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  • @shaunmiller7370
    @shaunmiller7370 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +312

    Privatisation, privatisation, privatisation, price, gouging, price, gouging price gouging. Please call it what it is.

    • @kinghenryxl1747
      @kinghenryxl1747 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I don't understand why people are shocked that Labour is continuing with Tory policies.

    • @SteveJones-gz4vd
      @SteveJones-gz4vd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      NOT privitisation, it's the public sefvice that are bankrupting the UK

    • @zainzoala1083
      @zainzoala1083 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😂😂😂 What did you expect when you get involved into wars .

    • @Grandude77
      @Grandude77 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Exactly, the problem is Thatcher and neoliberalism. The reason he cannot see it is because he is blinkered.

    • @IMBlakeley
      @IMBlakeley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@kinghenryxl1747 Blue tory or Red tory, plus ça change

  • @bilal_scot5209
    @bilal_scot5209 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +434

    Our system is corrupt.

    • @gtingaming716
      @gtingaming716 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Bet you voted Labour though!

    • @geeksworkshop
      @geeksworkshop 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      There was never any Cost of Living Crisis. There is just the price fixing and price gouging

    • @washboard7793
      @washboard7793 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      @@gtingaming716yeah I also got kicked in the head by a horse and agree with you! the guys who have been in power for what, a couple of months? are to blame for every issue rather than the guys who spent the last 14 years, allowing this behaviour from energy (and water) companies, giving handouts to their mates and hollowing out public services :)

    • @HA05GER
      @HA05GER 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      ​@@gtingaming716do you know when our country was it's wealthiest and we had the highest GDP per capita? It was under labour.

    • @drunkengamer1977
      @drunkengamer1977 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      ​@@gtingaming716lmao a reform drone 🤣

  • @frankjenkins6627
    @frankjenkins6627 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +252

    Pure greed nothing else.

    • @raphaelandrews3617
      @raphaelandrews3617 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Beyound greed, pure spite, we are actaully paying for French/Germany and Spanish customers in the UK,

    • @flickthenick
      @flickthenick 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@raphaelandrews3617explain how this works?

    • @geeksworkshop
      @geeksworkshop 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      There was never any Cost of Living Crisis. There is just the price fixing and price gouging.

    • @frankjenkins6627
      @frankjenkins6627 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@raphaelandrews3617 so true we .

    • @aleph8888
      @aleph8888 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Start fracking in the UK

  • @raphaelandrews3617
    @raphaelandrews3617 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +319

    Prices for producing electicity has been going down for nearly 10 years but in the UK prices are going up.Why??? we are been ripped off , while power companies make RECORD profits.

    • @The_gaming_archaeologist
      @The_gaming_archaeologist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      It's what happens when the utilities are owned by greedy corporations and not nationalised.

    • @janeknight3597
      @janeknight3597 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      We use gas to generate electricity.

    • @edix1673
      @edix1673 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Brexit.

    • @chrysalis4126
      @chrysalis4126 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Its the gas we use to make our electricity that causes the problem.

    • @kanedNunable
      @kanedNunable 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@The_gaming_archaeologist not just that. most of ours are owned by foreign investors, meaning all that money leaves the UK too.

  • @izzytrue8630
    @izzytrue8630 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    The highest energy bills in Europe and the lowest state pension. Something gotta give!

    • @graemeross1998
      @graemeross1998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Riot revolt

    • @wulfhere83
      @wulfhere83 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We should act like the French, the French don't take it lying down.

    • @TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube
      @TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately our new Liebour government is clamping down on anyone who questions their motives... and the MSM is scared ... the News is a joke now, It's becoming a State Run country

  • @MrDavidp180
    @MrDavidp180 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +296

    Greed and profiteering

    • @gmanlee575
      @gmanlee575 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      English society is a feudal society, landlord and slaves basically extremely similar to russians. Dutch on the other hand is a real progressive people and society

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      TUFTON STREET.

    • @AJ-xv7oh
      @AJ-xv7oh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@My_HandleIs_If only we hand £20,000 lying around.

