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You don't need a 35% pay rise to pay a 35% gas price hike, just a rise high enough to pay the monetary increase. So, for example, if you currently earn £60,000 net and your gas cost £1,200, a pay rise of £420 or 0.007% will cover it.

what to do about energy prices

1. you could hedge on the futures market

2.Leave uk

3. Get a jumper

4.The govt to build gas storage and like most eu countries start a two way grid to free people from dependence upon fuels portioned out by non uk multinationals who cannot believe their luck that the uk as the only country to allow such big price rises the govt helps them out by saying the high prices is a merely a function of 'competition' and not a bent market.

Forget about Gobal Warming.
Forget about Natural Gas

Bring back coal!

These jokes are dire !

Footnote: July 30th should be a national holiday in England. Why? 'There are some people on the pitch; they think it's all over - it is now!'

If we're doing 'Quote for the Day' I'll match your example of skewed logic with a couple from a press conference today.


"... our review has not identified any information that would indicate a need or duty to conduct a criminal investigation into the Trust at this time."
Asst Chief Con Allyn Thomas

Ninety people dead not enough information to start a proper investigation then?


"...from the information available we cannot establish with certainty a causal link between failings to manage infection and the death of any particular individual."
Sandra Caldwell
Health and Safety Executive

Just a coincidence is it then that all ninety contracted c. difficile in the hospital and then died? Sounds like cause and effect to me, but if HSE think infections don't cause deaths there's no need to clean hospital wards at all.

Seeing as not everyone responsible was interviewed one would have to conclude that they probably want to avoid a criminal investigation.

So if there were another Beverley Allitt around, and I sincerely hope there isn't, this crew have provided the perfect murder weapon.

Please, Please Please, Michael!

We want names!

He said, she said, they said, a minister said, someone close to said ....

All this is meaningless babble.

Put people on the record. If they are not willing to be named they are cowardly gossip mongers - portray them as such!

The voter deserves better than unattributed waffle

A 35% hike is the best thing I have heard this year.
My wife is a good knitter so we return to my childhood when we had no central heating, no double glazing etc. and we sat by our one coal fire to keep warm, wearing jumpers and blankets.

But we now don't have any coal to keep us warm, not at the prices we had then in the 40's to 50's, so we shiver and grin. At least I won't have to chip the ice off my bedroom window as we have double glazing.

It is called progress; Not "Back to the Future" but Back to the past".
Of course it's all Brown's fault and Cameron will restore us to our former profigliacy- I don't think.

How can BG justify putting up prices when oil has just fallen by some 20%off it's peak? Weren't the experts just saying that gas has to rise because of its link to the rising oil price? Has the link been severed?

Gordon, before you clear off please do what American presidents do and spend your last days in office doing the right thing:
Nationalise the utilities and stop the German, Dutch, French etc profiteering from our electricity, city postal services, and water. These are basics of civilized life and are the reason for central government, as opposed to tribal anarchy. Independant audits would keep services efficient.

Abandon the Americanisation of our education system. How many directors of the non profit making non result producing exam marking scam get over £100000 salary??

Finally abolish tax on fuel; that would align the prices to the 'gas guzzling' yanks, and help our country to prosper.

It is quite obvious that the gas prices will have to rise up. Well, I am not suprised by this. Above all, analytically studying the current global trade situation, prices of other commodities will soon rise as a consewuent of the failure of the world trade talks, which recently ended without any positive outcome. This will affect the developing nations. How it be said that the developing nations have to protect their local industries? That they are trying to do but the technology to be used by these industries to make them produce a lot commodities to become self sufficient are expensive and this technology is available with the industrialised world. Britain will have to increase her people's pay by 35% too to pay off for the gas as they have other commitments and the commodities in the market are on the increase. This is a requirement for people to meet up to their other commitments.

Bullingdon dave chillin wiv da posse? Minging.

Like a Lenin is Milliband agitating to storm his winter palace? Can I hear basement presses, run by comrade printers who talk without removing the cigarette from their mouths, working red hot as they churn out leaflets on the night shift? Do they dream of future statues in a Milliband Square?