not when they are an all ireland party.
let the DUP attend if they want seeing as it is their monarchy.
jesus a bit stupid for them to start advertising that they want higher thresholds. looking at 40 per cent capital gains tax most likely. absolute chancers. the money will be funneled to only one section of society. who do they think will vote for them?
that's up to them.
however members of the party which represent the irish republican movement, the 32 county republic and all that it stands for should not be attending anything to do with a monarch who was the head of state for a regime which tried to suppress this nation and everything it stands for.
sf are going against the people they are supposed to represent and it's not good enough.
that's correct.
Sorry I thought it was in relation to their meeting in Belfast yesterday
Heads of state should of course go to the funeral of another head of state.
And internally, in the UK, at the very least, the first ministers of regional assemblies should also attend. Until such a time as a border poll is passed by the 6 counties that includes NI
Energy prices have never been higher,I dunno whom your trying to convince that they have fallen🤣
Ah yes think il put up with awlful customer service and unproductive staff,than this present utopia of record prices and record profits🤌.....at some point,even to yourself deregulation has failed and like communism hurts ordinary people the hardest,unless you present scenario as a success?
Where did I say/suggest/hint/think of/? removing Ireland from the SEM. I was just responding to your ridiculous (imo) bluster in the previous post that obviously had no basis in fact. Strike a well????????????????
the monopolies that controlled energy before de-regulation had awful customer service and a bloated unproductive staff
What a load of horse manure, to go with the pile of horse manure that was posted before.
Have you ever tried recently to contact any of these energy companies, left hanging on the phone interminably, customer service my ass.
Why do people post stuff like this that is so obviously and verifiably untrue, beggars belief
Edit: These same bloated unproductive staff who have delivered projects all over the world, SSJ
You would expect Michael Martin to be there in fairness, head of govt of their nearest neighbour, Simon Coveney as foreign affairs minister too.
Are you proposing to remove Ireland from the Single European Market for Energy? Did we strike a well somewhere that I didn't hear about?
So the funeral of a head of state should not be attended by anybody from outside that state?
Presumably
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, Emperor of Japan Naruhito, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French prime minister Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian prime minister Jair Bolsonaro.
shouldn't be going either?
The fact that energy costs have fallen as well as risen (and that you won't acknowledge that, which is funny to watch), that consumers have a choice of supplier and that multiple energy companies have left the market due to spiralling costs renders your entire argument moot.
SF aren't planning to nationalise, they're copying the British Government by putting the cost directly on the tax-payer to handle the cost differences. Europe is going with a different approach, but both amount to shuffling money around.
If Europe weens itself off russian energy, prices will settle again (they always have in the past...), if another major event occurs, then the prices will react to that. The Middle East is paying close attention as they don't want the world to wean themselves off fossil fuels and they don't want competition from shale oil, so they'll increase supply as needed to keep the dollars pouring in.
Sticking fingers in your ears and ignoring stuff happening isn't a solution (like all the eejits on the covid forum who couldn't handle advice updating as more information became unavailable).
And again, the monopolies that controlled energy before de-regulation had awful customer service and a bloated unproductive staff. No sane person would want to return to that (apart from those wishing for a socialist revolution, likely as they never experienced the previous ineptitude themselves).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0apbdroLad4
There are certainly questions that need answering.
I wonder if any of this money ended up with SF?
There should be a full audit of such.
I take it you voted NO in the GFA?
SF is an irish party and anybody who has anything to do with it has no business being at a commemmoration for a british monarch.
first minister or no first minister, it doesn't matter.
Not sure but I don't think so, but then he has no great role anymore so wouldn't expect him to be there
Did Gerry attend to offer his condolences? Himself and Charles have so much in common. Both of them have played key roles in covering up their respective brothers sex crimes.
Michelle O'Neill is the de-facto first minister of Northern Ireland, Paul Givan is the de-facto deputy first minister. While the 6 counties remain part of the UK they both should be there, Micheal Martin and Simon Coveney are strange additions in that respect
I have heard of making things up.
