More 'benefits'

[Barryd999]

Bulletguy - 2022-08-02 6:10 PM

 

 

Channel 4 screened an excellent "Dispatches" doc last night from reporter Jane Moore about the chaos at our airports. Some passengers got that desperate they crawled into the baggage handling section asking for their luggage as they had connecting flights to make. They even offered to help the baggage handlers.

 

One baggage handler described the scenes of horror facing passengers that in many cases flights get delayed simply because there isn't enough baggage handlers to load aircraft.

 

BA sacked many of their staff via a 'fire and rehire' process drawing up new contracts offering cabin staff £17k a year so a lot told them where to stick it and left......unfortunately not all can afford to do that.

 

Most worrying was to find pilots now being asked to work more hours......and companies say it's up to the individual pilot to decide on his level of exhaustiveness. 8-)

 

One pilot who for understandable reasons wouldn't be named told how the pressure on pilots to "work harder" is immense.

 

I don't suppose this will have helped either.

 

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/easyjet-had-8000-applications-from-eu-citizens-but-had-to-turn-them-down-because-of-brexit-327001/

 

Even Grumblings favourite cheapo Airline Ryan Air has cited Brexit as adding to the staffing problems.

 

Never has there been a better time to at the very least rejoin the single market. The glee many including Pollys like Cruella Patel showed when free movement of people finally was halted has now truly smacked them in the face as exports slump and we now face massive labour shortages. A tory MP actually suggested rejoining the single market recently. He is probably locked in Cruella's Dungeon now being beaten to death with the soggy end of his own arms I suspect. Its hard to believe this is the same party that sent out millions of leaflets supporting the UK staying in the EU which of course it isn't anymore.

[Bulletguy]

 

"Benefits" update;

 

[Barryd999]

Bulletguy - 2022-08-02 8:47 PM

 

 

"Benefits" update;

 

 

LOL! I think one of the greatest honourable attributes you can have is to admit your mistakes and hold your hands up to your cock ups yet pretty much all the people in that video have no such attributes or honour. "A remainers Brexit"? (lol) There is no such thing but for Davies to cite that this was some kind of compromise to suit remainers is for the birds. It was the worst of both worlds. A hard Brexit with a terrible awful last minute cobbled together deal that favours the EU. Full of can kicking like the NI Protocol and the now seemingly permanent can kicking on inward checks.

 

None of them or the hard core Brexit supporters have the balls to admit the remainers were right and admit its a clusterf*ck of the highest order. Five years, ten years, twenty years wont change that, only people with the balls to admit the mistake will.

 

They didnt get the Brexit they voted for is the stock answer but they would say that no matter what because none of them ever knew what they were voting for.

[Bulletguy]

Barryd999 - 2022-08-02 6:36 PM

 

Bulletguy - 2022-08-02 6:10 PM

 

 

Channel 4 screened an excellent "Dispatches" doc last night from reporter Jane Moore about the chaos at our airports. Some passengers got that desperate they crawled into the baggage handling section asking for their luggage as they had connecting flights to make. They even offered to help the baggage handlers.

 

One baggage handler described the scenes of horror facing passengers that in many cases flights get delayed simply because there isn't enough baggage handlers to load aircraft.

 

BA sacked many of their staff via a 'fire and rehire' process drawing up new contracts offering cabin staff £17k a year so a lot told them where to stick it and left......unfortunately not all can afford to do that.

 

Most worrying was to find pilots now being asked to work more hours......and companies say it's up to the individual pilot to decide on his level of exhaustiveness. 8-)

 

One pilot who for understandable reasons wouldn't be named told how the pressure on pilots to "work harder" is immense.

 

I don't suppose this will have helped either.

 

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/easyjet-had-8000-applications-from-eu-citizens-but-had-to-turn-them-down-because-of-brexit-327001/

 

Even Grumblings favourite cheapo Airline Ryan Air has cited Brexit as adding to the staffing problems.

