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Post by Officer Barbrady on Jul 26, 2022 19:51:29 GMT
I thought you might find this interesting from a colleague. The infrastructure is literally melting. Oh and with a keen eye you'll note the privitatisation clue too. And so, test results are being delivered by hand on paper one, one patient at a time for example. And you wonder why we whinge  Was in a public lift before you ask. View AttachmentHelp!! Id love to but alas I dont have any 20 year old Nokias to help replace the state of the art IT systems. Do you? |
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Post by francegas on Jul 26, 2022 20:24:19 GMT
The UK is set for the slowest growth of the G7 richest economies next year, the International Monetary Fund has warned. They’ve also blamed it on Labour, ffs Labour I can find the IMFs revised growth rate for 2023 but struggle to find where they blame Labour. Any chance of a link to their blame on Labour. |
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Post by Gassy on Jul 26, 2022 20:59:00 GMT
The UK is set for the slowest growth of the G7 richest economies next year, the International Monetary Fund has warned. They’ve also blamed it on Labour, ffs Labour I can find the IMFs revised growth rate for 2023 but struggle to find where they blame Labour. Any chance of a link to their blame on Labour. Was taking the p*as that it’s always Labours fault, rather than the current governments  |
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Post by yattongas on Jul 26, 2022 21:05:55 GMT
The UK is set for the slowest growth of the G7 richest economies next year, the International Monetary Fund has warned. They’ve also blamed it on Labour, ffs Labour I can find the IMFs revised growth rate for 2023 but struggle to find where they blame Labour. Any chance of a link to their blame on Labour. IMF quoted a post by some dude called francegas apparently. 🙄 |
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Post by francegas on Jul 26, 2022 21:47:41 GMT
I can find the IMFs revised growth rate for 2023 but struggle to find where they blame Labour. Any chance of a link to their blame on Labour. IMF quoted a post by some dude called francegas apparently. 🙄 Well it's good that they listen to me 🙂🙂🙂 |
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Post by francegas on Jul 26, 2022 21:48:53 GMT
I can find the IMFs revised growth rate for 2023 but struggle to find where they blame Labour. Any chance of a link to their blame on Labour. Was taking the p*as that it’s always Labours fault, rather than the current governments Apologies didn't pick up on that! Probably because everything is Labours fault !!🙂🙂🙂👍👍 |
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Post by stuart1974 on Jul 26, 2022 22:09:59 GMT
IMF quoted a post by some dude called francegas apparently. 🙄 Well it's good that they listen to me 🙂🙂🙂 Glad somebody does. 😇 |
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Post by stuart1974 on Jul 27, 2022 19:39:59 GMT
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Post by fintanstack on Jul 27, 2022 20:26:42 GMT
Intervention for his editor or spell check needed.
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Post by aghast on Jul 27, 2022 23:24:59 GMT
This rising fuel bill situation will reach a crisis point soon. Not sure if £3,500 is over the top, but ordinary working families are going to really struggle from October. It's unprecedented and out of control.
Millions of people simply cannot afford another £200 more a month on gas and electricity prices compared to a year ago. There could be a massive level of defaults on payments. What are they going to do? Take 5 million people to the county court?
Meanwhile the suppliers are making massive profits and passing the wholesale increase on to costumers in full.
Nationalisation isn't an option any more because that ship has sailed economically and politically, but I'd regulate their price increases under the terms of their licence, or even introduce a state owned supplier with subsidised prices to compete with the largely foreign owned utility companies. As most of the population rapidly change to that cheaper alternative, it would soon focus the minds of the free market capitalists.
