Jacob Rees-Mogg ridiculed over Energy Bill comment
“Who’s this ‘us’?”
“Who’s this ‘us’?”
The government’s Energy Bill falls well short of what’s needed
“Energy bills are out of control. The government must cancel April’s hike.”
Today BP announced that its annual profits more than doubled to £23bn in 2022, while last week oil and gas giant Shell announced eye-watering profits of £32.2bn, its highest in 115 years.
The element of the Energy Bill that has got the most positive attention, and rightly so, has been amendments aiming to insert into the bill support for community energy schemes
‘As part of concerted, focused drives, France, Germany and Spain, among other states, have brought in measures like maximum heating and cooling levels for shops and offices, bans on night time use of neon shop signs and other excessive lighting’
The TUC is proposing a reshaping of the UK’s energy system, to be more in line with our European neighbours that are finding it easier to weather the current crisis.
‘It is sad to see a government more obsessed with holding on to their own power and influence, rather than using that power to support the very many people who face what seem like unsurmountable obstacles, just to get by.’
Over half (55.7%) of lone-parent households (855,938) will be in fuel poverty from today
‘Governments which have handed £895bn of quantitative easing to speculators can also create money to help hard pressed households’.