Anyone felt the pinch yet?

Notice a good proportion of my hotels are quiet this week. But with the jubilee round the corner and pride the week after maybe folk are simply saving their trips for that.

Cant help but feel the media are driving a lot of it. They seem hell bent on us heading into a recession. Making people panic and stop spending.

They should be telling everyone its all gravy.

Only area Ive felt it is diesel. £154 to fill my van the other day. That's taking the piss.

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

Wonder how many people would vote to stop the help for Ukraine if it meant lowering energy costs?

 

Sad if people did in my opinion.

3 hours ago, Spider said:

It’s all the work of Rees Mogg

Condition a population to NEED to be in the workplace for warmth and to save money.

offices will open longer so people don’t need to use energy at home.

Stay at work, the government will pay folks.

Im off to chop to some trees down.

I can believe all that. Best start looking for a house down south ha.

Just now, tomski said:

I can believe all that. Best start looking for a house down south ha.

Pissing down at the moment, but a toasty 22.

Go on Starmer, lad - he's having a belter here.

- Fracking back on the agenda.

- 100 new licenses to drill for oil when there's plenty out there already.

Oil & gas have spent over 600 million on promoting their green credentials, whilst continuing to lobby the government for new sites.

We're in this mess because we didn't move to renewables earlier. But they don't make money for the wealthiest companies. 

Well on our way to 3 - 4 degrees of warming now. Not many survive in that scenario. Covid & Cost of Living will seem like heaven in comparison. The daily dingies will turn into cruise ships. Shit hits the fan properly within the next two decades I reckon.

❤️

From a parlimentary point of view its good to see actual debates on policy by grown ups, rather than what we've had recently.

We’ve got a coronation to pay for pretty soon as well.

#Skint

42 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

From a parlimentary point of view its good to see actual debates on policy by grown ups, rather than what we've had recently.

I agree.

Starmer absolutely blew Truss out the water too.

2 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

I agree.

Starmer absolutely blew Truss out the water too.

Its easier for him now he's dealing with a rational human being rather than some insane lying balloon.

4 hours ago, Spider said:

We’ve got a coronation to pay for pretty soon as well.

#Skint

Candles will save on the leccy bills 

4 hours ago, Spider said:

We’ve got a coronation to pay for pretty soon as well.

#Skint

Indeed, Truss will be fucking delighted if the Queen croaks in the next day or so, as it'll take attention away from her. Boris will be absolutely fuming, wishing she'd pegged it a couple of months back

Can I turn the lights on now? As a pensioner, I’ve been told I’m going to freeze to death this winter. The candles have run out and I’m sick of the Aldi Whoops salad bowls. 

5 hours ago, gonzo said:

There are some numb fuckers about, there really are. I visited a customer this afternoon, and he was saying he's pleased as fuck that his energy bill will be no more than £2500 per year. I told him he'll be paying far more than that, as he's got a 5 bed house, and 3 teenage kids living at home, he's also got a Tesla that he plugs in a couple of times a week, so he'll be (at a guess) way over the "average/typical" households usage

He's normally a fairly bright chap, but he's fallen into the trap of thinking he'll be capped at £2500 - the thick cunt.

5 hours ago, Winchester White said:

I agree.

Starmer absolutely blew Truss out the water too.

Anywhere I can see this?

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

he's fallen into the trap of thinking he'll be capped at £2500 - the thick cunt.

I pay more than that now.

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

There are some numb fuckers about, there really are. I visited a customer this afternoon, and he was saying he's pleased as fuck that his energy bill will be no more than £2500 per year. I told him he'll be paying far more than that, as he's got a 5 bed house, and 3 teenage kids living at home, he's also got a Tesla that he plugs in a couple of times a week, so he'll be (at a guess) way over the "average/typical" households usage

He's normally a fairly bright chap, but he's fallen into the trap of thinking he'll be capped at £2500 - the thick cunt.

My sister got a call last month saying they owed nearly 2k, my brother in law had been pluging in his car overnight. 

Surely people aren't thinking like this fella?

50 minutes ago, Traf said:

I pay more than that now.

You are in the 350k WW club, we're all immune here.

3 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

You are in the 350k WW club, we're all immune here.

Is that 350k a decade?
if so, I'm still struggling to get in.

Just now, Traf said:

Is that 350k a decade?
if so, I'm still struggling to get in.

Shhhhh don't burst the bubble!

1 hour ago, Traf said:

I pay more than that now.

You do live at the top of a windswept mountain though. 

2 hours ago, Sweep said:

There are some numb fuckers about, there really are. I visited a customer this afternoon, and he was saying he's pleased as fuck that his energy bill will be no more than £2500 per year. I told him he'll be paying far more than that, as he's got a 5 bed house, and 3 teenage kids living at home, he's also got a Tesla that he plugs in a couple of times a week, so he'll be (at a guess) way over the "average/typical" households usage

He's normally a fairly bright chap, but he's fallen into the trap of thinking he'll be capped at £2500 - the thick cunt.

This is a major issue at the moment. The continued reporting in the media of this cap is extremely unhelpful, as it seems, as you say, so many can't understand what it means.

Just explain it properly, and announce the cap as it is- so much per kwh.

It really is a shite way of expressing things.

26 minutes ago, Sweep said:

You do live at the top of a windswept mountain though. 

This is true, but we never get floods.

34 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

This is a major issue at the moment. The continued reporting in the media of this cap is extremely unhelpful, as it seems, as you say, so many can't understand what it means.

Just explain it properly, and announce the cap as it is- so much per kwh.

It really is a shite way of expressing things.

Had an email from UW rep already. Reckon my direct debit will now be 220 a month. 

That's the figures we want. How much will this cost . . Me.. 

48 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Just explain it properly, and announce the cap as it is- so much per kwh.

It really is a shite way of expressing things.

It's done to keep folk in the dark.

12 minutes ago, only1swanny said:

Had an email from UW rep already. Reckon my direct debit will now be 220 a month. 

That's the figures we want. How much will this cost . . Me.. 

A £2500 cap essentially means a 27% rise in October on what you're currently paying.

Current pre-October cap = £1971 for a typical user.
£2500 = 126.8% of £1971, so it's a near-27% price rise, instead of the expected 80%.

Still a kick in the bollocks, but with slippers on rather than steel toe-capped boots.

Or put another way, if the current cap buys you 100 Twixes, you'll only get 79 in October

What if you are on a two year fix that runs until next June?

 

49 minutes ago, Traf said:

It's done to keep folk in the dark.

A £2500 cap essentially means a 27% rise in October on what you're currently paying.

Current pre-October cap = £1971 for a typical user.
£2500 = 126.8% of £1971, so it's a near-27% price rise, instead of the expected 80%.

Still a kick in the bollocks, but with slippers on rather than steel toe-capped boots.

Or put another way, if the current cap buys you 100 Twixes, you'll only get 79 in October

I'm 246 now.

I've resisted a company car banked the cash and banked the daughters nursery fees expecting it to be £530 by Jan. 

Now it ain't paying that I might get a tesla and buy myself a diesel generator to charge it in the January black outs Spider has promised us.