As Gas Boilers Are Banned From 2025, Would A Heat Pump Save You Money?

Making Britain more environmentally friendly has become one of the Government’s principal plans in recent times, and most recently, it announced that the installation of new gas boilers in homes would be banned from 2025.

As a result, heat pumps, a more eco-friendly option, is set to play a big part in hitting climate change targets and getting to carbon net-zero by 2050.

The Government has said it wants to fit 600,000 heat pumps in UK homes each year by 2028.

These pumps are a greener solution as they aren’t powered by fossil fuels and are extremely efficient. But, they may not be suitable for millions of UK homes, and David Holmes of comparison site Boiler Guide said that heat pumps come at a considerable cost, so it’s essential that homeowners do their research on suitability before forking out.

He said that while the Government is rightly pushing for renewable heating solutions, a one size fits all approach isn’t going to work, and that there are numerous positives with heat pumps but they’re not viable for every home in the United Kingdom.

This is Money, with the help of Boiler Guide, outlines which types of properties could benefit from a heat pump, and what the alternatives are for homes where installing or using one might be difficult.

An air-source heat pump looks like an air conditioning unit that sits outside the home, and unlike boilers, heat pumps don’t produce the heat, they just transfer it from one place to another.

Air source heat pumps come with a fan unit that takes in heat from the air outside the home. The extracted heat is then condensed and used to produce hot water.

The hot water needs to be stored in a water cylinder inside the home, where it can supply radiators, taps and showers.

The system runs on electricity and the two units are connected by copper pipework.

There’s also the option of ground source heat pumps, which use pipes that are hidden in the garden to extract heat from the ground.

This heat can then be used to heat radiators, underfloor or warm air heating systems and hot water in the home.

On average, an air source heat pump will cost between £9,000 to £13,000 to fit, but this will vary depending on the complexity of the installation.

It’s a big investment, but the Renewable Heat Incentive was brought in to assist people to recover some of their money.

However, if you fit an eligible system before the scheme concludes in March 2022, the Government will reimburse you for the energy it produces for 7 years.

But a heat source pump costs a fortune, and they’re only effective when you have a super-insulated new build, and you would have to have another source of heat in the winter months.

As for trying to retrofit all the old housing stock in the country, well, that would be a total farce because it would need another heat source to keep warm, well, that’s advance for you.

These heat pumps are just reversed air conditioning, and they never get really hot and it takes a long time to build up the heat, and if the power goes out, you also lose your boiler too because the circulating pump isn’t powered by gas, nor the ignition to ignite the gas when it fires up.

Yet another ridiculous policy that will either drive millions into massive debt to cover the cost or kill the elderly off early through hypothermia, but then perhaps that’s the idea.

The Sad Moment When Dad, 21, Cradles His Newborn Son

This is the tragic moment when a father cradles his newborn son who was saved after his pregnant wife was killed on impact when criminals fleeing cops smashed into her vehicle.

Samantha Russell, 22, was 33 weeks pregnant at the time of the collision, died on impact, but doctors were able to safely deliver her baby son.

In an emotional Facebook post following the tragedy, her husband, Brandon Russell, 21, posted a photo of himself cradling his newborn son, Mac.

He said that words couldn’t describe or express the emotions that were going through everyone’s head in light of the events that took place on July 6, 2021, at about 5.30 CST, and he said that Sammy was taken from them, but left behind the most wonderful gift of life.

He continued to say that Samantha was going to be a wonderful mother and that she always had everything planned out and ready to go, and he said she was driven and the hardest worker he knew.

He said that she always knew what to say when he was going through an issue or needed advice, and that she was the best person to know, from her bubbly nature and being all over the place to her knowing when it was ‘couch-thirty’ and time to watch Netflix, and that she was an all-round great soul who didn’t deserve to die on impact from a reckless motorist.

He added that she was the greatest example of what it looks like to be happy, and that she bestowed happiness to everyone and anyone she knew, and that she would always be his wife and the person he turned to when he needed advice or to ask another one of his stupid questions, and that he loved her and that she was everything to him.

But he said that with all that said, that he wanted everyone reading to take a moment to cherish and love those special people around you while they’re here and that no one could ever replace them because they mean so much to them, and he concluded that you just never know what to expect every day and that we should live every day to our fullest.

According to their Facebook profiles, Samantha and Brandon were married in 2019, and in January, Samantha posted a photograph of the two of them holding sonogram photos to announce her pregnancy, and in March, they announced that baby Russell would be a boy.

