Measures to help struggling families are just not enough
This week, the Government finally set out their Energy Security Strategy plan. As the soaring energy costs have already hit people’s pockets, it is essential the Government does more to support people, and keep the energy supply sustainable.Theirplanwasdisappointing to say the least.
It is clear the Governments’ goalsofsecurity,affordabilityand sustainability are far from being met,despitehowurgentthisissue quite evidently is.
They did not present a proper plan to ensure energy security, preferring instead to provide a series of aims with no real strategy to achieve them.
Itisyetanotherexampleofthe Toriesfailingtoacknowledgethat weareinacost-of-livingcrisis.The
Government has failed to provide proper support, providing only a small discount that does not even starttocovertheincreaseincosts, and a loan which we all must pay back. I have been contacted by so many people in Sunderland who are so worried about household energycosts.IamdoingallIcanto help but it is in the Government's power to do more.
Their strategy offers nothing that will get bills down in the next decade, let alone the next year.
ItisobviousthatBorisJohnson doesnotunderstandthefinances of people up and down this country - his own energy strategy has rejected the cheapest, quickest forms of power we have, like onshore wind and solar, because he has put his party interest before the national interest.
The short-sightedness of this
Torygovernmentwillkeepenergy bills high.
The Government should be investing in the cheapest forms of home-grown power; failures to deliver on more onshore wind and solar and in proper energy efficiency matter, because they are not just the cheapest and cleanest responses to the crisis that we face, but the quickest to deliver. Energy efficiency would cut bills, imports and fuel poverty.
Labour’s plan for a windfall tax on oil and gas producers in the North Sea and a proper energy efficiency scheme could cut up to £400 off household bills per year,cutgasimportsby15%,more than the entirety of what we import from Russia, and support over 500,000 jobs across the UK over the next few years.
The measures put in place by thisToryGovernmenttohelpfamiliesthatarestrugglingaresimply not enough.
And it is clear from the Prime Minister’s latest law breaking – they simply cannot be trusted.