Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:20 am  

Cameron is becoming more of a parody as each day goes by. He's now going to plead with the energy companies to freeze prices until 2015. Looks very much like Miliband is setting the agenda.

Couple that with the expected U-turn on the previous U-turn over plain packaging on cigarettes and this coalition is getting more like The Thick Of It the closer we get to 2015.

Not to mention the BoE ending Funding for Lending for mortgages. You simply couldn't make it up

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:08 am  

Will be interesting to see what happens with the "green levy" when he gets down on his knees to the energy providers, if as expected he agrees with them to scrap the levy then any self proclamations of being an ace negotiator will be very hollow indeed - but I expect that some sort of PR spin will be put on the deal because of course we're all idiots and swallow whatever they print in their compliant media outlets ...

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:51 am  

cod'ead wrote:

Cameron is becoming more of a parody as each day goes by. He's now going to plead with the energy companies to freeze prices until 2015. Looks very much like Miliband is setting the agenda.

Couple that with the expected U-turn on the previous U-turn over plain packaging on cigarettes and this coalition is getting more like The Thick Of It the closer we get to 2015.

Not to mention the BoE ending Funding for Lending for mortgages. You simply couldn't make it up

What is obvious is that you attack the Government for every single decision they make regardless of whether you agree with it or not!

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:03 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

What is obvious is that you attack the Government for every single decision they make regardless of whether you agree with it or not!

"What is obvious" is that you don't have an idea of your own.

[DaveO]

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:13 pm  

Ajw71 wrote: What is obvious is that you attack the Government for every single decision they make regardless of whether you agree with it or not! Agree with what? Ministers not seeking 'price pledge' Cameron's idea of removing green levies resulting in a £50 reduction in the average bill of £1252 and then letting competition lower prices is pathetic and shows what an out of touch idiot he is. This is what competition has given us: While the average UK household income has increased by 20pc from £32,812 in 2004 to £39,468 today, the average energy bill has risen by 140pc, according to uSwitch figures. Households were spending an average of £522 a year for their energy in 2004, but now pay £1,252 a year - 3.2pc of income or double the 1.6pc of eight years ago. From the Torygraph BTW. Just in case you were think it was biased left wing propaganda. The government is clearly all over the place on this one.

Ajw71 wrote: What is obvious is that you attack the Government for every single decision they make regardless of whether you agree with it or not! Agree with what? Ministers not seeking 'price pledge' Cameron's idea of removing green levies resulting in a £50 reduction in the average bill of £1252 and then letting competition lower prices is pathetic and shows what an out of touch idiot he is. This is what competition has given us: While the average UK household income has increased by 20pc from £32,812 in 2004 to £39,468 today, the average energy bill has risen by 140pc, according to uSwitch figures. Households were spending an average of £522 a year for their energy in 2004, but now pay £1,252 a year - 3.2pc of income or double the 1.6pc of eight years ago. From the Torygraph BTW. Just in case you were think it was biased left wing propaganda. The government is clearly all over the place on this one.

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:16 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

What is obvious is that you attack the Government for every single decision they make regardless of whether you agree with it or not!

They are tories, leading a bunch of wet LimpDems who would sell their granny for a place in the trough. They have done absolutely nothing to improve the lives of ordinary people. They are beyond contempt and worthy only of ridicule and attack.

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:19 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

They are tories, leading a bunch of wet LimpDems who would sell their granny for a place in the trough. They have done absolutely nothing to improve the lives of ordinary people. They are beyond contempt and worthy only of ridicule and attack.

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:30 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

They are tories, leading a bunch of wet LimpDems who would sell their granny for a place in the trough. They have done absolutely nothing to improve the lives of ordinary people. They are beyond contempt and worthy only of ridicule and attack.

So basically you don't give a hoot about the merits of any policy. If it one from this Government is automatically bad and worthy of attack?

....wonder what Jerry Chicken makes of this 'football supporter politics'

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:41 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

So basically you don't give a hoot about the merits of any policy. If it one from this Government is automatically bad and worthy of attack?

....wonder what Jerry Chicken makes of this 'football supporter politics'

No, it's not like football supporter politics at all. I don't oppose tory policies because they are tory policies. I oppose them because they are all designed to further the fortunes of their backers at the expense of the fortunes of the electorate. If along the way, they can cause further suffering to the poor, disabled and weakest in society, they consider that to be a bonus.

As Ny Bevan said: "they are lower than vermin"

Re: Gas Gas Gas : Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:44 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

So basically you don't give a hoot about the merits of any policy. If it one from this Government is automatically bad and worthy of attack?

....wonder what Jerry Chicken makes of this 'football supporter politics'

Has this government produced any policies worthy of merit? They've produced plenty of dodgy CCTV pictures but not many meritorious policies.