Miliband plots 15pc net zero tax on gas bills

[jazzer]

Miliband plots 15pc net zero tax on gas bills

[ianr]

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[Sally Eva]

9 hours ago, jazzer said:

Miliband plots 15pc net zero tax on gas bills

Could you give the news source so that I can see whether it is reliable (like BBC) or nuts ( like Reform conspiracy insights)?

[jazzer]

MSN

 

[Sephiroth]

MSN is an aggregator. Not a news source

 

the source is a Nick Gutteridge article in the Telegraph

so, closer to reform than BBC

 

(I would question BBC news reliability these days mind you)

It would be difficult to describe gutteridge as objective.  But it would be easy to claim he is frequently wrong, bordering on bonkers

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/n/nf-nj/nick-gutteridge/

There is no physical reality where, as we run out of fossil fuels and turn to whatever will replace them, where existing fossil fuels don’t become more expensive 

not this country, not any country - you might see some short term ups and downs as politics plays its part - but to whine about your political enemies tackling the dwindling fossil fuels is both childish and playing with people’s lives

[jazzer]

YAWN

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[Sephiroth]

Do let me know when you understand how a public forum works 

in the meantime, apologies for inconvenient truths clogging up any ill-conceived “partying”

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[jazzer]

 

 

All I've done is post a link and you're straight on the attack, for heavens sake. And as sarky as ever.

This isn't solely your forum and you don't rule the roost so stop trying to dictate and bully me.

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[Sephiroth]

Your post was an attack on the tax

 

I didn’t  address or mention you in my reply. Just pointed  out the problems with the article

you then told be I wasn’t invited.  In no way am I bullying anyone. The reverse is true if anything 

[jazzer]

"attack on the tax", I posted a link, how was that an attack?

I didn't write the article, so how was that an attack on the proposed tax?  Are you now saying what can and cannot be posted, when did you become Admin(NOT). 

[Insuflo]

No, you didn’t write the article. But unless you’re a Telegraph subscriber, you haven’t read the article either. Have you read it?

The psychopath Telegraph lives behind a (rubber) paywall but using this kind of sensationalist, accusatory headline gets it traction on social media. The headline becomes more important than the article; many will see it and some will take it as a statement of fact. And it will be shown on endless “let’s take a look at the papers” segments on TV and radio for 12 hours or more in every news day.

And so, a tiny number of reactionary, right wing hacks has a vastly disproportionate influence on the popular conversation despite the papers they work for being bought by almost nobody these days. 

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[Spartacus]

This link.provides the full.articke using an archive site 

https://archive.is/J8DvF

The summary is that the taxes on electricity could be removed but an equivalent levy would then be added to gas to encourage people tonusevheat pumps. 

Not convinced it would stay like that but it isn't quite as sensational as the headlines 

[malumbu]

5 hours ago, jazzer said:

"attack on the tax", I posted a link, how was that an attack?

I didn't write the article, so how was that an attack on the proposed tax?  Are you now saying what can and cannot be posted, when did you become Admin(NOT). 

In posting the link, that you may or may not have read, did you have a view?  I don't believe you are neutral.

It's a sensationalist headline but misleading.  The heat pump sector is crying out for reduction in electricity costs and this is one way it could be achieved. Time would be better spent taking time to digest the article.  

[jazzer]

No, I didn't make a any comment, just posted a link.

Clearly posting a link without a comment is seen as an opportunity to pile in on the poster, thanks.  

[malumbu]

So if it doesn't interest you why did you post it?  If the article was titled Milliband to consider energy prices I expect it would not have been posted.  Unsure if you have said positive things about Labour 

[Kathleen Olander]

13 hours ago, jazzer said:

No, I didn't make a any comment, just posted a link.

Clearly posting a link without a comment is seen as an opportunity to pile in on the poster, thanks.  

Do what I do and stick some of these folk on your ignore list.  It's great fun, they just rant away and you will be totally oblivious to it.