A proper case
T looks like my scepticism about the much-vaunted gas and electricity price cap was justified.
Ofgem, the weak-as-hiss energy price regulator, says that despite falling wholesale fuel costs in recent months, a “significant” increase is on the way.
Bills will go up again in April, making a mockery of Theresa May’s election pledge to end “sudden and unexpected and significant hikes in prices.”
So, the consumer-friendly policy first proposed by Ed Miliband and derided as “Marxist” by the Tories will have lasted all of three months before being sabotaged by the Big Six energy suppliers.
Since Mrs May made her promise, the largely foreign-owned, quasimonopoly power companies have whinged that the cap was set too low.
They say it’s based on the wrong sort of calculations. As usual, they have got their way, and we will pay for it.
Meanwhile, after my diatribe last week about the failings of Uni-
As usual, the largely foreign-owned power companies have got their way, and we
will pay for it
WAR correspondent Martin Bell survived many conflicts, but he needed a new face after falling over his wheelie suitcase.
These deathtraps are the bane of a traveller’s life.
I use a rucksack, which is safer, but not totally so, as my fall in the mud on a canal walk resulting in a fractured humerus (nothing funny about it) can testify.