    • @goblin457
      @goblin457 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      By everything look how profits are up for the likes of Tesco not only the energy companies

  • @njdenney69
    @njdenney69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    What angers me is the fact that it's not the unit price which has gone through the roof of late, it's the standing charge, so you pay through the nose even if you don't use anything! Proof that it's not the cost of the gas/electricity which is increasing, it's the greed of the companies 🤬

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @leemccourt1604
      @leemccourt1604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      The argument for standing charges is, if they didn’t have them the unit price would go up, no the profits would go down. Ofgem is a joke.

    • @maurabrown6229
      @maurabrown6229 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I totally agree

    • @lynnoorman2144
      @lynnoorman2144 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@My_HandleIs_ I hear your idea. However, with many houses in the UK it would be a question of retro fitting houses that are 100 years old or built to a low standard (1960s onward). Which is expensive for the individual householder. I hope that helps you understand that UK is a bit of a different case.

    • @harrydebastardeharris987
      @harrydebastardeharris987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have switched off the gas heating so use zero gas,but still pay for the standing charge.

  • @lokischildren8714
    @lokischildren8714 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +150

    Energy companies profiteering

    • @jackjanpour8532
      @jackjanpour8532 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope. Keep making wars with every country,

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @joshwoodland5103
      @joshwoodland5103 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jackjanpour8532 You trying to say the energy companies aren't profiteering. Because there is a ridiculous amount of proof that goes against this claim.

  • @michaelgriffiths5723
    @michaelgriffiths5723 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    Another example of why privatisation of utilities and infrastructure is a bad idea.

    • @cup1966wow
      @cup1966wow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The funny thing is this is the regulator causing this not the companies. So would likely be same under government. As it would probably be same regulator.

    • @michaelgriffiths5723
      @michaelgriffiths5723 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @cup1966wow the companies don't have to charge the maximum the regulator allows do they?

    • @cup1966wow
      @cup1966wow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@michaelgriffiths5723 Why wouldn't they and why wouldn't a government. I don't get how the regulator has set that price. There's an issue with the regulator here.

    • @SuperMcbonez
      @SuperMcbonez 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@cup1966wowit’s a mix of both private companies and the regulators that are at fault here as they tend to be operated by previous high ranking employees from said companies.
      We cannot really live without energy. When it comes to vital goods and services they tend to operate better as publically funded services rather than being privatised. Just look at the state of our trains/health service/prisons/water all industries that have varying and increasing levels of privatisation.

    • @cup1966wow
      @cup1966wow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SuperMcbonez Yeah I get you I just unfortunately don't think it will be any cheaper when it's public. But to be honest I don't think privatisation works when theirs not competition and utilities don't have true competition so it doesn't work.

  • @tankrabbit534
    @tankrabbit534 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    Donors are cashing in. [it is called corruption in any other country, here it is donations and lobby]

    • @edvigq
      @edvigq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Which donors?

    • @OneEyedWheeler
      @OneEyedWheeler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@edvigq He doesn't know, he's just waffling.

    • @keldsleepnot7961
      @keldsleepnot7961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@edvigqoil and gas companies. Known to donate to political parties the world over to influence pricing

    • @infosuge
      @infosuge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@OneEyedWheeler in the uk MPs don’t have to declare donations. So we know it’s happening but don’t know who by.

  • @FRU.No.1
    @FRU.No.1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +124

    *British gas profits jump 10 fold from £74m in 2022 to £750m in 2023.
    We are a nation of suckers*

    • @veganbarnsley15
      @veganbarnsley15 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are lead by criminals. Still nearly one in four voted Tory. Labour need to pull their finger out.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @theolddog5129
      @theolddog5129 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The previous year Centrica (British Gas) had made a loss as they were not allowed to pass actual costs onto consumers. In 2023 they were allowed by the regulator to recover previous losses. So the comparison between 2022 and 2023 is flawed. The shareholder yield even this year is only 3.27% which is actually quite low compared to the BOE interest rate. So we the consumers are not being ripped off. Why would shareholders take the risk of investing in BG unless their return was close to the BOE interest rate?
      The reality is that we, who are now mostly of pension age, voted to sell off our national infrasture during the 1980s and enjoyed the proceeds. Now the whole population is paying the price for those excesses.

