Low energy watchdog

IT’S bad enough struggling households are seeing gas and electricity prices skyrocket.

But it really sticks in the craw that £4.6billion is being added to their collective bill to clean up the mess after a raft of energy companies went bust. Some of these firms were little more than cowboy operations seeking to get rich quick.

Why weren’t they weeded out? Watchdog Ofgem is supposed to defend consumers’ interests – not fall asleep at the wheel.