like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

Someone tweeted the other day about their mum's caff in Leicester where the leccy bill is going up from £10k to £55k p/a so the cafe culture renaissance might be on hold. Think all hospitality looks doomed tbh. More likely to see us all fighting for seats in the local public library, where they haven't already been closed.

xxp why would that kill WFH lol. All these fucking dunces writing as if it's the employees who are making the decisions here

In Europe I get the sense of help being offered or a serious debate on options (correct me if I'm wrong I'm not looking closely).

Here the so-called silly season continues.

Truss calling off that BBC interview is a sign (I'll take anything) of some sort of move from mouthing off rubbish about this on national TV till she gets made PM.

praying for a mild winter. Aside from small businesses how are NHS trusts and schools going to be able to afford to power extremely energy hungry industrial kitchens and heating systems. They don't have the option to shut up shop or even use money-saving *top tips* like turning off life support or letting kids get circulatory diseases while they learn and will have no choice but build up huge debts and wait for a Truss bailout ..lol. Before all this NHS trusts were already paying an over half a billion in energy bills every financial year.

radio 4 the other day had someone on who had arranged Warm Banks in their area - places to go to be warm during the day

but another this morning pointed out there's no price cap for businesses so they are likely to be hit harder. pubs closing etc.

haven't heard about my £150 council tax rebate at all yet. it's been a month (nearly)

Might need to run the contest again lads

This morning, we sent a letter to the Conservative Party to seek a Judicial Review of its conduct of the election of Party leader and the UK's next prime minister.

This is because we believe it is undemocratic and unlawful.

THREAD ⬇️🧵https://t.co/raw3csBNNu

— Tortoise (@tortoise) August 30, 2022

looks like melt shenanigans to me but

Wd be very on brand for melts to accidentally keep boris johnson in office by trying to clown the process

Backdoor privatisation is going to come back and bite the hell out of the BBC, NHS etc when Atos, Arqiva etc all say “sorry lads, our energy costs have risen and you’ll find our contract entitles us to ask you for the difference” which is exactly what they are doing

An unexpected £40m bill will put business under, but what about services that can’t go under?

The tragedy is that the immediate crisis can be sorted quickly for people.

A thought. The task that faces Labour today as a potential govt is more daunting than what faced Attlee in 1945. In effect he only proposed making permanent or expanding policies that had been in place (& were seen to work) for 5 years. Starmer is almost starting from scratch.

— Steven Fielding (@PolProfSteve) August 30, 2022

that fucking clueless cunt, the Atlee government nationalised anything that moved and people like him and the right-wing press didn't like it then either.

re poster Gimbel's post: one of my local libraries has reduced from 3 floors to 1 over the last 4 years. Last week I emailed a manager to note how bad this is and the email does nothing but bounce.

I do happen to have a second, very small local library which is run by a charity and volunteers since it became too expensive for the council.

re another post: "running a computer will cost £1.25 a day" - is that meant to sound like a lot? It's much less than the cost of getting to work or buying a cup of coffee for the office.

for any non-UK people in this thread (or people like me who have left and can no longer tell what is a big deal on the ground back home), i found this a useful explainer about the winter fuel stuff https://foreverwars.ghost.io/uk-fuel-crisis-greed-ofgem-russia/. afaict it gets things right, but please lmk if not.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/20848852.isle-wight-ferry-strike-red-funnel-deal-accepted/?ref=twtrec

xp, I’m not sure the piece is wrong, per se, but it is a partial truth.

The U.K. does get a very limited amount of gas from Russia but Europe, as a whole, doesn’t. There’s an argument over ways in which the government could use North Sea gas, which was privatised 40 years ago, to mitigate price increases but it’s not straightforward and if the majority of the gas we use comes from Norway and Qatar, and the countries who are heavily reliant on Russia, like Germany, are also bidding for it, the wholesale prices are going to go up.

Gas storage was scaled down massively a few years ago when site that held 70% of it was declared too unsafe to operate and too expensive to renovate. The argument that failure to replace it was neglectful is pretty strong, though idk how much of an impact it would have on prices in practice.

There’s also a lot of argument over how much impact nationalising the energy retailers (which would be fairly cheap and doable) would have when it came to reducing prices. The best case for it would be that the government might be able to negotiate a better deal with suppliers, but it’s not a slam dunk. The more significant question is whether, as the previous Labour manifesto asked, we should look at nationalising energy producers, which is imo a good idea but would be massively expensive and isn’t a short term fix.

There’s a danger in thinking that if we’d just made a couple of good decisions we’d be carrying on more of less as normal, when what’s really required is a massive shift towards renewables.

Yes, not mentioning renewables is a massive gap.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/31/social-housing-rent-rises-to-be-capped-in-england-next-year

Waiting for Starmer to object.

Heating homes and food. Now Panini stickers. What next? Clothes?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/31/inflation-pushes-average-cost-of-filling-panini-2022-world-cup-sticker-album-to-870-pounds-football

GMB WIN 🥳: Windsor bin strike ends after one day with pay rise of up to 17% 👏👏

— GMB Union (@GMB_union) September 1, 2022

Boris Johnson - Buy a new kettle & save £10 a year on your electricity bill. 👀 pic.twitter.com/IMtIiwJk4k

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) September 1, 2022

Solar powered wind up kettles, cold fusion kettles, that's how you knock 10 quid off of your 4k bill. You can save another 10% off your electric bill by never turning the lights on and stealing the candles out of churches.

how does he reckon a new kettle will save you money? don't make me have to watch the video.

tell you what would save heaps of money: decent insulation. and solar power. oh, but you removed all the incentives for those.

