Cost of Living - How are you handling it?

Some coffee shops in London have broken the £5 barrier for a Flat White. :shock:

Water companies in England and Wales want bills to increase by between 24% and 91% over the next five years, according to figures compiled by the consumer watchdog.

Southern Water is asking for the biggest jump of 91%, according to the Consumer Council for Water (CCW), with South Staffordshire and Cambridge Water asking for the lowest rise of 24%.

Water firms say the increases will fund £100bn of spending over the period, which will include replacing ageing, leaking pipes and reducing sewage discharges into rivers and seas.

The latest bill hike demands come ahead of a crucial meeting this week when the industry regulator Ofwat will decide what companies can charge between 2025 and 2030.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce55vp78n40o

Great news for the shareholders. :wub:

^ Water companies are a bloomin' joke. Years of siphoning off cash rather than investing in reservoir and pipe replacement work and now they want customers to foot the bill.

BBC news wrote:Water firms say the increases will fund £100bn of spending over the period, which will include replacing ageing, leaking pipes and reducing sewage discharges into rivers and seas.

"We need the money so that we don't chuck sewage into rivers".

jawa_ wrote:^ Water companies are a bloomin' joke. Years of siphoning off cash rather than investing in reservoir and pipe replacement work and now they want customers to foot the bill.

BBC news wrote:Water firms say the increases will fund £100bn of spending over the period, which will include replacing ageing, leaking pipes and reducing sewage discharges into rivers and seas.

"We need the money so that we don't chuck sewage into rivers".

Exactly! They're talking about fixing things that were their responsibility to maintain.

jawa_ wrote:^ Water companies are a bloomin' joke. Years of siphoning off cash rather than investing in reservoir and pipe replacement work and now they want customers to foot the bill.

BBC news wrote:Water firms say the increases will fund £100bn of spending over the period, which will include replacing ageing, leaking pipes and reducing sewage discharges into rivers and seas.

"We need the money so that we don't chuck sewage into rivers".

Go live in communist Russia if you don't like companies making well earned profits

Moggy wrote:Go live in communist Russia if you don't like companies making well earned profits

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. Nearly all (all?) companies seem to be pretty shite now; they want workers to practically kill themselves in devoting their lives to work, whilst at the same time sacking them off as soon as someone offers them a bit of cash to sell out.

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jawa_ wrote:
Moggy wrote:Go live in communist Russia if you don't like companies making well earned profits

... . Nearly all (all?) companies seem to be pretty shite now; they want workers to practically kill themselves in devoting their lives to work, whilst at the same time sacking them off as soon as someone offers them a bit of cash to sell out. / .

Here's the scary part, companies have always been like that. It's just nowadays we don't chop their strawberry floating heads off if they go too far. :toot:

Moggy wrote:Here's the scary part, companies have always been like that. It's just nowadays we don't chop their strawberry floating heads off if they go too far.

For a while I think I turned a blind eye to it, but I think you're right - companies really are banana-splits. Not all of them, perhaps, and not all of the time... but certainly most of them for most of the time. And it is, of course, people that make these choices and decisions... and so it's people that are banana-splits.

Blimey. How deep does this go?

. I might have to stop thinking about it :lol:

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To be fair, it's not people in general who make those decisions, it's the very small subset of people who own businesses or invest in them.

site23 wrote:To be fair, it's not people in general who make those decisions, it's the very small subset of people who own businesses or invest in them.

While still a minority, just under 5 years ago, 13,966,454 made the decision to continue with it.

Being a water company CEO is much worse than being one of those fourteen million Tory voters. (I'm not saying that because I particularly like the Tory voters, obviously...)

twitter.com/The_TUC/status/1793231597765853244

Yeah, I can't recall where it was said or who said it, but I agree with the previously stated approach: if any of those water companies has paid out a penny in dividends then the answer from the regulator must be a hard no. And if the regulator doesn't do this then it isn't fit for purpose and must be reformed.

I was thinking of ordering a Domino's tonight, but I went to look this morning and they've put their prices up AGAIN (must be the 3rd price rise in the space of a year).

Even with a voucher, you then get to the checkout and there's also now a £3 delivery fee on top of that. Hilariously there's a banner at the top of the page stating 'minimum spend now only £9.99'. What's that going to get me, a dip.

KK wrote:I was thinking of ordering a Domino's tonight, but I went to look this morning and they've put their prices up AGAIN...

Twenty-six quid for a large pizza :shock:

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I never order a takeaway nowdays; the prices have gotten a bit silly.

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It's the cookies that are most heinously priced. Taste so good, so tempting, but it's absolutely insane to charge £7 for four tiny biscuits.

EDIT: Just checked the app, and my prices haven't changed. I always collect, and it's still £11.99 for a large pizza.

rinks wrote:It's the cookies that are most heinously priced. Taste so good, so tempting, but it's absolutely insane to charge £7 for four tiny biscuits.

They cost THAT MUCH? wtf

I've got an M&S down the road, they've just got a new range of premium pizzas in with Prosciutto, Calabrian Pepperoni, lah-de-dah cheese and all that sort of stuff and they're only £6 a pop. I like a takeaway but it's just reached the point where I'd have to spend the next 6 hours trying to justify it to myself!

£26

Think I said it a few months ago but takeaway prices are just ludicrous now. The cost:enjoyment ratio is so skewed towards cost now that even if you do succumb, you spend the whole time eating filled with remorse.

I have a couple of £10 off vouchers on Deliveroo which I've used recently but it still only barely brings a meal to within an acceptable price. It's absolutely nuts.

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