianW]

The public sector has been shrunk massively over the last half-century.
Water, gas, electricity, railways, buses, postal services - are just some of the things that have been privatised in that time, which is why they are so astoundingly cheap and efficient, run by managers on no more than 25k each.
It wasn't the public sector that scrapped gas storage facilities so it could make more profit. It was short-sighted greedy capitalists who don't give a fuck for anything beyond the next dividend/bonus.
And of course, all the profits for these private companies come from God and are not extracted from us in any way.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

My guess is all the dissenters on here work for the public sector - I might be a dick, but I earn every penny.

I don’t work in the public sector.
But just to get the bile swilling even more
I used to.
And I am looking forward to my 9%+ pension increase next April courtesy of index linking to CPI.
Thanks for your contribution.
Luvvly jubbly.

 

[M18CTID]

My guess is all the dissenters on here work for the public sector - I might be a dick, but I earn every penny.

I work in the private sector, as do many other people on this thread. I also earn every penny too but I'm not that much of a dick to not realise that the predicted rise in energy costs over the coming months is going to fuck tens of millions of people over - both public and private sector workers - unless meaningful help is forthcoming from the government.

 

[SJT]

What you are posting isn’t relevant to the thread.

Yes it is! -We can ill-afford, as taxpayers, to fund salary rises on top of 300% energy rises -its bang on topic.

 

[meltonblue]

back at you

Around 100k. I was asking you as personally I’d advocate for a higher rate of income tax in the upper thresholds. Given you said you were skint, that I assume wouldn’t impact you and yet you’d get better public services.

Well, assuming the government doesn’t continue to spaff shedloads up the wall and spend considerable amounts on highly dubious contracts…

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yes it is! -We can ill-afford, as taxpayers, to fund salary rises on top of 300% energy rises -its bang on topic.

No, it isn’t. This is a thread about gas and electricity.

It has nothing to do with the public sector.

75% of businesses with premises will likely fold unless the government do something.

We won’t be able to fund anything without any tax coming in.

How would you solve the impending crisis?

 

[M18CTID]

Yes it is! -We can ill-afford, as taxpayers, to fund salary rises on top of 300% energy rises -its bang on topic.

People going out on strike aren't asking for the earth. In all cases I've seen, none of them are asking for anything that is above inflation and many seem willing to accept something that is slightly less than inflation. But offering pay rises of 2%, 3%, or 4% (at a time when inflation is over 10% and likely to go much higher over the coming months), and in some cases a deterioration in working conditions to boot, while at the same time continuing to pay big fuck off dividends to shareholders and multi-million pound bonuses to those at the top of the tree, is nothing short of a fucking piss take.

 

[SJT]

Bean counters and admin staff are a vital part of the NHS.

Not to the tune of 100k.

 

[SJT]

No, it isn’t. This is a thread about gas and electricity.

It has nothing to do with the public sector.

75% of businesses with premises will likely fold unless the government do something.

We won’t be able to fund anything without any tax coming in.

How would you solve the impending crisis?

I beg to differ -the energy price rises won’t be able to be paid by 1 in 3, so adding to the burden with strikes can’t be done -is my point.
To your question - I’d scrap net zero, get fracking going, bring back some mining and look at tidal power.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I beg to differ -the energy price rises won’t be able to be paid by 1 in 3, so adding to the burden with strikes can’t be done -is my point.
To your question - I’d scrap net zero, get fracking going, bring back some mining and look at tidal power.

Those don’t solve the issue this winter.

75% of businesses gone and thousands of deaths by the time any of that take effect.