    • @oweng7987
      @oweng7987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@My_HandleIs_Lol, your suggestions to save money would cost at least £100,000 to implement. Genius financial planning right there.

    • @markcoomber8222
      @markcoomber8222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@oweng7987If your house would cost that much to convert then you must be living in a very large house and hence should be able to afford the rise. Otherwise you must be lying. Which is it ?

  • @daveward4358
    @daveward4358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    Can someone tell my why i pay more for the standing charge than the acual electricity i use?

    • @kanedNunable
      @kanedNunable 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      greed

    • @steveozone4910
      @steveozone4910 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You might want to sit down.

    • @jpldriver
      @jpldriver 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You are paying the rich shareholder's!

    • @stuartregan1627
      @stuartregan1627 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Corruption

  • @colinwiseman
    @colinwiseman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    I can understand the unit rate going up, to some extent. But why is the standing charge going up still? Why are the public still paying for failed BUSINESSES and for BUSINESSES to buy energy to sell to us? Surely being a business means you take risks like taking on new customers and buying energy?
    The standing charge is now £1 a day, pretty much. If I go away for a month, and not use anything, nothing coming in, everything turned off...I'd still pay £30 for zero work.

    • @chrysalis4126
      @chrysalis4126 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The standing charge for my July bill was £27 something and the price for my gas and electric actually used was £16 something.

    • @helpmaboab1
      @helpmaboab1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pamvarnsverry2444many thousands are not. Waiting time for repair is many months

    • @theolddog5129
      @theolddog5129 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That is not how business works. In order to take risks a business has to make a profit such that overall the profit is considerably higher than the risk being taken. Businesses fail when the risks they take are greater than their profits. Also a business needs to make a reasonable level of profit for it to survive and secure investment (which is essentially shareholders lending the business money) year on year for it to survive. Remember that your pension funds are huge shareholders - if they did not receive a return on their investment your pension would go down in value year on year. Unless the energy industry is nationalised, the businesses have to make profits in order to survive.
      As for the standing charge, you are paying for the infrastructure that is there to supply gas or electricity to your premises. It's no different to paying the costs associated with car ownership irrespective whether the car is driven or standing on the drive.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @SteveJones-gz4vd
      @SteveJones-gz4vd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Net Zero that is why . if you voted Labour or Tory then you deserve everthing you get . Understand ?

  • @cat_glove
    @cat_glove 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    It's corruption.

    • @-The-Darkside
      @-The-Darkside 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You'd like to think that, but it's not corruption when it's the entire scam. It's by design.

  • @geeksworkshop
    @geeksworkshop 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    There was never any Cost of Living Crisis. There is just the price fixing and price gouging. The corps rise their prices and see record profits of billions upon billions and the poor folk pay for all the rich peoples holidays and extra homes.

    • @infosuge
      @infosuge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      All “crisis” are in fact neoliberal policy. Housing, immigration, energy, climate, social care etc

    • @gazsm1
      @gazsm1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I've said this many times, the 'cost of living crisis' was so named by government/media and implies that we, the ordinary people, are to blame. What it should accurately be called is a 'cost of greed crisis'! Every big corporation, EVERY one of them, have made record profits during the 'crisis' and all the 'ordinary people' have suffered enormously because of their greed.

    • @naeedaafzal3055
      @naeedaafzal3055 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's going to get worse if we don't wake up! They are using media to get ppl fighting with each other on immigration issues 🙄 can you see what the elite are doing

    • @marcust123
      @marcust123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Spot on

    • @174trek
      @174trek 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@infosugemanufactured crises

  • @cat_glove
    @cat_glove 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    Professor not answering the question. Talking about energy efficiency. Why are our prices so high.

