Utility companies - price rises - Page 10

TheDaddy · 20-10-2013, 21:34

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Originally Posted by martyh

Nice find

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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

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

denphone · 21-10-2013, 07:14

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

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.

blackthorn · 21-10-2013, 09:23

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Originally Posted by denphone

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.

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

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Originally Posted by denphone

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.

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

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

21-10-2013, 10:54

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

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

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

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

It's becoming cartel Britain.

Gary L · 21-10-2013, 11:35

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Originally Posted by Nidge41

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

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Originally Posted by Gary L

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

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

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.