Gas & Electricity

[Scottyboi]

Looking at what many businesses are facing, they'll need to stick their prices up to £25+ a pint, and no-one is paying that. If you thing the energy price rises so far have been bad, then it pales into insignificance compared to what's round the corner. Price caps not applying to businesses is going to fucking destroy many of them, particularly smaller businesses and those in the hospitality sector where many of them basically survive hand to mouth.

4 pints of Morreti please.

That will be £100.

Here's 125 get yourself one.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Slightly off topic, but is seeing a GP, in the same room still an option??? Seems almost impossible to see mine, it's all photos or quick telephone chats in my experience.

I did at the start of July.

It was booked at the start of June, mind.

 

[Blackley_Blue]

A family I know have just announced they are having to close their restaurant due to a £13k increase in their energy bills and huge increases in cost of ingredients.

 

[Gabriel]

From the Evening Standard but appropriate to most places, alas.

 

[BlueMoonday]

A sandwich shop getting energy quotes for 6k a month can hardly try selling you a buttie for £20 can they. Jesus some ignorance in this post.

I'm not targeting small sandwich shops and sole traders.

I'm stating that since January, we as consumers have paid more to cover their increasing energy costs. If a reasonable cap is implemented then businesses need to stop being margin hungry as this will come back to bite them.

 

[west didsblue]

Looking at what many businesses are facing, pubs will need to stick their prices up to £25+ a pint, and no-one is paying that. If you thing the energy price rises so far have been bad, then it pales into insignificance compared to what's round the corner. Price caps not applying to businesses is going to fucking destroy many of them, particularly smaller businesses and those in the hospitality sector where many of them basically survive hand to mouth.

If the government don't intervene, I can't imagine any pub or restaurant will be able to afford to trade, and half of their customers wouldn't be able to afford to go out anyway. We're not heading for a recession we're heading for a 30s style depression unless the government has some serious plans to get us out of this. Even Truss should be able to see that a penny off tax or abandoning the NI rise isn't even going to touch the sides.

 

[meltonblue]

Big reduction in prices today. Putin will react but potentially good news.

 

[SJT]

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…

100k eh, public sector then - give some of that to the next guy you pass at the lights. he might need some food.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

100k eh, public sector then - give some of that to the next guy you pass at the lights. he might need some food.

Are you aware that there are far more people in the private sector on way higher salaries than that?

Wait until you hear about how much KDB earns.

 

[M18CTID]

Big reduction in prices today. Putin will react but potentially good news.

I know it's only one day but hopefully a sign of a longer term pattern. How much has it dropped today?