    • @creasedlinen
      @creasedlinen 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      He’s probably receiving money from the Energy companies

    • @flygrace
      @flygrace 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      He was useless. Complete waste of tiome having him on.

    • @firebyrd437
      @firebyrd437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@flygraceI agree, the only pertinent thing he said is more people die with cold here than in Canada

    • @colinallan1962
      @colinallan1962 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      He used to be an advisor to the government.

    • @flygrace
      @flygrace 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@colinallan1962 The last government? That figures.

  • @David-zw7te
    @David-zw7te 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The reason why France's energy bills didn't go up is simple.
    EDF own nearly 20% of the UK market share for energy. EDF energy is a French state owned company. So we paid to keep their bills low.
    This happens with other foreign state owned utilities too - Deutsche Bahn, German state owned company owns our trains.
    In other words, our utilities are state owned, just not by our state.

  • @davidking5765
    @davidking5765 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Greed. Greed is at the heart of all that is wrong with this country.

  • @n7xyy
    @n7xyy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Pure greed from people who are already multi millionaires 😡😡😡😡😡

    • @dottyp137
      @dottyp137 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Billionaires

  • @BrianWillcox-qp2hr
    @BrianWillcox-qp2hr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Because there's nobody to stop them,,, it's daylight robbery.

    • @naeedaafzal3055
      @naeedaafzal3055 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes when we just moan and do not rise against the real trouble makers the elite not immigrants

  • @Gius3pp3K
    @Gius3pp3K 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The Professor failed to say one thing. The main issue is the so called ‘energy regulator’, who conveniently decrease the price cap during the summer months, when energy usage for heating is zero, and they increase the price cap over the winter when people need to heat their homes. In my opinion, the regulator is in cahoots with the energy companies, and getting their palms greased. They don’t do what is for the best for the elderly and vulnerable.

  • @brianferguson7840
    @brianferguson7840 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Here in France 🇫🇷 our energy only went up by 14% not the 120% in England. Although 🤔 we have the same supplier EDF.

    • @bowjana8128
      @bowjana8128 หลายเดือนก่อน

      France is a better country to live then England

    • @222inverter
      @222inverter หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also EDF is french

  • @maddogair
    @maddogair 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    *Corporate Price Gouging* !

    • @David-bi6lf
      @David-bi6lf 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Just wait for it early next year the energy generators will announce recording breaking profits. In fact I might just go and place my life savings on it I'm so confident of a win 😂

  • @AbuYusha01
    @AbuYusha01 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Disgusting

    • @Frederique41
      @Frederique41 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Truly disgusting

  • @simonaveline5542
    @simonaveline5542 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    36 Billion spent on "track and trace" could of built 2/3 Nuclear power stations?

    • @darrylsimpson4744
      @darrylsimpson4744 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And PPE? And furlough fraud? And the cost of all the implementation of Brexit? That’s why we’re fu**ed.

    • @beatonthedonis
      @beatonthedonis 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      It takes 15 years to build a nuclear power station. The Tories got their kickbacks virtually straight away with track and trace.

    • @laurentdrozin812
      @laurentdrozin812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@beatonthedonisThe price tag on the Covid stuff still makes my head explode.

    • @Manu-Official
      @Manu-Official 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I'm going to make it sound even worse:
      The French equivalent app to Track and Trace cost was €6 Million.

    • @wildbill7289
      @wildbill7289 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      We had 2-3 power stations planned under Brown, and ofc the Tories immediately shelved them when they came to power in 2010. What a great decision that was in hindsight.

  • @maureenharris8255
    @maureenharris8255 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    In 1 word - greed!

    • @barbaraurquhart2276
      @barbaraurquhart2276 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's needing to be put back under government control they are needing to stop all privatisation that Margaret thatcher started get everything back under government control but then with this labour government you wonder because they aer even worse than the tories

  • @Human_Herbivore
    @Human_Herbivore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    It's almost as if all essential services should be renationalised.

    • @theolddog5129
      @theolddog5129 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That would require money which has all been spent!

