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..

The point being that its rare to be only receiving carers. Many of these people will describe themselves as "caring", they might not even meet criteria for carers allowance but its likely they are in receipt of other benefits, given they are not working, they will be likely receiving UC etc.

My friend would describe herself as "caring". She has two dc. One has a diagnosis she would not in a million years have got even 15 years ago. Both are in school full time, both DC are in activity clubs at school 3 out of 5 days so don't finish til 4.30.

She is degree educated and could absolutely manage part time work but doesn't. She is essentially unemployed but doesn't appear in the numbers.

Um....what?

Sorry did you not understand? Oh bless.

Yes, it's "easy" in terms of lax regulation etc., but there's very little actual "help" or support from governments in the form of grants, subsidies, etc to help them set up, and the UK banking system doesn't support small business start ups either - i.e. you've virtually no chance of a business loan unless you can give a charge on the equity of your home as UK banks want security for business loans. Commercial property rents and rates are insanely high. Planning regulations (i.e. for change of use) are too strict and take too long. Employment rights are already heavily weighed in favour of the employee and are set to get worse. There are very good reasons why relatively few new small businesses are started in the UK! It's certainly not laziness or lack of ambition.

Yep, and private equity and hedge funds hoovering up good businesses and turning them into nothing more than profit-generating vehicles for investors, without a single thought for anything else.

Private equity is a fucking stain on humanity.

Ah, the the price we are paying for Brexit bought us sovereignty.

WalMart employees are notoriously paid wages which mean that they qualify for/must apply for state benefits to get their basic needs met. Even though they work FT. At the expense of all of the other taxpayers. There’s something seriously wrong with this setup.

How do self employed people pay less tax than other people (with the exception of NI)?

Fuck every government.

Lefties have this idealised vision of Labour being morally superior - the reality is they're not and don't give a fuck about you, they give a fuck about votes and power.

At least with the Tories, you know they don't give a shit and don't really pretend to. Far easier to swallow.

People are out in the streets, protesting against their own religion?

Silly me, I thought they were celebrating the ousting of a dictator. Could you please signpost us to the news agency who is reporting that they’re protesting against their own religion?

I'm fuming too. Feel so powerless. The massive increases when Liz Truss was briefly PM really rocked our finances and it's been an uphill struggle since. I should be happy about a small wage increase recently but it'll all get eaten up in fuel and energy and food and AAAAAARGH.

They have been forced to become Muslim. Persia was a Christian country before they tried to be kind to Muslims. Know your history speak to people from the country.

Net Zero is not to blame for volatility and risk in fossil fuel pricing.

Net Zero is the solution to that.

I must have missed the bit where ordinary Iranians had decided they no longer want to be Muslims, too.

Persia was a Zoroastrian country before the Islamic conquest in the 7th century

Are any of those people still alive? 😂

Are any of those people still alive? 😂

Are any of those people still alive? 😂

Are any of those people still alive? 😂

Whoops. App malfunction.

Exactly. England/Britain became a Christian country at roughly the same time, in the 6/7th century. Bit weird to suggest that we might regret that now. I'd quite happily become a pagan though, tbf.

If the oil can't move we will have bigger problems than higher prices.

It's absolutely outrageous that a few male egos can potentially destroy absolutely everything.

It is insane, isn't it? Idiots in the US, Israeli and Iranian governments literally fucking over the whole world for their own egos.

How on EARTH has anyone as thick as Donald Trump managed to get so much power? The world really has gone nuts.