 

Never has there been a better time to at the very least rejoin the single market. The glee many including Pollys like Cruella Patel showed when free movement of people finally was halted has now truly smacked them in the face as exports slump and we now face massive labour shortages. A tory MP actually suggested rejoining the single market recently. He is probably locked in Cruella's Dungeon now being beaten to death with the soggy end of his own arms I suspect. Its hard to believe this is the same party that sent out millions of leaflets supporting the UK staying in the EU which of course it isn't anymore.

O'Leary has been an outspoken critic of Brexit and how its affected the airline industry;

https://airlineweekly.com/2022/05/ryanair-ceo-blames-brexit-for-uk-staffing-disruptions/ Even in the Brexpress where he slammed it as "a disaster"; https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1634969/ryanair-brexit-michael-o-leary-flight-prices-latest

[Bulletguy]

Barryd999 - 2022-08-03 8:39 AM

 

Bulletguy - 2022-08-02 8:47 PM

 

 

"Benefits" update;

 

 

LOL! I think one of the greatest honourable attributes you can have is to admit your mistakes and hold your hands up to your cock ups yet pretty much all the people in that video have no such attributes or honour. "A remainers Brexit"? (lol) There is no such thing but for Davies to cite that this was some kind of compromise to suit remainers is for the birds. It was the worst of both worlds. A hard Brexit with a terrible awful last minute cobbled together deal that favours the EU. Full of can kicking like the NI Protocol and the now seemingly permanent can kicking on inward checks.

 

None of them or the hard core Brexit supporters have the balls to admit the remainers were right and admit its a clusterf*ck of the highest order. Five years, ten years, twenty years wont change that, only people with the balls to admit the mistake will.

 

They didnt get the Brexit they voted for is the stock answer but they would say that no matter what because none of them ever knew what they were voting for.

Poundland Thatcher will U turn on immigration so she can "unleash" British farming, an industry they conned in the same way as fishing;

[CurtainRaiser]

The Torygraph is quick to catch up on all these benefits

[Bulletguy]

CurtainRaiser - 2022-08-03 5:03 PM

 

The Torygraph is quick to catch up on all these benefits

Brilliantly written article too! :-D

 

“Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State Requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance…” These emotive words – or slight variations on them – have appeared on British passports since the first dark blue version was introduced in 1921.

 

With overtones of colonial might in the days of Rule Britannia, they were written perhaps more in hope than expectation. I don’t remember Brezhnev’s border guards, Ronald Reagan’s immigration officials or even the gendarmes at Calais being cowed into submission when I thrust my passport under their noses.

 

In the first four years after the 2016 referendum some 360,000 of us applied for EU passports – and that is just in the nine countries which revealed the data.

 

Despite a big recruitment drive at the Passport Office, there has been no improvement in the time you have to allow for an application to be dealt with. The latest update on the Passport Office home page, which itself is three months old, warns that we should still expect to wait up to 10 weeks. This compares to what used to be a two- to three-week turnaround for the old burgundy EU version.

 

But the biggest problem at the moment is that - despite the Brexit transition period ending more than 18 months ago - our passports still don't work in the e-reading machines when crossing the border into the EU. It is this, combined with a shortage of border officials at Dover (where the French checks are done), that seems to have caused the huge tailbacks at the port recently.

 

And there is one final irony. When you do apply for your new document, in one sense it isn’t British at all. Unlike our old burgundy EU passports, which were produced in Gateshead by the British company De La Rue, the new version is made under a new contract with a French firm, Thales (which is partly owned by the French government), and they are printed in Tczew, Poland. (lol)(lol)

[Barryd999]

All of this, all of this disastrous self inflicted harm is basically because a small majority of people in this country swallowed the guff and basically just dont like foreigners.

 

Farming and the entire country for that matter is about as safe under Truss as sticking a fox in a chicken coup. Completely out of her depth and even worse she has that idiot Minford advising her. What could possibly go wrong.

 

Bank of England now forecasting the worst inflation for a generation and a recession later this year. The absolute obvious choice that is staring us in the face would be to at the very least rejoin the single market. It wont resolve everything but it would alleviate some of self harm and some of he labour issues. Suggest it though as a Tory polly and you will probably be hung drawn and quartered by the same government that just a few years ago advised the country to vote to stay in the EU. Its beyond Bizarre.

