Struggling With The Cost Of Living?

[Dromedary 166]

1 minute ago, Anna B said:

The Excessive salaries of those at the top (ie upwards of £200,000 per annum - and now into the £millions+) has put prices up for everyone and is another cause of inflation, but it's not mentioned much, I wonder why....?

Because those executive wages are agreed in advance and come out of the companies profits it's not a cause of inflation.... Unless you have several thousand company directors in one company that is.

 

1 minute ago, Anna B said:

The top salaries are running away into the stupid, and are not justified and do not improve performance as has been proved, but still they head upwards even in these difficult times when every one else's salaries are dropping in real terms.

The good new is that pensions next year are set to increase by around £18 PW. 

[Anna B 1,414]

2 minutes ago, Dromedary said:

Because those executive wages are agreed in advance and come out of the companies profits it's not a cause of inflation.... Unless you have several thousand company directors in one company that is.

 

The good new is that pensions next year are set to increase by around £18 PW. 

In that case, no doubt the fuel industry, which netted £20 billion in profits last year, will be giving hefty bonuses and salary increases to their already well funded CEOs then.

 

Personally I would prefer them to use some of theiir profits to bring the price of fuel down for the ordinary user. They can afford it.

[Padders 2,866]

2 minutes ago, Anna B said:

 

 

Personally I would prefer them to use some of theiir profits to bring the price of fuel down for the ordinary user. They can afford it.

Looks like it's going to happen Anna.

Labour first suggested it,

The Tories laughed at it,

Now looking like it will be implemented,

Another idea pinched from Labour....

[Rockers rule 673]

47 minutes ago, fools said:

Any update on the 100's of thousand of nurses supposedly using foodbanks, or Elsie, is she stuck in a bus depot with a shivering group of pensioners. Or these poor kids who are getting food poisoning because their parents are turning the freezer off at night to save money. Haven't seen a picture of someone sat on the floor of a hospital or train recently, that's going to probably rear it ugly head again soon. This is off the scale mind manipulation.

 

Any questions about an 'experts' advice to not lock into a fixed price utility contract - (we'll see how that works out in a few months when the prices go up another 45%, and if OFGEM gets their way, another hike in January), and swap branded beans for value.

 

A not so slim Chef is back in the news, going on about cheap crisps causing obesity, there's probably a tv production team frothing with ideas about how to make another campaigning series out of that. Speaking of which, what happened to the chicken bloke, he's been quiet of late.

 

The media are playing a political game, I wouldn't be surprised if certain media organisations have a food bank outside broadcast team on standby to scour the country for obese people who claim they have to miss meals so their kids can eat.

 

Tonights TV choice between, eat well for less, secret spenders, or Jamie cooking banoffee cheesecake (a few more calories than a bag of quavers I expect)

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We've conned the youth into thinking they need to go to university, punished thrift with stupidly low interest rates and high taxation (leading to unaffordable housing), paid people to sit on their backsides for a couple of years, and printed money to pay for it, that's socialism for you, always ends in inflation and misery. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a party with the slightest idea of how to fix it.

 

Governments aren't to blame for a lack of people wanting to spend their days with their hand in your mouth with blood splattering everywhere.

 

 

 

New one from AOL this morning

 

Child forced off school with chilblains because family can't afford to heat home (aol.co.uk)

 

Totally agree with the con of university .

As we know, we left school and went straight into work, earned money, got married bought houses had kids etc etc etc without having to owe thousands in tuition fees.

 

Keep safe out there 

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by Rockers rule
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[HeHasRisen 3,405]

11 minutes ago, Rockers rule said:

New one from AOL this morning

 

Child forced off school with chilblains because family can't afford to heat home (aol.co.uk)

 

 

 

I hope thats a historical anecdote as anyone who has had their heating on for, say, the last 6 weeks, is an actual idiot.

[fools 447]

Most of the loans will never get paid back, just more tax/government debt. Has many other side effects, higher rents and house prices, kids settle away from their family, no parent childcare, no elderly care, it all falls back on the state.

