Ouch ! 35% price hike from British Gas - Page 5

Mancie · 31-07-2008, 13:20

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Originally Posted by cashman

like ive said countless times, WHY have we got to this? never any response from certain sections is there?

You will not get a response... the tories only come out when the going is good for them..they are creepy crawly types ..

cashman · 31-07-2008, 13:23

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Originally Posted by Mancie

You will not get a response... the tories only come out when the going is good for them..they are creepy crawly types ..

now thats being very unkind to Slugs.

pipinfort · 31-07-2008, 13:26

.........anyway, these price rises, i got the martin Lewis emergency email on friday about this so i swapped to a capped tarrif from e-on immediately,they have`nt gone up yet but will any day so i got in there just in time, at least i escaped rip off British gas.......

Bonnyboy · 31-07-2008, 13:32

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Originally Posted by pipinfort

.........anyway, these price rises, i got the martin Lewis emergency email on friday about this so i swapped to a capped tarrif from e-on immediately,they have`nt gone up yet but will any day so i got in there just in time, at least i escaped rip off British gas.......

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Royboy39 · 31-07-2008, 14:00

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Originally Posted by Bonnyboy

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entwisi · 31-07-2008, 14:18

Mmm, just a thought Cashman and teh other Cyfr bashers,

This is the longest Labour goverment for a seriously long time, why haven't they reveresed it by now if privatisation was so bad for the country? You support this shower out of a similar blind loyalty that Cyfr supports his lot. There seems to be many policies that you like to blame on Maggie but Tony and Gordon have done nothing to reverse.

I'd agree that we currently don't seem to have a particularly 'good' choice of opposition but looking around the world I don't think we are alone in that.

So, what do we do, reduce our consumption of gas? difficult for some and I can see an issue of people doing exactly what margaret has alluded to i.e. burning stuff, waste, etc. this will make a mockery of the clean smokeless environment that we have known this last 30 years or so.

cashman · 31-07-2008, 14:30

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Originally Posted by entwisi

Mmm, just a thought Cashman and teh other Cyfr bashers,

This is the longest Labour goverment for a seriously long time, why haven't they reveresed it by now if privatisation was so bad for the country? You support this shower out of a similar blind loyalty that Cyfr supports his lot. There seems to be many policies that you like to blame on Maggie but Tony and Gordon have done nothing to reverse.

I'd agree that we currently don't seem to have a particularly 'good' choice of opposition but looking around the world I don't think we are alone in that.
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as fer why they aint reversed it, i have given my opinion numerous times in threads, obviously ya aint seen em, cos i reckon it would have registered with you ian.

entwisi · 31-07-2008, 14:32

so for my benefit and that of the context of this discussion would you care to repeat them?

Tin Monkey · 31-07-2008, 14:37

The answer is quite simple. We have 'middle of the road' politics today, which is something we've been fed for a long time. Extreme ideologies (meaning left and right) are massively unpopular today and the big parties know that. The result is that we are served two (possibly three) options every 4 or 5 years which basically taste the same, but are labelled differently on the political menu.

cashman · 31-07-2008, 14:38

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Originally Posted by entwisi

so for my benefit and that of the context of this discussion would you care to repeat them?

no cos i have already said it in this thread, see post 44.

i was obviously wrong, ya aint read this thread.

entwisi · 31-07-2008, 14:56

No society will ever stand still, even language evolves, to say we are where we are purely because of whatever political persuasions have come and gone is like saying I can steer my car by blowing on the wheel.

If we had nationalised teh industries soon after teh labou victory we would be in a different position to where we are now, whether that would be better or worse is open to discussion but will never be known for sure. who knows, if maggie hadn't got there first Tony might have done it himself to raise the funds to implement his dreams for the labour future.

den the menace · 31-07-2008, 15:44

im sure some of you will remember Sid, you know, that half baked twonk in the BG privatisation adverts. well , here we are, now importing the stuff from europe. so much for Mrs T and her share owning society. id burn the bitch at the stake, (with coal imported from east europe). or alternetivly kick her down a mineshaft, along with all her other cronies, such as the repugnant peter lilley, tebbit, parkinson, gorman, archer et al.

Neil · 31-07-2008, 15:54

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

The Divies in power can't buy them back............they have no money.

What we need is a good old fashioned dictatorship, they would just take them back then

polly · 31-07-2008, 15:59

I am late joining this thread and must say I think you have all diversified too far from the main point. Politicians love it when we do this cos it means the real topic never gets throughly discussed.
So back to topic: British Gas made a profit of 571 million pounds last year(Source todays Times). Why cant they re invest some of this considerable amount of money to keep their customers costs down. If they will not do it voluntarily they should be made to do so.

MargaretR · 31-07-2008, 16:05

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Originally Posted by polly

I am late joining this thread and must say I think you have all diversified too far from the main point. Politicians love it when we do this cos it means the real topic never gets throughly discussed.
So back to topic: British Gas made a profit of 571 million pounds last year(Source todays Times). Why cant they re invest some of this considerable amount of money to keep their customers costs down. If they will not do it voluntarily they should be made to do so.

If they reduced the payout to their shareholders, those shareholders would sell the shares and buy some others, and that could lead to company collapse.
I believe thats how it works and I dont like it either