My bill will be £3700 based on last years use. We can only cut back so much & this is going to trash a lot of businesses. My business has only made a 3rd of what we made last year.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

A lot of business’s are going to go under once the costs of that business start to really skyrocket. Add to that less money in people’s pockets and a drop in tax revenue-unfortunately, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The government could help by cutting VAT and corporation tax for SME’s. Cannot see them doing that though-too thick and removed from economic reality. Good luck with your business.

@ciararespect4296

Жыл бұрын

Is that your business bill or private?

@christinal3041

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I have a little salon , Iam just so worry for this winter

@imagecollections6665

Жыл бұрын

@@ciararespect4296 Our home & we're low useage. Luckily we don't have an office anymore otherwise we'd have double the bills & our business doesn't use much energy at all.

"Martin Lewis warns ‘people will die’ this winter" It's almost as if you think the Tories care. They don't. Remember, this government had to be shamed by a footballer into feeding starving children in the middle of a global pandemic, while at the same time they were shovelling tens of billions of pounds out to their mates in illegally awarded contracts.

@LightingJedi

Жыл бұрын

Remember Boris’s words behind the scenes “Pile the bodies High”

This gentleman is God sent...finally someone is talking about real issue's that affect the British

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Really? How’s that going to reduce your energy bills to an affordable amount?

@SpeedfreakUK

Жыл бұрын

Really? No one is talking about energy? NO ONE?

@slartibartfast7921

Жыл бұрын

God sent…. but God can’t quite manage to send him to no.10 though can he.

@ivanbasson982

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the World does not consist of Brits only.... Why cannot the Brits be more inventive.... sad if fossil fuels is the only thing in your smokey minds...

@slartibartfast7921

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanbasson982 Generalising about any group of people based on their nationality doesn’t say much for your intellect. Not all of us are pro fossil fuel, we also get a fair bit of power from wind and if it were up to me we’d have more nuclear. But I guess since you think to be a Brit is to be all about oil and gas, that would be surprising….wouldn’t you shitforbrains.

How many died from heat this summer? Has the government installed A/C in everyone's flat and homes?

@bobblue_west

Жыл бұрын

Correct. The media make their living on "crisis mania" so all this ranting is to be expected.

Everyone needs to watch a lady called Catherine McBride interviewed on GB News on KZread on the 26th August just gone. She speaks a lot of sense! People like Martin Lewis and Catherine McBride need to get together to give people the full and true information we need!!!

Ask him why no one in the government or opposition had any comments on the rise in standing charge. Double even if you use less energy you can't save on it.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Jim Platts The opposition, like the government had no idea what ‘net zero’ really meant in reality. Having a realistic long term energy strategy for the nation takes foresight and intelligence. Unfortunately, this is very much in short supply with the lot that are currently infesting the Commons and House of Lords.

@victorialouise9696

Жыл бұрын

Yes and a proportion of this goes to pay for warm home discounts that they have quietly and conveniently just changed the criteria for this this winter.

Poor England. Why did you vote for this party.

I really don't get how the government aren't being investigated here because there is something seriously dodgy going on.

@karlik4861

Жыл бұрын

who would lead the investigation? the government funded police???

@paulmidgley8040

Жыл бұрын

@@karlik4861 fair piont mate, My bad.

Our boiler broke last winter and I couldn’t afford to fix it, We had to wear extra clothes indoors and only heated one room with an electric heater. We survived though.

@ivanbasson982

Жыл бұрын

Tell that to the fellow Brits. Fossil fuels were only discovered 150 years ago, now we are dead in the water. What if the EARTH cannot afford more fossil fuel burning.... in terms of the continued existence of life on earth...

@scottowensbyable

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanbasson982 hydrocarbons,oil and gas are all part of the building blocks of the universe. Don't get carried away with the gloomers and doomers. The earth is still a great ride around the sun.

@soylentgreen8795

Жыл бұрын

@@scottowensbyable Still is the keyword

@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe

Жыл бұрын

my home office is small and with just me running my computer is enough in winter to heat it to an acceptable level so i may just hang out in there for most of the day then pop my coat on if i wanna go anywhere in the flat lol.

@robertagren9360

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanbasson982 150 years ago the economy wasn't based on electricity. Can't buy anything or pay anything since the last mechanical services are gone. Everything is digital.

The point in time when raising prices has no further meaning will come. Most people call it revolution.

@Djamonja

Жыл бұрын

LOL, you should move to the US, I hear they are going to have one soon.

wealthy should pay higher taxes.

@marviwilson1853

Жыл бұрын

They do. 40% over £60,000 is it rising again I think for higher sums.

@stevemk4st649

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar Well said.....

