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Audience member - 'Liz, how important is it to balance the books?'

Fuck me, still going on about this rubbish. A countries economy isn't like your household credit card. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Audience member - 'Liz, how important is it to balance the books?'

Fuck me, still going on about this rubbish. A countries economy isn't like your household credit card. 

Tbf that audience member then tore into Truss.

[Guest]

lol now 2 different audience members arguing over apologising. Amazing.

[Guest]

Rishi on now, this is gonna be so awkward.

[mattiloy]

Whoopsiedaisy x8

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Rishi on now, this is gonna be so awkward.

Tbf Rishi is doing quite well and is much better than Truss. 

[Guest]

Neither candidate have an answer for rising energy bill this winter, such things as ask Shell to provide more capacity etc won't do anything when that company just put up bills.

[Neil]

8 hours ago, Ozanne said:

Yes he did, without sounding rude that doesn’t have anything to do with the current issue.

I was pointing out that the BoE raising interest rates is an awful move right now.

The Tories point was separate. 

its a necessary move, and by the boe being independent, it means the govt is off the hook for the pain of the interest rate rise.

its that sort of thing which makes nationalised industries a bad thing for the govt of the day, because there's always a price rise to be made.

[Guest]

Sunak is getting much more rounds of applause than Truss.

[Guest]

Oof. The audience have overwhelmingly said that Sunak did the best.

[fraybentos1]

5 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Oof. The audience have overwhelmingly said that Sunak did the best.

Even Stevie's given up. Tuck it away for five please

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[steviewevie]

46 minutes ago, mattiloy said:

Whoopsiedaisy x8

mattiloy and co celebrate until they find out it amounts to fuckall...and so they wait...

[steviewevie]

19 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Oof. The audience have overwhelmingly said that Sunak did the best.

couldn't bring myself to watch, way too depressing...you think he was the winner?

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Just now, steviewevie said:

couldn't bring myself to watch, way too depressing...you think he was the winner?

Yeah I'd say so, he had the best performance and defended his record pretty well. Truss fell apart when Burley pressed her on this public sector pay policy she u-turned on. However neither of them had an answer to the rising energy bills.

[steviewevie]

seeing as the economy is going down the toilet and will probably stay there for a while...and Truss (or Sunak?!) will likely get a bounce in the polls....and labour will probably look all divided abd fucked with protesters screaming at starmer during his speech at conference...autumn election anyone?

[pink_triangle]

10 hours ago, Ozanne said:

It just seems like has to criticise Starmer all the time. I only looked at the article to see how quickly he slated him and to be fair it was quite late in the article. 

It's what drives his social media. He knows it gets clicks.

[steviewevie]

https://dontpay.uk/

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[squirrelarmy]

I’m all for it. This isn’t a case of avoiding paying for the bills. If you cancel your direct debit you’ll be sent a letter to pay it manually for what you’ve physically used. Enough people cancelling their DDs at the same time will put massive pressure on the energy sales provider. They make a lot of money from customer monthly direct debits. a lot of the time they’re overestimated and they make a fortune off the interest from all the cash sat in their bank accounts and not ours. 

They can start rethinking their practices and put pressure on the government to step in. 

Cancel your DD’s. 

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

https://dontpay.uk/

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I’m unsure, is it really a good idea for people to not pay and maybe be liable for additional charges etc?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I'm buggered as I have prepayment meters. People with smarters maybe need to think twice as in theory their supplier could easily disconnect them.

[Neil]

12 hours ago, steviewevie said:

seeing as the economy is going down the toilet and will probably stay there for a while...and Truss (or Sunak?!) will likely get a bounce in the polls....and labour will probably look all divided abd fucked with protesters screaming at starmer during his speech at conference...autumn election anyone?

what we need is a riot, while the weather is good, no need saving it till winter.

[steviewevie]

dishi rishi