Jeez. Even if it’s a business, if it’s also people’s home surely they should be protected by the cap.
This will never happen. At this point I am fairly certain the Conservative party are just allowing prices to rise as much as they can so when they inevitably step in with a huge taxpayer bailout sometime in the lead up to Christmas (get the most points there) their chums can get the most money from us. The Conservatives will then walk away being lauded as the party that ‘saved Christmas’ and everything will continue as normal…
the only scenario that makes sense to me now is that the Conservatives are pulling up and selling off everything that isn’t nailed down to line the pockets of their rich mates, and then they’ll call an election which they know they’ll lose. Then they can step aside and not have to deal with even attempting to fix any of what they’ve destroyed, and can sit on the sidelines jerking each other off and ripping fat lines with crisp fiftys.
>We’ve spent today with @sheffcare who say they usually pay around £90,000 across their nine care homes, they’ve recently been quoted £1.16m.”
FUCK.
Oh my days that’s a powerful article.
My mother-in-law just quit her job at a nursing home. The services are already dangerously cut to the bone so she decided to get out before the whole house of cards collapsed this winter.
Like I’m not usually an optimist but it can’t be as bad as the predictions. There will be fuck all left open cos no one will be able to afford the bills.
America is fighting climate change? Pass the bong
Got my candles got my blankets
Shower once eveey 2 days
Looking forward to living on the underground like they did in the blitz
Okay, things are bad, but this article was pure bile. It seemed to come from a non-British viewpoint. The spin that America is a shining city on the hill and Brits are in a Victorian dystopia is so far from the truth it undermines the sentiment of the article.
Well that was a horror story.
Yet another person saying ‘why don’t Brits do something’.
Well what would you do then? You got any fucking ideas? Do you know how to make a general election happen 2 years early?
oh you got nothing? What a fucking surprise.
No because what can be done? increasing subsidies will push up prices further and the excess supply that was supposed to arrive cant because it blew up. LNG facilities are notoriously complicated to run and recent explosions at facilities in the US and mexico crimp any chance of a surge, and that’s assuming that LNG processing facilities suddenly exist.
Europe is going to bid up the price of anything that comes onto the market. We technically should be in a glut rn as China has cut purchases 30% this year due to zero covid, expect a bigger surge if for some reason the Chinese decide to end 0 covid,
This screed of doomer fan fiction will do well here lol
Has anyone with sufficient Photoshop skills made a Winter Is Coming poster with Truss as the Night King yet?
She will presumably put a cap on energy prices within the next week.
I don’t think they have the tools to fix the current shitstorm, not without corporations taking a huge hit; and that isn’t going to happen.
What people don’t seem to realise is that there’s always a snowball effect.
A care home electric bill increase puts them out of business… so where do 500 homeless pensioners go?
A small manufacturing business goes bust, now you have 50 unemployed people who can’t pay the rent.
The consequences of these things add up. Things will snowball and you start verging on societal collapse.
The government is suppose to keep society running. Where the fuck have they been for the last 12 years?
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Housing market crash LFG
Things are going to be bad but this is sensationalism.
Made me laugh when he praised the Americans for electing Biden as if Biden is some sort of revolutionary figure.
This article is sensationalising a bad situation. Its not helping the situation.
Oh look, it’s umair haque, the doom merchant of medium.com. Check his back catalogue, it’s been doom a day on demand for years now.
I’m bemused why Labour doesn’t just present the statistics to the people on how much the UK has fallen since Maggie Thatcher’s neoliberal policies.
I watched Philip Hammond on the BBC yesterday telling us he thought there were reasons to be confident about the economy. Utterly delusional. Nord Stream gas has been turned off. Europe will freeze and gas prices will soar as winter takes hold. Britain is already much more stressed than any of the European neighbours. The police are preparing for riots. Liz Truss thinks tax cuts will head off this crisis which is akin to Chamberlain waving a piece of worthless paper. Can no one in government see what’s coming?
I’m very much of the belief Britain is in terminal decline, but Umair Haque talks an immense amount of shit.
I mean, look at this, which I just picked out randomly:
>Britain is the world’s preeminent bellwether of social collapse at this point in history. No nation in the rich world — and barely any in the poor one, really — come close.
Now go lookup what just happened in Sri Lanka.
I just quit as a cater. Low wage, fuel prices and damage to my car weren’t even touching the basic monthly bills.
I stayed as long as I did because the lovely clients and it’s heartbreaking to know you have to bail on them because the wage deficit wasn’t worth it.
