Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Energy crisis: British Gas owner Centrica triples profits to £3.3bn" video.

Profiting from the suffering and loss of life... This has changed the game, we can't rely on corporations, that should be obvious to anyone now...
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@ozer9529 No, I voted for Corbyn and against Brexit. I'm not as foolish as most and not a politically illiterate sychophant...
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@SA-ff9uc Centrica has tripled their profits by raising prices, if you don't know what I'm talking about you should learn economics and ethics or at the very least try to attain sentience... As much use as an ashtray on the international space station...
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@thomaspower5982 No, the game has always been to turn us into cash cows without being obvious. Now they don't care to conceal the con or the contempt they have for the electorate. Kleptocrats taking bribes from corporate lobbyists is now the norm, not the exception, but 100% of the game.
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@SA-ff9uc Energy price is over 8 times what it was in 2020, it's continually gone up. You seem delusionally ignorant of the topic... UK power prices have tripled year-on-year from August 2020 (£36/MWh) to August 2021 (£107/MWh) – a jump of £71/MWh. The UK paid £263.99 per MWh in August 2022 and it's risen considerable since then, most of our electricity comes from burning gas so the prices are interlinked.
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@SA-ff9uc Energy prices are interlinked, Gas prices declined because of the pandemic and the fact that global usage dropped considerably. But Gas is used to create most of our electricity, and as energy prices are interlinked you need to consider the facts more logically, they are interconnected. You also didn't understand my initial comment that blamed corporations and conflated that with shareholders, Did I touch a raw nerve? Either way, the harm caused by energy prices puts profits above human life, wake up...
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@alicianah8352 Agreed, I also like the idea of a resource-based economy that's ecologically friendly and sustainable as the Zeitgeist movement promotes.
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@alicianah8352 Yea, we live in a time where we are seen as collateral, cannon fodder and cash cows. Consume, work and pay taxes while we silently allow a dystopian corporatocracy to take over. I also can't ignore it, the media polarise us while the Tories bring in more authoritarian legislation blocking our human rights, freedom of expression, right to protest and strike. Us Brits need to grow a backbone and learn to unify against the wealthy elitists and corporations.
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@ozer9529 Yes, the media and the Tories create the delusional world in which we live, full of people like S A who speak from ignorance and enable the wealthy to exploit the rest.
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@SA-ff9uc You could have typed something intelligent or witty. Look up the terms corporatocracy, kleptocracy and corruption.
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@Krytern The EU pays 20-30% less than us as they buy as a consortium. So no, you are wrong. When you buy in bulk as a group of countries you can negotiate better deals. It's called supply and demand. PS Brexit has cost trillions and ruined the UK in a myriad of ways, try reality and logic...
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@Krytern You brought up Brexit and made false statements about it not contributing to energy prices. This is clearly wrong as the EU prices haven't increased as much as ours. I corrected you and assumed nothing. My comment will be filtered if I give sources, try the FT...
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@Krytern You are the one assuming, put it in the context of your reply, where you proved you lack awareness of the reduced cost to the EU from buying in bulk as a trading block. Pointing out the devastation of Brexit is merely related additional info. Don't accuse me of assumptions that are yours and your reply was addressed to me regarding Brexit in the context of gas prices... Seriously pedantry and semantics are diseases that social media users seem prone to...
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@Krytern To be clear, Brexit has cost us our buying power within a trading block, many studies have shown we pay far more for energy than EU countries because of this. The increased borrowing, losses and devaluation of the pound have all affected the UK's buying power in sterling. These are just some of the plethora of effects that contribute to our energy prices being higher. You made an erroneous statement and are now trying to win any small victory to assuage your ego and pride. I'm not interested in providing you anything other than the truth, keep digging...
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@Krytern The Financial Times is not an unknown website and is a trusted source for economic understanding. Youtube doesn't allow external links and enough of my comments get filtered for no reason. You are incorrect and your assumptions about tribalism are based on your misunderstanding of the relevance of my additional info, which I have explained several times. Your pride and ego mean nothing to me, neither does your pedantry and semantics, am I clear? Stop wasting your life attempting to salve your bruised ego and accept when you've been comprehensively proven wrong in assumption and opinion. PS your first comment was a defense of Brexit causing rising energy prices, which is and has been proven erroneous. Then you went on to contradict your defence of Brexit despite the evidence being against you, you have no logic or reason and pedantically tried to debate me using semantics and assumption, you have to earn respect, you failed to do so...
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