TL;DR: Energy prices quadrupling in England. 70% of pubs closing. Winter will kill many people and make many more seriously ill. NHS will be stretched thin. Far bigger crash than 2008 inbound. The poor are the victims as usual.
Brits told to get used to drinking sewage, as well.
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Top of the bill was Mick Lynch. A few months ago, he was addressing tiny rooms of RMT members; now he packs out concert venues, while still dressing like a dad at a school sports day. Much of that success comes from how skilfully he can toreador dumb TV interviewers; but he is also leading a march straight into unclaimed political territory. He wound up his remarks by describing going on the BBC with a Labour frontbencher who “didn’t even know what public ownership was”. There was the sound of 1,500 people laughing. But he was in earnest. “Keir Starmer has no idea it might appeal to the working class of this country.” Now the hall was filled with applause. I looked across at the bouncer next to me. All night, his expression had been frozen in place. But now he was reared up and clapping like mad.
Hope Mick proves worthy of his surname.
Marxism-Leninism with Lynchian characteristics
Death to America
literally all they have to do is subsidize household energy bills while implementing rationing so rich fucks can't just use a million kilowatt hours and maybe people might have to go without their 3000 watt electric kettles but they would rather squeeze the proletariat into thirsting for their blood
Brits told to get used to drinking sewage, as well.
p.s. this is a non issue, like, phrasing it like that makes it sound like they're being told to literally drink sewage but they're talking about processing drinking water from sewage which is just something that sounds gross but isn't. Distilled water is distilled water is distilled water whether it comes from a river or gets evaporated from your poo poo
Yeah, there was a big debate over this in Aus during the Great Drought in the 2000s, and everyone on the right was so "eww, poop" that we ended up building a useless desal plant using the right wing's grifter construction teams.
Half of Europe recycles grey and brown water.
as long as there's no poop or bacteria in the drinking water there ain't no probalo i tell you hwut
tell these same people "wow it's like a stillsuit from dune :awooga: " and they'd support it
Half of Europe recycles grey and brown water.
But is it the Good (tm) half of Europe or the Eastern half of Europe?
problem is the water is privatised too so nobody trusts the water companies to adequately treat said poo-poo water
FIRE sector
Most efficient system diverts resources away from productive assets into useless parasitical shit
Very big brain moment to pass energy costs to customers. It's really good for the economy when the people don't have money to buy goods.
I live overseas and I am genuinely worried for my folks back in Scotland when this starts to kick in.
Privatise the power companies they said, it will lead to cheaper prices and better services for everyone they said. You can swap providers with a phonecall! Too bad they will all cost you a fucking kidney. And of course Labour are pretty much all for it - no way is Keith going to shit on Blair's neoliberal heritage.
