Susanna Reid is soooooo rude

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Yes I know she's interviewing Boris but for fuck's sake, let him get a word in edgeways, even worse when Adil Ray is on as well.

She's so rude

If he can't deal with the press, he shouldn't be in the job.

Ironic isn't it... given he was part of that press pack spewing out nonsense and downright insults for years as a journalist, and then he has to hide and journos are mean to him ... you couldn't make it up.

According to the chart below U.K. tax is high for oil and gas v OPEC average

whether it should be higher is an interesting topic - as well as the cost of living crisis there’s the energy security issue and carbon and climate issue

If earlier on taxes / or tax relief had been used as a way to secure our energy through reinvestment maybe we’d be in a better place. Obviously hindsight and all that but now we do need to make changes

My fuel bills have always been pretty high, well over £100 a month, but then I've accepted that as I've always been pretty generous with my heating.

When I sold my previous house around 6 months ago I found out I had a credit of just over £300 from my energy supplier, so yes, I was paying way more than I should have done.

But £17 a month is unrealistic. I'm not surprised Elsie's energy bill has risen by such a huge amount, she's clearly been under paying for years. I'm surprised her energy company allowed her to do so as mine have always upped my payments as soon as they feel I'm using more than the bare minimum.

In my new house the amount I'm paying was set at just under £100 a month and it has gone up by just £11 a month.

how can you possibly know she's been underpaying for years? Do you have her payment history or details of what she uses?

"how can you possibly know she's been underpaying for years? Do you have her payment history or details of what she uses?"

Exactly It's amazing the personal details posters have about Elsie. She lives in a big house, She's been underpaying for years etc. Elsie could have been very frugal in her use of energy, as a lot of older people who live solely on state pension have to be.

Anything than actually empathising with people.

Yes, you're right I shouldn't have put 'for years'. But it's likely to have been for some time given the huge hike in her payments.

What on earth makes you think I don't empathise with her? Know what's in my head do you?

The poor woman must be at her wits end, of course I empathise with her but the fact remains that £17 a month for energy isn't realistic whatever the size of her home.

As I said in my post, I'm surprised that the energy company allowed this payment I know no one who pays anywhere near such a small amount, or ever has, come to that.

Even if she has never heated her home, which given that she is now riding on the bus all day to keep warm would seem isn't the case, it would still have been a very tiny amount of money to pay each month.

I repeat: it isn't just about Elsie. Look at what George Eustice said today that struggling people should just stop buying branded groceries and switch to own brands instead.

This man really thinks that people on the breadline don't already do this!

And yet the Torygirls on this thread continue to defend these people. What. The Actual. Fuck.

BP made $6 billion in the first quarter of this year.
BP's profits for 2021 were the best they've had in eight years.
Shell, Chevron, BP and ExxonMobile will carry out record levels of buy back of shares (between $38-41 billion) - using "surplus cash" to pay for it. A bonanza for shareholders.

But yes a one off windfall tax will stop them from investing in renewables...

FT reporting anonymous senior government source - more MP's would have supported a windfall tax if the PM had backed it months ago. They can't now because it means giving ground to Labour.

Public service? What's that.

(But Sunak left it as an option so maybe another u- turn on its way?)

It all hangs on the elections tomorrow, imo. If the Tories perform badly, there will be numerous screeching u-turns. And hopefully dump Johnson. If they perform well, then they have the go ahead to continue not to give a toss about the poor, vulnerable and old freezing to death next winter.

There are plenty of people on here that will be fine with the latter.

The tories have already priced in doing terribly tomorrow, in fact they're managing expectations so hard that anything less than a diaster will be called a win.

Johnson and his ego will only go if/when he's defeated at a general election.

Posted to wrong thread! But the sentiment is true.

So they do pay tax on this?

Rather than pp re a loss due to decommissioning

I don’t mind a one year windfall tax, and can see even a Conservative government has used them before

it is linked to pensions though - public service included or passed on to consumers further on (in that Pinsents doc)

I’m fine if people want to go for it - Starmer or Sunak but either party need to look at full situation rather than just headline surface news

From HIGNFY

"However, in an interview with The Times this morning, BP's CEO Bernard Looney has said none of the firm's £18 billion investment in the UK would be at risk if such a windfall tax was imposed."

The plans for UK investment were set years ago.

But I agree that a windfall tax shouldn't be imposed as a knee jerk reaction. There are other levers available to the Government (crack down on hikes in DD's). Some pensioners will benefit from buy back schemes but that will be uneven.

However, it seems from where I am sitting that the rejection of a windfall tax is a political decision rather than a financial one.

Meanwhile Elsie becomes a target for those not willing to challenge the Government's line.

Tory counsellors are now so desperate they're calling themselves 'local conservatives' and have started using green leaflets instead of blue. Elections are always mad but I can't recall seeing such desperation before.

Raab's leaflet has a green background.

I really hope the Green Party complains about this. Surely it’s intentionally misleading?

twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1521821615398572034?s=21&t=muynF0zqnHZXA2YpIrTViA

Link to Raab's leaflet.

Further sanctions on Russian oil and then gas will lead to even further price rises, we may well be looking at price caps of £4k plus p.a and Diesel/Petrol north of £2 per litre, knock on effects with inflation and long term too.

So unless we want civil unrest, starvation and a economic depression, windfall taxes will be the very least Govt's will have to do, i think we will have to have price caps on food and vehicle fuel. .... didn't hear the complete article but i'm sure the EU has had a discussion on price controls more recently.

It is not sustainable for Supermarkets like Tesco to make £2billion in pre tax profits whilst food inflation is so high... i'm seeing own brand staple foods going up by 15 to 30%.... Chicken to become a luxury item, on par with Steak! what will that do for the farming sector?

An interview in which you don't give the interviewee a chance to respond and in which you think that your voice is more important than the interviewee's voice is a bad interview.

That applies across the board and used to be a rule of thumb, no matter who the interviewee is.

A good interviewer understands that the point of an interview is not to showcase yourself but to allow the interviewee's voice more air time than yours.

So, she may or may not be rude but , on this occasion at least, she was not a good interviewer.

She interrupted when he answered the question he’d rather be asked rather than the actual one she asked, or when he wanted to ignore an issue.

If you were in conversation with your partner about something he had done that was causing problems, would you be ok with him talking about all the good things he’s done instead...or would you expect him to discuss the actual issue and explain his actions?

I’m not sure why being PM would be any different. He was questioned on the things he’d done and the consequences of those things. If he thinks he’s done right, he’ll have no issue answering. If he stuck to the question asked, she wouldn’t need interrupt.

Interrupting a politician for dodging the question they're being asked is a good thing for an interviewer to do. Politicians get away with murder in interviews. Back when I used to listen to the Today programme it was incredibly obvious that the Tories got an easy ride from the awful John Humphrys whilst Labour/Lib Dem/Green politicians were interrupted every other word. About time Boris got a taste of it - especially since it was so fully justified.