The "Heat OR Eat" problem, experienced by those on benefits and state pensions over the last 20 years has now been visited on "normal working people"! Maybe this will give more people incentive to rethink how we look after our population and not just the wealthy? I have insisted for decades that power should NEVER have been privatised, nor should water provision and treatment! These are NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES! They should NEVER have been left to market forces! PROFIT will ALWAYS be sought over the welfare of the country! (as it has!)

@supersuede91

Жыл бұрын

The elderly are the largest voting bloc. Voting makes Governments. Governments determine your way of life.

@SpeedfreakUK

Жыл бұрын

@@supersuede91 it’s elderly NIMBYs who prevented us from fracking or building nuclear for the last 20 years. They have sown the wind and now we are reaping a whirlwind.

@workingonabetterfuture1872

Жыл бұрын

Heat or eat? You better believe im out hunting for food by this time. It’s lifes over rules

@isildursbane2758

Жыл бұрын

This has nothing to do with market forces Martin Lewis does not speak the whole truth All of the issues people are facing are due to government policies that governments of all hue there is no solution whilst we have career politicians we need people in government who see it as a public service not a job

I’ve just had a terrible thought-how are our SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY MP’s and SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE members of the House of Lords plus the numerous civil servants and government advisers going to be able to afford their energy bills this coming winter?

@donaldduck5731

Жыл бұрын

Don’t worry mate, they can claim it all back, our tax hikes will cover that one.

Well, if nothing else this should make us all appreciate the global warming......

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

How? I keep seeing comments about ‘global warming’ so why are so many going on about wearing more clothing to keep warm? Doesn’t make sense to me.

@benrositas8068

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar The modern British mind is a "bit" dysfunctional...

What is government for, if it's not to protect it's population. The energy price rise is on top of food prices, mortgages, petrol. I'm paid well in my job, but I'm having to change my spending, what does that mean, it means my local takeaway, coffeeshop is hit hard, cos I don't go there anymore. I don't go to the cinema, too expensive. So the economy is in free fall. This government (12 years and counting) is, and has never been bothered at all in looking after the general population. People are suffering, thus business will suffer too.

@mikeclifford7740

Жыл бұрын

The government represents corporations. Not us, unfortunately that's what was voted for. So until that changes we are stuck with it.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Mike Clifford Pretty much hit the nail on the head there.

@shauncraigparkinson8165

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeclifford7740 I didn't bite for it, hence why my view hasn't changed, and Im free to express it.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Shaun Craig Parkinson “What is government for if it’s not to protect its population “ Blimey! You don’t really believe that-surely?

@shauncraigparkinson8165

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar To be honest, I don't really know what to believe.

People are already dying. The difference is that they aren't British or German or American. The problem isn't at home so somehow it's less than a problem.

I’m glad I had a log burner installed (my joke at the time was “in case the ruzzians turn the gas off”).

@mrsam0496

Жыл бұрын

🧢🧢🧢

@imagecollections6665

Жыл бұрын

@@mrsam0496 I hope you don't accept any of the energy grants.

@christinalynn8143

Жыл бұрын

There WAS a time in Human history when humans were not entirely dependent upon gas, etc. There are other solutions.

@christinalynn8143

Жыл бұрын

Space heaters are the only source of warmth in some places, beyond of course the insulation and the four walls.

@pp2021

Жыл бұрын

Been wood fired heating and cooking for the last 25 years mate. OK I live in a forest in Germany, even have our own water supply and grow my own Veg,

Yes, most of them in Ukraine 🇺🇦. It’s not that they will die. They are dying every single day.

@dixonpinfold2582

Жыл бұрын

Least brilliant reply ever.

If supermarkets would raise their prices it's called 'price gouging'. This is exáctly the same. People should revolt.

@juliennef1698

Жыл бұрын

Profiteering during a war should be a crime

@FreaksSpeaks

Жыл бұрын

@@juliennef1698 but we are not in war

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

JTE What flavour?

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Julienne f I fully agree. Even though there’s supposed to be a ‘war on drugs’ every drug dealer that I’ve ever known has made a small fortune from them.

@drunvert

Жыл бұрын

The EU is run by complete fools. At least all the people who die or go broke will have saved the environment. Lol

Minute 6: OF COURSE this is an issue!! It has already started.

MY supplier, (Eon) claims to supply 100% of ALL DOMESTIC customers with 100% RENEWABLE electricity! It has made these claims for several years! HOW can any supplier, who all use the SAME SUPPLY THEMSELVES, (the National Grid) claim they need to increase power costs, to domestic customers? Power generation from GAS fired power stations, must be for commercial (and state for street lighting and other services) customers then? Does anyone want to explain where this anomaly occurs and how it SHOULD be explained? WHY am I paying the increases for commercially supplied power?

