The Dubious World of Boris Johnson

(26-08-2022 11:16 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  What an absolute disgraceful reaction from Boris & the tories to this announcement. People want answers & details NOW! Yet the chancellor Nadim Zahawi said he's still working things out!!!! As Martin Lewis said its been predicted for months what this price cap would be & the tories should have had the support ready now!

Any help will Chancellor Zahawi announces now will most likely be shelved/or acted upon & if he isn't in either Sunak's or Truss' Cabiinet (their cabinet will probably come from IKEA), dropped altogether in favour of their own hair - brained scheme whivh I guarantee won't even scratch the itch of the fuel crisis.

It also beats me why Parliament was never recalled early. Some economists think it could even rise to £5K - 6K this time next year. Pumping money into nuclear and renewables doesn't really help as neither really makes a dent in our energy supply. The Government sat on this for far too long and even through the fuel crisis this year there was little evidence that they could get on top of things very quickly. IMO the only way of this, is if this is dealt with as a Cross Party solution. For once Parliament needs to act as one for the good of the country.

gotta love Zahawi telling us to think about saving energy the fucker who got caught putting 58k in expenses to heat his fucking stables

Did he ever pay that back? Not that I remember.

Typical Tories - tell us to do one thing and do the fucking opposite They never lead by example

Liz Truss has pulled out of an extended interview with the BBCs Nick Robinson tomorrow. Straight out of the Boris playbook. Skipping close scrutiny is typical of this Government. Pathetic.

not that she could have lost it anyway

(29-08-2022 18:09 )stowman Wrote:  Liz Truss has pulled out of an extended interview with the BBCs Nick Robinson tomorrow. Straight out of the Boris playbook. Skipping close scrutiny is typical of this Government. Pathetic.

Oh what a surprise.....not

It's standard Tory policy isn't it, to run and hide because you know you aren't capable of answering a question without telling a load of lies and showing you are unsuitable, oh and have no real solutions to real world problems. Meanwhile your party let things get so bad that when you actually do the bare minimum, you appease the apologists that vote for you, but only them, everyone else is ignored.
Out of touch politics from the out of touch with reality. This needs to end the Tory party, they've been found out, they have no idea how to run a country, the bubble they live in is leaking air rapidly.

Meanwhile while Mr UseLessEnergy Zahawi has buggered off to America on the tax payers to try to find a solution...rather actually do something, like listen to ideas already proposed, Truss is planning to issue more drilling licences for the North Sea, even though that takes decades to produce anything, meaning no solution whatsoever. It'd be funny if we weren't all getting screwed by these useless morons.

Aside from the cost to households, the amount of small businesses that'll go bust if the government don't pull their finger out is scary, it could cripple entire communities, particularly rural and low income areas where the small businesses are their main source of everything. They can find all the money in the world for their Brexit fantasy and more than enough to give contracts to their mates during the pandemic, but to help those truly in need, with a situation that they played a part in causing (lack of gas storage, allowing energy companies to fleece the nation), they are struggling to find suitable solutions.

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Well said Skully, fully agree

We are now in transition, from fossil fuel dependence to the use of renewable sources. Brought to a head by Putin. We had to reach this stage at some point. Cimate change and its massive backing from the press was not doing it, Ukraine war has. What ever Government is in power would not be able to delect it or insulate a nation from in. Our country will continue down the party political route, each side dismissing the other. There is a lot of that going on in this thread. A reliance on fossil fuel income will not further individual " nations" requirement for independence in the world we are moving into. The time for nation states may also be coming to an end, we are one world and if we do not act going forward as one all together then we all fail.
After fossil fuel we will have the coming issue of water shortage, brought on in part by climate change. This will be far worse and if we are not altogether will cause further conflict. The over arching issue we have is population growth, it triggers demand. The USA and China, the biggest polluters supply the demand and population will continue to grow. Our planet will reach a point ( may be there already ) when it cannot meet this growth. Maybe it is not suprising as we speak so many different langauges how can you expect us to undertand each other or agree with each other.