Gas & Electricity

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Said it could cost up to 100b

Could be higher as I’m sure that Russia will keep trying to push the prices up if they know the European governments are having to bail out.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I know really. It just seems like made up money that no one would miss if it wasn’t repaid.

Yep! Not as high as WW2 though and we came back from that. Gas and electric is one problem but I had a letter off my mortgage company today saying my payment was going up 120%! Fortunately I can pay some of it off to keep the monthly payment lower, but there will be millions who can’t.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yep! Not as high as WW2 though and we came back from that. Gas and electric is one problem but I had a letter off my mortgage company today saying my payment was going up 120%! Fortunately I can pay some of it off to keep the monthly payment lower, but there will be millions who can’t.

I’d like your post, but doesn’t seem appropriate.

This is why the cost of living is becoming a crisis.

People under 45 haven’t really lived through times like we’re about to face. (Well, the kind of have, but as kids)

The last 25 years have been mostly sweet. Cheap credit, so as long as your salaries are decent, you can postpone thinking about paying the balance off down the road.

The chickens are coming home to roost for quite a few very soon, sadly.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I’d like your post, but doesn’t seem appropriate.

This is why the cost of living is becoming a crisis.

People under 45 haven’t really lived through times like we’re about to face. (Well, the kind of have, but as kids)

The last 25 years have been mostly sweet. Cheap credit, so as long as your salaries are decent, you can postpone thinking about paying the balance off down the road.

The chickens are coming home to roost for quite a few very soon, sadly.

Yes I’ve seen it before. I worked on the arrears department for Bradford and Bingley in the early 90’s when rates were Sky high. People were having their homes repossessed left right and centre and arrears levels were horrendous. There will be people coming off 5 year fixed rates at between 1-2% and jumping to rates between 3-4%. They could go higher too! As houses prices have rocketed recently, anyone who has bought their first home in the last few years will be praying this is sorted before their rate comes to an end.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yes I’ve seen it before. I worked on the arrears department for Bradford and Bingley in the early 90’s when rates were Sky high. People were having their homes repossessed left right and centre and arrears levels were horrendous. There will be people coming off 5 year fixed rates at between 1-2% and jumping to rates between 3-4%. They could go higher too! As houses prices have rocketed recently, anyone who has bought their first home in the last few years will be praying this is sorted before their rate comes to an end.

Where we are as a country in 18 months, I do not know.

All options are open and we have a simpleton in charge with no values.

Place your bets now.

 

[MikeF]

Emmanuel Macron says he wants a 10% reduction in France's energy use in the coming weeks and months, as he called on homes and businesses to cut back.

The French president warned that energy rationing plans were being prepared for this winter "in case" voluntary efforts were not enough.


Mr Macron urged people to turn down heating and air conditioning as the "best energy is that which we don't consume", adding that forced cuts "will happen as a last resort".

I thought the French were self sufficient what with the number of nuclear power stations they have??

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I thought the French were self sufficient what with the number of nuclear power stations they have??

They currently are, but most NPS are at or beyond their lifespans.

 

[WestGorton]

Where we are as a country in 18 months, I do not know.

All options are open and we have a simpleton in charge with no values.

Place your bets now.

Agreed. No government for the last two months is preferred.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Agreed. No government for the last two months is preferred.

We need grown ups in charge pretty damn soon or we‘re facing max max type of times.

We have no police either.

 

[WestGorton]

We need grown ups in charge pretty damn soon or we‘re facing max max type of times.

We have no police either.

Cunts in my park on stolen with masks and knives. Same in the late eighties and early nineties. I wonder why