@meekyam37

Жыл бұрын

The energy market price for all electricity is driven by the majority source which is natural gas.

@black8art

Жыл бұрын

@@meekyam37 and THAT has to change! Renewable enery MUST be calculated by a different algorithm, as fossil fuels are likely to be obsilete, or even OUTLAWED, sooner rather than later! Oil and gas must be a LAST RESORT, dedicated to places where instalations of solar, hydro or wind are impractical. (middle or nowhere locations like African wildernesses and Arctic/Antarctic winters)... but even then, they must be "cleaned" where possible!

@anthonymeek4248

Жыл бұрын

@@black8art Its true - I agree. From a market perspective though the end product is the same. Imagine you had an antique in your loft that you paid £10 for but now it's worth £100. Would you sell it for £10? This is exactly the same situation for renewable producers now... little wind farms will opportune the market and its spot pricing for the profit.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Mark Simpson Why? No one’s ever proven that global warming is man made or that it even exists. The U.K. has plentiful supplies of cheap natural energy resources. Yes, we should have a mix of energy production and we need to use fossil fuels wisely and think of the generations to come, but no nation will prosper if they don’t have cheap, reliable energy.

@black8art

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar "No one’s ever proven that global warming is man made or that it even exists." ....errrr YES THEY HAVE, and your denial is pathetic in the face of such evidence!

They know. It’s all been planned.

People are dying in Ukraine- today.

@JesterEric

Жыл бұрын

Killed by the weapons we are supplying to prolong an unwinnable war

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and people are dying in the U.K. today as well. What’s your point?

@christinalynn8143

Жыл бұрын

People are dying everyday all around the world. In various ways.

@asiimwesimon268

Жыл бұрын

They are also dying in somalia, syria, ethiopia, libya.... So what!!!???

@christinalynn8143

Жыл бұрын

@@asiimwesimon268 Every human being dies, experiences death, dying. In one way or another. There is still hope for civilization, faith and of course love. Grateful not hateful, we should all try to try to hold on to hope faith and love, better than we do, without becoming, being naive.

People live in cold countries every winter without much heat and managed to survive just fine these Queens are just used to flipping a switch and having things taken care of for them

Just imagine if Parliament this cold dark winter is illuminated by candlelight and our MPs are huddled together for warmth wearing their winter warm duffel coats. Romantic yet ridiculous ?

Welcome to conservative England

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

The current crop of ‘Conservatives’ in Westminster are nothing of the sort. True Conservatives would not have ruined the nation. This lot (along with the opposition and civil service) are Marxists, spivs, chancers, political prostitutes, spoiled brats and dreamers.

Of course they will, the tories have blood on their hands for sure, Johnson once said “ let the bodies pile high” he’s going to get his wish once again, the poorer amongst us are an inconvenience the tories want rid off, period

The problem is , we have so many people now who have paid their taxes.Now they have retired they are totally ignored.Discrimination against people who have paid their way are now told they are not a priority because it looks good to the rest of the world to look after Anyone from any country but native Britons .I am told I am not a priority ? My medical records are ignored. Discrimination against the English poor people as to end . From a British Primister who say stop crying over bills because, Ukrainian people are fighting. War? While in the Ukrinian.We all want the Ukrinian to win, but was/ is Primister of English people. So really the Tories have become ignorant towards the vote. We should vote for a Primister ,it should be the people's choice not a parties personal love child of the moment.This what is wrong with the English vote, one day you vote in a Groverment then the Primister srews up , so we the voter have been conned . Let's change how we elect those who say they speak for a nation.Trories have signed their own voter death warrant .

Don't ham it up mate, no one will die, its THE UK not the Arctic ffs.

My daughter is a full,time carer for her disabled child, she has mitochondria disease, her body doesn’t function and she can’t walk or talk, there is no way she cannot have her heating on, my granddaughter is constantly cold due to her circulation, this is going to hit her very very hard, she already suffers with depression and has money worries, my fear is this will tip her over the edge. The only solution I have to help her is to give her some money to help pay the bill, so in effect this will cost me more, I’m on a middle class income myself with very little savings, I will give my daughter what I can. To be honest, I feel we have been let down by our government big time, all this money they waste on weapons to Ukraine etc could’ve helped some of these poorer families and pensioners.. I’m disgusted with the lot of them.

Money and Mental Health, let's look at the issues that people care about and where OUR money is being spent. Keeping illegal immigrants in hotels is clearly a Government priority over keeping the native population alive in their Council Houses ! Make your own decision on that - but don't count on anyone in power listening.