    • @Human_Herbivore
      @Human_Herbivore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@theolddog5129 well, we know it's going to happen with transport companies, so onward and upward.

    • @IndiBrony
      @IndiBrony 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Human_Herbivorethey've created Great British Energy to get that ball rolling as well 👍

  • @WilliamThomas-dz1fs
    @WilliamThomas-dz1fs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    Privitisation and Brexit, British public voted for both !!!

    • @The_gaming_archaeologist
      @The_gaming_archaeologist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      People fell for lies from the Tory party in regards to privatisation, saying it makes everything better and easier.

    • @kanedNunable
      @kanedNunable 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      nobody under 50 voted to privatise all our utilities. happened before we could vote

    • @marmedli9124
      @marmedli9124 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nothing to do with Brexit stop lying.

    • @markwilkie3677
      @markwilkie3677 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The Scottish part hasn't voted Tory in almost 70 years and rejected Brexit.

    • @Manu-Official
      @Manu-Official 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      First thing Boris Johnson did, was to allow water companies to dump raw sewage in rivers and sea shores.

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    We have one of the highest energy prices in the world.

    • @Marvin-dg8vj
      @Marvin-dg8vj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are tackling climate change .
      This means we don't use coal and we have lots of renewables .Of course this will lead to higher prices . It has done gradually for ten years

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Marvin-dg8vj renewables are the cheapest form of energy in the world. At one point over 7 times cheaper than Gas, coal is an expensive energy form and not cheap at all.

    • @Marvin-dg8vj
      @Marvin-dg8vj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Alex-cw3rz you are one of the many victims of a massive fraud . It should be easy for you to question the propaganda you have been given .The more interrmitent renewables we have the higher the cost of electricity all over the world. Taking into account the costs of intermittent power and the lack of storage wind and solar are about 5 times the cost of gas .Watch as our bills rise steadily over the next decade

    • @davidwinkle4168
      @davidwinkle4168 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Alex-cw3rz Denmark - highest number of wind turbines / capita in Europe = highest electricity price. Germany - 2nd highest number of wind turbines / capita in Europe = 2nd highest electricity price. UK - 3rd highest number of wind turbines / capita in Europe = 3rd highest electricity price ....Fact! Go Figure.

    • @bowjana8128
      @bowjana8128 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And we are the worst places to live in the workd

  • @OOvki
    @OOvki 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You can insulate your house from top to bottom and turn everything off for the whole of the winter season and you will still be required to pay hundreds if not thousands of pounds in standing charges plus V.A.T. Something wrong there for starters.

  • @northnsouth6813
    @northnsouth6813 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    British Gas, showed its profits jumped to £751m in 2023, up from £72m a year earlier, what changed?

  • @khyron8509
    @khyron8509 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    That professor just doesn't get it at all, Scotland can provide roughly 113% of Scotland's electricity requirements from renewable sources yet pays the highest electricity bills in Europe ! It's the UK energy policy that's complete and utter garbage.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @khyron8509
      @khyron8509 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@My_HandleIs_ I live in social housing so cant do the kind of upgrades your talking about I also don't have any need for a car as I live right in the centre of my home city, our heating is provided by an external boiler that I don't have access too but my electricity has pretty much doubled in price the last two years despite me actually spending more time at work than I've ever done before, insulation isn't my problem its the energy policy of the UK that's to blame.

    • @AngelaH2222
      @AngelaH2222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@My_HandleIs_why are you spamming the comments section, do you have a financial interest in a heat pump company.?

    • @MinkieWinkle
      @MinkieWinkle หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Of course he does,
      The facts are, heat pumps cost you 30k to install when you factor in all the upgrades needed to actually get them to work in a uk home, especially older hones.
      Then he suggests getting solar, another 8k
      Then an ev and charger so another 40k
      So his suggestion to people who already ate struggling financially is to spend 78,000 upfront. Which would pay for many multiple decades of regular heating bills.
      He is talking nonsense

  • @The_gaming_archaeologist
    @The_gaming_archaeologist 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    It's called Capitalism. That's the root cause of all of it.

