A few days ago I asked you to support an ePetition calling for the Government to step in and prevent the October rise in the price cap. Thank you all for your response but surprise, surprise the petition has been rejected. I received the following in a email :

“Sorry, we can’t accept the petition you supported – “Stop OFGEM increasing the energy cap in October 2022″.

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The calculation of the energy price cap is a matter for the regulator Ofgem, which is operationally independent of the UK Government and House of Commons.”

So I did some research. OFGEM was set up under the provisions of the Gas Act 1986, The Electricity Act 1989 and the Utilities Act 2000(3). Under The Energy Act 2013, it’s powers were amended to “extend the licence regime to 3rd party intermediaries such as switching websites”

So clearly there is a precedent here for Parliament to introduce emergency regulation amending its powers in respect of the price cap.

According to OFGEM’s own website “OFGEM is an independent regulator accountable to Parliament” which would seem to contradict the statement that Parliament is not responsible. Especially as – again according to its own website – it is a “non-ministerial government department”

Clearly there is a vested interest here in ensuring that any attempt to challenge the Octber price cap changes is doomed to fail.

OFGEM has also just announced that it will be reviewing the price cap quarterly instead of six monthly. Their reasoning for this is that it avoids massive increases all at one time and spreads the load on the poor old consumer. This is of course, absolute nonsense as it will end up costing the consumer more.

Consider this example :

Option 1 – pay £1 for 3 months, £2 for 3 months and £3 for 3 months – total cost £18
Option 2 – pay £1 for 6 months, and £3 for 3 months – total cost £15

So this simplistic example demonstrates that someone at OFGEM cannot do basic math. Or is it something more sinister? Clear the loser is the very consumer that OFGEM claims to be protecting.

Whatever the deeper motive, it is clear that my petition is being binned and, frankly, there would appear to be nothing I can do about it even though the above arguments clearly demonstrate that, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “something is rotten in the state of Britain”

The best we can hope for now is a revolt on the scale of the poll tax. There is already a campaign to cancel direct debits on 1st October. Apart from screwing the energy giants’ cash flows it will achieve little because in modern Britain, the little don’t matter.

I’ve already cancelled my direct debit and to hell with them. It’s time the little people got off their knees.

Nominated by: Chas C

@wolfjenko
Apologies admin at the time of writing this with piss at boiling point I’m trying to find the name of this cunt but here is the link.

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This cunt thinks it is funny to pretend he’s disabled so he and his mates can jump the queue through airport customs etc.
His TikTok video shows him taking off a trainer and sock getting in a wheelchair and getting ushered onto a plane then at the other end, I guess in Leeds where he is from, he then gets up and walks off.
All to the amusement of himself and his mates.
Now I know we all say and do silly things in our youth but is it just me that thinks this is a step too far?
Maybe I’m the cunt for not seeing the funny side but if he takes up valuable time with airport staff genuine people in a wheelchair suffer.
If anyone can find the TikTok video and post it I hope someone identifies the cunt.

Nominated by: Onceacuntalwaysacunt

Additional supporting link provided by: Barry zuckercunt

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To be fair to her, this cunting is aimed at many in the media who have been whining about the England women’s ‘football’ team not being ‘diverse’ enough. However, this lady has been particularly critical and it made for a shorter cunting title than, ‘Complaints about England women’s football team and its lack of diversity.’

First up, women’s football is a joke anyway. It’s fucking shite. That’s not ‘sexist hate’ by the way, Wokegate and ‘Hendo’. It’s just an honest opinion.

The cunting is due to the fact that the chippy moaning cunts whining about there not being enough blacks in the team, never demand more honkies in our athletics teams, particularly in the sprint and long distance events. Or how an England under 17 boys’ team recently was entirely non white apart from the keeper. Or how the entire studio panel and presenter for the World Athletics is entirely black on the ‘British’ Broadcasting Corporation.

That’s all tickety fucking boo.

It’s sport and you choose the best for the job. Fine if we’re not doing that anymore then, let’s see an all honky 100 metres, you fucking double standards cunts.

No, I didn’t think so either.

Sly Sports Link.

Nominated by: Cuntybollocks

Centrica has announced huge 6-monthly profits today (27/07/22), with them making £1.34bn to the month of June compared to £262m for the same period last year. This follows the news that Shell announced a £9bn profit for the last quarter.

Inevitably Centrica bosses have defending the huge rise in the face of possibly one of the worst cost-of-living crisis for at least 50 years.

Quote:-
But Centrica chief executive Chris O’Shea defended the decision and insisted a lot of the firm’s profits were “going back into society”.

“I know it’s difficult to see the word profits, or dividends, or similar words when people are having a tough time. I’m very conscious of this,” he said.

“Bear in mind, over the next couple of years we are expecting to pay a windfall tax of probably well over £600m on our UK gas business off the back of the profits that we’re seeing, so a lot of this is going back into society.”

Well that’s alright then!. And I suppose if you’re a small shareholder the extra dividend might just be enough to pay for the expected 74% price cap rise for electric and gas at the next review in October, courtesy of toothless OFGEM – a company who has now decided to review the price cap quarterly rather than twice a year effective, from October.

Private businesses have every right to make a profit, otherwise what would be the point. But where does one draw the line during troubled times such as this and companies such as Centrica/Shell “exploiting” the situation with profits that could be seen as excessive!

Is it morally right for CEOs and other boardroom members to be rewarded with excessive pay rises/bonuses while millions of householders face a budget squeeze?

Whatever the rights and wrongs news announcements such as this won’t go down very well with a lot of people.

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Nominated by: Technocunt

Update: BP has also announced massive profits. in the last quarter they made just under £7bn – their biggest quarterly profit in 14 years.

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