Sunday 5 February 2023

£32,200,000,00 Shell Profit While People Die Of Cold

Shell have announced that they made a net profit of £32.2b in 2022, more than double that of 2021 and the highest in its 115-year history.
Galling enough amidst a cost-of-living crisis fuelled by sky-high energy bills and Office of National Statistics expect the 8,500 deaths from cold homes in 2021 to exceed 10,000 this year as pensioners delay turning on their radiators for fear of being unable to pay their heating bill.
Amidst a background of large swathes of the country striking to demand a pay rise inline with inflation, a £32,200,000,00 profit for one of the companies responsible for their plight is exasperating as is the decision by the UK Government not to impose a windfall tax on Shell to try to lighten the heat or eat burden of many.
The Government have taken the line of publishing how much train drivers, nurses and Public Servants earn in a futile attempt to show how the workers are being 'greedy' demanding more, so can we now we can expect the same insult aimed at the Directors and shareholders at Shell?  
Obviously not, that only apply to teachers, firefighters and nurses fighting for fair pay.

2 comments:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

yeah, tax the bastards until they want out of the energy business. that will teach all corporations that they can only make as much money as lucy says is fair!! by god and queen, Lucy knows best!!

if anybody in the world is hot or cold or tepid no company should make a profit. they should just risk their time, lives, and capital to satisfy lucy that all is fair!!

Falling on a bruise said...

Seeing as you never got that new moral compass to replace that faulty one you have for Christmas, maybe if you can put up with this malfunctioning one a little bit longer you may get one for your birthday.