Small businesses will be the biggest losers here.
At home I can turn off the central heating and heat and live in one room.
Shops can’t do that they need to run the fridges feeezers, heat the shops?
I know there won’t be many Christmas lights on this year?
I think these politicians need to be responsible for their actions and if proven need to be jailed. Might stop them doing what they are doing. At the end of the day a lot of it is a crime they are committing. Most of it theft and fraud and scams to the general public.
This all seems so fucking true.
We’re just fucking fed up.
We’re exhausted.
We’ve had this fat cunt in charge for 3 years; he’s gone through all kind of national disgraces and even today for his last few hours remains ‘in charge’
I *hate* our country at the minute because of what is has been turned into, recently.
Starting to look like the plan has always been to off old people…
The situation is grave, but this article is pathetic hyperbole.
What a great article. All true.
We are a pacified, apathetic society that has accepted broken communities as standard. Where we all just fight for ourselves instead of galvanising together.
It’s utterly shameful to be British.
Hey, if the English could stop voting Tory for 2 minutes that would be great.
This guy didn’t even mention that even the well-off will not be spending much at all and the less well off will not be spending any money beyond basic needs. No one spending money on nice gifts, drinks, new coat. Skipping the haircut. Cinemas empty.
**There is serious risk of the entire consumer economy crashing hard this winter**
I don’t mean to be ideological or even use this to bash the Tories. It’s just a horrible and all too likely reality. No one will have any spare cash and there will be fewer and fewer places to spend it as small businesses close temporarily or forever.
Shit’s fucked, y’all
How will anyone be employed in 2/3 years time? Bars will shut, restaurants will shut, cafes, fish and chip shops and bakeries will shut – all these people unemployed unable to spend money in shops that will also shut.
Everyone is talking about the energy crisis but nobody is talking about the after effects.
Tbh at this point I’m plotting my escape from the UK 😂 I’m doing whatever I can to get a corporate sales job abroad. Have fun this winter for those of you that voted blue in the first place. You and your family literally deserve it. Everyone else you have my sympathies but its time for us to bail, leave this shithole for the stupidly stupid or stupidly rich.
Time to invest in pitchforks, torches, glass bottles, lamp oil, and oily rags.
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Jeez. Even if it’s a business, if it’s also people’s home surely they should be protected by the cap.
This will never happen. At this point I am fairly certain the Conservative party are just allowing prices to rise as much as they can so when they inevitably step in with a huge taxpayer bailout sometime in the lead up to Christmas (get the most points there) their chums can get the most money from us. The Conservatives will then walk away being lauded as the party that ‘saved Christmas’ and everything will continue as normal…
the only scenario that makes sense to me now is that the Conservatives are pulling up and selling off everything that isn’t nailed down to line the pockets of their rich mates, and then they’ll call an election which they know they’ll lose. Then they can step aside and not have to deal with even attempting to fix any of what they’ve destroyed, and can sit on the sidelines jerking each other off and ripping fat lines with crisp fiftys.
>We’ve spent today with @sheffcare who say they usually pay around £90,000 across their nine care homes, they’ve recently been quoted £1.16m.”
FUCK.
Oh my days that’s a powerful article.
My mother-in-law just quit her job at a nursing home. The services are already dangerously cut to the bone so she decided to get out before the whole house of cards collapsed this winter.
Like I’m not usually an optimist but it can’t be as bad as the predictions. There will be fuck all left open cos no one will be able to afford the bills.
America is fighting climate change? Pass the bong
Got my candles got my blankets
Shower once eveey 2 days
Looking forward to living on the underground like they did in the blitz
Okay, things are bad, but this article was pure bile. It seemed to come from a non-British viewpoint. The spin that America is a shining city on the hill and Brits are in a Victorian dystopia is so far from the truth it undermines the sentiment of the article.
Well that was a horror story.
Yet another person saying ‘why don’t Brits do something’.
Well what would you do then? You got any fucking ideas? Do you know how to make a general election happen 2 years early?
oh you got nothing? What a fucking surprise.
No because what can be done? increasing subsidies will push up prices further and the excess supply that was supposed to arrive cant because it blew up. LNG facilities are notoriously complicated to run and recent explosions at facilities in the US and mexico crimp any chance of a surge, and that’s assuming that LNG processing facilities suddenly exist.
