| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. 13:32 - Nov 20 with 33304 views | OldFart71 |
Inflation up and rising. Costs to businesses up. Energy prices going up again in January. Not long ago I paid £68 per month for gas and electricity. In the winter I was able to have my heating on 1-1.1/2 hours in the morning, then again 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. I now pay £85 per month (Just increased by my supplier) and I have it on for two hours at night. Absolutely bonkers. Whilst I admit and I was just as p*ssed off as most people with the Tories, Labour have steam rollered in like a bull in a china shop and now costs are and will keep increasing by more than they needed to. Companies will cut costs by cutting hours or even laying people off. Will put prices up whilst giving lower wage increases. This in turn will lead to workers striking for higher pay. There's a saying "You can't burn the candle at both ends" Labour are trying to put all the ills made by the previous Government in one go. It is too much all at once and is already leading to many sections of our community taking to the streets or totally feed up with a Party that has only been in power a few months. |  | | |  |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:35 - Nov 20 with 9842 views | WeWereZombies |
And despite Global Warming we have snow in the middle of November... |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:35 - Nov 20 with 9838 views | baxterbasics |
It used to be that Labour would wreck the economy, then the tories would fix it. Now they just take turns giving us all a shoe-ing. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:37 - Nov 20 with 9787 views | Blueschev |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:35 - Nov 20 by WeWereZombies |
And despite Global Warming we have snow in the middle of November... |
The weather was lovely when Labour won back in July. Look at the state of it now, it's horrible. Coincidence? |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:43 - Nov 20 with 9735 views | blueasfook |
Waits for Labour fan boys to come along with "Yeah but the tories..." .... |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:47 - Nov 20 with 9697 views | factual_blue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:37 - Nov 20 by Blueschev |
The weather was lovely when Labour won back in July. Look at the state of it now, it's horrible. Coincidence? |
Starmer.
He's going to murder Santa as well. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:51 - Nov 20 with 9662 views | carlo88 |
Bring back Liz Truss I say. She was bril. |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:56 - Nov 20 with 9628 views | Dubtractor |
Energy prices are currently lower than they were last winter.
Does that make labour better than the tories? Or is it that your post is nonsense, and that the energy market has very little to do with short term government policy? |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 14:25 - Nov 20 with 9507 views | Blueschev |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:47 - Nov 20 by factual_blue |
Starmer.
He's going to murder Santa as well. |
Typical of tax a shear Kier. | | | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 14:46 - Nov 20 with 9461 views | factual_blue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:56 - Nov 20 by Dubtractor |
Energy prices are currently lower than they were last winter.
Does that make labour better than the tories? Or is it that your post is nonsense, and that the energy market has very little to do with short term government policy? |
In addition, two of the last four tory PMs committed crimes whilst in high office. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:47 - Nov 20 with 9357 views | BlueBadger |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:43 - Nov 20 by blueasfook |
Waits for Labour fan boys to come along with "Yeah but the tories..." .... |
Imagine having this as your best defence of 14 years of the party of Fiscal Responsibility, Free Speech and Bamntz. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:47 - Nov 20 with 9354 views | BlueBadger |
Went out this morning to find out that pigeons had shat all over the car windscreen.
Fücking Starmer, this never happened under the Tories. [Post edited 20 Nov 2024 16:44]
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:50 - Nov 20 with 9346 views | OldFart71 |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:56 - Nov 20 by Dubtractor |
Energy prices are currently lower than they were last winter.
Does that make labour better than the tories? Or is it that your post is nonsense, and that the energy market has very little to do with short term government policy? |
We all know we are being shafted by the energy companies and these so called watchdogs, whether Offcom, Offwat, Offgem etc are only there to look after suppliers and sod the consumer. We see it all the time. I'm not sticking up for the Tories and just slagging off Labour. 14 years of Tory rule where nothing improved and whilst it was an unfortunate time with covid costing billions a lot of the current issues surrounding the finances of Britain were due to downright bad handling of every part of it from PPE making many of their chumlies a nice little wedge thank you very much, where no doubt many businesses were saved by the furlough system it was used and abused by many legally and some illegally. But after 14 years the last thing we needed was many more years of pain. I have every sympathy with those awaiting operations and treatment, those that cannot afford to buy their own homes, Although as Andy Burham said " More Council houses need building". When I was young only those who had a business or were relatively well off bought their own homes. The costs today where it's talked about affordable housing is rubbish. Where I live even a one bed mid terrace is £229,000. Even if a couple could put down 10% that still leave them with a mortgage in excess of £200,000. I wish I had the answer. But I don't see piling more costs on to businesses as being a way to grow the economy. | | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:51 - Nov 20 with 9333 views | Ftnfwest |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:47 - Nov 20 by BlueBadger |
Went out this morning to find out that pigeons had shat all over the car windscreen.
