Pride of Lions - 26/9/2013 09:39
OnMeHeadFred - 26/9/2013 14:26
The Daily Mail are in a bit of quandary.
They seem to think that a private company threatening to put the county's lights out if they don't get what they want is quite reasonable but thought rather differently when the miners threatened to do the same.
These companies have made a direct threat to sabotage the UK economy.
It is the first duty of the government to defend the country against such threats and Cameron should respond accordingly.
It's up to the customer to shop around surely?
That is the catch-phrase dreamt up by the industry to pretend that the market is working, when it obviously is not.
It is just one of the hypocrisies which both the industry and governments hide behind. When we know that pretend private companies pretend to compete and pretend the money they invest is their own.
But the real elephant in the room is that expensive energy is and has been government policy for years, which is key to every government's Green commitments.
The theory being that expensive energy encourages people to use less and to become more energy efficient.
The present set-up which has feather-bedded these big companies is just another scam which guarantees their private profits, while dumping the responsibility for investment on their customers and the tax-payers.
These sweetheart deals are normal for privatised public utilities (we are a generous nation).
This is all part of the Green vanity policies which are based upon the delusion that making a few cuts in the energy usage of a country which has 0.8% of the world's population can compensate for the fact that India and China are set to built over 800 coal-fired power stations between them in the near future.
High energy prices are set to be government policy for the foreseeable future because energy is such a massive cash cow, which they can justify by showing polar bears and melting glaciers.
The only reason Red Ed has made it a policy is that it was an election issue in Germany, where electric bills are a lot higher, and he sees it as an opportunity.
Red Ed is lying if he is promising anything more than a temporary price freeze.
His party's other policies say exactly the opposite.