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Talking of culture wars. Gervais clip (if people are easily offended - avoid)

Beat me to it

I like that you’re principled with your voting BSB but come the next election if you voted elsewhere rather than Labour in a seat where only Labour or Conservatives can realistically win (I don’t know if this is the case for you), then you’d be almost as culpable as someone who voted Tory if...

What does ‘own it’ even mean ?! Once you make a decision you cant question your choice ? Or you cant change your view on something or a person ? My vote in the last election, whoever I voted for, was irrelevant as I’m in a strong Labour seat. The majority of the country was given a choice...

It reflects society to some extent. Narrowing of views, no willingness to be challenged or have debate. That’s no way to run a country

100%. That’s one of my major problems with politics, especially in recent times. Better quality on back rather than front benches, which is just wrong.

He’s on the ropes. If there was a standout replacement he’d probably be gone already

Some interesting comments. I was surprised by this ‘barondene: The rent from CCFC does not reach 6 figures and that is gross - ie before all expenditures’ I can’t recall what our financial info said about the rent cost and whether that ties in. If it’s correct I don’t think our return will...

As has been said before WTF they are doing doing the Blast and the Hundred I’ll never know

Sorry I might’ve misunderstood, not totally with it today, I was responding more to the article attached before (open democracy one) and the comment below. Only additional comment is that there are other providers who aren’t the big six who would go bust if the cap didn’t rise. I think the...

I wasn’t trying to be funny, my point was that it’s not like providers are setting the prices at the moment. They’re not profiteering from the public at the moment as they’re not allowed to due to cap…probably taking the piss with businesses though !

Ofgem sets the cap not the companies and there’s probably only a tiny margin in supplying the public at the moment, if anything. Most smaller providers struggled/went bust. The article headline suggests all energy companies are creaming it from the public which is wrong, basically SSE and...

Ask Ofgem ! It’s cheap in UK because we have imported loads of LNG but can’t store a lot of it longer term and people aren’t using it at the moment as winters over. Just googled and this looks like the best explanation...

I might be wrong but I don’t think the heating/home energy providers are making massive profits. Loads went bust due to the caps.

Yeah, I’ve always thought the best option for the government would be to pressure the main energy companies like BP and Shell to stop making super profits. Tricky to do this across the board but say BP are currently making 20p per litre on diesel when it’s usually 10p, pressure them to get it...

Of course they shouldn’t have as they knew it was coming but that’s the mature level of politics…they didn’t want to be seen to be voting for a Labour proposal. I was saying how they should’ve at least tried to position their stance/vote

Yeah, I agree, however, he’s now faced with a potential drip drip of letters. So he could try to get on the front foot and at least try to claw back some credibility.

The government played this poorly. A Windfall tax rightly polled well and political pressure suggested it was coming. They should’ve just said, we are reviewing all options including this but any taxes need to be properly considered/structured. Labour on the other hand played a blinder as I...

They were always going to take more action. Sunak had said he wanted to know what the energy cap might rise to in Oct first. The timing of the announcement is embarrassingly transparent though !

Rory Stewart is right, we can’t have a government not focussed on the significant issues we as a country are facing…and that’s what the Tory MPs should be considering. I personally think Johnson should try to put this to bed himself (as he wont resign) and call a confidence vote…I won’t hold my...