28-08-2022, 12:36
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Re: The energy crisis
Ok, lets get back to the topic
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29-08-2022, 16:22
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Re: The energy crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/02f848fc-...f-26109d79db89
EU starting to do something about it. I hope this kicks our lot up the butt to stop them looking like a bunch of jackasses late to the party
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29-08-2022, 16:29
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Re: The energy crisis
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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
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We will hear about what our government will do about energy prices when the new administration is in place.
We would have done something before now, but some people thought cakes and parties were more important.
This is what happens when you let trivia guide you instead of addressing the real issues. Hopefully, lesson learned, but alas, some will never learn. There could be a full scale invasion and some people would still complain that no-one was fixing the transmitter that had been taken out by enemy bombs. As a country, we need to focus.
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29-08-2022, 16:37
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Re: The energy crisis
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We will hear about what our government will do about energy prices when the new administration is in place.
We would have done something before now, but some people thought cakes and parties were more important.
This is what happens when you let trivia guide you instead of addressing the real issues. Hopefully, lesson learned, but alas, some will never learn. There could be a full scale invasion and some people would still complain that no-one was fixing the transmitter that had been taken out by enemy bombs. As a country, we need to focus.
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The lawbreaking bloke is still there, being paid, and allegedly still in charge. However he's had to take some hols as all that partying is tiring. So the UK government. has been closed for a couple of months. Fair enough, let the peasants eat cake etc.
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29-08-2022, 16:50
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Re: The energy crisis
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
We will hear about what our government will do about energy prices when the new administration is in place.
We would have done something before now, but some people thought cakes and parties were more important.
This is what happens when you let trivia guide you instead of addressing the real issues. Hopefully, lesson learned, but alas, some will never learn. There could be a full scale invasion and some people would still complain that no-one was fixing the transmitter that had been taken out by enemy bombs. As a country, we need to focus.
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Aaah right, got it. There was me thinking it was Boris Johnson’s fault for flagrantly ignoring his own emergency laws (while the rest of us missed weddings, funerals and everything else), or his MPs’ fault for backing him instead of removing him at the first opportunity, when all along it was the fault of those who demand basic standards of integrity from those chosen to lead us.
Thanks for clarifying this. So next time someone proves they’re unfit for high office we’ll just leave them to get on with it anyway, just in case there’s an emergency around the corner.
You really have become a self parody lately.
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29-08-2022, 16:58
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Re: The energy crisis
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Aaah right, got it. There was me thinking it was Boris Johnson’s fault for flagrantly ignoring his own emergency laws (while the rest of us missed weddings, funerals and everything else), or his MPs’ fault for backing him instead of removing him at the first opportunity, when all along it was the fault of those who demand basic standards of integrity from those chosen to lead us.
Thanks for clarifying this. So next time someone proves they’re unfit for high office we’ll just leave them to get on with it anyway, just in case there’s an emergency around the corner.
You really have become a self parody lately.
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Yes, Boris had his faults and I’m not denying that. But there are other more important issues at hand, which the energy crisis issue clearly demonstrates.
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29-08-2022, 17:22
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Re: The energy crisis
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Enough of this, get back to the topic.
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29-08-2022, 17:35
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Re: The energy crisis
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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
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Become an FT subscriber to read:
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Will people please stop linking to paywalled articles.
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29-08-2022, 17:40
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Re: The energy crisis
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EU starting to do something about it. I hope this kicks our lot up the butt to stop them looking like a bunch of jackasses late to the party
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Might actually explain our inaction and incentivise us to do less. If we lack the will/resource to meaningfully change the market and being much smaller (in terms of generation and purchasing power) then any minimal interventions might be more useful after the EU have skewed the market.
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29-08-2022, 18:21
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Re: The energy crisis
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Will people please stop linking to paywalled aricles.
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That is really interesting because when I linked it it was not paywalled. Do you for one minute think I sub to the FT?
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I think one of my browsers did that for me automatically and did not realise somehow
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29-08-2022, 19:41
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Re: The energy crisis
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Will people please stop linking to paywalled aricles.
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You just have to copy and paste the title onto a Google search. Often, the best articles are paywalled, so it would be a shame for CF members to be deprived of this information for that reason.
There is far too much reliance on social media demonstrated by some members - this might help to bring a bit of balance, IMHO.
I can’t copy it for you as unfortunately it’s against the T&Cs and their copyright policy.
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30-08-2022, 03:21
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Re: The energy crisis
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You just have to copy and paste the title onto a Google search. Often, the best articles are paywalled, so it would be a shame for CF members to be deprived of this information for that reason.
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The poster can do that, not expect the reader to do so.
If I'm reading this topic, I do not expect to have to search for a linked article becasue its behind a paywall, and neither should any other member.
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30-08-2022, 09:19
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Re: The energy crisis
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The poster can do that, not expect the reader to do so.
If I'm reading this topic, I do not expect to have to search for a linked article becasue its behind a paywall, and neither should any other member.
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Yep! If that happens I can't be arsed to bother finding a work around so it's a pointless link.
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30-08-2022, 11:11
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Re: The energy crisis
This has now got very serious...
https://www.theguardian.com/business...-bills-support
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Thousands of pubs face closure without urgent government support to soften the blow from soaring energy bills, the beer industry has said, putting jobs at risk in a sector still battling to recover from the Covid pandemic.
The bosses of companies owning almost half of the UK’s 47,000 pubs said tenants were already giving notice because they could not cope with energy bills, which are due to rise more than fivefold in some cases.
Unlike households, businesses do not benefit from a cap on what suppliers can charge for gas and electricity, leaving many firms facing oblivion without state intervention.
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