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May 2022
8:17am, 27 May 2022
33,623 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
[I benefit rich, not part of blue rinse brigade though, I despise our government]
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May 2022
8:28am, 27 May 2022
27,334 posts
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Johnny Blaze
The people of Britain would like to thank Sue Gray and her report for bringing forward the Partygate cost of living package.
Because a win is a win, even if the spending of tens of billions of *checks notes* our money is "really" all about keeping one pissed up, lying sack of scarecrow-haired custard in his job for one more day.
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May 2022
8:53am, 27 May 2022
18,785 posts
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richmac
[so do I Mrs J, and I never meant to imply all people on a pension are Tory voters]
Agree JB, people need to separate the two things though and hang on to the memory of the utter contempt Johnson and his cronies showed for the nation.
Abba party, it's been noticed this isn't in any report. Could it be Johnsons 'Waterloo', pun fully intended.
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May 2022
9:02am, 27 May 2022
33,624 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
[no problem, I didn’t think you lumped all pensioners together rich]
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May 2022
9:08am, 27 May 2022
42,431 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
My mum is always reluctant to take "hand outs". She'll get the £400, the £300 and possibly the £650 too - she's on pension credit. I asked her how much her utilities have gone up by £1200 for elec and gas, and about £100 for phone / internet. She'll just about break even!
My oil and elec is £2000 up this year, so the £400 isn't much of a bribe.
Impressive bit of distraction tactics by Johnson Preservation Society, ahem, I mean the Conservative Party.  G
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May 2022
9:32am, 27 May 2022
4,196 posts
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J2R
richmac, I don't think anything will be Johnson's 'Waterloo' now. After the Sue Gray report and the shrugged shoulders response, Conservative MPs have now determined that Johnson can get away with absolutely anything, with their support, so they will stick with him whatever he does. Don't think for a moment that Conservative MPs would oust him out of principle, on ethical grounds. No, it's all about power.
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May 2022
9:39am, 27 May 2022
22,004 posts
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DeeGee
theguardian.com Marvellous to see an informed critique on the EU, and from an EU national.
<Dans The EU favours wealthy countries. I saw the price of coffee in Latvia go from 60c to €1 overnight because they joined the eurozone. Wages don’t go up to keep pace.</q>
I've noticed that. Prices in Latvia and Estonia are much higher than Poland or Bulgaria. I'd imagine it's hit particularly hard in Lithuania. But then, prices in Manchester are much higher than prices in Great Grimsby. Costs of goods in the UK are higher than elsewhere.
I don't understand how this can be solved by removing the opportunity to buy goods wherever they're cheaper. Nor do I see how it can be resolved by forcing people to stay in a single geographical area with high prices and low wages when they could earn more and pay less elsewhere.
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May 2022
9:40am, 27 May 2022
22,005 posts
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DeeGee
[There should have been a second quote there...]
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May 2022
10:12am, 27 May 2022
27,335 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I don't think we really know yet how the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia are going to affect prices and supply levels, do we? It could get pretty bad *somewhere* if not here as well.
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May 2022
10:14am, 27 May 2022
27,336 posts
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Johnny Blaze
#Today, just now - analysis of yesterday’s “help” package
Having learned that Rishi’s energy handouts will be paid, not into customers’ bank accounts, but into their energy accounts, leads me to realise that, because many of the people in energy poverty are already in significant arrears, his windfall tax will merely be taking money out of one energy company pocket - and putting it back into another. The much vaunted energy handouts will serve to avoid energy companies having to face a mounting bad debt situation, or to fork out on legal costs to recover outstanding arrears. Perhaps Rishi’s “generosity” is not ‘unTory behaviour” after all? How else could he have got away with imposing a windfall tax on their obscenely high profits?
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