Quote Originally Posted by Tito Fuente View Post
Limited the price cap Oh, come on. For a lot of people the energy prices may as well be £1,000 p/m for as good as it does them.

£150 isn't nothing, you're right. It's a slap in the face and, what's that term you keep using... A short term solution.

I don't know why you're just throwing all short term solutions together as if they somehow correspond.

As we stand today there are millions of people unable to afford to live on a basic level whilst oil companies are showing unheard of profits.

I'm not sure how the outcome of taxing them more/a windfall tax could be worse than the British public literally starving and freezing - which they are doing.

Maybe they could be starving and freezing and sat uncomfortably.
I'm confused. You are angry at this ladies 500% increase, but then don't seem to recognise that the 50% price cap mitigates rises at all, recognising that the 50% price cap has also led to numerous companies going bust?

Do you want the price cap or not? Or do you want it to be far less, in which case we wouldnt be talking about tax rises on oil companies at all, cos the good old british taxpayer would just cover it, or better still, we could borrow the difference and pass the problem onto our kids.

The fact is, unless she was on an exceptional deal at £17 a month (Which she likely was) no ones bills should have gone up 500%. If they have, then something is up and she should seek support or help. There's thousands of examples of this every day, I'm not sure what good it is landing it at the PM's door.

It just sounds to me that you aren't that interested in a genuine recognition of the issues to trying to get to the bottom of it, you just want a sensational story to bash the PM with.

Surely otherwise you would recognise a 500% increase when the cap is 50% sounds very suspicious, no?

Again, I don't necessarily disagree with you on a windfall tax, but you are no energy expert and neither am I, but i recognise that decisions need to be made in the long term as well as short term.