 

The period poverty nonsense about periods costing women £500pa is another one. The lefty politicians and media serve up any old crap, and the public just suck it up without question - originates from some publicity campaign by a voucher codes site, and gets turned into a misogyny narrative.

 

Isn't chillblains a side effect of heating, rather than lack of it.

 

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by fools

[Dromedary 166]

34 minutes ago, Anna B said:

In that case, no doubt the fuel industry, which netted £20 billion in profits last year, will be giving hefty bonuses and salary increases to their already well funded CEOs then.

 

Personally I would prefer them to use some of theiir profits to bring the price of fuel down for the ordinary user. They can afford it.

Unfortunately it does not work that way as most commodities are also traded in advance. For instance, we don't get our gas from Russia and yet the wholesale price of our gas and everybody elses gas has risen because of the Russian/Ukraine war. Our gas companies and those in the EU have to import that gas so are at mercy to those increases which I'm sure Putin is well aware of. The same can also be said of the oil we import. Its supply and demand at its finest!

 

That is what is spurring on inflation and tapping in on company profits would do little to dampen that.

 

A windfall tax on those companies would only generate around £1.2 billion and do very little to reduce prices. Its estimated that this government will also be richer to the tune of around £3.5b over 2 years because of the higher taxes paid by the sector due to increased prices.

 

A bit more on it:

 

https://news.sky.com/story/energy-bills-windfall-taxes-have-been-tried-before-but-could-such-a-move-backfire-12513132#

[Rockers rule 673]

9 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

I hope thats a historical anecdote as anyone who has had their heating on for, say, the last 6 weeks, is an actual idiot.

The Chilblain story is from this mornings AOL.

 

Makes you wonder how we managed when it was cold?

The only dryer we had were the line outside or the clothes horse in front of the Yorkshire.

Central heating was unknown in terrace houses and the only hot water was from the Ascot.

Toilets were out side and the bath was on a nail on't the toilet block wall

Continental quilts were still on the continent while itchy Ex-Army blankets were the norm .

 

Click below for good news for us over 60's

 

Supermarket to offer discount to the over-60s (aol.co.uk)

 

[hackey lad 3,979]

5 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

The Chilblain story is from this mornings AOL.

 

Makes you wonder how we managed when it was cold?

The only dryer we had were the line outside or the clothes horse in front of the Yorkshire.

Central heating was unknown in terrace houses and the only hot water was from the Ascot.

Toilets were out side and the bath was on a nail on't the toilet block wall

Continental quilts were still on the continent while itchy Ex-Army blankets were the norm .

 

Click below for good news for us over 60's

 

Supermarket to offer discount to the over-60s (aol.co.uk)

 

Ajax . That brings back memories 😁

[Jim117 72]

6 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

The Chilblain story is from this mornings AOL.

 

Makes you wonder how we managed when it was cold?

The only dryer we had were the line outside or the clothes horse in front of the Yorkshire.

Central heating was unknown in terrace houses and the only hot water was from the Ascot.

Toilets were out side and the bath was on a nail on't the toilet block wall

Continental quilts were still on the continent while itchy Ex-Army blankets were the norm .

 

Click below for good news for us over 60's

 

Supermarket to offer discount to the over-60s (aol.co.uk)

 

Yaay gas geyser! Great pic Rockers, reminds me of my nans kitchen on City Road, even down to the curtains 😂. Yeah we had the itchy blankets too with the sheets which were always white with really thin coloured lines on them. Coats on the bed too when visiting relatives with blankets in short supply. Yup, outside bog with a candle to stop it freezing in winter. Tin bath was down cellar and dragged up Sunday night to be filled in the kitchen using the rubber hose off the twin tub washer. Anyone remember the Creda Corvette which replaced the gas geyser? Same idea but electric and made of glass with a siren in the top for when it boiled. Good for making a cuppa or washing the pots.

[Mister Gee 823]

45 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Ajax . That brings back memories 😁

Won the European Cup three years on the trot in the early seventies.

[hackey lad 3,979]

Just now, Mister Gee said:

Won the European Cup three years on the trot in the early seventies.