dual fuel prices and pensions

[alfred]

i would like to see our state pensions rise up to 80 %the same as fuel prices , i don't think our MPs are any good as now they will duck and dive to avoid having to make the right decisions, should there be a heavy tax on energy companies already making astronomic profits whilst the rest of us are priced out of existence,.

Q; what would you like to see happen and is there an answer,. if so what would you like to see happen before its too late which it almost is,.

[Raven]

I thought that Labour Leader had a good idea of freezing the Energy Cap for a few years untill this mess is sorted out. That way the bills would be the same as they were before todays rise and we would have had a chance.

[klondike]

How would he persuade the foreign suppliers of fuels to supply them at the old price? If it is just printing money to pay them then looking at the inflation caused by printing money to finance furlough shows fixing one problem just leads to another. There is no easy answer.

[Jacqueline]

Today with the massive 80% hike in the price cap, where is our PM? why is he not reassuring us we will get more help other than what is already on offer? 

If I give notice to leave my job I am expected to work to the last minute on the last day. Boris should be here not Ukraine, Parliament should be recalled, we are in a national emergency.

Why is Boris giving away our desperately needed money to Ukraine and keeping dinghy boys in 5* hotels at over 1 billion a year, when WE need help now. 

I am sorry for Ukraine, but are we the only ones sticking our necks out and rattling Putin? Britain has stuck it's head over the top more than others in support and I hear there is talk in Russia of nukeing us they hate us that much.  Boris seems to be Ukraine's national hero, well they can have him come 5th September when his job here is over,  I do hope he is not pulling a 1939 Poland on us first.

[klondike]

Today with the massive 80% hike in the price cap, where is our PM? why is he not reassuring us we will get more help other than what is already on offer? 

https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-insists-extra-cash-is-coming-to-help-with-bills-as-chancellor-suggests-people-cut-back-on-energy-use-12681721

Boris Johnson has pledged the government will announce "extra cash" in September to support households further with energy bills - after Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi suggested people should cut back on their usage.

The outgoing PM said: "There's a pipeline of cash coming through over the next few months and through the autumn and the winter.

"But that is clearly now going to be augmented, increased, by extra cash that the government is plainly going to be announcing in September."

Mr Johnson added that he does not think ministers should "cap the whole thing" for "the richest households in the country".

[GrannyMac]

They say the public get the politicians they deserve.if there hadn't been such a witch hunt Boris could have stayed put and I reckon would be doing something. He didn't really resign, he was pushed. It's up to whoever replaces him. 

It's also easy for an opposition party to spout ideas the public go for when they don't have to deliver.

[Diasi]

Today with the massive 80% hike in the price cap, where is our PM? why is he not reassuring us we will get more help other than what is already on offer? 

If I give notice to leave my job I am expected to work to the last minute on the last day. Boris should be here not Ukraine, Parliament should be recalled, we are in a national emergency.

Why is Boris giving away our desperately needed money to Ukraine and keeping dinghy boys in 5* hotels at over 1 billion a year, when WE need help now. 

I am sorry for Ukraine, but are we the only ones sticking our necks out and rattling Putin? Britain has stuck it's head over the top more than others in support and I hear there is talk in Russia of nukeing us they hate us that much.  Boris seems to be Ukraine's national hero, well they can have him come 5th September when his job here is over,  I do hope he is not pulling a 1939 Poland on us first.

Well I've always said we should never have gone to Poland's aid in 1939, we should have said stuff the Treaty.

As regards Boris, he can't do anything as it would be constitutionally incorrect for an outgoing PM to implement things that would be left to the incoming PM to carry out.

With the energy crisis getting much worse during 2023 & possibly 2024, what's needed are concentration camps, complete with razor wire & floodlit armed guard towers, to house the immigrants.

And if there are no rescue boats a fair percentage won't make it across the Channel in the first place.

Any immigrant escaping to be shot.

Harsh, yes, it was harsh when Bomber Harris sat round a table planning to bomb Dresden too, but it worked.

Of course, it will never happen & more fully-heated 5 star hotels will be needed while pensioners will be found dead in their chairs.

August 26, 2022, 07:32:31 PM

They say the public get the politicians they deserve.if there hadn't been such a witch hunt Boris could have stayed put and I reckon would be doing something. He didn't really resign, he was pushed. It's up to whoever replaces him. 

It's also easy for an opposition party to spout ideas the public go for when they don't have to deliver.

As a Tory Party member I lay the blame, for Boris being ousted, squarely with the media & Tory Remainers, in equal measure.

[klondike]

Not being a Conservative was possibly a factor too...