Miliband’s vow to save us cash is simply a con. He’s taking us for fools

ED Miliband is taking the public for fools. Yesterday, he claimed to be cutting energy bills for millions of families. The truth is that like so much of what Labour do, it is simply a con.

At the election, Ed promised to cut our energy bills by £300. Yet under Labour bills soared from £1,568 a year to £1,849.

He says the Government has now taken some costs off bills, but the truth is that even after yesterday’s announcement, bills are still more than £70 higher than at the election.

And he hasn’t actually lowered the cost of energy, he’s just moved some of the cost from your energy bill and put it straight on to your tax bill, hoping that you don’t notice. It’s a cynical sleight of hand – you’re still paying for it, just from a different pocket.

The truth is that Ed Miliband’s made-up promise to cut bills by £300 has become a national embarrassment for the Labour Party, so they turned to the already struggling taxpayer for a £7billion bailout. They’re asking for our gratitude for ‘lowering’ bills, but it’s your money that he’s using to do it – and all of that cash is going into the hands of multi-million-pound energy developers.

Ed said he’s proud that he’s paying for it by ‘raising taxes on the wealthiest’, but he must think the public are stupid. Everyone knows they have raised taxes on pensioners, graduates, farmers, small businesses, pubs, even families taking a well-deserved holiday.

Labour’s jobs tax and freeze in income tax thresholds are hitting ordinary families up and down the country. Every week, factories are shutting down and we’re losing more and more jobs abroad. Struggling businesses such as pubs, restaurants and manufacturers tell us how their energy bills are going through the roof, yet Labour has no plan for them.

And Ed is making things worse by signing up to Net Zero targets that experts say could send bills back up to levels last seen during the energy crisis.

That’s why the Conservative Party’s priority is to make electricity cheap. For a stronger economy, growth and living standards, we have to bring bills down.

We are the only party with a Cheap Power Plan to cut energy bills for businesses and households by 20 per cent without costing hard-up taxpayers a penny.

If Ed had any sense, he would back it.