I think you start to run into issues when you start ignoring actual data points.. This is good news, it's not perfect, it will get better, and I'd rather have the Tories out, but its still good news.

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You must be ITCHING for an internet witch hunt. Lemme know how it goes.

Being in the EU would have had no impact on energy costs in this context though, so... No?

Has anyone been to a circus in the last 20 years? People are still going to these things? More so they are creating them digitally 🤣? What will we think of next?

If the audience went to a circus with animals instead, little has been accomplished.

>Highest prices in the world.

Erm.. Not even in Europe, so no?

Whilst most of us (including me) fought not to leave, I'm not entirely convinced this one can be attributed to brexit based on the significant cost of energy in the rest of Europe... its more based around the wholesale purchase system we use for energy.

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There are a couple of reasons. The first is most homes in the UK heat themselves with gas directly instead of electricity. So we still use a lot of gas.

The second thing was the 100% part was just for one day. The renewables in our grid are increasing but mostly at the expense of coal power plants, not gas.

And the final component is the UK grid system pays every electricity producer the price of the most expensive energy producer. If 1% of the grid is gas, 100% of the grid pays gas prices. Even on this one day, there was a gas power plant running as a back up (it just wasn't used).

That last one is part of why very few UK homes have electricity based heating systems. There will never be a time when electricity costs less than gas, so gas has been the cheaper option.

It isn't in the sentence.

No one is saying they enjoy it, just saying no one is gonna pay to see videos of animals.

No, just saying no one wants to see holograms of animals. Just shut it down entirely.

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Why not just end the circus? Repackage the other performances as something new.

There is no escape from Cocaine BA

Shouldn’t have shot yourself in the foot with brexit, simple as.

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That’s kind of the real takeaway. Circus animals aren’t that impressive if they’re not real animals and if they are, they’re more than likely abused. Conclusion: we have a lot cooler shit than animal based circus acts for entertainment, and we should move on from it.

To be fair a lot of sectors kind of do have this in place, it's call the ombudsman and acts as the muscle for the little person so to speak. You have to make an attempt to resolve things somewhat reasonably at first but if they don't budge and you tell them you're going to the ombudsman you'd be amazed at how an issue magically resolves itself.

Who said that? Definitely not that guy you’re replying to.

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And why not? All of corporate decision making is based on profit and brand image. If they’re speaking the language of money, money talk needs to be spoken to them.

Thankfully (thanks to the many unknown people who wrote and enacted the legislation), the laws are in place to protect the consumer.

What seems impossible is the average person going through the steps to get corporations to respect the law. It takes time and motivation. Most people choose to occupy their time with daily responsibilities, understandably.

Then there’s the choice of Strictly/Gogglebox/Netflix vs. Emails, letters and phone calls. Are you not entertained?