This is an especially poignant story, but I’m sure that Brandon will be a doting father and take care of his son, but this is yet another unfortunate example of good people losing their lives through the actions of others.

And this poor child will never know his mother because of the actions of criminals who had no regard for the lives of others, and they should be charged with murder because their high speed led to this avoidable tragedy, and they should never be free to wander the streets again.

Statistically, high-speed pursuits don’t end well, and it puts innocent people’s lives at risk, and these criminals that killed this woman probably won’t get done for murder because it wasn’t premeditated, and they’ll probably be walking the streets in less than a few years.

BONE TO BONE

A study suggests that common bone and joint operations may be no more effective than physiotherapy or treatment with medications.

It discovered the advantages of some of the most commonly performed surgery, including hip replacements and knee repair, were not backed up by high-quality evidence.

Researchers at the University of Bristol looked for studies that compared the clinical effectiveness of ten procedures with no treatment, placebo or non-operative care such as physiotherapy and medications.

They found evidence from randomised controlled trials supporting the better effectiveness of carpal tunnel decompression surgery and total knee replacement over non-operative care.

But no high-quality trials directly compared total hip replacement or knee cartilage (meniscal) repair with non-operative care.

According to the study published in the British Medical Journal, for six other procedures including shoulder rotator cuff repair and lumbar spine decompression, trials found no advantage of surgery over non-operative care.

It concluded that while seven of the procedures had been recommended for use by national guidelines, there’s wasn’t a high-quality body of evidence to definitively support most of them.

Official figures revealed that about one million patients have surgery for musculoskeletal conditions on the NHS each year.

The absence of proof doesn’t mean the interventions are ineffective but it makes it hard to identify the true treatment outcome.

Study leader Professor Ashley Blom, an orthopaedic surgeon, said that an urgent need exists to prioritise investigation and that most generally used and supported orthopaedic procedures had limited and low-quality evidence base relating to their effectiveness and was concerning.

He maintained that interventions may work even if the evidence base had not yet been established or the observational evidence might be so overwhelming that trials would be regarded unethical or redundant, and that hip replacement might be an illustration of this.

Dr Benjamin Ellis, of the charity Versus Arthritis, said that there should be no place in the NHS for operations that don’t work, but that data from millions in the National Joint Registry has shown the benefits people get from hip and knee replacement surgery.

Bob Handley, president of the British Orthopaedic Association, said that the study had taken a narrow view of the evidence available for orthopaedic operations, and he said that in particular, total hip replacement, was one of the most successful and cost-effective of all operations, not just in orthopaedics.

I’m sure that walking with two artificial hips is much better than hobbling around in agonising pain, and numerous people would tell you that having hip or knee surgery gave them back their life.

I mean who would want to be limping around basically bone on bone? And this is total nonsense because without replacement of joints they’re sentencing people to a life of incapacity and chronic pain.

Countless people are waiting for hip or knee replacement surgery where the bone is on bone, and they’re in agony, not even being able to walk to the end of the road, and it’s no solution to keep giving these people more painkillers, but no doubt this data will now be used as an excuse to cut the waiting lists back down, by dishing out even more painkillers for the benefit of the pharma industry.

And people who need surgery can’t live with the instability, and when they do have the surgery, they don’t regret it one bit because their stability is back and they can safely return to an active life without fear of falling.

Modern Cars Are Too Big To Fit In Garages

A report said that residential streets are becoming jammed with parked vehicles because larger modern vehicles no longer fit in garages.

The top five selling cars in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, including models such as the slimline Ford Anglia, were 4 foot 11 inches wide and 12 foot 9 inches long on average, it found, but last year the five most popular cars were 5 foot 11 inches wide and 14 foot 1 inch long on average.

Meanwhile, private garages have largely remained the same width, 6 foot 11 inches on average, this gives only 6 inches of leeway on each side when modern cars are driven in.

According to the RAC Foundation study, as a result, countless more drivers are instead parking on the street, and around two-thirds of homeowners with a garage don’t use it for the purpose it was designed.

The report found that it meant the amount of space utilised by modern cars on residential roads was now a third more than in the 1960s.

This is leading to increasingly obstructed roads as motorists have more limited space to pass each other alongside parked vehicles, while foot-travellers such as mothers with pushchairs frequently find footpaths are blocked.

Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Foundation, said the problem was worsened by the fact that there are now about 31.7 million vehicles on Britain’s streets, compared with 7.7 million in 1965.

