Better start saving for next winters fuel bills

Today petrol has jumped by 2p a litre on the forecourt, gas has almost doubled in price so we can expect a deepening of the cost of living crisis. Thank you very much to Donal Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu....not.

Ok nobody I know liked the regime in Iran, but just blowing them up was never going to work, did it not occur to them that the Iranians would fight back? The clerical regime in Iran is just as entrenched as the Catholic Church, you wouldn't expect to blow up the pope and St Peters in Rome and have no one to take over. I'm sure the Iranian regime has just as much structure and fall backs as the Catholic Church does. Now we all seem to be getting dragged in, I'm really pleased Starmer said NO to Trump using our bases, there's no legal basis for this war and I suspect that as ever America just wants us along to help with the death toll, it's about time a British PM didn't follow the US blindly into its foreign wars.

Whats even worse, is that from everything they keep saying, they don't even know why they went to war in the first place and as ever theres no plan for what ahppens when the war ends.

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  • There seem to be conflicting accounts of what Trump has been saying, he seems to be saying different things to different people. I don't know whether this is war planing according to what gets the most press attention or if there is an actual plan?

    One of the benficiaries of all this chaos seems likely to be Russia as Trump is "allowing" some sanctions to be lifted on Russian oil and gas.

    First, who the hell does he think he is to allow the rest of the world to buy stuff.

    Secondly, will the rest of the world take any notice of him?

    Thirdly is this a plan to rehabilitate Putin as some kind of saviour by "allowing" us to buy oil and gas?

    Fourthly what of Ukraine, if Russia is allowed to earn more money from oil and gas then it funds his war against Ukraine.

  • And how does he expect to get that? 

    Perhaps if he was more realistic and negotiated he could stop killing people. Today, innocent people and children were killed.

  • I think I'll fill my car and a couple of cans up with petrol tomorrow, if the Gulf States stop production as they're saying they might, then I think we'll be looking at £2 a litre before long.

    Trump says he wants a say in who the next Iranian leader is, only problem with that is that America and Israel have killed all Trumsp prefered candidates.

    I dont' think Trump cares about the rest of the world, hopefully economic pressure will reign him in where no one else can?