TO ALL VIEWERS: Ukraine is a cause worth supporting. Let's all contact our government representatives to urge them to increase military aid to Ukraine. You can call your representatives, send them an email, send them a good old-fashioned letter, respond to one of their Tweets ... something. Take the time to help Ukraine now ... you'll be proud of yourself when you do.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Why is killing more people and prolonging war a good thing? Please explain.

@marviwilson1853

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar Because by killing more Russian soldiers Ukraine will win the war and Ukraine winning the war is a good thing. Understand?

@petersvancarek

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar war will end faster the faster could Ukrainians expel occupiers out of country.

@yerhan1572

Жыл бұрын

The way things are going the war with Russia could go on for years

@imagecollections6665

Жыл бұрын

@1996freddie £54 million is nothing though to the UK. We should defend Ukraine by sending weapons.

Could you address the problem which is the wholesale price, which is 50% UK sourced, we need the government to fix energy security and scrap net zero for now. Drill and mine with full permission. The priorities have changed, the elderly and poor will die quietly of cold because they don't want to "cause a fuss" !!!

@averycunliffe2108

Жыл бұрын

Except that renewables (wind and solar) are cheaper, faster and don't fill the air with pollution.We don't need to drill, we need to put up wind farms and battery banks - we could lead the world in the next generation of energy.

@johndinsdale1707

Жыл бұрын

@@averycunliffe2108 The problem with renewables is they are intermittent and the cost plus storage is way more than nuclear for base load. We have to retain the gas Peaker plants just to balance the grid quickly.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

“The U.K. will become to wind what Saudi Arabia is to oil” © Boris Johnson. All utter tosh of course. If ‘green energy’ was so cheap and profitable the Chinese would be shutting down their coal fired power stations tomorrow and it wouldn’t require vast subsidies. At present that amounts to around 12 BILLION pounds a year for the U.K. taxpayers (you and me) You could heat a lot of homes with 12 billion pounds.

@averycunliffe2108

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar Erm, actually they are... Currently china has nearly 8 GW of offshore power and growing at an exponential rate . Three gorges is planning three huge new onshore wind farms. However from your tone I guess facts don't bother you. Keep on trucking and all the best

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

China’s coal usage is roughly 62% of their total energy production. Yep-62%, hardly small change. Wind is 5.5%, solar 3.1% hydro 17.3%. Other sources of energy production make up the remainder. Thats why the Chinese have just signed a deal with Saudi Arabia for more oil and are the biggest users of coal in the world-just their yearly increase in coal fired energy production is more than the U.K.’s entire output. What they are doing is diversifying-what the U.K. should have started doing way back in 2011 when a certain Mr Cameron was warned about the coming energy shortfall in the U.K. Not shutting down our power stations before planning for the country’s future energy needs. Wind and solar are NOT going to be anywhere near enough to provide for our current and future needs in the U.K. Still, if you’d bothered to read my other comments you would have known that. Anyway, don’t let facts get in the way of your reasoning. Keep on trucking (if you can afford the solar panels for your truck and the sun is shining)

I can't afford to stay in England for the winter so I'll be spending the winter in Thailand.

I am a pensioner living off state pension did not use heating last will have to walk about in the dark now probably eat every orther day as well

Another Russian Bot on Times

ML is right he is so angry as we are

stop paying all Bill's.. let them take you all to court, and spend your money on solar/ wind power

This is going to lead to companies going bust and unemployment rates increasing .

They will have to have warming centers for the poor and elderly and disabled. Maybe churches or emergency shelters.

If the west had aggressively supported Ukraine before the invasion, none of this would have happened. Instead, we decided to wait and drag out supplying Ukraine. Now, six months later the West is paying the price of these poor decisions.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Peter Pensive I think you’ll find that the west did aggressively support Ukraine-have done so for years. Getting rid of the elected government that was pro Russian, supplying arms, military training and lots of money as well as helping out with an integrated weapons systems all pointing at Russia-One of the reasons why Russia carried out a pre emptive strike on Ukraine. Surely you heard about that in our MSM?

@stevemcgowen

Жыл бұрын

The US was supplying weapons, training and intel before Mordor invaded. Why do you think Putler couldn't take Kyiv in 3 days like he thought?

Perhaps it is Government policy if the vulnerable die , it saves them money for Truss's tax cuts !

@marviwilson1853

Жыл бұрын

I wonder how much money the Government saved in pension payments given the elderly were the prime victims of the virus?

Any issue has a variety, multiple solutions. May God, help the good people of the world, may GOD's love grow through the communities, the earth/world.