    • @twisteddancer7773
      @twisteddancer7773 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Did you post this message vire pigeon

    • @arej00ryan
      @arej00ryan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@twisteddancer7773 why would you defend capitalism? couldnt imagine a better system?

    • @edix1673
      @edix1673 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Its called Brexit. That's the root cause of it all.

    • @MrNorthWales
      @MrNorthWales 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you dont like democracy?​@@edix1673

    • @arej00ryan
      @arej00ryan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@edix1673 I'm an idiot, can you explain to me in simple terms why are it ha caused this

  • @richardtodd6559
    @richardtodd6559 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The price drop was a con…they simply doubled the daily standing charge…drop price during summer when nobody uses it then doubles it during winter and triple profit…it’s same with petrol

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

  • @pamvarnsverry2444
    @pamvarnsverry2444 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Martin Lewis has some profound veiws on the removal of the winter fuel allowance.

  • @craptacular8282
    @craptacular8282 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All a bit suspect. The price cap dropped for Summer when we're not really using energy which allowed the Tories to claim victory over inflation. Now that winter is here and we actually need to use the energy, its going back up.

  • @williampatrickfagan7590
    @williampatrickfagan7590 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The Irish government gave each personal electricity account holder 3× 150 euro contributions to their electric account.
    The money was paid directly to the electricity suppliers.
    That has been the case for the past 2 years.
    Means tested peole also get 32 euro a week for 5 months every winter for energy.
    Nobody in Ireland ends up in hospital due to hypothermia.

    • @arod9998
      @arod9998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah but you need to pay 60 euros to see a GP in Ireland. And why is an Irish person watching British LBC on TH-cam. Don’t you have Irish news programs you can watch????

    • @williampatrickfagan7590
      @williampatrickfagan7590 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Most people in Ireland have free GP and medicine. My O A P is 300 euro a week. plus 2 double weeks pension just before Christmas.
      I like mental stimulation is the reasonwhy I watch interesting news clips.
      I also watch France 24 and Euro news.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @williampatrickfagan7590
      @williampatrickfagan7590 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@My_HandleIs_ Those suggestions would cost a lot of money.
      But you are correct.
      I removed 100 mm of glass fibre attic insulation and installed 250 mm of sheep's wool. Yhen had walls pumped with insulation then 50 mm insulation on internal walls.
      That was 15 years ago.
      Best 8,000 euro I ever spent.

  • @ony583
    @ony583 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    It's easier to overcharge when it's overcomplicated.

  • @duaplex1
    @duaplex1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Because they allowed greed to set in. Now in a truly capitalistic way the energy companies are exploiting the chance given.

  • @paulPeasmarsh
    @paulPeasmarsh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Governments are supposed to look after the people, they see the people as assets to exploit, it's nothing less than abusive behaviour.

  • @stuartsanders7829
    @stuartsanders7829 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    You watch all the big energy companies will be boasting massive profits after this price rise its totally unnecessary

  • @MargaretDeakin-d6m
    @MargaretDeakin-d6m หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Our energy is provided by foreign companies that is why we pay more. Private foreign companies have no interest in helping the uk.

  • @simonaveline5542
    @simonaveline5542 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    You will own nothing and be happy! is this not part of the plan? Unless your in the .1% club

    • @bezza4271
      @bezza4271 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You mean I get to be happy, I'll take that.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

  • @FreeWhilly734
    @FreeWhilly734 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    They raise prices people get smarter they get smart meters, cut down on usage, get more efficient appliances... End result these big energy companies see a drop in revenue so they raise prices to hit earnings for shareholders. The cycle repeats constantly.
    People use less energy than they did in the 90's but energy cost 2x.
    Private companies need to show growth to shareholders. I honestly don't know how you change it really without turning the system on it's head.

    • @FreeWhilly734
      @FreeWhilly734 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It does make you laugh at the government pretending to care but in all honesty it's all PR nonsense. They can't actually do anything to these firms without massive collateral damage.

