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Maybe not the wisest idea to go on a twitter Q&A just after announcing a price rise..

The funniest questions Twitter asked of British Gas boss today | Liberal Conspiracy

Seriously though...just how they have the balls to ask for almost 10%...where do they think the working man will find the money for that kind of price hike. Maybe we could borrow it from Obama?

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This is a fine way to stimulate the economy......make things much more expensive.
This will affect far more than the heating and lighting bills.

Isn't it considered some kind of cartel when all the energy suppliers put their prices up at the same time and all within the same price range too.
I do not believe for one minute that British Gas have had to dip into their pockets to keep the rises low(that is laughable- they think that three times the level of inflation is low).......shame on you British Gas

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I am thankful that, when I moved, I got a fixed price contract with EDF that lasts until next summer.

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Shale gas will soon lower the cost to us all :D

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I really do doubt it......they are so used to robbing us blind...and just because it has lowered energy prices in the US doesn't mean that it will do the same here.

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:yelrotflm:yelrotflm:yelrotflm

I doubt it bud to be honest.

10p in the pound on lecy alone is massive. Then 8.5p in the pound to boot?
No wonder people are fiddling there meters

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Really?

You know folk like that?

I bet they're all those scum scroungers on benefits!

Actually, according to the propaganda those on benefits are living the high life, so it's probably those poorly paid MP's that can no longer fiddle their expenses that are having to do it!
:)

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yep the propaganda is shame full . showing programmes which were filmed 4 years ago showing people on benefits living the high life with big tvs n things. lol have they not heard of bright house ..

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Any chance one of those bright sparks from the post office sell off thread would still care to justify privatisation causing healthy competition, lower prices and not costing the taxpayers a fortune?

I see no honest competition, only higher prices, and costing me a damn fortune to heat my cave.

And still the threat of power cuts in winter looms. Not from striking miners but by the EU closing power stations and bosses who won't invest in new ones because of this governments policies. The bosses don't really care mind you, because they can still hike the prices and pocket the difference. And the government is 'disappointed'.

Disappointed? Dis-a-ppointed?? Thats the most descriptive word they can bleedin' well find???

Switch suppliers they say....to whom?...they'll all put them up anyway.

We can't control prices they say...well you damn well could before you privatised it you bunch of cretins!

But hey, here comes the cavalry to fund nuclear power stations...oh wait..communists???? running businesses and investing??? right wing conservatives fawning over them like Uriah Heep clones???

A government in disarray, grabbing help from their antithesis. You couldn't make it up.

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You didn't think I was being serious did you? :rolleyes:

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Fair play to Cameron,
telling consumers to change their provider from British Gas.
For to long prime ministers and senior ministers have avoided telling consumers to avoid rip off companies without naming them; I hope this trend continues.

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Neil, I always take what you say seriously....you are a mod after all :D

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It is all very well for him to offer advice, and the advice that he is offering is rubbish because in the next few days what is the betting that all the other big energy companies won't be doing exactly the same thing....and sometimes when you change you can lose out by having to pay a release fee....and what you would save wouldn't keep a kid in bubble gum.
It won't affect those in the POW(they are probably claiming for their energy bills, so we are paying for theirs as well as our own) which is why absolutely nothing is ever done to rectify the situation.

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im not sure how it works but i thought teh rival gas companies paid british gas a fee for using their gas pipeline network.All that will happen is that british gas will raise that fee forcing rival companies to increase their prices so british gas still get lots of money.

thats of cours eif my understanding of how it works is correct

we dont need Cameron providing lipservice like he gives a toss about peoples fuel bills we need judges that laugh british gas out of court when they apply to have someone cut off.

British gas have been getting away with robbing the country blind for years and have been exposed as doing so multiple times on watchdog yet no government has ever pulled them up and taken action to prevent them doing so. Governments past and present have expressed dissapointment though which im sure scares british gas to their core

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Well that's alright then..... he'll be telling us to line our shoes with newspaper next !!!!