I never have voted for tories and this is why,absolutely disgusting way to treat the UK people 😕

Insane. Here we are pumping £billions into Ukraine to protect democracy and the West while also having to support people because of high energy bills. This is a double whammy. More insane because the UK has ample supply of gas and oil from the North Sea, it's own generation plants, wind farms and nuclear reactors. If we just ignored international prices for oil and gas we would be almost self sufficient and energy prices for British consumers would be some of the lowest in the world. AS Martin Lewis has said, the problem is the separation of consumer arms from producer arms of energy companies. The producer arms have never had this kind of bonanza, profits are going through the roof. The consumer side has to buy from itself at market rates. Insane !!!

@donkeychan491

Жыл бұрын

Energy companies were in a slump for over a decade , with huge share price declines. They were already reluctant to invest in new hydrocarbon projects due to shift to renewables. A windfall tax means lower future investment and higher energy costs.

@grumblewoof4721

Жыл бұрын

@@donkeychan491 That's one way to look at it. Certainly the prospects for fosil fuels looked bleak with push to renewanles and then the pandemic quashed demand ... natural gas was 10p a Therm and now £6.61 with increased demand post Covid, Russian reduced supply. But if there is a global recession, if thw war in Ukraine ends and if there is another pandemic (Flu) then demand will plumet and supply will flood. Prices will crash. The problem is that relying on market forces to set the price propagates a boom and bust effect on world economies. It also allows some producing countries to use it as a weapon. The end result is an even greater push to renewables and away from fosil fuels, speeding up the transition. Oil and Gas companies may celebrate these obscene profits now but most will fail in 30 years time. California has announced no new petrol/diesel cars can be sold in the state after 2035. California has the sixth largest economy in the World, it leads the way.

@donkeychan491

Жыл бұрын

@@grumblewoof4721 The shift to renewables will be undermined by the fact that Western consumers will increasingly be too poor to afford electric vehicles and their governments too poor to fund the necessary investments in infrastructure. And if they continue to use money printing to “fund” these investments then they will become poorer still. The whole green agenda will quite likely be either abandoned or severely curtailed amidst a popular uprising or revolution caused by the cost of living crisis. We will be stuck with a very high dependence on oil and gas far into the future. Shame we wasted £400bn on covid - that would have made all the difference , but as a society we chose to funnel all our resources towards addressing a single , fairly minor , short term threat. A truly deranged set of priorities.

Why can’t we tax every worker 0.5of there monthly wages keep the prices what they was before lockdown and this new tax goes to the energy companies evenly

Don’t pay Uk. Check the website out.

Looks like GB is becoming a banana republic. Without the bananas.

I’m 59 and remember the days before central heating existed, extra socks and jumpers were what kept you warm, global warming is real and may be we should all consider dressing up for winter rather than adding to the problem by heating spaces so we can wear less clothing, nobody can afford to heat there homes now so dress up and eat well 😀

@karl34m

Жыл бұрын

Great, thanks for that empathetic contribution to the conversation. I will immediately go and tell my dad who has circulation issues and uses a COPD machine to help him breathe to put on another cardigan.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Simon Reeves If global warming is real, why do we need to put on more jumpers to keep warm? I don’t understand.

@SpeedfreakUK

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it convenient how “global warming” means we have to inflate their house prices, rent until we’re 40 and can’t build any nuclear plants or do any fracking?

@donaldduck5731

Жыл бұрын

@@karl34m So everyone in the country needs to have the central heating on all the time because your dad has a health issue, what poppycock. Why not just focus government financial support on people who really do need it like your father clearly does.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Yep! My elderly next door neighbour constantly feels the cold. Every time I hear her shuffling about her house in the winter, I turn my heating up-every little helps apparently.

Government need to step up or else people will die this just as bad as pandemic.

@donaldduck5731

Жыл бұрын

Human beings did get through the ICE AGE without central heating you know, my great gran got to 101 years old without it, why are we all going to die. Ive gone two years without it, just put woolly jumpers and woolly socks on, no real hardship, body just adjusts. In fact for most it’s just turning the central heating down to reduce costs and wearing extra clothing, thats all I will do with my new super efficient new boiler this year.

Government holding our hands towards this geopolitical decision, which was the right decision, but they need to help the people who cant afford to do it.. which they arent

The British Government will do this…..absolutely nothing.

We have a Cabinet government system. It is the purview of ministers such as the Chancellor and Home Secretary to act on these issues. We don't need a Prime minister for action to b taken.

So true. Same situation her in Denmark 🇩🇰

@carstenwagner3355

Жыл бұрын

And Germany.

@christinal3041

Жыл бұрын

And Indonesia

Two words, extra blankets.