  • @eebehuur
    @eebehuur 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In 2023, Gas compaies saw record proffits. British Gas alone, saw their proffit increase tenfold from 72 million to 750 million! Other providers saw similar rises in their proffit. And now they are rising it again. They will continue put prices up until they are challenged.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

  • @philbamford6957
    @philbamford6957 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hes more bothered about removing thatchers portrait in no10 than about gas and electric companies ripping us off.

  • @sofalock3911
    @sofalock3911 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    "Seems that there is no mass homlessness or people starving to death. That means we can raise the prices of energy and food some more. We leaned so much from Covid, didn't we"

  • @robtyman4281
    @robtyman4281 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Unless Labour do something about this, and get a handle on energy prices, and the obscene profits that Energy companies are making; then the UK is 'done' as a country. It will be over essentially.

  • @MC-zr6gc
    @MC-zr6gc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The professor sounded like the PR guy for the energy companies

    • @theolddog5129
      @theolddog5129 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No - it's just that he understands how energy pricing works!

    • @fabfran4104
      @fabfran4104 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No, he kept wittering on about insulation etc and didn't explain anything about why UK prices are so much more than continental prices ​@theolddog5129

  • @stephenlewis8760
    @stephenlewis8760 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The crazy thing in customers of EDF are subsidizing french customers! When the French government stepped in and told EDF to swallow the losses it was UK customers making up the difference. I wonder how many former Tory MP's are now NED for the energy industry.

  • @margaretmacmurray658
    @margaretmacmurray658 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Because of our corrupt government and ofgem one in the same , who's in who's pocket.

  • @worldview730
    @worldview730 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Greed, Greed, Greed, why do we continue to vote & allow these leaders to wreak our lives time & time again

  • @magoomagoon
    @magoomagoon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    British Gas profits for 2023 increased 10-fold to £750m.
    SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION IN PROFITS.
    Let that sink in.

  • @stevencharlton7693
    @stevencharlton7693 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I live in Orkney. We produce ALL the electric used in the Islands through renewable methods such as wind and tidal, but our bills are still based on gas prices (even though we don't use gas to produce electric) and because of that we pay bills that are second highest in the UK (95% higher than the national energy cap)...
    So this 10% price hike will feel more like a 20% price hike for us!!! PATHETIC!!!

  • @mjl2904
    @mjl2904 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Harsh on labour in my opinion, not even the Greens or the Lib Dems would have been able to save you this winter.

    • @veganbarnsley15
      @veganbarnsley15 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Really? Why are we suffering when people in Europe are not by comparison? Why can’t they stop this robbery?

    • @ClarkLamontBeedie
      @ClarkLamontBeedie 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@veganbarnsley15 Hmm, yes, why would a trading block of 26 countries in a customs and political union be able to negotiate better energy prices than a sad little island full of right-wing isolationist bigots run by investment bankers and aristocrats that're beholden to their "donors" in the fossil fuel lobby and sold off all the public assets...

    • @topfuelteddy
      @topfuelteddy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@veganbarnsley15Exactly!! I thought labour were dead against this sort of profiteering and looked after the working class ?
      Hold my beer .

    • @marcust123
      @marcust123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Labour are a joke they scraped the winter fuel payment for the elderly cam they get any more lower

    • @ChrisLitton
      @ChrisLitton 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Red tories can't say I'm surprised

  • @dawaring169
    @dawaring169 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The rich getting richer

  • @twisteddancer7773
    @twisteddancer7773 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Because the other half of the uni party says so. Who voted for them anyway

    • @kanedNunable
      @kanedNunable 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you call them the uni party. if thats so why was it the tories who privatised everything. wasnt labour was it?

