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    Großbritannien steht vor einem der größten Schocks der Energiekrise, warnt der IWF

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    1. KonigsbergBridges on

      Genuine question. I thought we were doing well powering most of our electricity from renewables these days not gas. Why are we going to be one of the most effected?

      Edit: I investigated as it felt like most of the responses were guesses rather than informed answers.

      I understand the reason is actually to do with our housing stock. Much more than other major economies, our house stock is old and poorly insulated. This leads to much greater/quicker heat loss. As a result, it takes more gas to heat our homes than other nations (most major economies use gas as the main way to heat homes – some are adopting other ways a little more quickly than the UK or need less heating as they are naturally hotter). The Iran war pushes up the price of gas (that’s the obvious bit).

    2. JackStrawWitchita on

      Reeves should invoice Trump for the financial hardship caused to the UK by his Epstein distraction war.

    3. hoopjoness on

      Truly scary if this doesn’t end soon. I can’t help but think something bigger is going on. Was reading Steve Bannon articles last night (friend and advisor of Farage)

      His stated goal was to deconstruct the administrative state and weaken western alliances internationally. Peter Navarro has written that European allies are economic competitors and weakening us serves American interests.

      Actions since January 2026 are starting to form a pattern that is difficult to attribute to accident. Sound like a tinfoil hat person but frustrating the UK is in a particularly exposed position post Brexit if this is what’s going on.

    5. isntitobviousnow on

      Not everything runs on electric. The entire supermarket chain is reliant on fossil fuels, from farming machinery, feed, fertiliser, harvest process, packaging in plastic, transporting to store in temp controlled lorries.

    6. havaska on

      I don’t think you can take anything the IMF says about the UK seriously. They constantly underestimate our economy’s performance and make pessimistic claims. It’s gotten to the stage where there so wrong all the time that it’s like there’s a nefarious reason at play.

    7. Available-Toe-7096 on

      The Tories have absolutely killed this country. Cameron, Johnson, Sunak, Osbourne – they should all be in a jail cell.

    8. whoops53 on

      Fully aware of this, but I want to know what the plan is for helping us? This war is not our fault, and I swear to god, this government better step up and do something about it instead of fear mongering.

    9. Ok-Store-9297 on

      Hope everyone’s prepared to find out just how useless our financialized economy is going to prove to be in this era of realpolitik. What’s most depressing is it will come as a complete surprise to many. 

    10. MK2809 on

      This is why I didn’t get the people who were gloating that the petrol and diesel price increases doesn’t affect them because they either don’t drive or drive an EV. Quite short sighted of those people.

    11. Tricky-Canary2715 on

      It’s a leadership crisis, the leaders of the U.S and Isreal, they caused this shit, how about they start compensating the rest of the world. Fkin land/oil grabbing bastards! Iran couldn’t build a nuke for toffee. Otherwise washington would be glowing by now

    12. Next_Replacement_566 on

      Cos we sold off oil fields and are so dependent on the markets now..

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