Ah, rolling power cuts, we really are heading back to the 1970s.
Wonderful. Can’t wait for this to elicit nothing more than another mildly irritated grumble from us docile sheep, the British.
I’m so pleased that Corbyn didn’t get in in 2019, he would have taken us back to the 70’s with high inflation, rolling blackouts and strikes all over the place. Sterling would have crashed had he been in charge. And all for what? Free broadband and free school meals? Pfft
Shocking what _the last Labour government_ are doing to us!
Germany has already proposed gas rationing. We should prepare for the same.
Usb camping light arrived today, we’ve still got the old camping stoves (gas / liquid fuel in the shed) and the gas bbq. Candles as backup but can’t use those in the room with the birds, usb power banks will be kept topped up
Didn’t the Tory’s say that if we had a labour government, we would lose our energy security…
People switching from gas and electricity to fireplaces and candles does not bode well.
I hope everyone has decent house/contents insurance.
Can’t wait to go and live in my van again, it’ll be like the old times. Wood burner on, solar power electric etc.
Except this time I’ll only be trespassing on my own driveway 😎
Would this finally shut the boomers up that say Labour would drag us back to the 1970s?
Fantastic, it’ll probably be in the evenings too. So of the 4 hours I have of free time after work , I’ll be able to cook and get ready for bed. At which point I start to wonder, Well what’s the fucking point of going to work then?
I’ll recommend battery powered hurricane lamps again here. Guaranteed not to set fire to your home!
If they implement 3 hour rolling blackouts, a lot of things like chilled/frozen food shouldn’t be an issue if your fridge/freezer seals are in good nick – check them though.
Only 3 hours.
Well that would be nice last time was 6 days up here.
Whats King Charles got to do with this, he may have to ‘approve’ any law, but he can’t not approve anything he isn’t there to make a decision.
Too think she said in her campaign no cuts, no reduction in energy use, nothing will change.
Meanwhile Europe is making sensible policy right now with this, and has been since Russia invaded.
Why didn’t we? No doubt she’ll say that Vladimir Putin, is turning off the lights and heating.
My energy provider says my electric is 100% renewable, so why would I have a blackout if there is a shortage of gas?
Yes no heating but no electric makes no sense to me.
Just think with this we will all be entitled to 12.5% of the standing charge back
My cellar is converted into an office. It uses an electric sump pump to remove water every half an hour or so (depending on the weather). We have a battery backup that lasts a few hours, but in the event of rolling power cuts, are we just expected to let our house flood?
Rather than cut the profits of corporations, cut people’s power instead. Great job, well done. This is bound to end well…
I grew up in a very rural area that had frequent power cuts, so the preparation mentality stayed with me. We have lots of torches, candles, spare batteries, camping stoves with lots of gas canisters and a portable gas heater with several cylinders. Looks like we might actually need some of it, for the first time ever!
If you’re using candles and especially gas heaters though folks, please get a carbon monoxide alarm and make sure your smoke detectors all work, too.
We’re just giving these feckless gobshites one hundred billion pounds to cover their shitty buisness practises and shitty profit driven solution to providing energy and now these useless fucking wastemen are telling us there’s going to be huge planned blackouts?!
Nationalise these fucking wastes of space immediately. This should be the ultimate example of why leaving national fucking infrastructure to a bunch of private companies run by investment fund shareholders is a terrible fucking idea.
Outrageous that a one hundred billion pounds is going straight to the pockets of these fucking charlatans.
Pure incompentence and why do i get the feeling tory areas will rarely get them whilst everyone else happens to get hit daily, twice daily?
And people are actually still going to go into a voting booth and vote for them in the next election.
It boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
We’re a bit more high tech these days.
But in the 1970’s the SSEB (Scottish Power nowadays) published a list of post codes in the Glasgow Evening Times newspaper every night with a timetable for when you would or wouldn’t have electricity. Power cuts always seemed to be from 6pm onwards.
Mum & Dad had camping stoves and lanterns to keep us going. The staple those nights was beans n sausages with bread and butter, aka a “cowboy dinner”.
Renewables are unstable!!! Do you want blackouts??? Let’s invest everything in gas…
Brill. Let me guess which party closed the gas storage silos.
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I’m hoping those power cuts are between 1-4am, but we all know it’ll be during peek times 5-8pm. No idea what that’ll do to people relying on electrical medical equipment, fridge freezers, fish tanks, and general mental wellbeing.
This was the inevitable result of subsidising demand in reaction to a reduction in supply. Price controls always lead to shortages.
why cant they just force firms to stop leaving lghits on overnight, turn off all non essential electity usage/work from home to cut office use etc…not like we haven’t had practice
But if people bypass their electric meter how are they going to turn off the electric?
