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In Spain, the government introduced a windfall tax on electricity generators and gas producers that are able to profit from the record market highs to help keep home energy bills low. In Germany, the government has slashed a surcharge on bills used to support renewable energy schemes, which will instead receive extra state subsidies drawn from higher carbon taxes.

EDF is 85% state owned and a near energy monopoly, which blurs the lines IMO

WHILE IN THE UK WE GET A PAIR OF SOCKS

Energy provider E.on, which got a shoeing on social media for sending its customers a pair of socks so they can save money by turning the heating down, has apologised for the ill-advised marketing stunt.
https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/971220/e-on-freebie-lacks-socks-appeal-971220.html

The French government will force EDF, the state energy giant, to take an €8.4bn (£7bn) financial hit to protect households from rocketing energy costs by limiting bill hikes to 4% this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/14/france-edf-cap-household-energy-bills

17 parties on the Government estate to investigate
and counting
https://twitter.com/BylineTV/status/1482002882337681409/photo/1

"We deeply regret blah, blah, blah.......(being caught)

Cost of living will be "World Beating".
Duly rewarded by grateful voters at the local elections in MAY.
Pension increases of 3.1% will please BREXITEERS

" Time for a run on pasta"
We had a run on pasta during the 1st lockdown.
Empty pasta shelves restocked with packs of beer/ice greeted disappointed customers

Once you realise Number 10 were all drunk all of the time, 2020 starts to make more sense

up 14%

Minds + Machines (MMX) to return £19m via a tender a 10.4p, a 26% premium, for up to 67% of shares. Will delist 21 Feb. [SP=8.13 Cap=22m]

JV signed with Meridian Mining on Ariquemes Tin Project in Brazil

FTSE 100 fell 0.56%

MINUS 4 tonight in Essex and Lincs

They tried to move the agenda on to spies
FAILED miserably with even more party sagas

Remember the GOLDEN AGE with China....
Championed by Osborne and Cameron
How things change........

Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone.
Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16.

Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/13/two-parties-held-downing-street-queen-country-mourned-death/

Cold war x 2 m8
Good for gold if Ukraine is invaded

JAMES WEBB
The level of engineering and physics required is insane
Collects one photon a second from the dawn of time (the big bang) 13.77 billion light years ago.
(Sunlight is 6 light minutes away)

Iain Duncan-Smith on the telly raging about China trying to influence our Parliament and democracy. So why isn't he as angry about the Russian money swilling round the Cabinet and the Brexit cabal?