The foundation wants the planning system to catch up with the growth in vehicle size by allowing larger garages to be built, which would help cut on-street parking.

Steve Gooding said that not only are vehicles getting bigger, there are more of them and that this is putting pressure on roadside space, and crucially, residential garages are also often inadequate for their intended purpose.

The five best selling vehicles in 1965 were the Austin Morris 1100/1300, Ford Cortina, Mini, Ford Anglia and Vauxhall Victor. Last year they were the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa, Volkswagen Golf, Ford Focus and Mercedes A-Class.

Even houses built in 2000 are not being built large enough to fit an Astra in it, and it appears that all garages are being built too small, and even some double garages on new houses are being built with a column in the centre, which still doesn’t allow vehicles to use them, although most garages are full of junk, and you’d need a second garage for the vehicle.

But then it appears that all building regulations aren’t fit for purpose and they all need updating to take account of modern requirements, from vehicle size to insulation, triple glazing and ventilation.

And soon we will be finding that vehicles are too large for parking bays and then we’ll be getting parking tickets, or our parking permits will be declined, so a lot of people have paved over their front gardens so they can get them off the road, and you can walk down some roads and there’s not a flower or lawn in sight because now it’s a paved paradise parking lot.

GP Who Was Struck Off For Failing To Spot Cancer

A GP was struck off for failing to spot cancer in a patient and has admitted to falsely accusing the man’s son of racial abuse to save his career.

Robert Jenyo, 53, falsely claimed he was called a f***ing n****r and told to give way for white doctors to work after he was sued for negligence and investigated by the General Medical Council in 2015.

Robert Jenyo, a Nigerian born GP in Sale, Greater Manchester, had failed to spot signs of cancer in a 60-year-old man who complained of shoulder and mid back pain in 2007.

The medic later claimed the unnamed man’s son, known as Dr AB, subjected him to a flood of racial abuse in an attempt to divert criticism of his mistakes.

Robert Jenyo was struck off in 2015 after his bogus account was rejected, but in May he returned to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester to appeal for his medical licence.

In the latest hearing, he admitted using the false allegations against Dr AB as a front in the hope he would get away with it, adding what he did was completely wrong.

His appeal was thrown out after it emerged Dr AB, who’s emphatically denied using racist language during an alleged phone call, hadn’t received an apology.

Robert Jenyo, now a care support worker, said that he’d been under pressure at work and was stressed and he was trying to cover up things and that when the complaint came in, he didn’t want the details of the case to come out and suggest to patients, his co-workers and to the public that he was a bad doctor.

He said that at the time he had a huge workload which was making him exhausted and stressed, but that he now understood the impact his actions had on patient A and his family and he regretted what occurred.

Robert Jenyo was reported to the General Medical Council after a 60-year-old man, known as patient A, died three months after being diagnosed with cancer in 2007.

It emerged the patient had complained to Robert Jenyo of shoulder and mid back pain and was referred for physiotherapy.

The man was later sent for an X-ray and blood tests after the physiotherapist noticed weight loss and pain which appeared not to be mechanical.

Robert Jenyo should never be reconsidered for his original position, and it’s shocking to attack someone of a total lie who’s grieving a death.

This man didn’t hold his hands up and admit he was negligent, instead, he just chose to drag his colour into it and erroneously play the martyr, and this sort of behaviour has to stop! And to think we’ve been brainwashed into clapping for individuals such as this person.

This man was creating division and that’s what’s wrong in today’s society, and those who sow seeds of division are dangerous, and he was an incompetent doctor and a terrible human being – a double whammy of terribleness.

And now he’s working as a care support worker. However, the sick and vulnerable deserve better. The problem is we live in a time when this particular accusation appears to trump even the most heinous of crimes, and the law needs to be transparent on this, but sadly, it’s actively supported via prior cases.

At least this man got caught. However, how many get away with this?

Moment Brawling Binman Is Knocked Out By Pedestrian

Two brawling binmen recorded fighting in the street while wearing their high vis uniforms have been fired by their bosses.

The jaw-dropping video reveals the men exchanging blows with a group in Chatham, Kent.

One of the orange vested men was knocked out cold after being caught with a left hook and sent plunging to the ground. Then, in an utterly odd moment, the other binman is seen to strip off his jacket, exposing his bare chest.

Wearing just his high vis trousers and boots, the man walked past his knocked out co-worker and starts to brave the gathering.

The row then starts to simmer down as the man picked up his jacket and starts to walk away, while the other picks himself up off the floor.

Moments before, the orange vested men are seen to grab seats from outside a pub before giving chase.