Genuine question.
Fuck am I going without power for 3 hours a day. Easy choice to make.
Gonna be some social unrest this winter if they enforce blackouts on us.
Meanwhile, during my most recent visit with my daily mail reading grandmother, she’s 100% convinced that this is because of Gordon Brown.
Got to love literally watching my fish die because the torries can’t run a country
So glad I moved from South Africa just in time for loadshedding to go international
I wonder if they’ll do blackouts at the weekend. People work hard, and many get to the weekend to chillax, and for 3 hours have no live sport, TV, internet, Netflix etc to enjoy for 3 hours on a Saturday night. Pubs and restaurants open late (if at all?).
On the bright side……**GROWTH!**
I’m ordering some USB lights now.
What a great idea getting rid of them excess gas storage units we had, short term cost cutting at its finest
In 2022, this takes the piss
I appreciate some will see this as an entitlement, but when it’s plainly obvious it’s from mis-management of resources, in a rich country, to be how it’s currently going, really takes the fucking piss
We’re meant to have flying cars and shit by now, how are things going backwards in terms of standard of living! (Not a question, I know it’s from greedy fuckers)
Isn’t it odd how the cycle of politics in this country seems to be, Labour in power, give money to public services, infrastructure, NHS, education. Then, Tories in power, sell everything off to fund their mates, crash the economy, blame Labour for the shitshow then the cycle begins again…
The sooner we get proportional representation the better, so the Tories never get back in power, in order to save the UK. Problem is the right wing media and the bunch of weird think tanks running the shitshow.
Surprise surprise, it’s a lot less dramatic than has been reported.
Do I get my standing charge back for that day then?
Seems reasonable to refund it when we don’t get the service we pay for
As the country is moving towards being electrified (electric cars, heat pumps etc) I don’t think we’ve fully worked out how we’d actually cope with all of our eggs in 1 basket, especially in situations such as this
Going back a few months when it was really warm weather there was an article about how London was nearly without power as usage went so high (presumably due to AC, fans and so on) and that’s long before we have everyone charging their cars and running the heating from an electric source
I’m looking forward to the sharp spike in crime when criminals have a 24 hour notice that people’s security systems will be down.
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Ah, rolling power cuts, we really are heading back to the 1970s.
Wonderful. Can’t wait for this to elicit nothing more than another mildly irritated grumble from us docile sheep, the British.
I’m so pleased that Corbyn didn’t get in in 2019, he would have taken us back to the 70’s with high inflation, rolling blackouts and strikes all over the place. Sterling would have crashed had he been in charge. And all for what? Free broadband and free school meals? Pfft
Shocking what _the last Labour government_ are doing to us!
Germany has already proposed gas rationing. We should prepare for the same.
Usb camping light arrived today, we’ve still got the old camping stoves (gas / liquid fuel in the shed) and the gas bbq. Candles as backup but can’t use those in the room with the birds, usb power banks will be kept topped up
Didn’t the Tory’s say that if we had a labour government, we would lose our energy security…
People switching from gas and electricity to fireplaces and candles does not bode well.
I hope everyone has decent house/contents insurance.
Can’t wait to go and live in my van again, it’ll be like the old times. Wood burner on, solar power electric etc.
Except this time I’ll only be trespassing on my own driveway 😎
Would this finally shut the boomers up that say Labour would drag us back to the 1970s?
Fantastic, it’ll probably be in the evenings too. So of the 4 hours I have of free time after work , I’ll be able to cook and get ready for bed. At which point I start to wonder, Well what’s the fucking point of going to work then?
I’ll recommend battery powered hurricane lamps again here. Guaranteed not to set fire to your home!
If they implement 3 hour rolling blackouts, a lot of things like chilled/frozen food shouldn’t be an issue if your fridge/freezer seals are in good nick – check them though.
Only 3 hours.
Well that would be nice last time was 6 days up here.
Whats King Charles got to do with this, he may have to ‘approve’ any law, but he can’t not approve anything he isn’t there to make a decision.
Too think she said in her campaign no cuts, no reduction in energy use, nothing will change.
Meanwhile Europe is making sensible policy right now with this, and has been since Russia invaded.
Why didn’t we? No doubt she’ll say that Vladimir Putin, is turning off the lights and heating.
My energy provider says my electric is 100% renewable, so why would I have a blackout if there is a shortage of gas?
Yes no heating but no electric makes no sense to me.
Just think with this we will all be entitled to 12.5% of the standing charge back
My cellar is converted into an office. It uses an electric sump pump to remove water every half an hour or so (depending on the weather). We have a battery backup that lasts a few hours, but in the event of rolling power cuts, are we just expected to let our house flood?