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Post by peterparker on Jul 28, 2022 6:31:03 GMT
This rising fuel bill situation will reach a crisis point soon. Not sure if £3,500 is over the top, but ordinary working families are going to really struggle from October. It's unprecedented and out of control. Millions of people simply cannot afford another £200 more a month on gas and electricity prices compared to a year ago. There could be a massive level of defaults on payments. What are they going to do? Take 5 million people to the county court? Meanwhile the suppliers are making massive profits and passing the wholesale increase on to costumers in full. Nationalisation isn't an option any more because that ship has sailed economically and politically, but I'd regulate their price increases under the terms of their licence, or even introduce a state owned supplier with subsidised prices to compete with the largely foreign owned utility companies. As most of the population rapidly change to that cheaper alternative, it would soon focus the minds of the free market capitalists. Centrica will be releasing numbers today, with the likelihood of the dividend being re-instated. That will be fun |
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Post by oldie on Jul 28, 2022 7:34:09 GMT
This rising fuel bill situation will reach a crisis point soon. Not sure if £3,500 is over the top, but ordinary working families are going to really struggle from October. It's unprecedented and out of control. Millions of people simply cannot afford another £200 more a month on gas and electricity prices compared to a year ago. There could be a massive level of defaults on payments. What are they going to do? Take 5 million people to the county court? Meanwhile the suppliers are making massive profits and passing the wholesale increase on to costumers in full. Nationalisation isn't an option any more because that ship has sailed economically and politically, but I'd regulate their price increases under the terms of their licence, or even introduce a state owned supplier with subsidised prices to compete with the largely foreign owned utility companies. As most of the population rapidly change to that cheaper alternative, it would soon focus the minds of the free market capitalists. Centrica will be releasing numbers today, with the likelihood of the dividend being re-instated. That will be fun That's going to be interesting. |
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Post by peterparker on Jul 28, 2022 7:51:40 GMT
Shell has reported record profits of $11.5bn (£9.4bn) for the second quarter, more than double last year's figure of $5.5bn (£4.5bn).
The oil giant had already smashed its own quarterly record at the start of the year when it clocked up profits of $9.1bn (£7.2bn), but the sums continued to rise into Q2.
Shell attributed the enormous numbers to higher prices, refining profits and gas trading, though this was partly offset by lower liquefied natural gas trading.
Shell said its shareholder returns will remain "in excess of 30% of cash flow from operating activities".
Meanwhile, British Gas owner Centrica enjoyed £1.3bn operating profits in the first six months of 2022, five times the amount from the same period last year of £262m.
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Post by oldie on Jul 28, 2022 8:03:13 GMT
Shell has reported record profits of $11.5bn (£9.4bn) for the second quarter, more than double last year's figure of $5.5bn (£4.5bn). The oil giant had already smashed its own quarterly record at the start of the year when it clocked up profits of $9.1bn (£7.2bn), but the sums continued to rise into Q2. Shell attributed the enormous numbers to higher prices, refining profits and gas trading, though this was partly offset by lower liquefied natural gas trading. Shell said its shareholder returns will remain "in excess of 30% of cash flow from operating activities". Meanwhile, British Gas owner Centrica enjoyed £1.3bn operating profits in the first six months of 2022, five times the amount from the same period last year of £262m. This just highlights the yawning gap between the wealth of the asset owning class and those purely on work income. This will blow up, it has to. |
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Post by yattongas on Jul 28, 2022 8:15:24 GMT
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Post by peterparker on Jul 28, 2022 10:04:46 GMT
I know they have to say this stuff, but people will just ask so why are our bills so high and what are you going to do about it?
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the report shows the UK's "secure and diverse energy supplies will ensure households, businesses and industry can be confident they can get the electricity and gas they need".
"Britain is in a fortunate position, having access to our own North Sea gas reserves, imports from reliable partners like Norway, the second largest LNG (liquid natural gas) port infrastructure in Europe, and a gas supply underpinned by robust legal contracts," it said.
"Thanks to a massive £90bn investment in clean energy in the last decade, we have one of the most reliable and diverse energy systems in the world, and unlike Europe we are not dependent on Russian energy imports."
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Post by stuart1974 on Jul 29, 2022 9:08:09 GMT
Ben Wallace backs Liz Truss, in view of Wallace's popularity with the membership it's probably game over already.
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Post by peterparker on Jul 29, 2022 9:19:25 GMT
Ben Wallace backs Liz Truss, in view of Wallace's popularity with the membership it's probably game over already. can we just make her PM now and cut out the bullshit of the next few weeks. Perhaps they could then get on with trying to sort some problems out The next few weeks are going to be tiresome as f**k |
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Post by fintanstack on Jul 29, 2022 10:31:52 GMT
Ben Wallace backs Liz Truss, in view of Wallace's popularity with the membership it's probably game over already. can we just make her PM now and cut out the bullshit of the next few weeks. Perhaps they could then get on with trying to sort some problems out The next few weeks are going to be tiresome as f**k If all you are doing is shuffling sh** it really will not matter. |
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Post by peterparker on Jul 29, 2022 10:48:45 GMT
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