@mikeclifford7740

Жыл бұрын

3 more, hot water bottles

@JesterEric

Жыл бұрын

How will you afford to heat the water

@andykelly7321

Жыл бұрын

@@JesterEric Wrap the water up in your extra blanket.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Christopher Rutherford Rub two Boy Scouts together. Works every time.

@andykelly7321

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar 🤣🤣

Mine can’t touch the sides

People die every Winter hello McFly

My dad is a wealthy executive and this price rise won’t affect me all.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Good for you sir! Just knowing that at least one person will be warm this winter fills me with hope. It’s not all doom and gloom folks!

@christinal3041

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you ,

@ukraine7249

Жыл бұрын

@@christinal3041 thank you 🙏

It's criminal how big energy companies are *still* making record profits, and yet poor people still have to sacrifice everything to prop them up.

@georgemiller151

Жыл бұрын

I disagree. There’s nothing criminal about a supplier increasing prices when demand exceeds supply. That is a necessary feature of a market economy. The problem is that market economies require government regulation to protect the public from the market’s excesses and shortcomings. The government should not suppress prices; it should tax the affluent and redistribute sufficient wealth to the vulnerable so that these people are protected from literally growing cold.

@Pemmont107

Жыл бұрын

@@georgemiller151 Raising taxes on affluent works just fine for me. Trouble is they won't. Truss and Sunak have already ruled that out :p

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Pommit Good luck to ‘em I say.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

pommit. -I agree, the energy companies should cut me in on their profits.

I would expect all countries to start sending more helicopter money to the "citizens". Sure it makes things worse but what choice do they have. They won't tax or confiscate. They will print it

@donkeychan491

Жыл бұрын

That’s all they ever do, and then their moronic citizenry can’t understand why they keep getting poorer.

I’m sure the Queen is ok.

sorry mate, people are wasted every day women, children and babies for a policy aiming pleasing a dictator in return of cheap gas - but no martin sounded his voice that time.

What a bunch of drama queens. Tell them to buy at least a twin or full size down blanket and a full length fur used. All together it's 300 bucks in addition there are easy systems for keeping warm overnight that are not dangerous. You should be broadcasting how to solve the problem not trying to scare people and blame it on governments and money

If only Liz Truss cared like Martin Lewis about working class Brits. But she has no anchor in real life or appreciation for what most Brits face. Renationalise.

the least reliant on russian gas.....5%...france cap 4% england 120% and growing...revolution is needed

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Right behind you Jon. When and where?

but Bojo

Please Martin become our pm

The price cap is not a cap , the way it is calculated should be more transparent, maybe the utilities could tell us the unit rates and standing charges rather than the nonsense of "average dual fuel user "would save....

It's only a catastrophe if it leaves you cold or hungry and on the way to death. That only applies to about 10 million. For the others that it won't effect to that degree it is just sad, that's all it is. AT THE MOMENT. Coz 10 million won't die quietly. As Bob Marley said. A hungry mob is an angry mob.

@John_259

Жыл бұрын

And with mobile phones, Gil Scott-Heron's prediction is no longer true. It wll be televised.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

10 million dead! Blimey! It’ll take the government years to import that amount of immigrants to fill the void. I do hope their printing up extra passports.

@charlottebowes7666

Жыл бұрын

@@John_259 and remembered for future use 💋

It’s quite simple, cancel your direct debit and don’t pay!

We've survived WW2. We should be able to make it thru this winter wearing warmer clothing in our houses. It's no time to act the demagogue populist. Every crisis is an opportunity.

@davey2363

Жыл бұрын

Correct….the modern weak and woke will whine like the failures they are. No one wants to work; everyone wants a handout.

@mikeclifford7740

Жыл бұрын

Can you explain the opportunities please. Say if your not well, old, disabled?

@markmccormack1796

Жыл бұрын

Wow, knew someone would bring up WW2. Of course homes were heated with coal then, coal mined in the UK. And, America was was helping support the UK. Keep voting Tory.

@paradisebreeze1705

Жыл бұрын

Different times, different generation and different era altogether

@davey2363

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeclifford7740 I’m 67 and disabled. I wouldn’t dream of whining. The modern woke and weak deserve to fail.

Not Martin though. Martin will be feasting on his climate change cheques.

There's a simple answer to this, make Martin Lewis prime minister. I know I'd vote for him

So martin Lewis inflation is as you know due to excessive money printing and your answer is to print more 🤔 Not too bright Send us further on the road to a Weimar Republic

@robertagren9360

Жыл бұрын

It's like a car, the stop is what kills you.

"GOD's WILL be done." †††

People dying- who cares. Queen dying- booohooooo

People are dying in their tens of thousands in Eastern Europe, is this the horrendousness you refer to ??????