Rather than cut the profits of corporations, cut people’s power instead. Great job, well done. This is bound to end well…
I grew up in a very rural area that had frequent power cuts, so the preparation mentality stayed with me. We have lots of torches, candles, spare batteries, camping stoves with lots of gas canisters and a portable gas heater with several cylinders. Looks like we might actually need some of it, for the first time ever!
If you’re using candles and especially gas heaters though folks, please get a carbon monoxide alarm and make sure your smoke detectors all work, too.
We’re just giving these feckless gobshites one hundred billion pounds to cover their shitty buisness practises and shitty profit driven solution to providing energy and now these useless fucking wastemen are telling us there’s going to be huge planned blackouts?!
Nationalise these fucking wastes of space immediately. This should be the ultimate example of why leaving national fucking infrastructure to a bunch of private companies run by investment fund shareholders is a terrible fucking idea.
Outrageous that a one hundred billion pounds is going straight to the pockets of these fucking charlatans.
Pure incompentence and why do i get the feeling tory areas will rarely get them whilst everyone else happens to get hit daily, twice daily?
And people are actually still going to go into a voting booth and vote for them in the next election.
It boggles the mind, doesn’t it?
We’re a bit more high tech these days.
But in the 1970’s the SSEB (Scottish Power nowadays) published a list of post codes in the Glasgow Evening Times newspaper every night with a timetable for when you would or wouldn’t have electricity. Power cuts always seemed to be from 6pm onwards.
Mum & Dad had camping stoves and lanterns to keep us going. The staple those nights was beans n sausages with bread and butter, aka a “cowboy dinner”.
Renewables are unstable!!! Do you want blackouts??? Let’s invest everything in gas…
Brill. Let me guess which party closed the gas storage silos.
​
I’m hoping those power cuts are between 1-4am, but we all know it’ll be during peek times 5-8pm. No idea what that’ll do to people relying on electrical medical equipment, fridge freezers, fish tanks, and general mental wellbeing.
This was the inevitable result of subsidising demand in reaction to a reduction in supply. Price controls always lead to shortages.
why cant they just force firms to stop leaving lghits on overnight, turn off all non essential electity usage/work from home to cut office use etc…not like we haven’t had practice
But if people bypass their electric meter how are they going to turn off the electric?
Genuine question.
Fuck am I going without power for 3 hours a day. Easy choice to make.
Gonna be some social unrest this winter if they enforce blackouts on us.
Meanwhile, during my most recent visit with my daily mail reading grandmother, she’s 100% convinced that this is because of Gordon Brown.
Got to love literally watching my fish die because the torries can’t run a country
So glad I moved from South Africa just in time for loadshedding to go international
I wonder if they’ll do blackouts at the weekend. People work hard, and many get to the weekend to chillax, and for 3 hours have no live sport, TV, internet, Netflix etc to enjoy for 3 hours on a Saturday night. Pubs and restaurants open late (if at all?).
On the bright side……**GROWTH!**
I’m ordering some USB lights now.
What a great idea getting rid of them excess gas storage units we had, short term cost cutting at its finest
In 2022, this takes the piss
I appreciate some will see this as an entitlement, but when it’s plainly obvious it’s from mis-management of resources, in a rich country, to be how it’s currently going, really takes the fucking piss
We’re meant to have flying cars and shit by now, how are things going backwards in terms of standard of living! (Not a question, I know it’s from greedy fuckers)
Isn’t it odd how the cycle of politics in this country seems to be, Labour in power, give money to public services, infrastructure, NHS, education. Then, Tories in power, sell everything off to fund their mates, crash the economy, blame Labour for the shitshow then the cycle begins again…
The sooner we get proportional representation the better, so the Tories never get back in power, in order to save the UK. Problem is the right wing media and the bunch of weird think tanks running the shitshow.
The National Grid report is here: https://www.nationalgrideso.com/research-publications/winter-outlook
Surprise surprise, it’s a lot less dramatic than has been reported.
Do I get my standing charge back for that day then?
Seems reasonable to refund it when we don’t get the service we pay for
As the country is moving towards being electrified (electric cars, heat pumps etc) I don’t think we’ve fully worked out how we’d actually cope with all of our eggs in 1 basket, especially in situations such as this
Going back a few months when it was really warm weather there was an article about how London was nearly without power as usage went so high (presumably due to AC, fans and so on) and that’s long before we have everyone charging their cars and running the heating from an electric source
I’m looking forward to the sharp spike in crime when criminals have a 24 hour notice that people’s security systems will be down.