Struggling With The Cost Of Living?

[davyboy]

I pay £100/month gas and electric. (£1200per year)

I have just had an e mail quoting, on my usage, it will increase to just under £3500.

I'm going have to give up drinking!! 

[hackey lad]

38 minutes ago, davyboy said:

I pay £100/month gas and electric. (£1200per year)

I have just had an e mail quoting, on my usage, it will increase to just under £3500.

I'm going have to give up drinking!! 

I would drink more, it makes you numb 

[Mister M]

UK inflation could hit 18% next year on rising energy bills, bank warns - BBC News

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[Dromedary]

22 minutes ago, Mister M said:

UK inflation could hit 18% next year on rising energy bills, bank warns - BBC News

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That does not surprise me. I did say myself in May that I thought it would hit 15%+ over the coming months.

[melthebell]

struggling with the cost of living? this chap isnt

 

 

http://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/06/sse-chiefs-pay-rises-47-as-energy-prices-soar/

 

Energy company boss Alistair Phillips-Davies was handed a 47% hike in his pay package last year as consumers saw bills rocket.

The chief executive of Perth-based SSE was paid salary and benefits of £4.5 million, driven by a generous bonus scheme.

He previously got a 72% pay increase because he argued (and i presume won) against price caps.

 

and hes not the only one

 

National Grid boss John Pettigrew, saw his remuneration hit a record £6.5m in the 2021-22 financial year as the heads of Britain’s biggest utility companies have become some of the highest paid executives in Britain.

The chief executive of Water company Severn Trent has been paid nearly £4m.  The total package of Liv Garfield rose in value by £830,000 last year.  Perks and bonuses accounted for more than £3m of the total. In December, the company was fined £1.5m for illegally dumping 80,000 gallons of sewage into Worcestershire watercourses.

 

it is ****ing sick what these people are getting paid, NOBODY needs 4 or 6 million a year to live on.

[Guest sibon]

32 minutes ago, melthebell said:

struggling with the cost of living? this chap isnt

 

 

http://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/06/sse-chiefs-pay-rises-47-as-energy-prices-soar/

 

 

 

He previously got a 72% pay increase because he argued (and i presume won) against price caps.

 

and hes not the only one

 

 

 

 

it is ****ing sick what these people are getting paid, NOBODY needs 4 or 6 million a year to live on.

It is obscene. The profits that the energy providers are making are also obscene.

 

Meanwhile, there are moves afoot for the government to subsidise energy prices for the next few years. The punchline being that the taxpayer will pay this back over the next decade, or two.

 

Meanwhile, BP, Shell, Esso, National Grid and all of their chums disappear with all of the loot.

[The_DADDY]

6 minutes ago, sibon said:

It is obscene. The profits that the energy providers are making are also obscene.

 

Meanwhile, there are moves afoot for the government to subsidise energy prices for the next few years. The punchline being that the taxpayer will pay this back over the next decade, or two.

 

Meanwhile, BP, Shell, Esso, National Grid and all of their chums disappear with all of the loot.

Time for mass civil disobedience?

 

 

43 minutes ago, melthebell said:

struggling with the cost of living? this chap isnt

 

 

http://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2022/06/sse-chiefs-pay-rises-47-as-energy-prices-soar/

 

 

 

He previously got a 72% pay increase because he argued (and i presume won) against price caps.

 

and hes not the only one

 

 

 

 

it is ****ing sick what these people are getting paid, NOBODY needs 4 or 6 million a year to live on.

Imagine all the good somone could do with a wage like that.

[HeHasRisen]

Just to play devils advocate here...Cristiano Ronaldo, according to Google, is to be paid £26.8m before tax this year (assuming he stays at Manchester United).

 

22 others are due to collect £10m or more.

 

Is this equally as obscene? When are people going to start revolting over the cost that some sports stars earn?

Edited August 24, 2022 by HeHasRisen

[HeHasRisen]

1 minute ago, West 77 said:

If football fans aren't happy then they can stop paying money to go and see them play and stop subscribing to the TV channels that show the matches live.  The top football players earn such high wages because football fans are prepared to pay what they are asked to pay to watch games.

Indeed. With the cost of everything going up though then things like Sky Sports/BT Sports sub, season tickets etc...will likely be some of the first things to be binned.

[melthebell]

9 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

Just to play devils advocate here...Cristiano Ronaldo, according to Google, is to be paid £26.8m before tax this year (assuming he stays at Manchester United).

 

22 others are due to collect £10m or more.

 

Is this equally as obscene? When are people going to start revolting over the cost that some sports stars earn?

yes it is, but are they increasing peoples energy bills at the same time as making vast profits and also opposing caps on said rises in bills?

23 minutes ago, sibon said:

It is obscene. The profits that the energy providers are making are also obscene.

 

Meanwhile, there are moves afoot for the government to subsidise energy prices for the next few years. The punchline being that the taxpayer will pay this back over the next decade, or two.

 

Meanwhile, BP, Shell, Esso, National Grid and all of their chums disappear with all of the loot.

exactly, they are mercenaries