Energy costs

[harryagain]

They lost control of energy prices when the various energy industries were sold off. He has no chance of enacting this.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 25 September 2013 13:21 The Natural Philosopher wrote in uk.d- i-y:

Nearest I could think of is go back to a victorian system: You either work, starve to death or be lobbed into a poorhouse and made to work.

Not very nice though...

[The Other Mike]

Even if you gave either Cameron or Osborne gloves with left and right marked on them they'd still not know which was which without substantial external assistance.

[Huge]

How much "nice" can we afford?

[The Other Mike]

It never stopped Hugo Chavez

[Roger Chapman]

Who was it that called that manifesto 'the longest suicide note in history'?

[Richard]

Better still, give all the politicians boxing gloves and completely ruin their sex lives.

[newshound]

I thought Digby Jones came up with a very sensible response on R4 today.

[The Natural Philosopher]

A lot less than will get you elected. Which is a catch 22 and is why we WILL get disaster.

The sheeple will keep electing people they think will save them from reality, until reality kills them.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 25 September 2013 18:02 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I was hoping slightly more than that...

The welfare state is a great thing in itself. The sad thing is that someone always has to spoil the party by being selfish.

[dennis]

what was it, he hasn't come up with much sensible stuff in the past.

[Tim Streater]

And Venezuela is f***ed a s a result. Socialists never learn.

[The Other Mike]

a) 'go f*ck yourself ed' b) 'even thatcher wasn't quite this mad' c) 'my sides have just split with laughter' d) 'a prime policy plucked from Camerons think tank'

[The Other Mike]

Cheap petrol though :)

Neither do politicians of any leaning

[Richard]

Those socialist politicians Kinnock and Bliar learnt how to capitalise in a big way.

[harryagain]

0.10/litre when I was there. Everybody was running beat up Yank V8s.

[Tim Streater]

And shortages of everything else.

[Tim Streater]

Socialist politicians my arse.

[Jethro_uk]

One thing which irritates me, is the (unchallenged by the media) posturing of the energy company saying "if we didn't make such large profits, we couldn't invest".

Now I may be a bit simple, but where I come from money you invest in your business is counted *before* you get profit. So the reality is by making such profits, they company are actually doing the exact opposite - and denying money to investment.

I wonder if there's any merit in scrapping corporation tax, and simply having a 50% tax on money allocated to dividends ?

[Jethro_uk]

Indeed. They also exhibit a lack of knowledge about the location of arse and elbow.