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The Daily PollTHERE ARE RENEWED calls today for the introduction of a windfall tax on profits from energy companies and use of the funding to ease the the financial strain on households.
Yesterday the UN chief accused oil and gas companies of making “excessive” profits from this crisis.
“It is immoral for oil and gas companies to be making record profits from this energy crisis on the backs of the poorest people and communities and at a massive cost to the climate,” Antonio Guterres said.
He urged governments to tax these profits and use the funds to “support the most vulnerable people through these difficult times”.
So we want to know what you think: Should the government introduce a windfall tax on energy companies?
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A bad day for Ireland,A bad day for Europe, A bad day for freedom.
@David Huston: A good day for Ireland. A good day for Europe. A good day for freedom. A good day for sanity.
A bad day for extremism.
@David Huston: True…..the German people should have come to heir senses long ago only for Germany is the power house of Europe and totally insulated to what is really going on……god knows what Europe will be like after her final term.
@Brendan O’Brien: remind yourself of that when more trucks mow down innocent people I European streets.
@Matt Donovan: Not to mention the no go zones that have formed in Germany on her watch.
@David Huston: A bad day for David Huston. Who cares? Good day for Europe and for Ireland.
@David Huston: so Fuhrer Merkel is back in charge. This mad woman has started the destruction of the EU, the sooner the better.
@David Huston: I look forward to the day that the real far right get into power again in Germany to see the liberal tears. They attack moderate groups like AfD as Nazis though hopefully NPD get into power just so they have something legit to cry about. It will be LOL
Her final term and her legacy will be the German Chancellor who participated with Obama and Clinton to deliberatly flood Europe with migrants from once modern countries the US with the help of the Brits destroyed back to the stone age.
@noBankAccBertie: and their puppet master George Soros.
@Brad Carmichael: off course the devil himself.
@noBankAccBertie: Was it not Bush, Blair and aznar? I could have sworn they started it? What with the invasion and subsequent disaster in Iraq, their invasion of Afghanistan, their foreign policy in the middle east, alliances with the likes of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? Maybe I imagined all that. Maybe everything was fine and there were no problems or terrorist attacks before Angela (and the other conservative/center right European governments) made a mess of handling this humanitarian disaster?
@Gareth Murphy: Don’t you get it? The west orchestrated the humanitarian crisis with the intention of flooding Europe with migrants. That’s why Libya was destroyed. That’s why the NGO’s are acting as a taxi service. That’s why they’re handing out leaflets, telling migrants how to enter Europe, illegally. Thats why they engage in censorship, jailing people who complain about this for “hate speech”. They are not acting out of altruism or compassion. They are bringing in millions of people who will vote for them, they want expanded welfare programs, people to whom they can issue debt via central banks. THE WHOLE THING IS A SCAM! It’s political chess, dressed up as a humanitarian effort. That much is painfully obvious to anyone who is paying attention and has half a brain.
@PutinBot 5001: Yes and the people are been totally fooled….the end game is open borders and loss of any sort of idenity and sovereignty with the native peoples in a wash of people from other cultures.
@noBankAccBertie: The cultural marxists, doing the work of the .001%, has to be the great irony of our time. History will see these useful idiots for what they are.
@PutinBot 5001: Keep on going down the road of the far right. who use migrants for slave labour. your being used.
@noBankAccBertie: so this isn’t just the history of the human race? People moving for a better life and bringing their culture? To be very clear, I am not an open borders enthusiast. I would much prefer a merit based immigration policy but even if that were the case there would be situations when it is imperative for the moral standing of a nation to accept refugees
@Sean Conway: You sir, are an idiot.
Many Germans are marching, they are not happy with the consequences of such large immigration, it not covered by MSM, but its happening and they are getting bigger and more frequent.
@Joe Ryan: Absolute Far-Right headcases commenting on this article, should all be sectioned.
Merkel has set the cause of future female leaders back decades, she has eroded many of the gains made for female leadership by Margaret Thatcher.
@Brad Carmichael: And Theresa May is a powerful, decisive and inspirational leader in comparison I suppose.
@Larry Doyle: I had forgotten her, another bumbling idiot who has done great damage to future female leadership prospects.
@Brad Carmichael: Complete and utter rubbish, as usual. Nobody says that an incompetent or corrupt male politician sets back the cause of male politicians. And Merkel is not incompetent or corrupt.
@Brendan O’Brien: she’s certainly not incompetent, she’s carring out the Soros Plan to import 1.5 million migrants annually to great effect
Article about Telford has been nicely buried now. Well done lads.
Criticism or opposition to Merkel policies is called. “fear exploited by populists” That is what Putin would call it….In a democracy we call it opposition to the government party….
Heil mutti.
@Biggus Diccus: a crooked dictator just like every head of state. Proof that democracy is a myth
She will do some damage in the next 4 yrs to others for to inprove germany and her german led EU army.
@@mdmak33: Merkel and her Fourth Reich will be the downfall of Europe.
And people criticise Xi Jinping in China?
He’s only trotting after Merkel.
Without Merkle ,Europe would be in a terrible mess ,anyone like to point to a strong leader anywhere else on the continent ?Germany has been the anchor in challenging times .
@Anthony Gallagher: You must be living in an alternative Europe.What with Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy all voting for the anti immigrant right with more on the way. The far right in Germany getting seats in government (190) for the first time since WW2. Brexit, a major cause of the election of Trump. Fences all over Europe. Weakening of the EU. Merkel herself taking 6 month to form an unpopular government. Endless crime and sexual assault from the “immigrants” she invited into her country without knowing who they were or consulting her own.people.
I wouldn’t like to see the terrible mess you mention in Europe without Merkel. She has done more than fine on that score herself with much more to come.
That’s all we need a literal Hitler back at the helm.
Where we go one.
Another dictator
I am sure the Germans are dancing on the streets.
Good christ, looking at the comments on here how will I ever find some tinfoil to use in my oven?
Can I blame immigrants for that too?
@P.J. Nolan:
It’s hilarious stuff though. It makes the Journal one of the most entertaining sites on the internet.
@CrabaRev:
To a point you are right, but after a while it gets tiresome.
Comhghairdeas Frau
Very good. Great leader,
What a woman. I’m so proud of her.
Why?????????????????? Never again let a woman or shemale run a country ever lessons learned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Full blood testosterone let the men be men that’s the way god designed us
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