Recession my arse

[Yale]

A generation ago when I was young Easter was just a day,maybe a chocolate egg, End of school year you said goodbye to your mates until September Halloween was not particularly celebrated and a bonfire on Nov 5’th.
Then Christmas which was the celebration of the year with a few decs and presents.

Now Easter is commercialised, Prom at school with outfits and party, halloween, bonfire night and Christmas all seem to roll into one.

Just ban them all an cut out a huge amount of carbon emissions and costs on families.

 

[Hindsight]

A generation ago when I was young Easter was just a day,maybe a chocolate egg, End of school year you said goodbye to your mates until September Halloween was not particularly celebrated and a bonfire on Nov 5’th.
Then Christmas which was the celebration of the year with a few decs and presents.

Now Easter is commercialised, Prom at school with outfits and party, halloween, bonfire night and Christmas all seem to roll into one.

Just ban them all an cut out a huge amount of carbon emissions and costs on families.

Quite. 1647 an all that. Expect Mr Rees Mogg could turn his attention to the matter.

 

[yin ewe]

A generation ago when I was young Easter was just a day,maybe a chocolate egg, End of school year you said goodbye to your mates until September Halloween was not particularly celebrated and a bonfire on Nov 5’th.
Then Christmas which was the celebration of the year with a few decs and presents.

Now Easter is commercialised, Prom at school with outfits and party, halloween, bonfire night and Christmas all seem to roll into one.

Just ban them all an cut out a huge amount of carbon emissions and costs on families.

And yet people are no happier now and mental health problems have never been worse.
The more you have the more you think you need.

 

[JP1]

If a little village garage in Hawes can have these prices, there's much money being made elsewhere

 

[4course]

If a little village garage in Hawes can have these prices, there's much money being made elsewhere

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PLUS VAT ?

 

[jackp]

PLUS VAT ?

I think it can sell at a reduced tax rate because it’s classed as essential a land remote , I could be wrong though

 

[ollie989898]

My other half is a pharmacist and works with various drug help schemes, most druggies are on methadone prescriptions but it is never the solution to their and our problems. Their addiction always gets them in the end ,sadly.

Unfortunately I suspect your post is repeated all over the country many many times. Only a small number of them manage to solve their addiction and move their lives beyond their situation. It is a complex problem that requires a lot of solutions to be delivered in a row. For many these stars never quite align for them. I would not wish a substance misuse/addiction on anyone, it is a prolonged and horrible thing to have to live through.

 

[glasshouse]

A generation ago when I was young Easter was just a day,maybe a chocolate egg, End of school year you said goodbye to your mates until September Halloween was not particularly celebrated and a bonfire on Nov 5’th.
Then Christmas which was the celebration of the year with a few decs and presents.

Now Easter is commercialised, Prom at school with outfits and party, halloween, bonfire night and Christmas all seem to roll into one.

Just ban them all an cut out a huge amount of carbon emissions and costs on families.

Bah humbug

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Well after todays announcement from the Bank of England , there is something very very very wrong in the system...

So... let me get this straight:

* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year

The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

Meanwhile there are...

* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!

All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...

THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits ..I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others..

Something needs to change..

Why are customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....

well said what really fu3ks me up is these are all utilities which we NEED,

they should have their profits regulated, or the corbin in me says they should all be government owned!

the government need to sort it or im up for the revolution where we go and do em all in in the 10 million pound mansions!

things are getting crazy the gap in wealth is escalating massively and the government are helping it happen.

 

[Forkdriver]

That is comical and terrifying at the same time.

That's a stupid estate owner. He will never make more money than a fair rent for the land, and will have to provide a lump of capital to find out.

 

[Hilly]

well said what really fu3ks me up is these are all utilities which we NEED,

they should have their profits regulated, or the corbin in me says they should all be government owned!

the government need to sort it or im up for the revolution where we go and do em all in in the 10 million pound mansions!

things are getting crazy the gap in wealth is escalating massively and the government are helping it happen.

Yes , i think we need something between private and nationalised for utilities as currently neither way works .

 

[glasshouse]

well said what really fu3ks me up is these are all utilities which we NEED,

they should have their profits regulated, or the corbin in me says they should all be government owned!

the government need to sort it or im up for the revolution where we go and do em all in in the 10 million pound mansions!

things are getting crazy the gap in wealth is escalating massively and the government are helping it happen.

Surprise surprise
Thats what the tory party is all about, returning all the wealth to the top 1%

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Surprise surprise
Thats what the tory party is all about, returning all the wealth to the top 1%

That's why its nickname is'The Nasty Party'.
As I said in post 119 we need them out of government and the only realistic possibility because of the power of the foreign owned press is a coalition of the opposition. I know scorn was heaped on my suggestion but do you want the present situation to carry on?

 

[glasshouse]

 

[Yale]

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It won’t be far from that for some this winter….bah humbug.

 

[warksfarmer]

Base rate 5% coming very quickly. Fix your mortgages and loans.

 

[glasshouse]

 

[digger64]

Wouldn't that put prices up as retailers take a large part of that as profits which would then ripple down the value chain.

Everyone's a winner apart from HMG an the consumer.

In dont see why , ATM we seem to have a " demand destruction /quality of life destruction" policy
with low direct taxation (income tax etc ) but high indirect taxation ( VAT and product specific like fuel ,alcohol ,tobacco etc ) and high overheads -this seems to appeal to the electorate . This means you pay tax regardless of your profit or earnings on everyday things . This means your business has to pay and tax on fuel etc and charge tax on sales even if it is battling for survival against imports etc from countries that dont have these policies or overheads - this means working hard but getting nowhere- unless you see charity shops in the high streets as a sign of economic success for the nation .
Do poorer people eat etc different quantities to rich people ?

 

[midlandslad]

Base rate 5% coming very quickly. Fix your mortgages and loans.

I can’t see it to be honest, look at how much winging there is at the current levels.

 

[Hindsight]

Yes , i think we need something between private and nationalised for utilities as currently neither way works .

But Hilly the regulator (OFGEM, OFWAT etc) were put in place to provide exactly the system you espouse. Non ministerial bodies set up within the Acts of Parliament supporting the privatization of the various utilities. Set up by the Tories in 1980s. Do please keep up at the back.