People expect to walk around their homes in winter in T-shirts and bare feet - because they have had it easy for 70 years. I grew up in a large country house savagely attacked by taxation. ...... Although supposedly 'wealthy', we wore secondhand clothes passed around cousins, we burnt wood in stoves, and we wore jerseys indoors when cold. I have lived outdoors through winters in a tent covered in bubblewrap, using ex-army thermal clothing, and a nightlight candle to heat it. ...... I had no income, made no claim on the state, and could live - comfortably - on £1 a day ( this was 2005-2007 ). / There is a process going on. ...... It sytrips away your foundations, forcing you to think outside the brainwashed box. As a non-working class man, we were attacked decades ago, and I went through having everything I believe in destroyed, so I see what is coming to MILLIONS OF PEOPLE - it is called spiritual development - and it is a tough game. They attacked men. ...... They attacked businesses. ...... They attacked farming and fishing. ...... They attacked freedom. ...... They attacked other countries. ...... They attacked population by inviting millions here. ...... They are now attacking both women and children. There is running our world a deadly, sick virus that attacks humanity like a rampaging cancer attacks a human body. You cannot get safety from organisations bought and paid for by the very organisation behind these attacks. You can only advance by developing your understanding, your perception, your insight. And by helping others do the same. In other words, we are engaged in a full-scale global war for the future of humanity. ...... On the one hand we have global tyranny imposed by ever increasing orchestrated waves of fear, backed up by swamping people with uniformed goons, and the threat of courts of law. ...... On the other hand, we have the rejection of fear as prime motivation for life. It is as simple as that. The moment you choose to reject fear, fear will increase it's attack on you. ...... It knows your decision, as on higher levels there are no secrets. ...... These attacks will hone your response, revealing just who you really are. Fear feeds on the fear generated by terrified people. ...... Love removes that food, forcing dark systems to starve. ...... THIS is why they attack so hard - they will wither and die if enough people open their hearts. This is why they attack your head so hard, calling white black and black white, so as to disorientate you into abject submission.

@SM2005_

Жыл бұрын

How does it feel to write an essay and have no one “like it”? I felt like I should at least comment on this. lol. I also never read your essay. Lol.

@zen4men

Жыл бұрын

@@SM2005_ Then you state who you are.

@robertagren9360

Жыл бұрын

I'm the blind man

The man is worth 80 million pounds and pretends to be so concerned for the poor and its a Joke .

@donkeychan491

Жыл бұрын

Typical luvvie. He’s worked out which buttons to push to get more attention for himself. Probably a psychopath.

Classic socialist policy.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Spot on-you hit the bullseye!

People can down grade their house, is one way to mitigate.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

True-I’ve told my Thai housemaid that she can live in the garden shed this winter.

@FreaksSpeaks

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar i meant pensioners living in big houses.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

@@FreaksSpeaks I didn't.

@FreaksSpeaks

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar good for you

Scared mongering 🗣🤬

all of you who thought it was a really good idea for perfectly healthy people to be paid to stay at home and not work, all of you who think it is a brilliant idea to send billions to Ukraine's futile war effort, all of you who cheered the sanctions imposed on the globe's biggest energy exporter, these are the results of what you wanted, so quit whining, cough up, and learn some common sense.

@cncshrops

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Vladimir, for your contribution.

@duncansmith7562

Жыл бұрын

@@cncshrops you are always welcome to a dose of the truth. Enjoy reflecting on it.

@donkeychan491

Жыл бұрын

Agree. This is the elephant in the room. Short term, populist measures like lockdown have bankrupted the country. People need to accept they will be permanently poorer, and their children and grandchildren much poorer even than them. £400bn increase in national debt since the start of the pandemic, due to insane overemphasis on one fairly mild virus.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Knock knock- who’s there? Putin. Putin who? Putin up your prices!! Boom boom!

@TONE11111

Жыл бұрын

@@TheNobbynoonar Russia have ONLY EVER provided 3% of UK Gas

People who voted Tory are wealthy and will profit greatly from this.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Yeah-coz loveable Jezza wouldn’t have signed us up to net zero or bankrupted the country over covid.

@OG-S1158

Жыл бұрын

There are lots of people who voted Tory who will not be profiting from this

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Who said let the Tories do what they like? You must be confusing me with someone else. As for Jezza, I have a lot of respect for him. Yes, his policies (and Labour’s) for providing the U.K. with cheap, reliable energy are just as ruinous as the Conservatives and Lib-Dems, but at least he believes in what he’s doing. As for the KZread comments section being the gathering place for society’s brightest-is that why you’re commenting on here?