Downing Street Solves Energy Bill Crisis: Wear A Jumper If Your House Is Too Cold

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so does a jumper stop your home from becoming damp in winter too?
I frequently do not put the heating on, but put an extra layer of clothes on..or go to bed early because it is warm under the duvet.
It doesn't take a huge drop in temperature to have health implications for older folk and those who are vulneable.

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Shoes? You have shoes?

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:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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in the olden days there would have been protests but the country is in apathy divided just the way the toffs want us peasants to be..

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A thread wander and moan in.... Went the Dunkenhalgh last night for an Aerospace forum....small bottle of proper Coca cola £3:00.... Robbing bar stewards... How much is that a gallon.... Rip off Britain indeed

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anybody who votes tory now needs their head checking;)

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yeah tony blair put an end to peacefull protest by making it an act of terrorism

thsi is why fuel prices are so high and teh fiel protests havnt happened again

mind you cameron hasnt reveres this rule and given us back our freedom of protest either

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I'll have you know my dear Caledonian misfit that we Toffs are having as hard a time as everyone else.
Sometimes I just wonder where my next caviar buttie is coming from!
That's beside the fact that I caught the under footman cutting extra large amounts of crust off my tea time cucumber sandwiches and was actually feeding them to the younger female members of staff for sexual favours.
Has this audacious young man forgotten?

We are supposed to be in it together!

However he refuses to unlock the bedroom door so that I can have my turn.
:(

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What for? Fleas, lice...brains?
Anyone who votes for any of the three major parties need their bumps feeling......just get it in your head, they aren't in it to make your life better....they are in it to make their lives better.
They are all on the make...when did you last see a politician on the bones of their bum.......Never would be the right answer.

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no their answer is to gag the charities;)

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*cough*....still waiting for the pro-privatisation argument

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the dunk has always been a rip off

senator host their xmas do there and i never went because although senator put on free wine they wouldnt put on free propper booze for those who cant stand wine and i certainly wasnt paying dunk prices at the bar.

you know its bad when i multi millonair is looking at the prices and saying stuff that for a game of soldiers

funny thing is when the gym was a pub/bar teh prices were reasonable

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I am only the village idiot

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No...I do not believe that at all Neil.....pull the other one. It plays Jingle bells!
I think perhaps you are more R than F(more rogue...the nicest possible way, than fool)...I had to remember then, that you have the power to stop me from my innocent pleasures on here! :D

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less of the "only" you had to fight off a lot of stiff competition for that title :D

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:d:d:d:d

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In the past five years British Gas prices have risen 79%

There was a twitter storm Thursday to Bert Pijls BG's customer service director.
Lee Vincent asked "Which items of furniture do you in your humble opinion think people should burn first this winter?"
Got me thinking :D

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Could always start burning witches again ... it's a Lancashire tradition, after all;)

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Starting with Cherie Blair, Teressa May & that man hating thing Harridan Harman! :D

Build up the Bommy & chuck on some more faggots! :s_aim1:

(I'd use petrol .... but hell, at those prices!)

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Yes but can you get smokeless ones?

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Maybe they could be freeze-dried first ... that would cut down on the smoke.

In these days of gender equality, it wouldn't be out of place to burn senior executives of British Gas, along with those who give advice like "wear sweaters in the house.";)

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There's always a greenie when you don't need one.

Look, we get rid of that lot and global warming won't be a problem, hot air escaping into the atmosphere, suddenly we meet our quota without destroying anymore British industry.

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This is cut and paste but its good advice from another of Call me Dave's BILLIONAIRE friends:rolleyes::rolleyes::mad: Cut energy bills by putting on a jumper, suggests David Cameron's spokesman - Mirror Online

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Its a pity the country as a whole cant just stand together on this and not pay the barstewards what would they do they couldnt take us all to court. Its definitely fundamentally wrong that our energy needs and supplies should be controlled by foreign companies who really dont give a stuff about our country, and the people who can do something about it are to out of touch with the real world to realize whats going on.

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Excuse me? Although I don't like our utilities belonging to old Johnny Foreigner, they bought them legitimately, if we don't pay it's not them breaking the law, they supply we must pay for what we consume.

