Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "A Different Bias" channel.

I strongly suspect most people will just stop paying around Christmas time, just like the poll tax, and when you’re not paying you don’t ration
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Because pestminister has always used Scotland for its own purposes
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@davidmcintyre8145 I don’t think Scotland is self sufficient in food, you don’t just live off tatties and neeps. And when you say England you mean the rich English ruling class who benefit from it, your average Englishman doesn’t
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@thegrandmuftiofwakanda so ignore the votes of the vast majority of the Scottish population
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@gbjanuary yeah but Christmas is an expensive time and most people are broke in January and after playing 3 months of ludicrous heating and electricity bills and horrendous food and alcohol prices over Christmas not to mention the price hikes on everything people are going to buy as presents and something will have to give. People won’t pay and they will kick off. Somehow this government have turned the country back 50 years and we’re all expected to have 70s living standards for the next decade
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@gregoire59 not if you’re vulnerable you don’t
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@thegrandmuftiofwakanda the snp have won a majority under the British electoral system which isn’t PR
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@gingerssmelllikecabbageand8708 yeah electricity companies don’t want us all to have solar panels because they would lose profits so they’ve made it very difficult if not impossible with the help of the government
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@lacdirk no, you can just stop companies making record profits. You could even just force a renationalisation and run them as a non profit, passing all the savings onto consumers as price cuts. French containers pay a quarter of the electricity prices of U.K. consumers because the french state owned power company edf also owns over 50% over the U.K. electricity grid and uses U.K. prices to subsidise french prices. God forbid the U.K. government own our power grid but it’s fine for the french government to own it and use it to subside French electricity prices
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@lacdirk You haven’t quite grasped the situation, let me try and assist you in reaching the correct understanding. The U.K. sold over half of its power supply to EDF, the french state owned electricity company. EDF charges U.K. consumers 4-5 times more than it charges French consumers, and uses those massive profits to subsidise french electricity prices. The U.K. government also pays EDF to build power stations in the U.K., the profits from which EDF also uses to subsidise french electricity prices. EDF makes a healthy profit and thanks to owning over half of the U.K. National grid requires no subsidy from french tax payers. Instead, U.K. consumers pay through massively inflated electricity prices and taxes that pay for the inflated costs of Power stations like sizewell, which run 3-5 times over budget and make EDF huge profits as a result
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@gregoire59 they can try. There are other methods of getting electricity. There’s a guy in my pub who can change your meter, you just ring up your energy supplier and tell them you’ve switched. End of electricity bills
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@lacdirk In 2021 Germany got 55% of its gas from Russia, France got 17% of its gas from Russia and the U.K. got 4% of its gas from Russia. In 2022 German gas prices rise by 23%, French gas prices by 4% and U.K. gas prices by 215% thanks to Boris Johnson abolishing the price cap, and U.K. prices are due to double again in October. Meanwhile British Gas made a record £1.3 billion profit in the just 6 months of 2022 January to June, and the chief executive of Centrica, the french company who owns British Gas was paid almost £2m. EDF have made an absolute fortune building sizewell, your baloney that they are running at a loss is laughable. I guess it fits your narrative of high energy prices in the U.K. are better than low energy prices in France, despite the fact France owns most of the energy market in the U.K.
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@lacdirk ha ha ha you say switch as if it’s a real market with real competition rather than the same electricity and gas from the same power station and storage tank coming through the same wires and pipes, like it it’s going to make any difference at all to the price we pay, the government abolished the price cap and hey presto they all raise their prices by the same amount what a shock. The government are certainly to blame no doubt about it
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@lacdirk the market price 😂 the market price in the U.K. has gone up 213% in 2022 so far, with more price hikes in October and December to take that to 500%, in Germany it has gone up 23% and in France 4%, yet apparently the river jokes are due to the wholesale price 😂 what a joke. Just a coincidence that energy companies are all making record profits in the U.K. and that the majority are owned by the french
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