Cost of living

[Whorty]

Dry your eyes mate. You're a self-centred twunt, own it and stop trying to back pedal.

Who's trying to back pedal? I'm completely happy with how I live my life. It's you guys on here constantly whining. Some of you need to get a back bone.

[Whorty]

Not sure where you get that idea from, who has suggested you should? I suppose embarrassment on behalf of your country might be appropriate to foreign friends, but compassion to those affected has little to do with who you voted for. I don't really think blaming people who voted Tory as being responsible makes sense anyway, but neither is "I didn't vote for the government it's not my problem" a valid justification.

You seem to be the one calling others woke, I thought?

I was paraphrasing those on here that cry 'woke' when an issue is brought up concerning a minority group, and yet go all white-night themselves at other times.

I have a lot of empathy for those struggling, plenty of my close friends are in that situation and I help them out where I can without patronising them.

I am embarrassed by our government. They are a self-centred set of pricks ... which we know and yet many on here continue to vote in. Then whine when the same government don't help the less off. So instead of pretending to be empathetic, maybe the first step to help the under represented in this country is to start voting the 2 main parties out, break this cycle, and get some independents in who are more likely to represent their local constituents rather than follow a party line.

Or the same old faces on here who vote Tory can keep whining that the people they support are doing nothing for the less well off, but happily support their wealthy mates.

[d000hg]

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I'd argue it's not really the government's job to solve all the problems, their job is to govern and provide fail-safes/back-stops/safety-nets. It's our collective responsibility to look out for each other (OK I'm not going to provide you medical attention).
If that whole Big Society thing (Cameron?) had been any more than a waffle to excuse spending cuts, basically.

[DealorNoDeal]

We're not on mains gas but I was wondering why the price was forecast to go up so much.

So I had a look at the UK gas price on the futures market.

(Click on "All" at the bottom of the chart to see how extreme this is compared to the past 20 years.)
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-natural-gas

Scary.

[vetran]

We're not on mains gas but I was wondering why the price was forecast to go up so much.

So I had a look at the UK gas price on the futures market.

(Click on "All" at the bottom of the chart to see how extreme this is compared to the past 20 years.)
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-natural-gas

Scary.

someone is making a bundle.

lets hope they get shafted

[mattster]

someone is making a bundle.

lets hope they get shafted

Yep - this is a wealth transfer like no other. Strange lack of focus from the media on who is actually profiting from all this - our money is actually going somewhere, after all. And what role speculation on derivatives has on the price volatility we are seeing?