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Old 17-10-2013, 16:17   #61
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Oh for gods sake not the tired old "reopen the mines that will sort all our problems" like it did in the mid eighties when their union drove the industry into the ground. Opening old coal mines is not the answer to any of today's problems and most of my wider family worked in the nottinghamshire mines and all of them are now dead as well from illnesses derived from that industry. We need to look forward for our answers not to some rose tinted bygone time and that's one of the problems in the UK the nostalgia factor can be crippling.

Arthur i recently agreed loosely with one of your points you can when you try make a semi decent argument but these rants are not it. Your complete inability to recognise that it isn't only this government that has royally screwed us is annoying putting it politely sometimes and whilst this government does have things to answer for you raise none of them.
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re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises

I actually agree with Arthur... opening up Minefields and getting the unemployed to work in them will indeed reduce the number of unemployed.

My hat is off to you Arthur,a very cunning plan.THAT'll sort 'em out!!
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Soon it'll be cheaper to keep warm by burning £5 notes.
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Not sure how it works exactly but some energy suppliers have a scheme for those on low income, disabled or over 75. Something like a rebate at the end of a year of paying or something like that. Not really useful for those that can't afford it in the first place but may help some towards the year after if it is a debit on the account. They don't seem to advertise it or make it easy to find for obvious reasons and I doubt those who can't afford fuel will be paying for internet so they can find it on their websites.
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That's what all the people say to the TV licence gestapo men on youtube.

"No, you can't come in. I'm not letting a paedophile into my home!!"
Where's that?

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so presumably you knew all about the recent abuse scandals 25 yrs ago when you decided to "refuse to subscribe to paedophile tv" in which case why didn't you say something

and i bet yuou still watch at least 1 bbc channel
I watch it yes but I'm dammed if I'm paying for it.

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Not sure how it works exactly but some energy suppliers have a scheme for those on low income, disabled or over 75. Something like a rebate at the end of a year of paying or something like that. Not really useful for those that can't afford it in the first place but may help some towards the year after if it is a debit on the account. They don't seem to advertise it or make it easy to find for obvious reasons and I doubt those who can't afford fuel will be paying for internet so they can find it on their websites.
Don't those on income support get the winter fuel allowance?
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Only pensioners get the winter fuel allowance.
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Re: Bad news everyone SSE to raise energy prices aprox 8.2 %

I'm with British Gas on duel fuel.
I'm paying £92 month.
Switching to Npower fixed Nov 14, it will be £81 month.

so if British Gas put it up 10% it'll be around £100 month.
so I can save around £20 month by switching.

trying to get a quote on BG's site, and it's impossible to get any figures. they're just quoting me the £81 I'm supposedly paying already to Npower.
they won't tell me how much they're charging me.

They've finally give in and told me.
it's between £97 - £102 month.
that's fixed Nov 14 and March 2016
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Re: Bad news everyone SSE to raise energy prices aprox 8.2 %

"£X per month calculations are often far from the truth. You need to find the cost per kwh (and standing charge per day if the tariff works like that). Then you have to figure out what the "discounts" actually mean (£x for paperless billing might actually mean £x off at the end of a full year). And of course, make sure the figures include VAT! Then make sure you take account of any account closure fees.

The "simpler" tariffs are far from that IMHO, all smoke and mirrors... and worse.
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Only pensioners get the winter fuel allowance.
Income Support can trigger Cold Weather payments IF the temperature stays below 0c for 7 days...6 days doesn't cut it...

https://www.gov.uk/cold-weather-payment/eligibility
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Don't those on income support get the winter fuel allowance?
Not sure how all that stuff works tbh, although I think it is different to those payments.

Found the page on the BG site, it's a government scheme run by the energy suppliers....looks better than I originally thought: http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products...-discount.html
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Income Support can trigger Cold Weather payments IF the temperature stays below 0c for 7 days...6 days doesn't cut it...

https://www.gov.uk/cold-weather-payment/eligibility
Its called Employment Support Allowance instead of Income support now Taf and yes you are right about that it has to be for 7 consecutive days.
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re: [MERGED] Utility companies - price rises

Nationalise it back to how it was!! what folly to have to 'shop around' for electricity and gas - its the same **** that comes out of the wire and pipes so shut the f*ck up about tarriffs
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Isn't it like petrol where it cleans your engine whilst you drive?

I'd say my electric was nice and sharp at the moment. but I expect that to change when Npower send it to my house.
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I remember riding my motorbike and all of a sudden the street lights, house lights - everything went off. I actually thought there was about to be a nuclear bomb explosion! Horrible days.

May be some of the younger folk could do with carrying out a bit of research on what life was like pre privatisation and some of the older folks (Arthur) need to turn off their selective memory
What's the difference, the light and heating will still be going out except in this case it'll be because people can't afford it rather than strikes and why was the only solution to sell them of?

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l know exactly what it was like pre privatisation but can you tell me which privatisation has given us the consumer a better deal and service then we had before and the answer to that is clear for anybody to see nowadays.
How, they.aren't investing in the case of water companies, these companies aren't competing to give customers a better deal they behave like a cartel.

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now that the company has been privatised i would expect to see some changes as competition forces improvements
Really, I expect to see a cut in services, prices rising and job cuts

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Not sure how it works exactly but some energy suppliers have a scheme for those on low income, disabled or over 75. Something like a rebate at the end of a year of paying or something like that. Not really useful for those that can't afford it in the first place but may help some towards the year after if it is a debit on the account. They don't seem to advertise it or make it easy to find for obvious reasons and I doubt those who can't afford fuel will be paying for internet so they can find it on their websites.
Iirc that's been scrapped by most if not all companies
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Re: Bad news everyone SSE to raise energy prices aprox 8.2 %

It's ok, I've checked it all.
kwh, VAT, standing charge, and cancellation fees.
I just want to be one of the many that tell BG to stick their energy up their bum.
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