Nearly Half Of Tory Voters Want Energy Firms Renationalised, Poll Finds | But a government minister said they were “probably wrong”.
Nearly Half Of Tory Voters Want Energy Firms Renationalised, Poll Finds | But a government minister said they were “probably wrong”.
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Good to see they’re now ignoring their own voters in order to further enrich their masters. The voters, I imagine, will continue to vote for them anyway so it doesn’t make that much difference.
It’s amazing how quickly Tory voters switch to quote “stupid leftie policies” when hardship directly affects them. They’re happy to let the rest of us suffer as long as they’re not.
Only “*probably* wrong”. That’s interesting equivocation.
yes today, because they think it will then be cheaper for them, but the second someone offers them money to privatise it again they’ll want that. To my mind ‘tory voter’=’self interested’
90% of Tory voters would be better off if they didn’t vote
probably wrong, they are hilarious.
>Reacting to the poll, farming minister Victoria Prentis – who is backing Sunak – said Tories backing renationalisation were “probably” wrong. “We have seen over the years that competition in the market has kept energy prices low. The difficulty is that what a cap and what nationalisation can’t do is mean that people’s bills are cheaper than the wholesale price of gas.”
That’s funny, most of Europe has managed it. The French have had the rise in their energy bills capped at 4% until the end of 2022, while in the same period, ours are expected to rise 422%. Of course, the French have a government that’s willing to intervene and help people by absorbing most of that cost, whereas we have the Tories.
>”We have seen over the years that competition in the market has kept energy prices low.”
What competition? Energy is a natural monopoly on a basic need. It’s absolutely laughable to claim that “the market” has kept prices low when the situation we currently find ourselves in is proof that it is doing no such thing.
>”I don’t feel there is more in the way that we structure our system that would really help.”
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
Ahhh….. Socialism when it affects them
Tough luck, the entire Upper Class of the UK already invested big money into Shell market shares.
Fancy calling your own supporters wrong, and ignoring actual evidence.
Most people who vote Tory don’t do so because they like Tory policies but because they read the right-wing tabloids which rant endlessly about how awful Labour would be if they gained power.
I mean it’s been pretty well established that Tory voters don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about on any subject
I mean it is possible for the majority to be wrong, and if there’s evidence to prove it would not solve any issues or even make them worse then yeah, it would be fair to say they were ‘probably wrong’.
However, let’s be honest here, that’s not why the minister thinks they’re wrong. It’s because the cost would be on the wrong people.
Pools are probably wrong here then when they show a no majority against Scottish independence they are 100% right??
Industry experts and analysts seem to agree ownership is less important than effective regulation and long term planning
As far as I can see, neither’s happened for a very long time
Quick reminder that the Tories *twice* got in with just **23%** of voting population. (21% Labour, 31% no-vote, 25% the rest)
Parallel reminder of Einstein’s words defining insanity : repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
We, The People, will only be heard if we act **together** for change.
General strike. Demand an election. Shatter the Conservatives because even their own voters hate their guts, put a better party into government, fix the country.
I mean when you poll on actual policies, the British public come off as somewhere to the left of the Greens. Electoral politics is the graveyard of social movements I spose.
Typical Tory tactic: race to the front of the crowd that has already decided what to do and shout, “follow me”. Faking leadership by the athletic prowess of a second hand meal salesman.
If the energy companies were nationalised, wouldn’t they still have to buy from the bigger companies, would it make any difference?
The government should never have privatised energy or trains
This is where a lot of Tory voters hopefully realise that the party does not serve them but instead they exist only to justify what the party wants to do.
In a new poll, half of Tory voters have discovered more than one brain cell, but ministers claim they were hiding all along from the truth
They say society is three meals from chaos.
The Tories are a few energy bills from being destroyed.
Narcissism is rife in the UK and is the reason for all our problems. We are the new USA.
Should have voted for the fella who had it as top of his parties manifesto pledge in 2019 then. Instead of the serial screw up, philandering, pathological lying, toff con artist.
I jest but seriously, living in a deprived area and witnessing literally everyone queue down the road and round the corner to vote for Bunter was the death of me intellectually and emotionally.
The ordinary people ate that shit up and asked for seconds.
Totally destroyed my faith in democracy and people generally.
Half of Tory voters don’t remember the 1970s
Hold on… 47% of Tory voters and ‘a majority’ of Labour voters by my reckoning equates to most voters, and the Tories are just going to ignore that because “they’re probably wrong”…
What. The. Fuck?
Sometimes I wonder whether I’ve stumbled into a parallel universe where the main news comes from the daily mash
Thank goodness we have the in-touch elite classes telling us when we’re right or wrong.
Crikey, can you imagine if what would happen if we were in charge
It’s a brexit dividend! Look forward to the sunny uplands – of next spring. Maybe the government minister has been wrong all the time and should listen to the public some more.