By playing by the rules, we have got this country into one of the worst crisis for consumers in living history. I speak of course of the huge rises in energy bills for each and every UK household. By abiding by the open market rules espoused by the EU, we opened up our markets to all comers, sold off national infrastructure to private companies, today most of them are foreign owned, and they are making obscene profits at the expense of the poorest in society.
Gordon Brown is being forced by the energy companies to not impose windfall taxes or to give back to the poorest by way of rebates or lower tariffs, the blackmail being used is no investment in the Nuclear energy and renewables plan if Gordon is to push this. So, he tells everyone to be more "energy efficient". I wonder how that will go down with the poor, elderly and infirm, who have already struggled to get double glazing installed, loft insulation, low voltage light bulbs, turned down the heating and put on jumpers and coats and gloves, only boil a cupful of water, how are they going to squeeze another 15% price hike on their energy bills, in a climate where food prices have gone up by as much as 40% on some essentials. This winter it is truely going to be a case of starve or freeze, for some perhaps both.
Funny how in France EDF is capped on the prices it can impose on its customers, EDF let us not forget is a French company with an approximate 85% share held by the French Govt.. The dividends generated by the British consumers will go directly to subsidise the cheaper energy of the French consumer. France and other EU members have steadfastly refused to sell off their nations infrastructures, while at the same time, they have snapped up British assets, and we are now finding that they are able to increase charges in the monopolies they have bought up and in many cases the profits, like with EDF, are used to directly subsidise their own consumers. How can this be right?