[Barryd999]

The truth about what happened at Dover and how its going to get worse not better.

 

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/think-the-queues-at-dover-are-bad-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

 

Just to let you know that the now banned member Dave Pelmet is reading these threads and trying to whinge about them on Motorhome Fruitcakes (My forum) and is getting very annoyed that I keep deleting his posts (lol) Hi Dave!!! B-)

[Bulletguy]

Barryd999 - 2022-08-04 8:15 PM

 

The truth about what happened at Dover and how its going to get worse not better.

 

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/think-the-queues-at-dover-are-bad-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

That article has it absolutely spot on (liked the photo used!) and it's going to be interesting to watch what happens in the coming months and next summer season. It's clear many Brits still haven't figured out this is what they voted for.

 

From that article;

 

There is an obvious solution to these problems. Anyone wanting to travel through Dover could instead first visit a large airfield somewhere in Kent. There they will join a very long queue, park, queue again, with the kids, in a large office building. There all the paperwork and tests can be done, in front of a French border police officer, and then you can continue on to Dover to actually travel to France

 

There's also this matter for govt to address;

 

Brexit: UK to spend €790m on new GB-EU border control systems ready for 2021

 

The British government has announced nearly €800 million in funding for new border infrastructure to prepare for checks and controls from January after the post-Brexit transition ends.

 

There are plans for new border posts, improved technology and hundreds of extra staff to deal with the impact of the UK's departure from the EU's Customs Union, regardless of the outcome of trade talks.

 

https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/12/brexit-uk-launches-790m-project-to-deal-with-future-eu-border-checks

 

Two years later.....oh dear!

 

UK ports threaten legal action after spending millions on 'white elephant' post-Brexit border control posts

 

Costing £1 million a year just to stand mothballed so Portsmouths taxpayers get hit with that.

 

https://tinyurl.com/2w6tjap8

 

 

[Barryd999]

Bulletguy - 2022-08-05 2:49 PM

 

Barryd999 - 2022-08-04 8:15 PM

 

The truth about what happened at Dover and how its going to get worse not better.

 

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/think-the-queues-at-dover-are-bad-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

That article has it absolutely spot on (liked the photo used!) and it's going to be interesting to watch what happens in the coming months and next summer season. It's clear many Brits still haven't figured out this is what they voted for.

 

From that article;

 

There is an obvious solution to these problems. Anyone wanting to travel through Dover could instead first visit a large airfield somewhere in Kent. There they will join a very long queue, park, queue again, with the kids, in a large office building. There all the paperwork and tests can be done, in front of a French border police officer, and then you can continue on to Dover to actually travel to France

 

There's also this matter for govt to address;

 

Brexit: UK to spend €790m on new GB-EU border control systems ready for 2021

 

The British government has announced nearly €800 million in funding for new border infrastructure to prepare for checks and controls from January after the post-Brexit transition ends.

 

There are plans for new border posts, improved technology and hundreds of extra staff to deal with the impact of the UK's departure from the EU's Customs Union, regardless of the outcome of trade talks.

 

https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/12/brexit-uk-launches-790m-project-to-deal-with-future-eu-border-checks

 

Two years later.....oh dear!

 

UK ports threaten legal action after spending millions on 'white elephant' post-Brexit border control posts

 

Costing £1 million a year just to stand mothballed so Portsmouths taxpayers get hit with that.

 

https://tinyurl.com/2w6tjap8

 

 

Shocking stuff. What a shambles. Good news for Europe of course with no inward checks which has been done at the UK end purely to hide the effect it will have on trade. I thought it was all about taking back control. It seems we have less control than we ever did. I wonder what the total tally is on money that has been wasted because of Brexit to achieve what exactly?

 

Hi Dave and Antony by the way!! (lol)

[Bulletguy]

Barryd999 - 2022-08-05 3:22 PM

 

Bulletguy - 2022-08-05 2:49 PM

 

Barryd999 - 2022-08-04 8:15 PM

 

The truth about what happened at Dover and how its going to get worse not better.