Fücking Starmer, this never happened under the Tories. [Post edited 20 Nov 2024 16:44]
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Dreadful. I was too busy having my far-right breakfast to notice. |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:53 - Nov 20 with 9319 views | BlueBadger |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:51 - Nov 20 by Ftnfwest |
Dreadful. I was too busy having my far-right breakfast to notice. |
Bacon on a bed of boiled gammon? | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:55 - Nov 20 with 9303 views | blueasfook |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:47 - Nov 20 by BlueBadger |
Imagine having this as your best defence of 14 years of the party of Fiscal Responsibility, Free Speech and Bamntz. |
2 hrs and 3 mins. Slow response there from labour's #1 supporter. Is the TWTD "someone's dissing Labour" klaxon working? | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:57 - Nov 20 with 9277 views | Ftnfwest |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:53 - Nov 20 by BlueBadger |
Bacon on a bed of boiled gammon? |
bran flakes, practically Nazi. It's the upbringing... | | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:02 - Nov 20 with 9237 views | lurcher |
Well the previous government damaged the economy by pulling us out of the EU without a trade deal. |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:03 - Nov 20 with 9222 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:51 - Nov 20 by carlo88 |
Bring back Liz Truss I say. She was bril. |
Is it true that the price of lettuce is up because of Labour? |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:19 - Nov 20 with 9164 views | Dubtractor |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:51 - Nov 20 by Ftnfwest |
Dreadful. I was too busy having my far-right breakfast to notice. |
If the mail story about woke sandwiches is anything to go by, you'll only be allowed avocado on sourdough toast soon. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:25 - Nov 20 with 9139 views | Swansea_Blue |
It's a bit too much to expect them to turn everything around in 6 months; and I don't think it's right to say they're tackling everything at once. They've barely started on some areas (e.g. education, council budgets and plenty more). There's just a LOT that's been disinvested in over a long period of time. The UK is like Towen were under Evans. Maybe Gamechanger could help Labour sort it all about, I'm sure Ashton would like a crack at being PM. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:31 - Nov 20 with 9106 views | factual_blue |
I suspect you're trying to say 'vote for nigel's fan club'. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:41 - Nov 20 with 9056 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:50 - Nov 20 by OldFart71 |
We all know we are being shafted by the energy companies and these so called watchdogs, whether Offcom, Offwat, Offgem etc are only there to look after suppliers and sod the consumer. We see it all the time. I'm not sticking up for the Tories and just slagging off Labour. 14 years of Tory rule where nothing improved and whilst it was an unfortunate time with covid costing billions a lot of the current issues surrounding the finances of Britain were due to downright bad handling of every part of it from PPE making many of their chumlies a nice little wedge thank you very much, where no doubt many businesses were saved by the furlough system it was used and abused by many legally and some illegally. But after 14 years the last thing we needed was many more years of pain. I have every sympathy with those awaiting operations and treatment, those that cannot afford to buy their own homes, Although as Andy Burham said " More Council houses need building". When I was young only those who had a business or were relatively well off bought their own homes. The costs today where it's talked about affordable housing is rubbish. Where I live even a one bed mid terrace is £229,000. Even if a couple could put down 10% that still leave them with a mortgage in excess of £200,000. I wish I had the answer. But I don't see piling more costs on to businesses as being a way to grow the economy. |
I completely agree there's a need for more regulation around energy pricing. This is something Labour could have prioritised to improve the position for people (and that would then offset some of the other pain points they introduced in the budget). To me it seems like another failure to not put people first (which, naively, you'd think a Labor government would do). But I don't know whether they've got plans to tackle the Ofgem and lower the cap - seemingly not at present.
House prices are nuts. I don't know how you change that to make it easier for people to get on the ladder without wiping out the value for homeowners and locking people in spirals of debt and negative equity. [Post edited 20 Nov 2024 16:42]
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:50 - Nov 20 with 9015 views | BlueBadger |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:31 - Nov 20 by factual_blue |
I suspect you're trying to say 'vote for nigel's fan club'. |
Onceablue is having the week 'off(and presumably not standing any near open windows when reporting back to their boss), so OldFart is covering the duty roster. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:59 - Nov 20 with 8977 views | Dubtractor |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:41 - Nov 20 by Swansea_Blue |
I completely agree there's a need for more regulation around energy pricing. This is something Labour could have prioritised to improve the position for people (and that would then offset some of the other pain points they introduced in the budget). To me it seems like another failure to not put people first (which, naively, you'd think a Labor government would do). But I don't know whether they've got plans to tackle the Ofgem and lower the cap - seemingly not at present.
House prices are nuts. I don't know how you change that to make it easier for people to get on the ladder without wiping out the value for homeowners and locking people in spirals of debt and negative equity. [Post edited 20 Nov 2024 16:42]
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The problem with energy prices is that the market for both gas and electric effectively tracks the wholesale gas prices, even for nuclear and renewables, and so the market rates for all energy went up following the start of the Ukraine war, even though the cost of generating a lot of that energy did not increase. So a lot of generators started making insane profits on electricity production.
The last government introduced an energy generators levy on those generators whose costs didn't go up, and that was largely what paid for the winter fuel payments/discounts that we all got at the peak of the energy market.
What really needs to happen though, is to somehow decouple non gas electricity generation from the gas wholesale price, which is more difficult to do quickly.
So it isn't technically the cap that is the problem, but the market that governs the prices that energy is sold at. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:59 - Nov 20 with 8976 views | EdwardStone |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:31 - Nov 20 by factual_blue |
I suspect you're trying to say 'vote for nigel's fan club'. |
Ah, yes..... the Honourable Member for Mar a Lago
Grifter Extraordinaire, sh1t stirring conspiracy nut and all round bad egg
He is clearly the only sensible answer to the myriad of complex problems that bedevil our Sceptred Isle
Not [Post edited 20 Nov 2024 17:15]
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