Is Farage... Labours Secret Weapon ?.
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British Gas to increase their prices.
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Is it not time that our Government stepped in to either cap energy prices or nationalise all utilities, because how much longer can the long suffering British public remain hostage to these money grabbing foreign owned utility companies?
If this isn't possible, and since it is British Gas who are the first to increase their prices each year, then why don't the majority of British Gas customers leave British Gas and put their gas and electricity needs in the hands of another supplier?
At least this would send them a message.
Is it not time that our Government stepped in to either cap energy prices or nationalise all utilities, because how much longer can the long suffering British public remain hostage to these money grabbing foreign owned utility companies?
If this isn't possible, and since it is British Gas who are the first to increase their prices each year, then why don't the majority of British Gas customers leave British Gas and put their gas and electricity needs in the hands of another supplier?
At least this would send them a message.
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Privatisation was sold as an option which would offer cheaper energy through competition. The only competition is to see whose turn it is to raise prices first before the rest follow suit ;-) And sold as the public buying a stake which is also nonsense as what has effectively happened is that public ownership and accountability has been sold off to heaven knows where
Membership applications by the UK to join the EEC were refused in 1963 and 1967 because the French President of the time Charles de Gaulle doubted the UK's political will.
It is understood, however, his real fear was that English would suddenly become the common language of the community.
Alec Douglas Home was PM in 63
Harold Wilson was PM in 67
so could have been either Labour or Conservatives who took us into what was then the EEC
It is understood, however, his real fear was that English would suddenly become the common language of the community.
Alec Douglas Home was PM in 63
Harold Wilson was PM in 67
so could have been either Labour or Conservatives who took us into what was then the EEC
Madmaggot,
You are mixing up EU membership and the single currency. Greece could quite happily go tits-up and no one would really care, if they hadn't have joined the Euro. No one is bothered about Greece, but the Euro is not allowed to fail, so reluctantly, the Eu has to save Greece. Brown, for all his many faults, kept us out of the Euro, and that was a fantastic decision.
You are mixing up EU membership and the single currency. Greece could quite happily go tits-up and no one would really care, if they hadn't have joined the Euro. No one is bothered about Greece, but the Euro is not allowed to fail, so reluctantly, the Eu has to save Greece. Brown, for all his many faults, kept us out of the Euro, and that was a fantastic decision.
ichkeria, the wholesale market prices are moving north, so what are the gas/tricity retailers supposed to do - and as the table shows we are in the fourth quartile of EU prices....i.e. the lower end. And lets be clear Centrica BG has no formal linkage to the BG Group - two separate companies completely, both British.....
successive politicians surely have had ample opportunity to change the nature of our relationship in the EU, they have not done so because they do not wish to, seeing that we are supposedly better off in EU than not.
Wilson i don't believe was anti Europe. Going on the various links i have looked and one i provided. It matters not a jot, we are in, and unlikely to come out, nor indeed get any kind of referendum, no matter what Cameron says.
Wilson i don't believe was anti Europe. Going on the various links i have looked and one i provided. It matters not a jot, we are in, and unlikely to come out, nor indeed get any kind of referendum, no matter what Cameron says.