 

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/think-the-queues-at-dover-are-bad-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet/

That article has it absolutely spot on (liked the photo used!) and it's going to be interesting to watch what happens in the coming months and next summer season. It's clear many Brits still haven't figured out this is what they voted for.

 

From that article;

 

There is an obvious solution to these problems. Anyone wanting to travel through Dover could instead first visit a large airfield somewhere in Kent. There they will join a very long queue, park, queue again, with the kids, in a large office building. There all the paperwork and tests can be done, in front of a French border police officer, and then you can continue on to Dover to actually travel to France

 

There's also this matter for govt to address;

 

Brexit: UK to spend €790m on new GB-EU border control systems ready for 2021

 

The British government has announced nearly €800 million in funding for new border infrastructure to prepare for checks and controls from January after the post-Brexit transition ends.

 

There are plans for new border posts, improved technology and hundreds of extra staff to deal with the impact of the UK's departure from the EU's Customs Union, regardless of the outcome of trade talks.

 

https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/12/brexit-uk-launches-790m-project-to-deal-with-future-eu-border-checks

 

Two years later.....oh dear!

 

UK ports threaten legal action after spending millions on 'white elephant' post-Brexit border control posts

 

Costing £1 million a year just to stand mothballed so Portsmouths taxpayers get hit with that.

 

https://tinyurl.com/2w6tjap8

 

 

I wonder what the total tally is on money that has been wasted because of Brexit to achieve what exactly?

 

Billions, way more than had we remained a member, not to mention the numerous businesses it trashed.

 

The CER concludes that by the end of last year our economy was 5.2%, or £31 billion, smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU.

https://tinyurl.com/bdeu7at4

 

https://tinyurl.com/bddjemp3

[CurtainRaiser]

You're in luck, I have access. I'll let others decide if your summation was accurate.

 

"The controversy over leaked assessments of the economic damage of Brexit has deepened after a think-tank was forced to deny it told ministers that supposedly independent civil service studies on the matter were deliberately skewed.

 

Charles Grant, a director at the Centre for European Reform said in a statement on Thursday that he recalled discussing Treasury research into Brexit with minister Steve Baker. But “I did not say or imply that the Treasury had deliberately developed a model to show that all non-customs union options were bad, with the intention to influence policy”, he added.

 

The statement came after an exchange in the House of Commons in which arch Eurosceptic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg asked Mr Baker to confirm whether he had heard from the CER that the Treasury has “deliberately developed a model to show that all options other than staying in the customs union were bad and that officials intended to use this to influence policy” - a move that would breach the impartiality demanded and expected from the civil service.

 

 

Mr Rees-Mogg’s Tory colleague Mr Baker said that was “broadly correct”.

 

“At the time I considered it implausible because my direct experience is that civil servants are extraordinarily careful to uphold the impartiality of the civil service,” he added. “I think it would be quite extraordinary if it turned out that such a thing had happened.”

 

Mr Baker also hit out at the work of civil servants on Tuesday during an Urgent Question on the analysis leaked to BuzzFeed this week, which suggested the hit to the UK economy from Brexit could vary from 2 per cent to 8 per cent, with the impact deepening as the UK set itself further apart from the EU.

 

Asked whether he could name a single civil service forecast that had ever been accurate, Mr Baker said: “They are always wrong and wrong for good reasons…I look forward to the day when we continue to prove economists wrong when they make horror story predictions.”

 

Mr Baker said the BuzzFeed article was a “selective interpretation of a preliminary analysis”, and “an attempt to undermine our exit from the European Union”.

 

Mr Grant disputed the account of his discussion on the matter with Mr Baker:

 

“I recall saying to Steve Baker at a Prospect lunch at the Conservative Party conference that I was aware of research that the Treasury had done. This apparently showed that the economic benefits of the UK forging FTAs with third countries outside the EU were significantly less than the economic costs of leaving the customs union,” he said.

[Bulletguy]

 

'Fears of new bureaucracy, rules and costs have all come true': Brexit making touring Europe 'unviable' for UK artists

 

The number of UK artists booked for European festivals this summer is down 45% compared to 2017-19, according to the group Best for Britain - which previously campaigned against Brexit.

