Anger at forth coming COL crisis

[MyCheekyEagle]

Of course I understand that the ME war is going to have an impact on oil prices & that will get passed onto the already struggling families; but when things stabilise again & maybe oil prices reset the greedy corporatez never pass this saving back to customers fo they. They just think as we've got used to these new higher prices we'll just keep them there. This thought has given me the rage most of today!
Just needed to vent somewhere, thanks if you listened..

I disagree.
It's rampant Socialism fueling a "nanny state" and throwing money at idle beggars who won't work.
That and treating illegal immigrants better than our own people in terms of benefits, healthcare and housing.

I agree, it is so worrying!

I also fear for the next generation in their 20 s , mortgages are going to go up according to the BBC as well as everything else, I don't know how they will afford to buy a home

Exactly this.

Why don't the government legislate against this sort of stuff? The energy companies have gone from being government owned, to being allowed to run with such little legislation, that they can hike prices up to whatever they feel like, whilst the world is in crisis, whilst people can't afford to adequately feed themselves, and laugh in our faces recording record profit whilst they do it. How? How is it allowed? And don't give me that rubbish about "the price of oil per barrel", because they set the rate of that too!!

Its getting ridiculous. Water costs are much more than they were, we are on oil so vulnerable to those price rises and food costs are bonkers.

At the moment we are saving water if we can, we recently filled the oil tank at 59p a litre which will now last to September hopefully, and the freezer and cupboards are pretty full. When that runs out we’ll be struggling.

Interesting that you're blaming Ed Milliband when he wasn't in power from 2010-23.

The Tories didn't drill the North Sea either which as others have pointed out is incredibly expensive.

Are the any actual facts or research to back this up?

The largest benefits bill by far goes to pensioners. Are they the idle beggars you refer to? Or the millions of people on benefits also in full time work so the government can subsidise shit pay in private enterprise?

Which socialist policies have any government in our lifetime put into practice would you describe as rampant?

In many cases they couldn’t anyway.

Exactly.

The Royal Society did the sums and calculated that we'd need 100 TWh of storage to make renewables work. That would cost £12 trillion at today's prices and is clearly impossibly unaffordable.

(£12 trillion = £12,000,0000,000,000)

Only 38% of people claiming UC work in any capacity - even part-time.

Too many people in Britain exploit the system.

They'll have to manage the same way as we did (when I was married to my first husband.) After paying a mortgage and bills we hardly had 2 ha'pennies to scratch our backsides with.
In those days inflation was running at 10% and we suffered 2 consecutive Labour governments who screwed things up.

Everyone should watch the Channel 4 drama Dirty Business about the water companies dumping raw sewage into the sea and rivers and the cover up. It is based on true events and is absolutely shocking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591

So glad we put a massive rack of solar panels on the roof & a double battery.

We do have a benefit issue. The benefit system was supposed to be a safety net for:

• helping people manage through short term/temporary incapacity
• supporting the most severely disabled/vulnerable

It was never meant to support millions of people with mental health issues to be non working for life.

We also do not invest enough in infrastructure for growth and productivity improvements.

As I said above, this article students, stay at home mums, carers, retirees. Billionaires are the problem.

It’s getting a mortgage in the first place
Many pay rents which are more than a mortgage - but banks won’t lend 7 times their wages to buy a normal sized house

This is not the fault of the Thatcher privatisation.
It is because successive governments won't make the Regulator strong enough.
The governments have only allowed fines to be imposed on the companies. They should enforce penalties on Directors.
The financial tricks that McQuarrie bank sold to Thames Water could have been stopped by governments. Our politicians have been so week with all our Service Industries.

Its not that simple.

There's a raft of people (including children) with milder levels of disability that never would have qualified for state support in the past. The criteria have been widened to a point where too many people are eligible.

Then you get a load of people "caring" for these people with "disabilities".

We can't afford to have this many stay at home mums. A chunk of them will be affording to be at home because they are eligible for various benefits (including pip). Pip and DLA are at the root of it because eligibility for those unlock a lot of access to other things - lifting benefit caps etc. Too many people are getting pip & dla.

But everything on that photo is ultra processed and unnecessary.

Of course those sorts of foods will increase in price.

I am quite wealthy but I only drink water. No-one needs to drink anything else.

I'm wondering this too, it's hardly new and becoming worse by the day.

That’s capitalism. If you want change, vote for change. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour would have done its best to shift things. But everyone buys into the press coverage - who don’t want change- owned by the wealthy.

The largest benefits bill by far goes to pensioners. Are they the idle beggars you refer to?

No.
Most pensioners have contributed into the system

Or the millions of people on benefits also in full time work so the government can subsidise shit pay in private enterprise?

That uninformed comment shows you know nothing about how the private sector works.

Have a look at Ms Reeves NI hike for businesses - the Chancellor's decision to push up National Insurance paid by firms and to increase the minimum wage has resulted in higher prices, slower pay growth, softer private sector employment, and weaker investment.
Many of my friends in business have had to cut the number of trainees they take on because they can't afford to employ them any more.

Now Ms Reeves is now trying to raid peoples' pension pots.

In the first Labour Budget since 2010, Ms Reeves increased taxes by £40bn to "fix the foundations" of the economy, whatever that means, and to cover a 'black hole' that didn't exist.

This follows the usual Labour mantra of "tax and spend".

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reeves-labour-tax-non-dom-millionaire-b2684803.html

"No one needs to drink anything else "..oh come on, by that logic, no one NEEDS to eat anything apart from baked beans. No one NEEDS to have anymore than one pair of shoes... .
It's come to something when we are working every hour god sends just to survive on water and gruel.

It would be better if we had invested in renewable energy properly.

That way we wouldn't be so reliant on oil at all.

So everyone should work until they drop dead and have no retirement is that what you plan to do and lead by example?
I'm partially retired and I'm doing an job I love but I'm still retiring while I can enjoy life, my life expectancy isn't high due to chronic health condition, so if that makes me a problem by potentially living another 10 years to 70 that's fucking tough.