To paraphrase a joke about Italian revolutions, only in Britain could we have the collapse of the Soviet Union without having had any Soviet Union https://t.co/B6WpM11QZc

— DALL-E Parton (@AliceAvizandum) September 1, 2022

So fucked..

This dinner lady says she cries going into work - because she has to deny children school lunch. pic.twitter.com/ep0C8WKpQR

— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) August 30, 2022

On another board, poster Fizzles was expressing views about commentator Stephen Bush.

I tried to remember an article that Bush had written. Here it is.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-cant-win-until-he-praises-the-tories-07xgd5z5h

it is paywalled but the cursed url and opening paragraph is more than enough Bush!

17 points ahead. I'm afraid that's not good enough, Starmer must resign.

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 42% (+2)
CON: 25% (-1)
LDEM: 10% (-1)
GRN: 7% (+1)

via @PeoplePolling
Chgs. w/ 22 Aughttps://t.co/5ksWvd9Km0

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 2, 2022

what a disappointing birthday present for Kieth - still NOT 20 pts ahead in the last of caretaker PM polls. At least he doesn't need to hide his bottle of single malt at the office today.

NEW 🚨: A bin strike in Windsor has ended after just 1 day - after workers accepted a pay rise of up to 17%.

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) September 2, 2022

Meanwhile the bin strike in Edinburgh just finished after almost 2 weeks, with more planned as no settlement has been reached.

Sorry seenasjwan posted about that bin strike victory yesterday.

Here is what Norway are doing about bills.

Norway using excess revenues from state owned power company to subsidize costs for households. Many schemes become more feasible under public ownership. https://t.co/Pepg5GG57r pic.twitter.com/VaAlOLdkH3

— Paul E Williams (@PEWilliams_) September 2, 2022

This is my song!

People in Naples burn their energy bills and besiege the town hall: "We don't pay the bills! Now it will be chaos!" In Naples they don't joke. pic.twitter.com/X2ZN82AfAT

— RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) September 2, 2022

Once again, there is no bigger prize in world football than being the first team to play Rangers after she goes. https://t.co/eD3e7qdFkh

— Evan (@EvanMcFarlane) September 2, 2022

my current energy bill for my tiny 22 cover restaurant is £2,928 a year. This is my new quote. Unsure what to actually do next but as a business that cost would now be more than I pay in rent and more than I take some months. I simply don’t have the money for this. pic.twitter.com/D8zPbOBNQI

— James Allcock (@jrmallcock) September 2, 2022

"The waiting is almost over. Conservative party members have made their choice. This week a new prime minister will be installed in Downing Street at the most testing time imaginable. Even February 1974, when Harold Wilson came to power and ended Britain’s three-day week, doesn’t really match up to the omni-crisis with which Boris Johnson’s successor has to grapple. Arguably, it is the grimmest inheritance since Winston Churchill’s in May 1940."

Lol @ Liz Truss taking over at this moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/uk-economic-war-footing-coming-recession

UK Pol twitter losing their minds over this btw.

A surprise applause for Liz Truss from Joe Lycett on #Kuenssberg 😂 pic.twitter.com/3bxX52QP0h

— Charlie Watts (@knowlewester) September 4, 2022

as a comedic performance I found it nauseating, but it's very funny that it fucked up the show and the outraged ukpol response is a good laugh. They were happy to invite comedians like Norcott and Forde to talk garbage on politics shows, but this one went wrong for them, lol.

i've got no previous with Joe Lycett but i think it's going over so well because he's actually mocking the sham of the format rather than doing standard liberal shtick, and that's why they're so radge because you just don't go on TV and call out the Emperor's lack of clothes

Apparently Liz is going to announce Kemi Badenoch as the new education minister.

At this point it could be anyone in any role for all the difference it'll make

oh I dunno, she seems capable and willing to push through a new Section 28 with extra transphobia, for most of the candidates their incompetence & laziness would likely prove more of a barrier.

Kemi Badenoch would be dangerous whatever cabinet job she was given.

busy and ambitious right-wing nutjobs who are out to make a name for themselves are always more dangerous than plodding career pols.

accidentally seeing two young Tories on the BBC discussing the leadership candidates, I don't have the strength for a murderous rampage so I think I just wanna die, which they seem keen to facilitate

Kemi Badenoch would be dangerous whatever cabinet job she was given.

― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Nothing special. The attack on education and humanities will carry on whoever is in charge. Britannia Unchained are now in charge.

Looks like Rees-Mogg will also be given a cabinet post.

Or we could burn...stuff...to generate heat.

Martin Lewis’s face when she brings out the fucking tin foil pic.twitter.com/NGW8qou5r9

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) September 5, 2022

Screaming at this Liz Truss sculpture pic.twitter.com/2JKoc1nYob

— Stephen Leng (@steveleng) September 4, 2022