Genie Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 minute ago, KentVillan said: The thing about politics is all those fairweather friendships just evaporate as soon as someone stops being useful, because they aren’t based on anything other than access. If Boris’s perceived shelf life has expired, the rats will go looking for their next meal. Yep. What we have now is several journalists basically telling MP’s, including the PM that they are idiotic liars to their faces. Sunak seems to be getting an easier ride which suggests they think he’s going to be someone to keep onside for the time being. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Can you imagine being the person that has to tidy up his office once he’s finally gone. It’s just going to be full of takeaway cartons, lost state secrets and dildos isn’t it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2022 No used johnnies though. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 Richy SUnak may be getting an easier ride from the media atm but the public will hate him, after yesterday's announcements I expect his favourability rating to plummet in quite a short time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 4, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2022 Plummet like Superman exposed to kryptonite. The BBC will be devastated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, bickster said: Richy SUnak may be getting an easier ride from the media atm but the public will hate him, after yesterday's announcements I expect his favourability rating to plummet in quite a short time If Labour and / or others can land the plain facts he’s declined to tax billions of profit by Shell etc., whilst calling a compulsory loan a ‘discount’ whilst taking back the £20 of benefits, whilst chasing down ‘benefits cheats’ but not furlough scheme cheats or PPE fraud …and on… and on… and on… then his superman honeymoon period will be over quite rapidly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted February 4, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 Problems all solved, now as Bunter has appointed a former investment banker to take over his advisor role. Us little people should feel safe now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 25 minutes ago, blandy said: Problems all solved, now as Bunter has appointed a former investment banker to take over his advisor role. Us little people should feel safe now. I must say I'm very relieved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 Oh dear, it seems the MoD have stuck two fingers up to Patel by announcing that the Navy and Marines will not be using any push back tactics when they take over operations from Border Force Bloody traitorous armed forces 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, blandy said: Problems all solved, now as Bunter has appointed a former investment banker to take over his advisor role. Us little people should feel safe now. If you can't trust an investment banker who can you trust? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 4 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: Don't they also run pretty much all of the nuclear power stations in the UK, about 20% of our electricity too? Yup, which is something I didn’t realise until you said it actually. We’ve got six power stations that produce 17% of our electricity, and EDF run all of them. I thought some were Chinese owned but apparently not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 So in effect, he's saying to energy companies - have £200 now, per customer, and they'll pay it back over the next two years. Is it effectively a multi-billion pound interest free loan to the energy companies to protect their profit until the wholesale prices drop? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 4, 2022 Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: So in effect, he's saying to energy companies - have £200 now, per customer, and they'll pay it back over the next two years. Is it effectively a multi-billion pound interest free loan to the energy companies to protect their profit until the wholesale prices drop? At a time when they’ll be recording record profits anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: So in effect, he's saying to energy companies - have £200 now, per customer, and they'll pay it back over the next two years. Is it effectively a multi-billion pound interest free loan to the energy companies to protect their profit until the wholesale prices drop? I don’t think so. They’d get the same amount of money whether they charge it to us directly, or whether the government give it to them on our behalf, no? Its just an attempt to cushion the blow of price rises on consumers. But a rather limited one, and one we have to pay back. Even if we didn’t actually get given it. Edited February 4, 2022 by Panto_Villan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, bickster said: At a time when they’ll be recording record profits anyway They really won’t. The reason that so many of them have gone out of business is because they have to buy electricity at wholesale rates higher than they can sell them to us at, due to the price cap. Any company that is actually generating energy will be making a tidy profit (provided they don’t own gas-fired power plants) but they’re not the ones this money is going to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Are the government giving them the money? Or just telling them to apply the credits and recover it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Nothing more scandalous than anything already out there. But the public love a picture to accompany their outrage. The Mirror don't have the photo, to be clear. Or if they do, they're going to make sure they get more than one headline out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Ambushed by a Pale Ale. Unluckiest man alive. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid4ever Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 47 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: So in effect, he's saying to energy companies - have £200 now, per customer, and they'll pay it back over the next two years. Is it effectively a multi-billion pound interest free loan to the energy companies to protect their profit until the wholesale prices drop? But also as mentioned by Martin Lewis, if you don’t have a contract at the moment but get one next year for example you will have £50 per year added onto your bill even though you didn’t benefit from the £200 “discount” as per Rishi or loan as everybody else knows it as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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