Cost of living: Starmer vows to extend windfall tax to freeze family fuel bills as he reveals Labour’s ’emergency’ plan to tackle crisis
Cost of living: Starmer vows to extend windfall tax to freeze family fuel bills as he reveals Labour’s ’emergency’ plan to tackle crisis
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> The plans in Labour’s “emergency package” include:
> • Freezing the price cap, which the party says will reduce inflation by 4%
> • Support for customers not protected by the price cap
> • Equalising the prices for people on prepayment meters and those who pay bills monthly
> • Closing a loophole in the government’s energy profits levy
> • A promise to use the already pledged £14bn of non-targeted funding to prevent bills from rising
> • Insulating 19 million homes across the country over the next decade to reduce energy demand and lower bills
Won’t solve everything but those are some decent policies there that will almost certainly help a ton of people.
Just take back our North sea oil fields. Give Shell and BP back the 20bn they paid and run it like Norway. Might even solve our debt issue that the Tories built for us.
I mean it’s better than what the tories are doing aka nothing.
What’s this? Insulating homes across the country has made it into national policy? Seems those protests may have actually done something.
Starmer’s got a great plan, if he’s secretly a left winger. His plan will mess up the energy companies, which in turn will make them less valuable and cheaper to renationalise. If he wants the energy companies to be state owned, it’s a great plan that will save us money. If he wants the energy companies to remain private companies, then it’s a terrible plan. Just kicking the can for bigger problems later.
Saw this guy’s solution on YouTube (guy called into LBC). https://youtu.be/77kCUlOsr6c
Easily the best solution I’ve seen yet
But they’re not in government and there’s no sign of an election so…. unfortunately isn’t this just a whole lot of wishful thinking?
Better late than never
“B-but please don’t strike. Don’t complain if we can’t do anything.”
We stopped fire and rehire at our local Factory thanks to the workers striking for weeks last Year, and thanks to the locals and stop fire and rehire activists we marched together in protest.
Our local Conservative MP did not respond to a single message the entire time. Kier Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, is asking for workers to no longer strike to change the system.
I won’t forget any of this at the next General Election.
The emergency tackle crisis will be to get the rich richer and the familys suffer!!! Ahhh tell you what see the bams in the jail give them no heating and no food and no tv but ohhhh yeah its against there human rights but its okay to do it to the whole country…also stop wasting money giving junkies money and houses?? What do they contribute to the country!!! Fuck all…
I heard something about £400 rebate on my energy bills. Could somebody please point it out to me how it works?
Can say whatever he wants really, doesn’t mean shit will happen.
We are quite literally being fucked dry!
It’s so great that you’re not protected by the price cap when you have district heating.
This might force the tories to finally do something about it.
Just one problem he and his party are not in power and are not likely to be for 2 years with the. Majority the tories have in the house.
I really think it’s a great thing that labour’s moving to show the public an extensive and detailed plan on how we are gonna get through this crisis.
What really fucks me off is that the current PM has buried his head in the sand, the tories are fighting among each other between a corrupt theif of taxpayer money, and the Thatchinator 2000 while the country burns to the ground.
Anyone else noticed that rather than taking action NOW to get ahead of the crisis, they seem to be using the crisis as an opportunity to talk about who is going to be in power, at the end of the day nobody gives a fuck who’s in power, as long as they’re tackling the crisis ASAP !!
The cost of living payments they where due to send out have an ambiguous date of “autumn” which lines up perfectly with the date where bojos replacement will be in office, the public needs help now, and it seems the government is doing nothing whatsoever until someone’s replaced bojo, and that candidate will be the one rolling in the love of the public by attributing all the help being handed out as their own.
TLDR
They need to fuck off with the popularity contest and start the work that needs to be done straight away, I don’t give a fuck who’s elected, just get ahead of this crisis before it gets past the point of no return.
Hmm not sure I agree 100%.
The windfall tax idea is a no-brainer, but not a fan of the energy price cap as it hampers competition between energy suppliers.
Here’s an explainer of the energy price cap. It actually depends on location, tariff type (green tariffs NOT included), and even how you are paying it-direct debit is cheapest.
[https://www.aquaswitch.co.uk/blog/energy-price-cap/](https://www.aquaswitch.co.uk/blog/energy-price-cap/)
He’s the opposition – he can say absolutely anything.
What happens after april though?
Finally something out of his gob that shows up the government.
May aswell be the cleaning ladies policies, he’s not In power and there is no election for another 2 years
‘Pledge’, ‘promise’, ‘vow’.
Wow. Dunno which one holds more value with Starmer but ok.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Nothing about cancelling the green levy or vat on fuel or putting it on hold for a year