It's an absolute cock up all around. Our politicians past and present must feel proud of their involvement.

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As much as I hate to add a bit of common sense to any raving thread regarding our energy firms, but........

Why don't we the Great British public send British Gas a message they cannot ignore, change suppliers?

We are with the rather smug Coop energy.

It would be fun seeing BG ( no relation, honest) losing most of their customers.:D

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I'm with the smug Scottish Power and have it fixed for the even smugger 2 more years..that ain't the point though.

Switching won't make a blind bit of difference because all the others will hike the prices sooner or later because they operate like a cartel. Competition between energy companies is a myth and Ofgem is a joke.

The simple fact is that energy prices across the board have doubled in the last 7 years regardless of which company you are with. There is no accountability on how much is cost and how much is profit. Also, due to short sightedness by politicians of all colours this country is unable to store gas, which means we have to pay top dollar at peak usage. You can add to this the stupid green policies of this current government that is stifling investment and paying a fortune to inefficient wind and solar power companies....people will die unnecessarily this winter and all the government can say is that they are 'disappointed'!

This is not right in a developed country!

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I had to move out of my birth village when younger and stronger idiots came along :D

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Yeah well it must be hard to discover you ain't the only moronic gay in your village!
;)

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Yet another of the 'Big 6' put their prices up to eye watering levels.
Maybe it is time to switch to a smaller company?

Energy companies rated

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Ovo Energy are saying wholesale energy prices are not going up.

BBC News - Wholesale energy prices 'not going up', says Ovo Energy

This is a pretty comprehensive guide and summary to switching.


Cheapest energy tariffs: We reveal today's cheapest energy and gas prices including fixed deals | This is Money

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So wholesale energy prices haven't risen for 2 years!
Bearing in mind each % increase is compounded on top of the previous ones, £100 pounds worth of British Gas gas bought in November 2010 will now cost you £145.25.
No wonder the CE of Centrica earned overall £4.97 million last year. Running a company as successfully as this he should expect at least £7 million this year- BG obviously think we can afford it.

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at the rate british gas are putting up prices i think it will be cheaper for the kids to have me stuffed rather than cremated when i eventully kick the bucket..

i was going to leave my body to science but im not sure they take bodies with bits missing

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I got two letters from british gas yesterday,the first said they were knocking my direct debit down a tenner a month and could fix it for 12 months.the other said that gas price was rising from November ????? I`m a bit confused .com :D I`m assuming if I take the fixed for 12 months I won`t be affected by the price increase.
wouldn`t it be easier if everything was nationalized :)

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british gas operate a system wher ethey charge by what they think you can pay

if you are on low income/benefits they have a low rate tarriff and if you are working full time they charge you a more expensive tarriff

basically there are a whole load of tarriffs that they match to different criteria so theres a whole lot of people using teh exact same gas but pay different prices

try ringing up saying your disabled ,on benefits and bi sexual with a child with ADHD and you shoudl get the lowest tarrif going

im going to check tehir website to see if they have any allowances for ferret owners

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You forgot to mention ethnicity & colour! ;)

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british gas arnt racists

they will screw anyone

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We have been wi OVO fer a couple of years now n will be staying wi em when we move in a couple of weeks.;)

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A full week and not one post from the privateers, or the thatcherites evidencing how privatisation creates healthy competition..guess they are all on holiday or back in Singapore counting dividends, whilst pensioners who have worked all their lives are about to freeze to death.

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lol british gas offered me a frozen price/rate today .I almost agreed it to it until i thought it was best to ask if it was at the current rates or teh predicted new rates.

as i suspected they were only offering the fixed rate at the upcoming higher rates where as other companies are offering current prices fixed rates so dont fall for it with british gas

i swear these crooks will have as many gas related deaths on their hands as hitler if they are allowed to continue these unjustifiable increases in price

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Also, if you choose to fix your price, then they put a premium on for fixing so you will pay more than the proposed price rise for the privilege of fixing.
They have to get their money somehow.
If you want to change supplier you have to(in most cases) agree to direct debit.
I will not pay my energy bills by direct debit.

