It was supposed to be still rising anyway so it’ll be hard to tell . We’ll also never know wether we get the benefit , or wether the petrol companies will keep the price up using “world price “as a way to pocket 5p for themselves
I ever understand when the price of a barrel drops they tell you they can’t lower it as they buy it two years in advance, but when it goes up, it rises immediately? I actually do understand, they are like politicians, two faced lying bastards.
Recently, after it rose to 145-150 it dropped about 3p - due to drop in barrel price. The AA reported that with such a world drop , the true pump price reflection should have been a 10p drop. I remember , I think in the early days of Camerons' govt. the govt reported themselves that they had found out that the petrol companies had been overcharging for the previous ten years - and that was the end of that story. I guess they realised that if they forced the companies to pay back, then maybe they would be obliged to repay all the duty and vat they'd pocketed on the surplus charge. We will always individually chip in to finance the greed of the liars
On the same theme. Just had a quick look , as well as gas rises due, my tariff ends end of April so checking whats in store and options. Looks like price per kilowatt will triple -expected. But exit fee will be £75 instead of £25 Standing charge 35p a day instead of 24p a day - about 50% rise. Surely daily charge not connected to world gas price ? Just slipping in an extra income stream for themselves
We pay for the rise in a cost of a barrel of oil, but when it drops the price stays the same and the same companies take the extra profit. Same as energy companies can't they take a bit of a hit in their profits for a few year instead of rasing peoples bills by £500.
i cba to do so but if you check out the shareholders i can almost guarantee you will find many links to government people, probably a couple of lords or ladies thrown in there as well...we pay for them to keep their wealth so they do not have to work for it.
Should have got in to banking years ago shouldn’t we , huge profits , mammoth salaries for those at the top particularly , most staff getting bonuses - but don’t tell anyone . Interest rates for giving them your money to look after =- virtually zilch because the greedy bankers yes I did say bankers are making a killing , Branch closures , staff cuts , online banking for your convenience my arse it’s for them to cut back further on staffing costs , who do they think they are kidding ? .Just a shame a lot of people on the forum are too old to make the change .
It's not only age mate, most of us from working class background could have got into banking and it would have been as a cashier. It's a closed shop lot of that stuff.
Like I’ve said a dozen times on here it’s nobody’s fault but the publics, if everybody just boycotted the biggest company, even for a few weeks prices would drop, but no everybody wants to think they got the best deal, thick as pig sh it.
the problem is we are not too old but we are getting less and less...less people to remember getting paid weekly in the hand, not into a bank monthly, less people to remember the old phrase 'if you cant afford it you do without till you save it up' rather than living in debt and putting it all on the plastic because money has all but lost meaning, less people who were happy with what they got given and thankful for it. every single thing that has happened, is in the process of happening or planned for the future is not to help the people but to help the rich...top bankers all but bankrupt this country yet still got 7 figure bonus' at the end of the year...all electric vehicles are not going to benefit the people in any way, if anything they will be far more expensive to run once the government finalise these increases in electricity costs and do away with gas and fossil fuels (no other choice left but electric so you pay what they ask).
Banks - sell you a brolly in the sunshine then demand it back as soon as it rains. I was in domestic banking for 16 years after school . In the 80,s there was a cheque book version of a credit card ( cards hadn’t started at that stage time). Branches had targets of so much bank loan lending and si much credit a/c lending . If one was down , we were to sell the idea of paying off loans with credit , or replacing difficult to budget repay credit with a loan . Then once customer in mess , help them survive for 2 years keeping the credit a’/c balance at full limit . Then , if necessary default them - doesn’t matter if written off because “ we’ll have made that much and much more on the interest “. Regional office - who instructed this , declined the written confirmation I requested
I'm mid 30s and so much has changed even in the time I've worked and paid my way. Even today, a "Contactless" payment, tapping one bit a plastic on another, boom, 100 quid just like that. Only need £1 pound in your account and it will accept, theoretically in an instant you could be £99 in the red. I done alot of my nights down the town drinking in the early to mid 2000s before I settled down.I can remember mates waiting at the cashpoint at midnight for their wages to go in, then draw most of it out for drink, the attitude back then was" worst case I'll be skint for a week". Now, you could be skint for a month and in bother, so the shopping goes on a credit card, so you're skint for the month, and you now have money to pay off a card, further in bother, then try to get a loan to get you back on track and lenders laugh at people. Rancid state of affairs these days.
