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That will not go down well at all or indeed stave off the growing groundswell of discontent, which will likely explode into civil unrest within the next six months.Truss's plan is shaping up to be a massive government loan TO THE ENERGY COMPANIES, which is then paid back BY THE POPULATION over the next ten years or more. (And rumours abound that her plan only covers the next four months, instead of six, and last time I checked it can still be pretty cold in January and February.)
Then there is this:
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Details are leaking of Truss's proposed energy price plan and..... it's not looking good.
Remember, Labour's plan was to windfall tax the energy companies and give the money to the population. It was a pretty blunt instrument as it handed cash over to everyone, irrespective of wealth, but it did at least ensure that no one would pay more for their energy for the next six months, and it took excessive profits away from the privatised energy companies that are making out like bandits.
Truss's plan is shaping up to be a massive government loan TO THE ENERGY COMPANIES, which is then paid back BY THE POPULATION over the next ten years or more. (And rumours abound that her plan only covers the next four months, instead of six, and last time I checked it can still be pretty cold in January and February.)
So in essence, the energy companies get given tens of billions pounds of government (taxpayer!) money as a bribe to keep bills fixed in the short term, and then in the medium to long term, everyone in the UK has to pay higher energy bills for a decade or more to pay the bribe back to the government. All those billions the energy companies are making in massive profits and shareholder dividends? They get to keep the lot.
Also, Truss's measure will be inflationary, which means more interest rate rises, which means more misery for millions of people already struggling to get by, and also means more profits for the banks because they hold government debt and the higher interest rates are, the more profits they make on that debt.
So Truss has come out of the gates swinging there. Still, at least she's telling everyone who she is and who she's going to govern for.
Also, no suggestion there will be any help for businesses. At this point all we can hope for is that the leaks are wrong.
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Just watched Truss' speech in Downing Street. Dull material, dull delivery. "Aspiration". "Opportunities". "Tax cuts". "Brilliant Britain". She's no orator.
And to think after your posts on it for the next two years we also have to contend with what the PM says as well.She most assuredly isn't, the next two years promise boredom and horror in equal measures.
And to think after your posts on it for the next two years we also have to contend with what the PM says as well.
/gently reminds ChopleyIOMEU that when it comes to anti-Semitism, Liebore really are EVEN MORE streets ahead of the Tories./gently reminds dunover that when it comes to sexual misconduct, Tory MPs and ministers really are streets ahead of Labour.
Hrrrmphh...now listen old chap, did you think for one moment we would choose a jug-eared curry artist over a fair Anglo-Saxon? Churchill, Thatcher, Heath, Hague, Johnson, May, MacMillan, Cameron and now Truss all fitted our Aryan preferences. OK, we did have that grey bloke from Brixton once but to be fair he did win an election. And we did have that drip Howard for a year or two, he of the foreskin-less persuasion apparently. That why we can call Labour anti-semites, you see we do strategise and it's not just tea and sandwiches while we do the Telegraph crossword ol' chap./gently reminds ChopleyIOMEU that when it comes to anti-Semitism, Liebore really are EVEN MORE streets ahead of the Tories.
And what about your precious party that is supposedly all about equality?
Female PMs - Tories 3, Liebore NIL.
Female Party leaders - Tories 3, Liebore NIL*
* Before you (attempt to) correct me Mr. Chopley, I am acutely aware that Margaret Beckett and Harriet Harman were party leaders,
but only as acting party leaders, given that they were the deputy leaders who inherited the leadership in the wake of the
death of John Smith and Gordon Brown's resignation after the 2010 GE, respectively. They were never ELECTED as party leaders.
So maybe Tory members are a little more willing to give the top job to a woman than members of the so-called "party of gender equality"?
Hmm, interesting.
But knowing you, being the self-titled Toxic Wokesel Libtard Snowflake Remoaner Marxist that you are, you will just call the
Tory membership a bunch of racists instead, because they chose a white woman over a non-white male
Sorry, I need to correct myself......
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Reads through Chopley's derivative posts, meh, nothing to see here.In the bbc mindset, and probably elsewhere, all the bame folk truss has surrounded herself with are simply brilliant because of their skin colour and deserve glowing write-ups. Whereas they don't actually like the white head girl liz very much at all, that's my impression.
The conservatives are forever trying to outdo labour on the woke credentials and optics these days, that's what it looks like, two prime ministers in a row have given all or most of the top roles to bame MPs, talk about positive discrimination, are we really to believe they were the best candidates amongst hundreds both times, the odds seem to me to be bonanza like for hitting a 10,000x win!
She's making the same exact mistake Bojo did, hiring chums rather than who is best suited for the role, so we will have a f***ing pantomime again. Alas I'm starting to feel the same way about the conservatives as I do the ukgc!
Maybe I am different to most, but seriously, colour of skin or ethnicity of any and all of the appointments Truss has made has not even registered on my radar. I don't know why some on social media keep on banging on about it.In the bbc mindset, and probably elsewhere, all the bame folk truss has surrounded herself with are simply brilliant because of their skin colour and deserve glowing write-ups. Whereas they don't actually like the white head girl liz very much at all, that's my impression.
The conservatives are forever trying to outdo labour on the woke credentials and optics these days, that's what it looks like, two prime ministers in a row have given all or most of the top roles to bame MPs, talk about positive discrimination, are we really to believe they were the best candidates amongst hundreds both times, the odds seem to me to be bonanza like for hitting a 10,000x win!
She's making the same exact mistake Bojo did, hiring chums rather than who is best suited for the role, so we will have a f***ing pantomime again. Alas I'm starting to feel the same way about the conservatives as I do the ukgc!
I'm sure it's completely coincidental that Truss used to work for Shell.
Right, so you're saying in one year the UK MARKET has made £170bn profit for UK energy generators, power companies and BP/Shell?The only thing I'm really interested in here is what Truss and her government are actually doing - and by all accounts their first major action will be loading around £100bn of debt onto the taxpayer to fix energy bills, rather than tax some of the £170bn in massive, excess profits that the privatised energy companies are making. (I'm sure it's completely coincidental that Truss used to work for Shell.)
PMQs is looking like it's going to be rather dull going forward, it's no secret that Starmer is hardly a charisma machine, and Truss seems like she'll be a good match for him in the dullness stakes.
Her complete culling of anyone remotely connected to Sunak gives a clear indication of the ideological zeal with which she'll be running things.
I fear we're entering a long, harsh winter.
Add to that that those Companies previously made losses. Should they then go hand in cap to Government and ask for money?Not meaning to get all accountancy but profit means very little, it's an accounting adjustment - you could earn more profit the next year by simply changing how you value assets/depreciate them