 

Music industry officials are calling on the government to do more to remove barriers preventing UK artists from touring in the EU since Brexit.

 

Last year, the government announced it had secured visa-free touring to around 20 EU countries.

 

Despite that, artists say performing there is often still too costly, with issues such as equipment checks, lost instruments, and lengthy delays at borders resulting in some having to cancel tours and gigs.

 

Anabella Coldrick, chief executive of the Music Managers Forum, told Sky News extra bureaucracy is, particularly for newer artists, making performing in the EU financially unviable.

 

"A lot of the things we were worried about before Brexit around new bureaucracy, additional rules, additional costs have all come true, even though we were reassured by the government many, many times that that wasn't going to happen."

 

Bristol-based singer Elles Bailey usually travels to around a dozen EU countries each year - and has built up a large European fanbase.

 

But complications have seen her scale back gig plans, with one tour already cancelled this year.

 

London-based band White Lies had to cancel the opening gig of their European tour in April because their truck was held up for checks in Dover.

 

The band's drummer Jack Lawrence-Brown told Sky News it was both a financial and emotional hit.

 

"It's hard on our fans as well because a lot of a lot of White Lies fans will travel from all around Europe to come to the first day of European tour, and even further afield," he said.

 

"Prior to Brexit, we were able to jump on a tour bus and then our truck was loaded with all of our equipment. We'd drive to Dover, straight over to France and start performing shows immediately without any real hassle or trouble."

 

https://news.sky.com/story/fears-of-new-bureaucracy-rules-and-costs-have-all-come-true-brexit-making-touring-europe-unviable-for-uk-artists-12667548

[John52]

We can't begin to recover until we can have an honest conversation about Brexit.

But, such is the hostility to even discussing it, neither candidate for PM can even admit the chaos in Dover has anything to do with Brexit :-S

[Bulletguy]

John52 - 2022-08-09 9:25 AM

 

We can't begin to recover until we can have an honest conversation about Brexit.

But, such is the hostility to even discussing it, neither candidate for PM can even admit the chaos in Dover has anything to do with Brexit :-S

Because Brexit is a cult and its fanatical followers cannot, and never will, admit blame or take responsibility when any of their pet projects goes tits up. It's always......always someone elses fault, never theirs from their own doing because they shirk responsibility all the time.

 

Take the 19th century lead pencil for example. Just listen to the bullcrap he came out with over the Dover mess. Max makes an excellent job of analyzing it point by point.

 

[Bulletguy]

 

Martin Lewis Blasts 'Zombie Government' As Energy Bills Set To Hit £4,200 In January

 

These amounts are unaffordable for millions. The Jan figure equates to 45% of the full new state pension, and a higher proportion of the old one.

 

The rise alone on the Jan prediction, from when the help was first announced in May, is roughly £1,400/yr...

 

That rise alone swallows up not just £400 help for all homes, but even the £1,200 for the poorest

 

This will leave many destitute. Tax cuts won't help poorest incl many elderly & disabled who've higher usage

 

Cutting green levy'd be just tiny sticking plaster on a gaping wound...

 

https://tinyurl.com/4ydvc4nd

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1556939639675654150.html

[Bulletguy]

 

Owner of a small fish 'n chip shop and previous Tory voter tells how "the scales have finally fallen from my eyes" since discovering his energy bill is set to increase from £6000 a year to £70,000 8-)

 

He employs 10 people.

 

 

Another one, a Chinese takeaway, faced with a gas bill increase from £900 to £10,058 and his electricity bill that nearly quadrupled to more than £4,000. He now has "no other option" but to close down the business.

 

These are just two examples....there will be many many more to come as these hikes are totally unsustainable

 

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/aberdeen-chinese-takeaway-set-close-7437952

[John52]

Supply has been reduced

So we have got to us less fuel or the price will keep going up till we do.

If we could subsidise prices at the current level people would use the same amount so the sky would be the limit for prices.

