We are already starting to see the cost of living blamed on Ukraine crisis , just had notice that my utility fixed rates have gone from £198 to £538 , mobile going up by £7 a month ,full tank of petrol roughly £8.00 , but the best one of all was my mother in law has a a gardener and he told her that due to extra costs his charge will go from £20 a visit to £50 needless to say he will not be coming back
At worst, I would put 5% max of inflation right now on this. The rest is down to (mis)management of the Corona chaos. "just had notice that my utility fixed rates have gone from £198 to £538 , mobile going up by £7 a month full tank of petrol roughly £8.00 ," Every business sector is effectively beholden to the cost of electro/chem power. No lie or shame in that. However, tis well within the remit of the govt to request to see the "show me your workings" sheets that resulted in stated increases (maintaining safe margins is one thing, profiteering is another matter) . "but the best one of all was my mother in law has a a gardener and he told her that due to extra costs his charge will go from £20 a visit to £50 needless to say he will not be coming back" Could at least give him the courtesy of a "show me your workings" (they could be correct) .
Not forgetting that all the time our utility bills are going up so does VAT , strange that this government are not interested
Liz Truss today said that Jonhson was in meetings to stop the war , the stupid ****wit couldn't stop a party in his own flat
Could at least give him the courtesy of a "show me your workings" (they could be correct) . [/QUOTE] He got a **** off and don't come back you cheating bastard, that works in most cases
Seems unlikely since none of this seemed to have been required in getting a loan under the Covid business loan scheme, which appears to have resulted in about £5 billion in fraud. Yes £5 billion - you know in the days when £5 billion was a lot of money. And not a lot of that will be recovered. I think part of the problem involved the Treasury insisting on constructing some kind of new database to underpin the thing instead of repurposing existing systems. And in other news, it appears the national tutoring programme (to help kids catch up with education lost during the pandemic) has failed disastrously, reaching only about 10% of the intended group. Could this be because responsibility to organise the scheme was given to private company Randstad instead of distributing the money locally to schools and education authorities who might just know better about how to target it? Funny how there have been so many failures with private companies tendering for these jobs where expertise already exists. But it does get a large amount of public money into private hands so it's not all bad eh? Almost worse than failing to provide vital education, I wouldn't be surprised if Randstad still get paid (as other companies have done despite failing).
Praising our Forces is one thing. I just wish all parties in the UK desisted from all this 'world-beating' bollox. That's the ****ing (world-beating) size flag that the Tories are waving on an hourly basis. Labour should be cleverer than that.
This sums it all up to a tee...and fast forward to 3:20 for the perfect example of why Johnson is either incompetent or compromised - or most likely both!
The senior Tory minister Penny Mordaunt has suggested her colleagues should stop taking funds from Alexander Temerko: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...temerko?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter "Temerko is also a friend of Boris Johnson and is known to refer to him as Sasha, after Johnson’s real first name, Alexander."
