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Energy Prices
This Energy price free for all started with that Nasty Lady Thatcher ,way back in the 1970s. An academic Dr Stephen Littlechild came up with the idea of free market in electricity. Thatcher introduced this madness on the advice of her energy Secretary John Wakeham.,,,, Littlechild was made regulator for the new energy market by Thatcher , and ended up the board of an Enron subsidiary , while Wakeham was elevated to to the Lords and he was on the Enron Board. And of course Enron collapsed in 2001 due to ......."Fraud And Corruption".,,, And all these years later its still hurting.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.nationalisation is unlikely to provide any relief. In the Netherlands all utilities are publicly owned, and it would need a law change to change that. and yet the Dutch pay the second highest price in Europe for their gas......
https:/ /nltime s.nl/20 22/07/2 7/dutch -gas-pr ices-se cond-hi ghest-e urope
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what a load of efffing bolloxx this is - no notion of the fact that the ehergy markets work on global markets and daily or term movements and in which the UK Inc and its member companies are largely bit-players/companies - even such as the majors like Shell or BP.
For ***'s sake, my good fellow, get a sense of proper economic history and what goes on in international trading and product markets be they oil, gas, chemicals, metals or other commodities before spouting such trite rubbish.
What I have read at the start is the blathering of a potential ijiut or dangerous loon, not even a well-read socialist, communist or anybody of a well-founded political or economical persuasion.]
Get Real!!!
For ***'s sake, my good fellow, get a sense of proper economic history and what goes on in international trading and product markets be they oil, gas, chemicals, metals or other commodities before spouting such trite rubbish.
What I have read at the start is the blathering of a potential ijiut or dangerous loon, not even a well-read socialist, communist or anybody of a well-founded political or economical persuasion.]
Get Real!!!
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can someone tell Jonathan Swift that his offspring is making a complete ass of himself - for his info, I worked for over 25 years in oil marketing, trading and research, so I do have some semblance of how the market works - and countries where utilities or oil markets are run by government usually have pretty shambolic organisations with little customer service and safety often compromised.
No doubt gulliver blames boris for the high energy bills, inflation, airport chaos... and recession across the EU.
https:/ /www.bl oomberg .com/ne ws/arti cles/20 22-07-1 7/europ e-s-imp ending- recessi on-leav es-ecb- in-deep er-poli cy-bind
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Gulliver... why do you keep making fun of Dtcrossword fan as a shelfstacker or ricekrispie worker ( he's not) but me and many other stack shelves, collect trolleys, work in stockroom and do what you obviousley consider menial jobs for losers ...nothing to be sneered at. And you say Boris is a snob!!