It appears that a member of staff from the pub runs down the street attempting to recover them.

The company they worked for has now identified and fired them both, saying they are shocked by their behaviour in a bustling High Street.

But one of the pair gets into a fight with a man and woman and during that fight is knocked clean out, lying flat on the ground.

One woman watching bellows ‘Jim! Get away!’ as the fight proceeds.

Rather than helping, spectators to the unfolding scene go up to the motionless guy and take his picture as he lies perfectly still on the pavement, and as his friend wanders back he pulls off his top, exposing his beer belly, as one onlooker said: ‘ Don’t be coming at me mate.’

Alicia Martin recorded the unexpected scenes in Chatham, Kent, at just after 5 pm on Monday.

Alicia Martin, who’d been walking through the town centre when the fight began, said it had been a terrifying encounter.

She said: ‘I was walking down the High Street. They were bin men in their uniforms and the next thing they were taking chairs from outside Wetherspoons and trying to throw them at people.

She said that everyone began running up the road, they grabbed chairs and were trying to launch them at everyone, even at her and the boy she was with, and she was saying to get away, and then it got to the middle of the High Street, and one of them got knocked out.

This is a disgrace to every hard-working binman, and now, of course, the council have binned them! And it’s pretty funny that these people have to take their tops off, and if I looked like that chap did, I would have definitely have kept it under wraps. I mean, you don’t see soldiers going off into battle with their tops off, and it gives new meaning to taking out the trash!

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps Supports Compulsory Face Masks

Grant Shapps cleared the way for public transport operators including the London Underground to force travellers to continue wearing masks.

The Transport Secretary said he was pretty relaxed about rail, bus and Underground firms making face coverings a condition of carriage, meaning riders failing to comply can’t travel.

Facing MPs he distinguished wearing masks on packed passenger services and empty services at off-peak times, saying the latter was pointless, but he said that he would himself continue to wear a mask on the Tube, saying such a move would further heighten confidence in the network.

His comments seem to place him apart from the position of Boris Johnson, and the Prime Minister said that while it was common sense to wear a mask in restricted places like the Tube, the Government wanted to move away from legal diktat.

Emergency laws mandating face masks are expected to be removed on Freedom Day on July 19, but Mr Shapps told the Commons Transport Committee that they were looking to have arguments about it and that they were looking to be reasonable.

He said that if people are travelling, on the Underground and it’s pretty packed, the wearing of face masks may well be effective and boost confidence, and that standing right next to somebody, he believed that was one thing that he would want to do and that transport operators were free to require it, and that we’ve seen airlines do that, so we may see some transportation service do that as well.

He also said that on the other hand, if you’re travelling on a pretty deserted carriage at an unpopular time of the day to travel for three hours on a mainline or something, then it’s was rather pointless in the circumstances to potentially sit there on your own wearing a mask.

And he said that we’re moving to this next stage where people use common sense and personal responsibility to determine these things and he believed it was the sensible way forward.

Boris Johnson announced that laws requiring masks to be worn inside will be discarded on July 19, but London mayor Mr Khan has declined to say whether he will keep the rules on the Tube, while Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has demanded a rethink to protect the vulnerable.

Mr Khan said giving Londoners confidence to travel on the public transport network was key to their economic recovery.

But just days after being told that masks won’t be mandatory, we now have wishy-washy Mr Shapps backtracking again, allowing Mr Khan et cetera to implement rules we were told would not be enforced, so it looks like this is going to be another fine farce.

But good luck with that because either way, there will be millions of people who are finished with this absolute stupidity, but everyone has a choice whether or not to continue to wear a mask, and if a person is vulnerable, then those people should continue to do so if they feel unsafe, not the other way round.

Masks may have been put there to protect people, but honestly, most people don’t give a damn about anyone else, and about Grant Shapps wearing a face mask on the Tube, what did his chauffeur-driven car break down or even his own private plane?

Perhaps before Grant Shapps became Transport Secretary he would commute, but let’s face it, bit by bit Boris Johnson got his ministers chipping away at full unlock, which he never intends to happen despite his announcement on Monday.

Boris Johnson is again showing his false face, having said one thing and then getting his ministers to undermine that, so that he doesn’t look bad when the reality of what he’s backing hits and is shown to be nothing like the lie he made at the outset.

BBC Is Warned To Drop Smoke And Mirrors Over Pay

The corporation’s annual report revealed that Gary Lineker, Zoe Ball and Huw Edwards are amongst the 10 highest paid BBC stars who took a pay cut in the last year, as Scott Mills and Greg James both got wage increases.