Europe is going to bid up the price of anything that comes onto the market. We technically should be in a glut rn as China has cut purchases 30% this year due to zero covid, expect a bigger surge if for some reason the Chinese decide to end 0 covid,
This screed of doomer fan fiction will do well here lol
Has anyone with sufficient Photoshop skills made a Winter Is Coming poster with Truss as the Night King yet?
She will presumably put a cap on energy prices within the next week.
I don’t think they have the tools to fix the current shitstorm, not without corporations taking a huge hit; and that isn’t going to happen.
What people don’t seem to realise is that there’s always a snowball effect.
A care home electric bill increase puts them out of business… so where do 500 homeless pensioners go?
A small manufacturing business goes bust, now you have 50 unemployed people who can’t pay the rent.
The consequences of these things add up. Things will snowball and you start verging on societal collapse.
The government is suppose to keep society running. Where the fuck have they been for the last 12 years?
[deleted]
Housing market crash LFG
Things are going to be bad but this is sensationalism.
Made me laugh when he praised the Americans for electing Biden as if Biden is some sort of revolutionary figure.
This article is sensationalising a bad situation. Its not helping the situation.
Oh look, it’s umair haque, the doom merchant of medium.com. Check his back catalogue, it’s been doom a day on demand for years now.
I’m bemused why Labour doesn’t just present the statistics to the people on how much the UK has fallen since Maggie Thatcher’s neoliberal policies.
I watched Philip Hammond on the BBC yesterday telling us he thought there were reasons to be confident about the economy. Utterly delusional. Nord Stream gas has been turned off. Europe will freeze and gas prices will soar as winter takes hold. Britain is already much more stressed than any of the European neighbours. The police are preparing for riots. Liz Truss thinks tax cuts will head off this crisis which is akin to Chamberlain waving a piece of worthless paper. Can no one in government see what’s coming?
I’m very much of the belief Britain is in terminal decline, but Umair Haque talks an immense amount of shit.
I mean, look at this, which I just picked out randomly:
>Britain is the world’s preeminent bellwether of social collapse at this point in history. No nation in the rich world — and barely any in the poor one, really — come close.
Now go lookup what just happened in Sri Lanka.
I just quit as a cater. Low wage, fuel prices and damage to my car weren’t even touching the basic monthly bills.
I stayed as long as I did because the lovely clients and it’s heartbreaking to know you have to bail on them because the wage deficit wasn’t worth it.
Small businesses will be the biggest losers here.
At home I can turn off the central heating and heat and live in one room.
Shops can’t do that they need to run the fridges feeezers, heat the shops?
I know there won’t be many Christmas lights on this year?
I think these politicians need to be responsible for their actions and if proven need to be jailed. Might stop them doing what they are doing. At the end of the day a lot of it is a crime they are committing. Most of it theft and fraud and scams to the general public.
This all seems so fucking true.
We’re just fucking fed up.
We’re exhausted.
We’ve had this fat cunt in charge for 3 years; he’s gone through all kind of national disgraces and even today for his last few hours remains ‘in charge’
I *hate* our country at the minute because of what is has been turned into, recently.
Starting to look like the plan has always been to off old people…
The situation is grave, but this article is pathetic hyperbole.
What a great article. All true.
We are a pacified, apathetic society that has accepted broken communities as standard. Where we all just fight for ourselves instead of galvanising together.
It’s utterly shameful to be British.
Hey, if the English could stop voting Tory for 2 minutes that would be great.
This guy didn’t even mention that even the well-off will not be spending much at all and the less well off will not be spending any money beyond basic needs. No one spending money on nice gifts, drinks, new coat. Skipping the haircut. Cinemas empty.
**There is serious risk of the entire consumer economy crashing hard this winter**
I don’t mean to be ideological or even use this to bash the Tories. It’s just a horrible and all too likely reality. No one will have any spare cash and there will be fewer and fewer places to spend it as small businesses close temporarily or forever.
Shit’s fucked, y’all
How will anyone be employed in 2/3 years time? Bars will shut, restaurants will shut, cafes, fish and chip shops and bakeries will shut – all these people unemployed unable to spend money in shops that will also shut.
Everyone is talking about the energy crisis but nobody is talking about the after effects.
Tbh at this point I’m plotting my escape from the UK 😂 I’m doing whatever I can to get a corporate sales job abroad. Have fun this winter for those of you that voted blue in the first place. You and your family literally deserve it. Everyone else you have my sympathies but its time for us to bail, leave this shithole for the stupidly stupid or stupidly rich.
Time to invest in pitchforks, torches, glass bottles, lamp oil, and oily rags.