My local McColl's now has a sign outside advising that PayPoint services are 'temporarily offline'. I suspected this was due to the potential administration, this was confirmed when inside all National Lottery products have been pulled. Lotto tickets can't be bought and all scratchcard stock has bee...

Was really unsure where chat about the McColl's collapse > potential Morrisons takeover > potential EG Group takeover should go, glad it has been decided upon. Really looking at this from the Morrisons angle. Before Morrisons Daily, before the relaunch of the Safeway Brand, and even before M Local, ...

I always recall the XR protests in 2019 which brought chaos across the country, but where I saw it was in Bristol when at the time I was working mere feet away from one of their major picket lines when they carried out their 'uprising' in July of that year (you know, that city where a man couldn't b...

Yet here you both are commenting on it? Fair point. I will admit to still having watched the clip. One thing I did find odd is that on something so tightly and carefully planned and choreographed, how was Smith able to essentially invade the stage without any security intervening before (and especi...

I’m not sure what outcome you want ...the one I described? Cheaper fuel and energy bills funded by tax cuts? except that you’re now you’re feeling the downsides of the free market Yes in the sense that it will affect me, but I'm fortunate enough that I don't have any gas in my property, my domestic...

Why not, say, a windfall tax on energy company profits? I did actually suggest that if it would work if you read my earlier posts. Not sure that it would though. I think we are in a position where only dramatic tax cuts can deliver the level of price cuts to energy & fuel needed with the immedi...

Literally no fucks given about the whole situation tbh. 'Meanwhile in celebrityville' news has never really appealed to me. Ditto. Celebrity stories dressed up as news have never really interested me. Whilst understandable on a slow news day, surely right now we have more than enough actual newswor...

Are there not many ways that revenue could be generated and costs cut to pay for a lowering of fuel prices? Why have you singled out green policies as the answer? OK so I let a week go by to see where the situation would go. And nothing has changed. Sunak's pitiful reduction in fuel duty has alread...

At the moment, buying Russian gas and oil to keep the price down is costing Ukrainian children their present. I'm not saying we should buy Russian gas and oil to keep the price down. It is exactly right that we cut it off for the reasons you say. What I am saying is that we cannot have massive incr...

Right now we need a suspension of VAT on fuel, a further cut of fuel duty and the suspension of all green taxes and net-zero eco-warrior type programmes which we cannot currently afford. Hard disagree. I'd like my children to have a hospitable planet to live on, which we won't have if we keep on ma...

A lot being made of the 5p reduction in fuel duty on the six o'clock news tonight, which was due to take effect at 6pm. Are petrol stations obliged to change their prices at all, or at exactly 6pm? Or is it all an exercise in perception and spin? Fuel duty is paid at wholesale not at retail. Theref...