Conservative MP Julian Knight called for the BBC to commit to full transparency on its talent bill and drop the smoke and mirrors approach as he pointed out many continue to get pay packets made through BBC Studios, the broadcasters commercial arm, which is not revealed.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker is still the BBC’s highest-earning on-air talent taking home between £1,360,000 and £1,364,999.

Zoe Ball comes in second with a £1,130,000 to £1,134,99 between 2020 and 2021.

This is despite both stars taking pay cuts and Gary Lineker cutting his £1.75 million pay packet by £400,000 as part of a five-year deal.

Zoe Ball also took a cut in her pay when agreeing to a new two year deal as Radio 2’s breakfast host because she felt uncomfortable about her £1 million pay increase.

The remaining three stars in the top five, Steve Wright, Huw Edwards and Question Time anchor Fiona Bruce are all making less than they did in 2019 to 2020.

But Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills and his colleague Greg James both topped up their salaries with pay increases of £30,000 and £85,000 each.

Meanwhile, the report also unveiled that former BBC director-general Lord Hall took home £190,000 in the closing five months of his time running the broadcaster.

The BBC announced its highest earners list which shows staff wages dropped to £19.6 million:

Radio stars Scott Mills and Greg James had salary increases.

Garry Lineker, Zoe Ball, Huw Edwards and Steve Wright all had a cut in money.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker is still the BBC’s highest-earning on-air celebrity, taking home between £1,360,000 and £1,364,999.

Zoe Ball comes in second with a £1,130,000 to £1,134,999 payroll between 2020 and 2021.

Gary Lineker cut his £1.75 million pay packet by £400,000 in 2020.

Zoe Ball also took a cut in her pay when agreeing on a new two year deal as Radio 2’s breakfast host.

Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills has received a wage increase and emerges on the top ten list for the first time with a salary of between £375,000 and £379,999, and his colleague Greg James made £310,000 to £314,999, up from £229,999 one year before.

The corporation paid new director-general Tim Davie, who succeeded Lord Hall in September, £471,000 in the 12 months to the end of March, seven months as director-general and five months in his prior job running BBC Studios.

Gary Lineker has also signed a £1.2 million, three-year contract to continue as the face of Walkers Crisps.

It’s an obscene amount of money, and no wonder people are refusing to pay the TV licence, it’s not as if they need our little bit of money, that’s just chicken feed to them, and then if you don’t pay the TV licence, they try to browbeat people by sending round their bully boys with clipboards, which probably costs them more money than what we owe on our licence, and Gary Lineker certainly brings nothing to our TV sets that’s worth that.

But Gary Lineker has been referred to as the BBC’s highest-earning on-air talent, what talent? And if he is like they say he is, then it doesn’t say much for the rest of them if he’s considered the best.

This guy gets over a million pounds a year for talking about football and eating crisps, and to be fair, I think that says more about our society than him to be honest.

Britain’s Daily COVID Hospital Admissions Hit 400 In The Highest Figure Since March

Britain’s daily COVID hospital admissions have reached a four-month high, increasing by 50 per cent in a week to their highest level since March.

Department of Health figures posted showed hospitalisations reached 406 on June 30, and it’s a sign the explosion in cases over the past month is now starting to put additional pressure on the NHS.

COVID deaths also jumped their highest level since the end of April, increasing 20.3 per cent in a week, and another 37 victims were recorded.

Meanwhile, infections are continuing to spiral across the United Kingdom, jumping to 28,773, up 49 per cent on last Tuesday and the highest daily figure since January 29.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid admitted the toll could reach 100,000 a day by the summer, as No 10 drives forward with Freedom Day on July 19 as part of its initiative for society to exist adjacent to the virus.

Hospitalisations and mortality are expected to increase as cases rise but vaccines have broken the once impenetrable link between vulnerable people getting contaminated and becoming critically sick, leaving ministers confident that the third wave this summer won’t be as severe as previous waves.

Britain’s vaccine rollout is continuing to crawl forward, even though everyone over the age of 18 has been able to get a jab for a fortnight, and approximately 80,000 first doses and 150,000 top-ups were dished out on Monday, which means 86.2 per cent of adults (45.4 million) have had a jab.

It comes as Sajid Javid faced fury as he revealed the requirement for the double jabbed to self-isolate won’t be dropped until August 16, dooming millions more healthy people to put their lives on hold.

