Politicians don’t have energy to tackle bosses
GREETINGS my mighty Maxonians. Just wondering if you can help me out?
The direct debit to my home energy supplier has been recently increased from £80 per month to £189. It’s largely due to the war in the Ukraine, or so I’m told.
Odd then that in the past month diesel at the pumps has fallen from a high of £1.99 per litre to the current base price of £1.82.
A reduction of 8.5%, whilst the cost of energy for our homes has increased by 136% with even more jaw-dropping increases to follow.
How is that possible? How can our energy costs be escalating off the scale while oil prices are falling?
One look at the current profits of all the big energy suppliers will show a distinct pattern of rocketing profits.
Shell’s latest earnings almost tripled as BP’s income doubled in the first quarter of this year.
There is clearly a direct link between energy companies’ enormous profit growth and hiking up prices to consumers.
What came of the much-discussed Windfall Tax?
That seems an obvious way to ‘level the playing field.’
Why, do you suppose our politicians are reluctant to do that?
You can understand our MPs not wanting to upset the hand that may feed them, but these are dangerous times.
Have no doubt, the peasants are revolting.
They are not going to lose their homes or see their families go cold and hungry while BIG Business makes mammoth profits.
Moreover, there appears no political party with the guts and determination to actually do something about it.
When push comes to a food bank our politicians seem totally cowed by the truculence of energy company executives.
Forget Government Watchdogs, my one-eyed dog Cobra would make more impact.
There is a huge amount of money slushing around Westminster and bigbusiness. In that rare atmosphere our self-serving politicians can convince themselves of absolutely anything, but on this occasion their selfjustification isn’t going to work. Employees are not going to watch their standard of living collapse as our politicians pussyfoot around the energy companies. Frightened of speaking out of turn.
It’s time for some serious action and worth remembering that the estimated cost of freezing all our energy bills until next April is an estimated £30bn, while the cost of the Government’s useless track and trace app was £37bn.
HS2 alone has a current estimated budget of £110bn and rising.
Why not cut back on HS2 - a vanity project which has no benefit at all for the average working family, and freeze energy prices?