A global recession is on the horizon - please read OP for mod warning

Never mind a recession, anybody see that baby seal on that block of ice that melted and then the seal went on to drown before it could reach adulthood. That's the real issue here.

Ref:Frozen Planet II - Episode 2.

Its quite simple this government is a dead man walking I can see a G.E within the next 12 months and in effect they are thrown the shinners a hospital pass as borrowing will not be an option with interest rates and we are already over taxed and our services are still not up to scratch for what we pay. In effect the shinners will either have to roll back on their promises or make really unpopular decisions and what FF/G will be banking on is that people remember the last budget they presided over "the great give away"

Rising cost of fert is due to those shutdowns in fert production. Its one in the same.

Even if there was no fert we could still grow, but with reduced yields. The problem isnt that we couldnt grow anything - its that with more expensive fert or else reduced yields, is it worth it for farmers to grow?

He had some excellent links and was able to counter some of the doomsday posting on this thread. I would never censor any poster.

There was a piece in the farming Indo last week that teagasc project costs to rise by up to 65% for tillage farmers next year. You might as well go to Vegas n play roulette with the farm- at least you'll have a bit of craic along the way!

Yes you are completely correct, his/hers very first post was on this thread, I remember it well and I accused them of being disingenuous and lone behold I was reported by DarthPutin and got a warning from a moderator that date was 12/07/2022. So from the get go I always knew there was something strange about that account, as you rightly say anything that was mentioned negatively about the economy was immediately turned into dung flinging over Ukraine v Russia or West vs East.

I replied to Darths first post "First post of this account, private account and a name like that, why are these bots allowed to operate on boards" (not that bad at all IMO). It was reported straight away and I got a warning. I found these extremely odd especially when you see how one sided and agenda pushing this account was and I still think if this person was not in fact a bot then why bother reporting me that time on their very first post.

But you see thats the issue - cutting the stocking rates a small bit sounds trivial but could be difference between making money (with grants) or losing it. If you're losing money, you dont farm at all.

Once input costs start to push beyond a certain threshold, food production in this country will drop quite a big bit - we will not have mass starvations, but we will see domestic ag shrink significantly if it cannot compete with cheaper stuff abroad.

Sorry its not chicken and egg. Its build up the public transport to a decent standard like nearly every other major city on the planet and then you do things like carbon tax if people want to continue driving then they pay that. We pay an extra ordinary amount of tax to have a decent public transport system so no chicken, no egg, we have paid the money through tax, deliver the alternative before trying to squeeze more. You don't put up tax and give the person no other alternative than to pay more after pontificating for more than a decade by telling the people we should be using diesel and not petrol. Also we have the reinstatement of ministerial garda protected cars/drivers again so they wont be putting their hands in their own pockets for carbon tax they wont even be paying for petrol or the car , the tax payer gets to pick up that bill too. If they want to set the standard let them all jump on a bike or use public transport and lead from the front. As usual its one rule for the peasants and one for those with power. We need a general election this crowd have their head in the sand and after this winter there will be no where for them to hide.

British pound to be suspended from exchange, trading, settlement, clearing operations on the Moscow stock exchange from 3rd October.

Great move which should reduce some anxiety around the winter.

Energy regulator says no disconnections this winter (rte.ie)

Commission for Regulation of Utilities says no disconnections this winter

There will be no disconnections this winter for anyone, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has told an Oireachtas committee.

A total moratorium on disconnections will operate from 1 December to the end of February, the regulator told the Committee on Environment and Climate Action.

Are you being adversarial? 😂

They will hardly cut people off after missing 1 billing cycle (usually 2 months).

We'll see what happens as we approach March.

German government bails out Uniper, well 99%

Presumably takes on it's outstanding liabilities and debt also.

It translates into won’t pay for a lot.

Why do you have to close down major parts of cities to provide buses to rural areas?