Beenaberry

Mum of 2, love the outdoors, nature, reading & music.

[Debbie @glenys1971]

Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.

So … let me get this straight:

* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June

* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone

* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year

The MEN at the top:

* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary

* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits

* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m

* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.

* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m

* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m

* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m

* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package

* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000

* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m

* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary

Meanwhile there are...

* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.

* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.

* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.

* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.

* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.

* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.

* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.

* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!

* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.

* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!

All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...

THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.

Something needs to change.

Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?

I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@EmilySm43 The Breakfast Club

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@emmaalj Congratulations! It’s so tough out there job-wise

[Tony Soprano @BigT_soprano]

will be giving this a watch when it's done - A look back at how it all started

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@chefsevenn Both

[- @Desver_]

Tener 50's es raro.
Todos viven una línea temporal distinta.
Algunos son abuelos, otros están cambiando pañales a las 3 am, otros salen con personas de 25 , otros celebran 20 años de casados.
La mitad parecen de 33 y la otra: mitad parece haber luchado en la 2 Guerra Mundial.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

How the fuck are people on minimum wage supposed to survive in the UK?

Not everyone can “get a better job.” Not everyone has a partner to split the bills with. Not everyone can move back in with their parents.

Someone still has to stack shelves, clean hospitals, serve food and keep the country running.

Yet people are working full-time, watching their entire wages disappear on rent and bills, then spending the rest of the month praying nothing goes wrong.

We’ve somehow accepted that if you’re on minimum wage, you’re just supposed to struggle.

Minimum wage no longer covers the basics. Something needs to change.

[🇺🇸 The FJC 🇺🇸 @The_FJC]

If every computer in the world crashed, and the internet shut down completely, Gen-X is the only generation that could survive. 🤷‍♂️

And we'd communicate in cursive, too, just to keep the rest guessing how we do it. 🤣

[MAJOR @Squeeze1i]

When you're in your 50's
and you don't know if
you should retire,
go back to school,
move to a different
country, hit the road and
never look back or just
cry in your
car listening to 80's
music from when you
were 15 and alive

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@Jenny_1884 Cinzano and Martini 🤮🤮

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Renting in the UK is fucking backwards.

You can spend £1,200 a month paying someone else's mortgage. No problem.

That's almost £15k a year going towards an asset you'll never own.

But the bank won't give you an £800 a month mortgage because you “can't prove that you can afford the repayments.”

So apparently £1,200 a month is affordable when it goes to your landlord.

But £800 a month is suddenly unaffordable when it goes towards owning your own place?

Make it make sense.

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@ZubyMusic Happy birthday 🥳

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@CallumLyon Yup

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Prices in the UK just feel completely made up now.

How does a weekend in England cost £700 when you can fly abroad for less?

A return train to London is £160.

The same house that rented for £600 is now £1,200.

A full tank of fuel is over £100.

Car insurance goes up 50% despite the same car, no claims and nothing changing.

£100 in the supermarket somehow gets you two bags of shopping.

And we're all just expected to accept this as normal?

How did we get to the point where being ripped off became part of everyday life?

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@vitt2tsnoc Same. I can’t remember looking forward to cooler days ever before

[Beenaberry @emmarlou72]

@ThrillaRilla369 Lassie

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

Overheard a lady saying she won't let her kid watch Peppa Pig because it encourages bad behaviour like "jumping in puddles".

I watched Road Runner as a kid and haven't blown anyone up with dynamite yet.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Hot take: People DO NOT actually want to become millionaires. They want to stop checking their bank account before buying groceries.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The powers that be don't want you to know that you can literally just choose to be happy.

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

So research is showing SPF increases the risk of skin cancer. The hits keep coming.