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Better start saving for next winters fuel bills

TheCatWoman

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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  • Hi CW

    Thanks for starting this thread, Im finding it interesting reading the various perspectives. There’s nothing particular or meaningful I can add to the discussion around global politics, particularly as I no longer follow the news due to too many triggers for my c-ptsd, but it is interesting to see what others here think. 

    Despite being essentially a city girl all my life I lived in rural Derbyshire for four years caring for my mum so have some insight into country living. There was no gas in her village so she had fuel oil heating, which of course has no price controls. Ordering it was hugely stressful, getting it delivered was a lottery especially in the winter as the roads were narrow and often blocked. Periodically electricity poles were blown down so no electricity. The post office was the only shop which quickly ran out of essentials in a crisis. Buses were one an hour, in perfect circumstances! When I was there the internet was still reliant on old and slow copper cables. The cost of living was significantly higher due to all these factors than say Derby to the east and Stoke on Trent to the west. 

    When she passed away in 2019 I moved immediately back to the urban north west of England. 

  • in reply to Alice-nice-Alice

    We had our copper cables upgraded to fibre optic and more mobile phone masts put in, so you can get signal most places now, although you do stil get a few "ping, Welcome To Ireland" messages on the coast.

    You certaily have to be far more organised living in the country than in towns, but even in towns there are lots of buildings who's walls don't permit signals to pass through easily, even our signal boosters have boosters!

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Village dweller here. WiFi works with two booster units - I live in a Georgian agricultural cottage that was extended in Victorian times and again in 2005, so lots of former external walls inside. Fast fibre connection. Mobile signal iffy. Power cuts when it's windy. Bus reliably every two hours. Veg cart, eggs from farm, milk delivered, weekly bakery van, café, church, nice people and friendly dogs. Happy here!

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Village dweller here. WiFi works with two booster units - I live in a Georgian agricultural cottage that was extended in Victorian times and again in 2005, so lots of former external walls inside. Fast fibre connection. Mobile signal iffy. Power cuts when it's windy. Bus reliably every two hours. Veg cart, eggs from farm, milk delivered, weekly bakery van, café, church, nice people and friendly dogs. Happy here!

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