The system in regard to energy, is a result of Conservative privatisation.
I used to get my gas from the gas board and electricity from the electricity board…..
Changing energy suppliers
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I used to get my gas from the gas board and electricity from the electricity board…..
out at work but finds the time to post in here all day
so you preferred to pay whatever price a monopoly charged rather than have competition to drive down prices which is why the market was opened up after privatisation
What cobblers! I don’t know you or what you do in your spare time but I can guarantee you one thing it’ll take less time for you to search out better utility deals that will last you a year than you spend every day on this forum! Give up posting on here for one day and that will be more than enough time to sort out your gas, electric, car insurance, home insurance, travel insurance, mobile and broadband contracts.
You beat me to it while I was typing up something similar!
just cancelled my virgin package only wanted broadband which they offer at 26 quid for new customers lowest they would come down to was 47 quid so said nope cancel it .So unless they come back with something i will be going to sky for theirs neighbours have it and say it spot on with no problems
It’s called 'competition'. Tell me, when you buy a new telly, fridge, vacuum cleaner, holiday etc etc, do you just walk into any shop and buy it, in the belief that it is the same price everywhere else?
…and you paid the price that they decided. Of course, they could charge what they liked as there were no alternatives, were there?
Being pedantic No you didnt the gasboards ceased to exist in 1973 you got it from british gas then possibly centrica
No it isnt
Its called making the pricing as opaque as possible
I don’t call penalising loyal customers “competition”
Yes it’s terrible how the nationalised energy supplier in France put up prices by 4% …..it’s awful the way customers had no choice
Luckily in the U.K. we had loads of choice when energy prices went up 80%
And if the privatised energy supplier market is so great how come 80% of them just went bust?
And who actually subsidised the real price increase at the time , oh yeah the french taxpayers so they actually did pay the full whack in one way or another.
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The Finance Ministry said that during the period of subsidies, the government had covered 37 percent of country's electricity bill, amounting to €9 billion per year.
Thank you for agreeing my point stands.
I don’t energy suddenly increasing by so much that millions of people couldn’t afford heating.
But then our energy and supply network wasn’t owned by sovereign wealth funds
How much did their taxes increase by?
How much was the real increase? - it wasn’t that much.
How did it work in the U.K.? - oh that’s right the govt gave billions to energy suppliers that ended up in the hands of …private owned energy companies.
6 million people now living in fuel poverty.
You right wing numpties have got zero chance of winning the argument on privatisation of utilities. Zero.
so what foreign companies own the biggest part of uk gas industry centrica? /
The Finance Ministry said that during the period of subsidies, the government had covered 37 percent of country's electricity bill, amounting to €9 billion per year.
.Interviewed by Franceinfo on Monday, he said this increase "could have been shifted to a more opportune time", such as in August or after the winter season, adding that 34 percent of the French population go without heating because they can't afford it.
Peanuts compared to privatised Britain, where Truss paid out £150b
Liz Truss’s £150bn energy plan puts Bank of England on the spot
UK PM’s intervention has central bank in quandary over two differing views of economy ahead of next week’s meeting
www.ft.com
You won’t be able to win the privatisation argument for utilities, it’s best you give up now