Just interested in knowing where you got those numbers from.
Have you ever heard of knowing stuff
Where did you get your figures from?
Just for clarification. The cost of electricity market opening was €1.2bn approx, that's €600 approx for every electricity customer, any idea who might have paid for that. The cost of maintaining that market is millions if not hundreds of millions per year. There are even some idiots who think that switching electricity supplier is free (somebody has to pay).The price of electricity has increased significantly (not just this year) since market opening. Market competition has given us the risk of power cuts this year for the first time since 1927 (other than line faults and industrial action).
Market opening/deregulation has served us well, hasn't it.
Edit: I should have said those figures were for the 2001 market opening, lord knows how many additional billions SEM & I-SEM have cost us (electricity customers)
Profits have never been higher? Never as much competition?
Four suppliers have left the market. Something doesn't add up, if the profits are huge.
That is the reality.
Mate your pushing deregulation as a great thing,when it in practice fails to deliver what it promises......
profits have never been higher,and never been as much competition.....this is reality,not a loose concept
quite why you believe in deregulation unquestioned at your own expense is beyond me....the fact someone would agree with someone telling it like it is,on this subject, should not come as a suprise to you....quite why you wish to throw shade at communism (which given one of few whom income producing assets on thread is me) when deregulation failing in front of your eyes is beyond me
When things don't "settle" in next 12 months,will yous simply dream up another excuse for failed policies??,or admit deregulation/privatisation and it's proposed success are nonsense in real world application (same as communism)
12-ish months ago it was down to post pandemic demand after record low prices for raw fuels.
It's almost like we live in a dynamically changing world.
Have energy prices ever gone down before? Why did the energy companies "reduce their profits" in those circumstances?
Paul Murphy is an idiot who wants to usher in a new era of communism, everything he does is built on that premise and everything he does falls apart because it's built on a premise that doesn't work.
Luckily, as time has gone on, SF have grown they've moved further and further away from such broken ideology (even they aren't pushing the re-nationalising fantasy that Murphy is).
But yet again, another person on the SF thread who actually has more in common with PBP/Rise/ABC than SF, colour me shocked.
accept reality as it is and it prices should be state set
While reality is a loose concept there, just energy? or is there any other prices that should be state set while we're at it?
Noone anywhere said otherwise?
But laying blame for high energy prices for a war,when there was near identical problem 12 months ago and government sat on hands and waited for it to get worse
This deregulation hasn't worked,never as much competition,profits never higher,and prices never higher.....you have to accept reality,it (like communism) deosnt work in practice and too many ordinary people suffer trying to make it work......Paul Murphy is deeply flawed individual,but the only person I seen,out telling it like it is,and speaking up for ordinary people,while everyone sits on their hands and want to prick around the edges with subsidising electrity?
Do you honestly think energy companies are going to slash their profits/prices going forward??,at some stage ya must accept reality as it is and it prices should be state set
Don't believe this needs calling out:
A) Europe is preparing for this winter on relatively short notice, they have 15 months to winter 2023 to secure energy away from russia.
B) Market competition (e.g. bonkers) forces suppliers to reduce prices, as long as there's a few left to compete (and if there isn't, then it's semi state anyway and we set the prices). Those that actually produce raw energy are enjoying bumper revenue because the good they supply is in high demand, like housing, the answer is to increase supply, not chaotically intervene or prioritise it for one group over another. If you were right, then energy prices have never ever dropped, have they dropped before?
You seem way too young to remember how esb/bord gais/telecom eireann used to carve everything up for themselves to the detriment of all their customers and had to be dragged kicking and screaming into deregulation.
People being unable to pay energy bills was flagged. 12 months ago, government advice was to "shop around'
In meantime energy companies have made record profits,and people's spending power has been eroded further
What exactly makes you think it will stabilise itself;in next 12 months,or that energy companies will want to make less profit going forward??
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