I intend to turn the heating off and put more layers on. But I realise it is harder for some people to do that than it is for me.

Tragedy is we have millions of tons of coal beneath our feet.

Is Johnson still praising Thatcher's 'foresight' in closing our coal industry and buying our coal from Russia?

[John52]

Bulletguy - 2022-08-09 7:41 PM

Take the 19th century lead pencil for example.

 

People like that always seem to have a prop to distract from what they are actually saying?

With Smuggy its dressing like a Beano Character

With Johnson its stroking his hair

With Savile it was his absurd cigar and glitter

He would actually take his cigar out, fondle it suggestively, and light it up to distract from an awkward question

Just like Johnson stroking his hair.

[Bulletguy]

John52 - 2022-08-14 3:30 PM

 

Supply has been reduced

So we have got to us less fuel or the price will keep going up till we do.

John, the prices are going up whether you use any energy or not! Listen to that vid clip I posted.....there is no price cap on energy supplies to businesses. They can charge whatever the heck they want to. They can increase it 20x, 40x, 60x, 100x whatever, and theres not a damn thing they can do about it other than close down the business and have their supply cut off.

 

There is a price cap on domestic energy supply but all Ofgem/govt have done is allow that to increase hence prices have now spiralled out of control. They should, (and could have done) removed the standing charge as the £400 gift token is mere pence which won't cover a fraction of the costs. Turning the heating off won't stop the cost as you will still have to pay the standing charge fee for being connected. It's also not a good idea unless the boiler is drained off and then you have to think about possible damp.

[Bulletguy]

 

This is gaining traction. Launching in London next Wednesday 17th.

 

 

https://wesayenough.co.uk/

[John52]

Bulletguy - 2022-08-14 4:05 PM

John, the prices are going up whether you use any energy or not!

 

For individuals whose consumptiopn is not enough to make any difference, yes.

But world prices are going up because supply has been reduced - Russian sanctions or whatever.

Basic supply and demand.

Just keep throwing more money at the same limited supply and prices will keep rising - like thay have with housing. We need to increase supply or reduce demand to bring prices down.

Other countries might be able to tell their suppliers to cut prices because they are public owned.

But Britain has sold off its power supplies to foreign corporations who will sell it where in the world they get the highest price.

They don't have to supply us.

Hit them with windfall taxes and they stop investing and the lights go out.

Thats why all the other major countries in the developed world kept their power and water supplies in public ownership.

Not sold them off for a pittance to private companies who hire Tory MPs.

[Bulletguy]

 

* British Gas profits of £1.3bn between January & June

* BP profits of £6.95 billion April to June

* Shell £9.4bn

 

* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid £6.5m bonus

* Chris O’Shea, CEO of British Gas owner Centrica paid almost £2m last year

 

* Centrica's non-exec directors paid almost £1m

* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.

* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m

* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m

* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m

 

* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned £1.3m

* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930k

* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

 

Enjoy your foodbank and January blackouts

 

[John52]

Bulletguy - 2022-08-15 7:16 PM

 

 

* British Gas profits of £1.3bn between January & June

* BP profits of £6.95 billion April to June

* Shell £9.4bn

 

* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid £6.5m bonus

* Chris O’Shea, CEO of British Gas owner Centrica paid almost £2m last year

 

* Centrica's non-exec directors paid almost £1m

* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.

* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m

* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m

* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m

 

* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned £1.3m

* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930k

* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

 

Enjoy your foodbank and January blackouts

 

 

Thats Tory privatisation for you.

Ask yourself why these private companies hire Tory MPs - and they vote for the PM who will let them continue accepting bribes - Truss has said she will vote to stop the investigation of Johnson.

Windfall tax would be popular but I am not sure it would be helpful.

Murderous Bin Salman's oil company will have made a lot more but the west is still sucking up to him - can't slap a windfall tax on him.

Al least Shell and BP are paying taxes here.

To be fair oil prices are volatile and they have to make money when prices are high to cover losses when prices are low - and what they have lost in places like Russia,

But they can move abroad if they consider the UK government hostile to them slapping on windfall taxes.

Then our lights start going out.