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Right then who can explain this to me?
I get my gas (and electric) from British Gas, one of my neighbour get’s his supplied by Scottish Power and the lady further up the street gets hers from Eon.
Now as far as I know it all comes up the same pipe on our street from the same gas reservoir or storage facility. When my central heating boiler clicks on is doesn’t send a signal to some munchkin deep in the bowels of the earth and he goes “Uh oh the P47 household needs a slug of gas” and sends it down the pipe to me as a special delivery.
So why the different prices, surely the price should be the same for everybody?
All the big six talk about they need the profits to invest in the infrastructure and all that guff, why?? they all share the same flipping pipes and tanks.

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So why is Ovo, a smaller company cheaper than the big 6? and having spoke to them yesterday (about my move) they tell me they have NO plans at all to increase at this point in time.

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Maybe its all to do with the Big 6 talk of hot air?

Just checked Ovo, they could save me £80 per year, but it is monthly Direct Debit, something i do not want to do, so I will stick with the Coop, who allow me to pay on reciept of the bill and they are cheaper than the big 6 as well, quite a bit for me anyway, according to uswitch.

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Why dont you like direct debit?

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Because the bastards rip you off twice, they over estimate your gas usage, so over charge you on your debit, then they make interest on you money, then take weeks to sort out your correct billing. I pay all my bills over the counter at the Post office, it might appear to cost more than direct debit, but in my opinion DD is a rip off, its far cheaper in the long run to pay cash, than having them messing with your money.

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There's Variable Direct Debit available from BG not sure about the others?

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/HelpAnd...XI=4,CASE=3388

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Is meter reading a thing of the past now in the uk Retlaw?. DD is not a rip off. It is the safest, and the best way, for us oldies to pay our bills. It does not cost anything to DD, and you can cancel at any time. The service provider is the one that is the rip off.

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Not at my bank.

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That should read, that i do not pay fees for DD at my bank.

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nah mate not wi the one i'm doing, if its oer the correct usage i get credit n interest on the money ive paid oer, I pay monthly in advance n its set annually n its still way less than any of the so called big 6,:)

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I have no problems with Direct Debit, every other bill we have is Direct Debit. I just had a similar experience to Retlaw with the energy companies. I still pay the bill online, just when I recive it.

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It might work Ok for you in Aussie Land, but remember this is rip off Britain, yes they still read meters.

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Ours aint been read fer oer 2 yrs, i just submit the readings online monthly, they was gonna send a reader a couple of months ago n i rang to say no-one will be in that day, so they said ok you read it.:D i thought they would give us another date??:confused:

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You can of course be crafty and smooth off your payments across the year by sending in an err? adjusted reading too.

Not that I would ever get involved in such sharp practices.

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Yep but no need to do so far as i'm concerned, pay so much a month in winter n around 25£ less in summer, n the high one is less than it cost me monthly wi SSE.:)

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Why am i not surprised at this!

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check out post 13........it is no surprise to me.....no surprise at all.

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Strange. The President of the European Central Bank is worried about the low inflation in the EU falling into deflation.
One of the reasons he gives is ' a larger fall in energy prices' and 'on the basis of current future prices for energy annual inflation rates are expected to remain at low levels'.
So as our suppliers give one of the reasons for the rises in prices as ' having to buy on the world energy market', are the EU suppliers able to access energy on a different world market? Perhaps a different world?
Of course it couldn't possibly be that our suppliers, mainly owned by the Europeans, are raising our prices to subsidize the EU markets' could it?
However you look at it we're being ripped off!

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The price of energy has fallen in Holland.....their bills have gone down.....why is this?
Might it be because the wholesale price of gas has come down by something like 5%......the energy companies do not tell you this! and cynically increase prices just as we come up to the time when the use of energy is set to rise.
This week we have put our heating on for the first time since the end of May.
The energy companies in this country collude with each other, in effect running a cartel.....which is of course, illegal.