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[Craig @_AshH8]

@PolitlcsUK Well they've made them unemployable when it comes to Saturday jobs since no employer is paying £30k a year to collect glasses.

Only right that they take away any other earning potential from young teens. We don't want to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs, do we!

[Craig @_AshH8]

@StevisDave @markTHFC82 Santander Regular Saver pays 8% interest upto £200 a month

When it comes to paying bills, your own money is always better in your own pocket.

Why can't people see this?

[Craig @_AshH8]

Well that's Russell Brand found GUILTY.

Now let's get 'he who shall not be named' out of the psych room and into the Courtroom.

We do justice well here in little Britain.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@eleanor74358961 @SkyNews Its inexplicable. BoE using a play book from the 80s in a changed world.

Raising rates won't bring energy or fuel prices down. It'll just heap more misery on families.

But it's the only (blunt) tool they have and there's no imagination at the bank or in Government anymore.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@MartinSLewis Now they've got their snouts in the trough this will be never ending. We need to be more French but that'll never happen in England, a very weak and divided nation.

A rise like this puts Gov't policies (VAT cut, 'scrapping' gas SC) into insignificance.

[Craig @_AshH8]

Most employers have spent the past decade reducing benefits and headcount whilst expecting the workers left behind to do more for a real-terms pay cut.

The same employers are then surprised when their employees will no longer give up their time for free.

https://t.co/SfM9oJEQPm

[Craig @_AshH8]

@DavidPainter64 @OctopusEnergy @osteogenesis Clue's in the name pal.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@OctopusEnergy All it does is lock in high unit rates forever. Like fixing the mortgage for 30 years when the rates are highest.

If it was good news for customers it wouldn't have happened. Roughly 60% save 68p a week. The other 40% pay more, including business, who will just pass on the cost.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@MartinSLewis So roughly half will be 86p a week better off so that roughly half, including businesses (who will pass on the cost to customers) will be far worse off?

Think I'll keep the champagne on ice.

(Just kidding, can't afford champagne (or to freeze water)).

[Craig @_AshH8]

@BBCLeeds Taking nothing away from the teen with a bright future.

But are we saying that in 2026 - the year we should have flying cars - using plastic to keep rats out of cable boxes has evaded the brains of network rail engineers and contractors for decades?

[Craig @_AshH8]

@GaryKThompson71 @BBCNews @KanishkaNarayan As the saying goes - the Americans innovate, the Chinese imitate and the Europeans regulate.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@TonyWard867811 If you pay it, they'll keep charging it.

Simples.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@mrclarkinc @ElsonM3 Doesnt matter how efficient your business is - no one is buying your product when everyone is unemployed

Stop feeding your trade secrets into AI. It relies on learning from us to be better - that's why big tech is currently giving it away.

You are a turkey voting for Christmas.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@badbirb @mrclarkinc You sound like a corporate senior manager

"Automation doesn't mean reduction in headcount, it just means you have more time for more important things!! Kindly impart your knowledge to the automation people here"

*3 months later*: mass redundancies

[Craig @_AshH8]

@DanielPriestley No job is safe. A plumber/decorator etc might not get replaced by AI directly.

But who has the money to pay them for new bathrooms/decorating etc when the masses have been replaced?

They're smug, but mostly too dumb to realise they're not as safe as they think they are.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@GMFinX This is where the "pay FoR wHaT YoU UsE pEr MoNtH" brigade's philosophy falls down.

The idea is you split your yearly usage across equal monthly payments. Then you don't have £128 bills in warm months and £300 in cold months - much easier to budget (and stay warm year round).

[Craig @_AshH8]

@Draegarth @OctopusEnergy Octopus have grown big and become greedy. Their CEO @g__j purports to be against standing charges but Octopus was the highest amongst the lot when I compared and subsequently switched earlier this year.

Another corporate stooge laughing all the way to the bank.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@itsdbtalks Not me. Bought a house in 2016 before the world went mad. No mortgage, hundreds of thousands of £ in the bank + shares + decent pension when I come to take it (I'm 38). Live modestly but struggle for nothing.

World has gone to hell since. Feel sorry for people starting out now.

[Craig @_AshH8]

@markessien Nonsense. Go and touch some grass. Climb a mountain or something.