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787. The Rick & Gill Thompson Report: Queen Elizabeth II / King Charles III

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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The ERG Is the ERG, and She'll Do Whatever They Say.

The UK has got a cost of living crisis, which means that the cost of energy is incredibly high. This is because Russia has raised its energy prices, because the UK relies on Russian energy. We don't give the UK rely an awful lot on Russian gas but the market price simply shoots up,. There is a mad scramble to get alternative supplies, and the price shoots up. It affects everybody. If someone's energy bill was £2,000, it could go up to £8,000. I've seen higher increases than that. Quadrupleen is what's likely to happen next month. Four times higher. So all the inflation of costs gets transferred to the actual end users

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