Companies like Tesco have very thin profit margins so additional costs generally do have an effect on their prices unless they can cut costs elsewhere.
UK Government debt is £2.8 trillion, with an annual interest bill of around £105bn - that’s only about 8.5% of public spending and borrowing costs are expected to fall over the next year or two.
No mate. You’ve misunderstood. The important bit is the bit you snipped off the end of that quote.
You have the right to say what you want. You don’t have the right to be shielded from the economic and social consequences of saying what you want.
You never have. That is the way freedom of speech has always worked.
Even in the past, if people stepped over a line that society deemed to be the limit of reasonability, you could expect an impact on your career.
At one time if you were a comedian making a joke about a politician or the royal family would end your career. Or in the modern vernacular get you ‘cancelled’. At the same time, nobody gave much of a shit if you went on stage and took the piss out of black people, or gay people.
What has changed is where society has put that line, and employers, theatres, entertainment companies, etc are always sensitive to where that line is.
We can argue about where that line should be, and it is always in flux to some degree. But let’s not pretend that freedom of speech is under threat - it works exactly as it always did.
There is now a cadre of politicians, commentators and entertainers who think that you should be able to say what ever you want and regardless of what that speech reveals about their character, their employment and standing should continue without any impact.
Nobody has had that right. Ever.
Falling costs are certainly welcome, thanks Liz, but the UK’s borrowing remains problematic against a stubbornly poor GDP and that’s kind of where my thinking is. Borrowing is not an option because of current concerns and manifesto commitments. Tax hikes are in a similar position, so they are forced to cut spending.
This has been an overall trend for years (increased borrowing vs GDP) which is quickly becoming unsustainable, and hurting society. Our services are crap as a result for example, infrastructure rotten, and so on. They have very little room to eat into these problems.
What I find funny about this branch is that if the club we all love was continuously losing, everyone would come to a conclusion on how to stop the losing.
But because so many posters have a personal involvement in their own ideological political narrative, they have to keep advocating for losing positions.
LOL
Umm how big does Farage think this generator is?
I find that hard to believe - particularly because Heathrow does have and did use diesel generators on site during this shutdown. They just appear not to have the capacity to sustain normal operations under back up. What makes me dubious of Farage’s claim (more so than normal Farage) is simply that back up generators really don’t run much - not having one doesn’t do much for emissions.
I can’t find the article, but when I first read about it, the article pointed out that Heathrow uses as much energy as a small city. That’s a massive diesel generator.
EDIT: This is the closest I could find:
Precisely. Usual Farage and @toro has gone balls deep.
Sir, this is a family-friendly forum.
Head first?
At least as big as the one I saw and heard when visiting Tricastin. Very big mother fucker.
I don’t get it,why would you be called racist?
I’m not a racist but…. (something about generators)
My boss had dinner with Nigel Farage, the UK’s next Prime Minister, last week. I was pissed I didn’t get invited.
That explains a lot.
Why wasnt Farage in Clacton?
You posted this just after sharing a tweet from Farage, which yet again proved to be demonstrable nonsense from a man with absolutely no qualms about peddling untruths to inflame tensions and further his own political ambition.
Do you want to comment on this, or Farage’s bullshit claims? Or are you just going to do the usual and ignore that?
@toro , Farage is a serial liar as everyone knows. Chose your sources more carefully.
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Please don’t ‘comedy’ quote edit posts from moderators doing moderation tasks. You should know better.
Fair enough, but its not ‘comedy’, its serious and factual
