British Gas / Centrica HALF YEAR profits £992 million, BP profits £6.7 billion,Gov launches attack on youtube?

Question

Sorry, but is it me, or is something very peculiar goin on? Huge conglomorates are pushing the worlds economies into probably the deepest recession or depression since the Great Depression back in 30s.. and what do you hear from the UK and US government.. NOTHING!

Can destroying the worlds economies be justified by saying shareholders need to be paid outrageous profits? It almost seems like there is plot to encourage a recession..

Answer 1

why do they attack u tube, if bp has obscene profits.

Answer 2

Well it does make you wonder do the powers that be want a recession for some reason. Because where I'm sitting it certainly looks that way.

People can thumb me down but the government are doing nothing to prevent it.

In fact Gordon Brown has gone on holiday thats how concerned he is about the situation .

Answer 3

Go on then get of your **** and do something about it.

I think you need to understand how the profits are made up.

Answer 4

just a rip they blame crude oil prices have you noticed that crude oil prices has come  dramatically in the last few weeks.

Answer 5

This peculiar feeling you keep getting happens to us all because there seems to be a mismatch between what appears to be going on and the actions of governments to protect or help their citizens.

The truth is governments have not got a clue what to do next, and they don't really care.

Answer 6

well said  my friend.we should have a national strike and we should all endure the poverty that follows but at least we made a stand like our fathers ,brothers and sisters did .until then its no-good saying at the next election we will kick them out because its too late.

Answer 7

The trouble is that a lot of people don't want to think. They want to switch off and vegetate in front of the TV, why do you think Big Brother is so popular.

I was in India in April and our driver laughed at us when we said how much we pay for petrol as it was twice what they pay!! How the h**l is that fair ? This country is going to the dogs and no-one in the government seems to give a ****.

For the love of God, Gordon Brown just resign and admit you are c**p at being PM.

Answer 8

Awful really, the ones that are really suffering over all these actions do so far away really.

On the contary I think they are really not doing that but they are fueling and encouraging Revolution something they would not like one bit.  I have heard the last few days many people say that they wish there was a group that would sweep the lot of these governments from power like Russia in 1917. I know of one Russian in fact who says that all these price rises remind him of his history study classes of the fall of the Czars.

#Prices going up

#fuel beyond the majorities means

#Feeling that governments are not listening to the pains

#Big cats taking as much as they can from their own people even with the profits they are making already

these were points were ones that saw the French Revolution and the Russian among cases and some failed ones as well.

Do they sound similar to today?

If it sounds that I am calling for Revolution I am Not.  I am saying that they risk causing one by all these actions.  By there-selves they would be tolerated but together history shows that they lead to Kings losing their heads to the Gullitieon along with the profiters.

Answer 9

fuel and energy prices are rocketing through the roof, allegedly to give shareholders obscenely higher and higher proffets, we're being taxed at rediculously high rates on these essentials so the government can rake in more of our hard earned, makes me wonder if they are trying to turn us into a third world country?

the cost of living for me has doubled in just 6 months! i no longer have any disposable income at all! and our bloody government and the greens keep bleating on about global warming and what we, joe public must do to stop it, like we can afford to do anything about it! and there are those tv chefs who bang on about buying free range chickens, again, like we can afford to!

it really annoys me when the government, the greens, etc, dictate to us what we should be doing in the first place! and yet due to the greed of the fuel and energy companies, and the taxation by the government, which pushes our food bills up to rediculous highs, we can't afford to do the right thing if we wanted to!

so in answer to your question, i suspect that the powers that be are trying to bring on the end of the world, in our lifetime, alternatively, bring on the greatest worldwide depression ever to kill off the overpopulation through starvation and hypothermia (in winter)

Answer 10

What gets me is that the fuel people say the don't make much profit from fuel to the motorist, these latest figures make a lie of that statement, don't they?

Answer 11

The people are ready for a revolution! Heads will roll!.

Answer 12

This is happening worldwide!

Rebellion will happen eventually & total chaos after that.

There are no true leaders & governments don't seem to know what to do since most services are now privatised.

It' all profit, profit, profit.

All I know is people will not be able to pay, eventually.

Answer 13

i am happy to live in fuel poverty, as long as freedom of speech is restricted. We cant have people doing what they want now can we? I mean, what are we? some kind of democracy?

Answer 14

It is all to do with making two Societies, mega rich and dirt poor. Guess which we will be in.

Answer 15

Just look at Shell's results today. While everyone else falls into financial depression the super rich companies get richer at our expense. I certainly believe that profits should reflect the financial turmoil and these companies should cut their prices accordingly. If they do not then they should be subject to windfall taxation. The CEO's and Directors of these companies just carry on taking massive salaries and dividends/pensions. Is it fair?