Profits you say! EDF made £106 billion of profit in Britain alone last year. They then put energy prices up in Britain by 54% EDF is a state owned French energy company. Energy prices in France went up by 4% We are subsidising French people's energy bills! Let that sink in!
I can confirm that. The French government have limited the price rise to 4%. They are making good their profit margin by upping the rate to UK customers. So effectively we are subsisting French consumers. But we sold out to EDF so we can't really complain. Companies have to make profit.
Of course we can complain. Who was it that sold off all our assets? Who was it that lifted the cap on what those privatised assets could charge us? But the fùckwits in here will still think that the privatisation of our, that's us, we the people because we are, in fact, the state, was a good thing despite the fact that we are now paying through the nose to hike the dividends paid out to shareholders of those previously public owned assets. We the state are mugs.
See mate, never trust the French, it's a good job we got brexit over the line without your vote and most of Scotland. Imagine mate, once Nicola gives you your independence, you'll be knocking on the French door, cap in hand, saying please let us join you, we love you so much. Don't make this mistake ALDO, learn from your own words, the French are not to be trusted, viva la brexita.
The Frogs produce its electricity by nuke power, UK big chunk by gas. Frog tax payer is subsidising the electricity, so average frog tax payer is paying for it via taxation Now let that sink in
Can't. Have you not heard about Brexit? That's what all the hold ups are about. Your passport has to be examined and stamped to ensure you don't stay more than ninety days. Poor old Kusstardovich, so out of touch.
If only brain dead Scottish Nationalists could be educated. They could start by being taught to try some facts in their arguments as there are no facts in evidence here. EDF did not make £106bn of profit at all. That is a total fantasy made up by a deranged Jock. EDF actually lost more than €5bn in the first half of the financial year and has more than €40bn of debt on its books. Total turnover at EDF was €66bn. There was no profit. EDF was not “a state owned energy company” as it is listed on the stock exchange in Paris. Macron has been buying up all the shares so that the state now owns nearly 85 per cent of them. Macron now intends to nationalise EDF at an estimated cost of €10bn to the state (i.e. French public). Almost all of the large brokers had downgraded EDF before the nationalisation was announced. Energy price rises in France were capped at 4 per cent by re-election seeking Emmanuel Macron. He did this by borrowing more money – French public debt. Let it sink in that your entire post came straight out of your arse.
More totally fact-free rubbish from the Forum’s French wine loving lunatic. There is no profit. Try some FACTS you imbecile. EDF are not the only energy company operating in Britain. Energy prices have risen and those price rises can either be paid now or they can be put on the debt pile and paid in the future. The bankrupt French state has decided to leave the bill to somebody in the future.
It don't pay for France or anyone else within the EU, to allow Brexit to work, otherwise the Federal State would gradually shrink in size as other member states reaccess their position. So every agreement made or consequences of actions from the EU, will always be based on, what if we allow this to happen. In regards to border controls, it's absolute nonsense, operation stack has been running since 1988 for a reason, that's right 1988 nigh on 35 years ago, after the completion of the final section of the M20 between Maidstone and Charing/Ashford. Funnily enough supported by non other than John Prescott at the time. Some of the early stacks those many years ago were due to industrial action, on seperate ocassions both sides of the channel, so once again the handywork and chaos in those times, created by non other than unions. It took something like 50 years for various pieces of legislation to see the EU evolve, so it will take just as long to unravel it all. As for my part and why I voted as I did, it was nothing like most remainers would have you believe, signs on buses, saving money, johnny foreigner or even immigration, it was just simply that I did not and have never wanted to be part of what will eventually become a Federal State. I wish Scotland good luck in their independence, I wish the Irish Republic good luck in what will eventually see a United Ireland (border problem solved), but as for the EU (Brussels) it can go stick it's blue flag up it's arse. Oh and btw, Putin was right to call out both NATO and the EU, sadly he just went the wrong way about it, but as we know, NATO and the EU can be pretty damn stubborn when it comes to listening to something they don't want to hear. I bid you all good day.
France gets about 70 per cent of its electricity from nuclear and only about 6 per cent from gas, so they are a lot less reliant on the Russians than Germany. Part of the reason that EDF is losing money is its nuclear reactors in France. Quite a few of them are getting a little bit old and they have had to shut down a significant number of them for “safety measures” and there are others scheduled for maintenance work as well. This should be of concern to us as it is EDF that we have got in building the Hinckley Point C nuclear reactor and will also be building Sizewell C. They are currently working on redesigns on both of these projects but neither was due to come online until 2026; and they are notorious for over-runs. Britain currently gets nearly a fifth of its electricity from nuclear and the tree huggers have this fantasy that renewables are going to entirely replace gas. Since electricity from “fossil fuels” amounts for 43 per cent of our supply, that must mostly be gas.
He would have to fill in all that paperwork to emigrate to France and the benefit system is not as generous as here. That is why the economic immigrants all get in dinghies at Calais – decent hotels paid for by the British taxpayer and if they vote Labour then lots of benefits paid for by the British taxpayer.
But you can go live in Frogsville, fill in the correct paperwork and off you go. Sounds to me you are a billy bullshit. Do you know where France is on the map?
My mate's in France and they simply approached the prefecture who sorted it. Mind, he did say the locals saw it as a way of getting shot of the whiny fantasists that can clutter the place up, so that could account for your difficulty.
