Friendly reminder that the UK currently has some of the highest energy bills in the world.
Of course, Labour have plenty of options they **could** use to lower energy bills right now, but choose not to. Indeed, we’ve already had 2 rate hikes under this administration and GB Energy is likely to shake out to be little more than another PFI scandal.
They could make Ofgem lower their egregiously high cap.
They could de-couple electricity bills from gas.
They could claw back the billions and billions of pounds that energy giants have extorted from the public for years via taxation.
They could nationalise energy so that profits go directly back to the public purse.
But they won’t. Why?
They care more about the profits of their donors than the wellbeing of the ordinary people who voted them in.
I know which nut I’d like to crack
I can. “Never”.
Labour have really gubbed this. Considering the amount of upgrades to the grid that are required and the UK governments proposals on community benefits for said grid infrastructure which will be paid for by billpayers its only going to go up and up.
Fucking LOL.
“Tough nut to crack” is when you deliver populist lies and don’t deliver as per populism
Ian “I was 30 minutes away from being a CUK till I keeched my blood stained keks at the thought of losing my Westminster pay cheque as the Morningside Gin Ma’s would not vote for me” Murray with another absolute howler.
Folks – this is who rules over Scotland. These Unionists and their rich pals cabal have determined that, despite generating over a **third** of the UK’s renewable energy, the Scottish Electorate pay the most for their energy bills. As long as London is cheaper eh?!
Fucking hell.
It’s actually a spectacularly easy nut to crack.
It’s hard to crack if you’re trying to placate – or to be seen to placate – two exactly competing interests: large corporations who want no limitations on what they can charge, and end users who are getting screwed by the lack of meaningful price controls in a sector that no rational country would have ever privatised
Does it not seem like an extraordinary waste of money to set up an organisation like GB Energy with seemingly no plan at all on when or whether at all it will deliver on what it was designed* to do?
*well, what it was claimed to do. It was designed to win votes.
It won’t. It will just cost taxpayers money.
It doesn’t seem to have any practical use, and Is more an expensive cheerleading team.
There are a lot of factors absolutely crippling the UK economy. Massive amounts of people’s incomes being gobbled up by unproductive costs like energy and housing being two of those.
I’ll reserve judgement on the housing issue for the moment, I don’t think it’s been long enough to assess performance there. But, on the energy issue it seems they are absolutely fucking useless. They could tackle this head on but it seems they have opened for the “being seen to be doing something” approach, while actually doing fuck all.
We were told why our bills were going up, it was COVID, it was Ukraine, etc… and we accepted that. Then we saw energy company’s profits ballooning and it doesn’t look like anything but price gouging. That could be tackled, but GB Energy won’t do that and nor will the Government. They are absolutely fucking this one, and us along with it.
Fucking tosspot in a butcher’s apron suit.
Ofgem are the problem.
Murray, full of shit and providing cover for his bosses down south? What’s new.
Never ever
Never.
>During the election, Labour pledged they would cut household energy bills by £300, but instead, **customers have seen bills rise by £170 since last July, and are set to increase even further from April 1.**
Reminder that Scotland generates over **a third** of the total UK renewable energy, yet the Scottish Electorate pay much more for their bills than those in the south-east of England.
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It won’t. It’s a way of looking like you’re working on a problem without any actual danger that you might fix it.
It absolutely won’t, but at least their pals will get cushy well paid jobs.
The only way change comes would be with independence. Despite wearing out the word change Murray knows this so has nothing constructive to offer.
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Friendly reminder that the UK currently has some of the highest energy bills in the world.
Of course, Labour have plenty of options they **could** use to lower energy bills right now, but choose not to. Indeed, we’ve already had 2 rate hikes under this administration and GB Energy is likely to shake out to be little more than another PFI scandal.
They could make Ofgem lower their egregiously high cap.
They could de-couple electricity bills from gas.
They could claw back the billions and billions of pounds that energy giants have extorted from the public for years via taxation.
They could nationalise energy so that profits go directly back to the public purse.
But they won’t. Why?
They care more about the profits of their donors than the wellbeing of the ordinary people who voted them in.
I know which nut I’d like to crack
I can. “Never”.
Labour have really gubbed this. Considering the amount of upgrades to the grid that are required and the UK governments proposals on community benefits for said grid infrastructure which will be paid for by billpayers its only going to go up and up.
Fucking LOL.
“Tough nut to crack” is when you deliver populist lies and don’t deliver as per populism
Ian “I was 30 minutes away from being a CUK till I keeched my blood stained keks at the thought of losing my Westminster pay cheque as the Morningside Gin Ma’s would not vote for me” Murray with another absolute howler.
Folks – this is who rules over Scotland. These Unionists and their rich pals cabal have determined that, despite generating over a **third** of the UK’s renewable energy, the Scottish Electorate pay the most for their energy bills. As long as London is cheaper eh?!
Fucking hell.
It’s actually a spectacularly easy nut to crack.
It’s hard to crack if you’re trying to placate – or to be seen to placate – two exactly competing interests: large corporations who want no limitations on what they can charge, and end users who are getting screwed by the lack of meaningful price controls in a sector that no rational country would have ever privatised
Does it not seem like an extraordinary waste of money to set up an organisation like GB Energy with seemingly no plan at all on when or whether at all it will deliver on what it was designed* to do?
*well, what it was claimed to do. It was designed to win votes.
It won’t. It will just cost taxpayers money.
It doesn’t seem to have any practical use, and Is more an expensive cheerleading team.
There are a lot of factors absolutely crippling the UK economy. Massive amounts of people’s incomes being gobbled up by unproductive costs like energy and housing being two of those.
I’ll reserve judgement on the housing issue for the moment, I don’t think it’s been long enough to assess performance there. But, on the energy issue it seems they are absolutely fucking useless. They could tackle this head on but it seems they have opened for the “being seen to be doing something” approach, while actually doing fuck all.
We were told why our bills were going up, it was COVID, it was Ukraine, etc… and we accepted that. Then we saw energy company’s profits ballooning and it doesn’t look like anything but price gouging. That could be tackled, but GB Energy won’t do that and nor will the Government. They are absolutely fucking this one, and us along with it.
Fucking tosspot in a butcher’s apron suit.
Ofgem are the problem.
Murray, full of shit and providing cover for his bosses down south? What’s new.
Never ever
Never.
>During the election, Labour pledged they would cut household energy bills by £300, but instead, **customers have seen bills rise by £170 since last July, and are set to increase even further from April 1.**
Reminder that Scotland generates over **a third** of the total UK renewable energy, yet the Scottish Electorate pay much more for their bills than those in the south-east of England.
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