He said the protective wall thrown up by the vaccine drive meant that ministers could look again at the rules when people are pinged for contact with an infected person.

From the middle of next month people who’ve got two doses, with the second given at least two weeks before, can take PCR tests rather than self-isolating. Under 18s will also not be subjected to constraints from the same date.

But the timetable means scary numbers will be caught in the system after Freedom Day on July 19, with furious businesses warning that they’re on the verge of disaster with huge staff absences and customers bailing out of bookings.

Others also raved that the government was failing to give any clarity on the rules for getting staff back into offices.

Enough is enough, we have to learn to live with this, because it doesn’t seem that it’s ever going to go away, and people will die, that’s a fact of life, sadly, and maybe they should be reporting daily deaths from cancer and heart disease et cetera so that they can put those statistics into perspective.

But they dare not report that because about 166,000 poor souls die of cancer every year, that’s more than 450 people every day in the United Kingdom, including other illnesses and old age, and I don’t doubt that we can expect that those figures will increase dramatically too.

And let’s face it, lockdowns do nothing but extend the time for the virus to work its way through the population, and yes, we do need to protect the vulnerable but we also need to get on with business, otherwise, there will be an economic disaster that will ultimately destroy the NHS, far more swiftly than what COVID ever could, and project fear is now projected here!

Shoppers Could Pay The Price

Critics fear that Morrisons customers, workers and suppliers could miss out after the supermarket’s board supported a new takeover proposal from a group of questionable investors.

The chain announced at the weekend that it had received a second take over bid, worth £6.3 billion, from a consortium led by US private equity firm Fortress, and would recommend the proposal to its shareholders.

The bidders have agreed to be good stewards of the popular British grocery store, promising to keep the headquarters in Bradford and not to make any material sales of its property, but critics have questioned their intentions.

Lord Sikka, a Labour rival and professor at Essex Business School, said that he was concerned whether this was a good deal for customers, workers and businesses in the supply chain, and he said that private equity had a way of only paying minimum wage and not offering any security to the supply chain.

He said that many firms had made promises in the past to protect British jobs, but that they need practical measures, and for that, they need to involve employees in the sale process.

Morrisons bosses are set for bumper payouts under the Fortress proposal, and that Chief executive David Potts would receive £19 million for the 3 million shares he owns outright and 4.6 million that he could receive under various company reward schemes.

Operating chief Trevor Strain could make £11 million and finance boss Michael Gleeson more than £3 million.

The new Fortress led offer will also include Canadian pensions titans CPPIB and KREI, a division of Koch Industries, owned by billionaire Donald Trump ally Charles Koch. Fortress was established in 1998 by partners including Wesley Edens, a majority shareholder in Aston Villa football club.

Morrisons shareholders will now vote on the deal, and it must be passed by more than 50 per cent of those who vote and together they must hold 75 per cent of the company, but top ten shareholders, fund manager J O Hambro, said that bidders should be offering 270p per share for Morrisons, well above Fortresse’s bid of 254p.

Private equity firms acquire companies and look to sell them about five years later for a profit, but they’re usually criticised for their unmerciful tactics and short term outlook.

Critics drew attention to the track record of Morrison’s new bidders. Charles Koch and his late brother David sparked outrage in 2010 after pumping more than £700,000 into a campaign to repeal California’s climate change laws.

The family’s foundation, which invests in property, has also funded to evict tenants from their homes during the pandemic.

In the meantime, CPPIB declined to back an agreement between shopping centre business Intu and its lenders to give it breathing room on its debt last year.

The fears for Morrisons came amid a tide of takeover attempts for British businesses by private equity firms.

The bidders have agreed to be good stewards of the popular British grocery business, promising to keep the headquarters in Bradford and not to make any material sales of its property, but, if the bidder is successful, they will leave no stone unturned in its attempts to wring every last skerrick of juice out of its investment.

They will invest nothing, they will borrow the money and dump enormous debts on Morrison’s, and the property owned by Morrison’s will be asset-stripped to their own property company and leased back at huge rental costs, and each store will start losing thousands by the day.

However, the equity company will rake in a fortune with management fees, and suppliers will be savagely bullied to cut costs and employees will be reduced, and within five years Morrison’s will be gone like BHS, Debenhams et cetera, and all assets stripped, and it’s time our government stepped in to protect British companies.

Remember Cadbury, it was taken over by American food giant Kraft, which promised to keep the Keynsham site open, but days after the takeover was completed the firm controversially announced that it would shut the factory and shift production to Poland.

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