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News and Comment May 2022

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30 May - Comrade Sunak

My BiB search facilities are better than yours so I can easily count the number of times I have referred to our present Government as a bunch of Commies. It is three and the worst of them is Rishi Sunak.

Last week he went out of his way to present his red coloured view of the world, his financial illiteracy and suicidal political tendencies.

Kicking cans down the road is rarely a good idea.

Twelve years of Conservative Government has driven many people to the edge of penury. Embellishing Labour’s Net Zero policies has been largely responsible for the energy crisis and Covid followed by too many poor decisions by government has fuelled the cost of living disaster.
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On Saturday I managed to find three things (out of seven) in Sainsbury’s that had not gone up in price since I last bought them which was a relief. The pennies increasingly have to be watched. If I had a family to support or mortgage/rent to pay I’d probably be in big trouble. An element of luck has ensured I am not in that position.

In 2010 I was sitting on a train to Bristol when my daughter told me that she would not after all need several thousands to fund a new lift in her former Council owned tower block and instead I blew the lot on solar panels. I thought the government’s repayment arrangements were crazy, so much so that finance companies were queuing up to rent my south facing roof and take the money for themselves. It was mad but I was powerless to stop the green subsidies and it was a case if you can’t beat them you may as well join them.

Last Friday, a nice sunny day, the government paid me more than £13 (the Feed in Tariff) for generating the electricity that heated my water tank, cooked my dinner and charged the car battery. That is for just one day, the whole week was within pennies of £60. Most of you, I am half ashamed to say, are footing the bill and the FIT is guaranteed to continue inflation linked until the year 2036, if I am still around of course.

Now the idiot at the Treasury is going to give me £400 to pay for my fuel bills and another £600 because I am old and may be cold. My new Smart Meter says that my total expenditure on electricity and gas this month is £70·01 and more than £18 of that is standing charges.

I have been careful with consumption, some occasionally used devices are no longer left in standby and there are no kids with TVs on all day, The bill will be higher in Winter, maybe twice as high but it is nevertheless some sort of madness.

At a rough calculation, taking into account the FIT, my fuels bills and the money the Commie is determined to plunder from the magic tree, I will be well over £1,000 a year to the good.

And no I am not going to hand it back, the Brylcreem Boy  would only waste it. There are no Conservatives left in government and absolutely nothing has been done right. Where now? Not Starmer, that’s for sure.

How bloody depressing!

Note: The Feed in Tariff available ten and more years ago was gradually reduced to nothing but guaranteed for those who were eligible.

 

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