Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Boris and Jo Johnson: dim Bulbs
Rather than cracking down on outrageous prices from the Big Six, the Tories promoted phoney ‘competition’ companies that only traded energy rather than produced it – one even hired the PM’s brother as a director, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
WE are in the middle of an energy crisis which is throwing increasing numbers of people into “heat or eat” decisions. And right in the middle of that is a phoney market solution that fell apart. Because this is Britain, it is also marked by a Tory all-friends-together cronyism.
The government would like to blame the “energy crisis” on one external factor — Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
It is true that Putin’s bloody war has created a side effect of a big pressure on energy prices, alongside the main effects of killing, torture and injustice. But energy inequality is a problem that long predates Putin’s vicious war.
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