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TheDaddy 20-10-2013 21:34
re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises
 
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Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35634561)
Nice find
:tu:

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Your forgetting that should such a fuel cap ever happen it won't happen for a few years yet and if it does happen the cap will most likely be set at the current prices of the time so getting the prices as high as possible before that happens is very much in the interest of the energy suppliers
Still can't see it, they saw the effect Ed's words had, do you really think they'd want to put Dave in a position where he had to actually do something, I just can't see this as anything other than a profiteering exercise and anything else political or otherwise is just a smokescreen to disguise that, perhaps that's my inner cynic piping up though.

Nidge41 20-10-2013 21:47
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The wholesale privatisation of the public services was to make the rich richer while the poor got poorer, it's like the recession, the recovery is for the rich people while the poor remain poor.

It's not rocket science.

thenry 20-10-2013 21:54
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Twitter users have fought back with their own handy hints to survive the winter after Downing Street suggested consumers ‘may wish to consider’ wearing some extra layers.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/18/david-...inter-4151794/
John Prescott had to speak :LOL:

denphone 21-10-2013 07:14
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UK nuclear power plant gets go-ahead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24604218

Well at least its a start.

denphone 21-10-2013 09:16
re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises
 
Npower to put up energy prices by 10.4%.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24607242

And the question is which member of the cartel is the next to raise their prices.:rolleyes:

blackthorn 21-10-2013 09:23
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35634655)
Npower to put up energy prices by 10.4%.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24607242

And the question is which member of the cartel is the next to raise their prices.:rolleyes:
Why doesnt one of them just leave the prices as they are, they`d make a killing when everyone changed to them, or is that too simple.

Sirius 21-10-2013 10:37
re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35634655)
Npower to put up energy prices by 10.4%.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24607242

And the question is which member of the cartel is the next to raise their prices.:rolleyes:
Indeed they have not used a knife in Millibrains back they used a machette. That man is a complete ******.

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35634667)
I think you'd find that would entail that company making a substantial loss.
Let me rephrase that for you.

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I think you'd find that would entail the companies senior managers and shareholder earning less money
:D

tizmeinnit 21-10-2013 10:54
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35634677)
Whilst I'd agree that the managers etc are overpaid, the shareholders are likely to be the big institutions that are the pension funds, if you didn't pay now you'd pay later.
that makes it ok then for the elderly and infirm to struggle

Gary L 21-10-2013 11:06
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All this is going to blow up soon.

The country is a pressure cooker waiting to explode.

What is Dave going to do?
probably come up with some more ideas of how to make people poorer. that's his answer, and his true goal in office.

denphone 21-10-2013 11:25
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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit (Post 35634680)
that makes it ok then for the elderly and infirm to struggle
A compassionate country would not allow the poor elderly and the infirmed to suffer but the trouble is we are living in a increasingly selfish me me world.

Nidge41 21-10-2013 11:25
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It's becoming cartel Britain.

Gary L 21-10-2013 11:35
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Originally Posted by Nidge41 (Post 35634693)
It's becoming cartel Britain.
It is. it's almost as if they know money is in short supply. and they're working together to get as much out of people as they possibly can whilst there's still some there to take.

the worst thing about it is that the government seem to be in on the act too.

eventually there will be no more to take. and you have to wonder what's going to happen then.

it is a me me me thing now.
but people have to got to accept and realise that it also works the other way around too.

Nidge41 21-10-2013 12:06
re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises
 
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35634700)
It is. it's almost as if they know money is in short supply. and they're working together to get as much out of people as they possibly can whilst there's still some there to take.

the worst thing about it is that the government seem to be in on the act too.

eventually there will be no more to take. and you have to wonder what's going to happen then.

it is a me me me thing now.
but people have to got to accept and realise that it also works the other way around too.
No doubt the Government will be making thousands with cash for questions. The highest bidder gets access to the Bullingdon Club.

Gary L 21-10-2013 12:13
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We used to joke about the government, or anybody. giving with one hand and taking with the other.

now it's just constant taking, and not giving anything back.

and that is what's going to be the root of the evil :)

Taf 21-10-2013 12:23
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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35634692)
A compassionate country would not allow the poor elderly and the infirmed to suffer but the trouble is we are living in a increasingly selfish me me world.

The elderly get Cold Weather Payments, as do some infirm or families with small children.

But that's like HMG giving out extra Benefits because wages are too low, instead of obliging employers to pay decent wages.


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