Norway refuses to cut gas prices for Europe: Norway will not demand that energy companies offer long-term fixed-price gas contracts as a way to alleviate soaring costs for European customers, Reuters reports, citing the country’s petroleum minister Terje Aasland. The minister pointed out that 20 years ago Brussels had itself abandoned the practice of long-term contracts in favor of the spot market, and now the Norwegian system “keeps the option for companies to enter into such contracts, based solely on economic interests.” Norway, which has overtaken Russia as Europe’s biggest gas supplier after Moscow cut flows, will curtail exports significantly next month due to heavy maintenance activity.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Why should they cut their prices? It’s not Norway’s fault that successive U.K. governments have failed to plan for the U.K,s energy needs and rushed headlong into ruinous ‘net zero’ policies.

@sprocket5526

Жыл бұрын

Why on earth should they? They are under no more obligations to do so, then the US, Qatar or any one else. Besides it would never work, the US released some of it strategic oil reserves a few weeks back, it barely made dent in price, and a good portion of it got sold abroad. It dont help right now, but this 100% a predictable situation, and could have been avoided. But Germany in particular, but also others like Italy, was more interested in cheep gas then actual future proofing your energy supplies.

What are these people talking about ? Put on a sweater and wrap yourself in a blanket . You'll be fine

@boink800

Жыл бұрын

Most people nowadays think it's their right to walk around in a t-shirt in their house during the winter.

@elekkr

Жыл бұрын

@@boink800 And that's a god given right to them . ..... NOT I am hoping they will figure it out that putting on more clothes and keeping the temp down and maybe just heat the one room they are in and overnight just turning off the heat whatsoever and be under heawy blankets will save them

Can we have Martin Lewis as the priminister or chancellor

Britain, you are encountering the vicissitudes of war and global upheaval. Read your history, but understand that the situation is unique. I hope my country can help you.

@Pemmont107

Жыл бұрын

What on earth are you on about?

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

E Burns Not really-we’re just governed by imbeciles.

do you realise that your hysterical behaviour & words lead to increased mental health problems amongst vulnerable people? This is not a catastrophe & the world will not end. You need to show better leadership. Demand action, but control your emotions for maximum effect upon those in power, so that you may be taken more seriously.

@donkeychan491

Жыл бұрын

The liberal class know they can manipulate the masses using this type of hysterical fear mongering, in order to reap huge profits. They did so during the pandemic, and so will keep trying the same tactics.

Nationalise the British gas and oil fields and sort out the wholesalers and speculators. Last but not least, get Ukraine and Russia around the negotiating table and take off the Russian restrictions now!

People will die is a pretty broad and meaningless statement. If two people or thousands of people die, people died. While it is a crisis if you are one of the two, two people dying is not exactly a national crisis. Thousands of people dying, on the other hand probably would be.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

I reckon there’s a fair chance that someone, somewhere died today-shocking!

Winter is coming😈

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

We’ll need more global warming then.

Maybe we must find a way to co-exist on this earth sustainably... Can someone enlighten this gentleman....PLEASE....

People are dieing right now encourage ending it.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

Yes-you over there, stop dying!

Today's alarmist show.

@TheNobbynoonar

Жыл бұрын

No need to panic. To quote Boris “The U.K. will be to wind what Saudi Arabia is to oil”. This truly is a great country!

Brits gonna freeeeeeze this winter...because Ukraine needs the money more...

@SL-sd3sg

Жыл бұрын

And you don’t think Ukrainians won’t freeze too? While they’re dodging bombs?

@livingtribunal4110

Жыл бұрын

@@SL-sd3sg Missed the point, _totally_

@SL-sd3sg

Жыл бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110 I did.

@imaginemetoo

Жыл бұрын

Putler 🧟

Just get a fire place Installed problem solved

@PRINCESSGEMINI1987

Жыл бұрын

Can people get fire places installed in council properties (tower blocks)? So stop acting like one size fits all.

Russia offers refuge to all english collateral victims of the American war on Russia. We promiss they wont lack fuel this winter, and with theRuble at the highest in one generation, they will have a fair retribution for their efforts. For any details, contact our friends Boris (Johnson), Nigel (Farage) or Julian (Assange). Come to a country with deep culture, most beautifull women on earth and challenges for real adventurers, come a contry with civilisation and expanding global influence, come to amazing Russia!

@grahamstrouse1165

Жыл бұрын

Give it up, tankie.

stop giving tax payers money to Ukraine, stop overseas aid, and stop anymore coming in from the channel and deport those already here costing £6 mill a day. they wont go hungry/ cold this winter....as Tesco says every little helps..

@phueal

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps we should deport you, too.

@ckcnj9175

Жыл бұрын

Did Putin pay you to say that?

If wealthy people pay their bills why can't the poor's?