The Prime Minister (checks notes) will address the nation but if like me, you think he's a complete idiot, you don't watch it and find out later what he's said. Whatever drugs he and his cohorts are on, I'd like some because they have no idea what is happening.
My/our heating oil has more than doubled in just a few weeks, I bought a bar of chocolate for my partner and it was £4.15 - which considering it was only £2 or so the last time I bought some - and it wasn't that long ago brought home to roost the cost of living crisis (as they call it). 100% increases in things is just one of the problems we have. Today all things go up, Broadband, Council Tax and so on.They say we are reducing your energy bills. But of course all they are doing is offsetting the tax to main stream taxation. Petrol and Diesel have increased a fair amount too but that's OK because the tax and Tax on tax (VAT) will rake in huge sums for the Exchequer.
It wasn't so long ago that we had a similar problem with shortages and high prices but that was the usual foot shooting, getting panic buying going which was a nuisance and no one learns anything - again and again and again. So the Muppets will come up with some sort of stupid plan and it will benefit those already on benefits and those that work will no doubt be penalized even more. That's socialism for you - eventually they run out of other people's money! Here we are yet again and no one did anything to future proof things. We have our own Oil and Gas but we prefer to import it. Our energy is the most expensive in the world and industries are relocating or shutting down. They proclaim and order things about Electric Cars not fully understanding that you need the infrastructure to support them and more importantly cheap, plentiful electricity.
Some point to China saying they have the largest electric vehicle take up in the world. They probably do but why? Once again, they invested in a huge electricity grid improvement, they have cheap, plentiful and reliable electricity. The laugh in the UK is the proclamation that we will be the top AI Data-centre in the world. No chance at all.. Not unless you stick a modular reactor next to each one. They require massive amounts of electricity and water in some cases. The country needs to double its generating capacity. Not going to happen. But, renewables they say. Well it is April Fools' Day after all and they do not realise that you still need gas generation backup for all so called renewables. On the days when it isn't windy or it isn't sunny then you soon run out of Unicorn farts.
Utter blind philistine pig ignorance - career politicians with no world experience and who do not see that they are the very people killing the industries we rely on, making us poorer and weaker. Pathetic slime balls the lot of them.
I should be worried about the train crash incoming but it is probably more masochistically enjoyable to see it all collapse in on itself in slow motion whilst they blink not understanding what has happened.