  • @PP-G
    @PP-G 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    British Corporate extortion

  • @Stalker-nv7gi
    @Stalker-nv7gi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Ask the expert a question, he says "insulate your house"! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @sbalmer132
    @sbalmer132 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I thought the Regulator was there to ensure fairness for the consumer but I was clearly wrong,he’s there to boost the profits of the energy companies

  • @davidrose213
    @davidrose213 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Did Energy Companies have to take on the debt by Companies that went bust. Just hike the standing charge so you pay more even if you’re using no energy at all. In the past I switched twice but both Companies went bust so I got nowhere. MP’s can claim £3:600 per year for heating plus an annual above inflation pay increase. How can they understand the plight of ordinary people.

    • @petefraser3013
      @petefraser3013 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This professor is obviously a corporate apologist

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

    • @AngelaH2222
      @AngelaH2222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@My_HandleIs_if you are going to respond to comments please do them the courtesy of a unique Genuine comment, rather than repeatedly copy & pasting a ridiculously expensive option which you know full well the average person can't afford to do... Maybe you're trying to be intentionally ridiculous,,,,,

  • @japfourme381
    @japfourme381 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is only one reason why fuel and energy prices keep going up, GREED!! No matter what they say about we’re paying for green energy, or net Zero, just look at the profits they make, then look at what they actually spend on Net Zero or the Green tech, and I guarantee it will be minuscule, compared to the actual profits they’ve made!!

  • @Exo98761
    @Exo98761 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    National grid have just finished selling off 100% of the UK's gas infrastructure and is owned by the same australian company who loaded thames water with debt and sold it. they also own other uk water companies who are almost going into administration with debt.

    • @swally291
      @swally291 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't think that is factually correct. SGN own the Scottish Network and also a bit down south. SGN owners were two Canadian Teacher groups and Abu Dhabi investments.

    • @Exo98761
      @Exo98761 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@swally291 apologies, to make a correction my understanding is that national grid sold off the transmission network and SGN own a distribution network
      But the transmission network is the backbone of the uks gas network sending high volumes of high pressure gas to all of the distribution networks.
      Really just shows how privatized our utilities are and all the money leaving the UK which is a real shame.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Private ownership of commonly needed infrastructure is the stupidest EVER.

    • @swally291
      @swally291 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Exo98761 Again, I don't think that is factually correct. SGN own all the pipelines in Scotland and some down south. They maintain and replace them. I worked on the network for 39 years.

    • @Exo98761
      @Exo98761 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@swally291 I am not talking about all the pipelines but only the National Transmission System network. I must admit I don't work in gas but try to understand what my share holdings do.
      Taken from the NationalGas website "our network of pipelines transport gas at high pressure from entry terminals and storage facilities to exit points, where the gas is transferred to the four Gas Distribution Networks(GDN) for onward supply to homes and business"
      The main issue for me is that a British public company has now sold 100% of our gas backbone to an Australian company which is also causing our water companies to collapse. it's only a matter of time we see lack of investment and loading of debt to this company.

  • @TobaJones77
    @TobaJones77 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Did that first expert even understand the question?? Useless answer about improving energy efficiency when the question was why is energy in this country more expensive in the first place.

  • @IMBlakeley
    @IMBlakeley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Should never have sold the utilities off to foreign investors. I lived overseas for a while, the government there capped the prices such that even now the electric is 1/10 of the UK and no standing charge.

  • @elpresidente8730
    @elpresidente8730 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Why is the cap rising again? Ask the shareholders. I am sure they will be squiring it away in their offshore bank accounts. The answer is greed, greed, greed.

  • @akaski777
    @akaski777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Doubt if anyone will protest about it, but that's the spirit of the age

    • @AlanFagan-y5l
      @AlanFagan-y5l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@gavinsmith9564What else can he do,when the Country mistakenly but democratically voted for Brexit?

  • @geoffbucks5803
    @geoffbucks5803 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Matt, Im Hundreds of pounds out now as a Pensioner.. I have £24 over the limit for applying for a Pension Credit - that £24 will cost me £600 in lost weather allowance and warm allowances IVE WAITED 14 YEARS FOR A LABOUR GOVERNMENT AND NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I BELICE LABOUR WOULD DO THIS TO PENSIONERS

    • @williamelewis464
      @williamelewis464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hmmm…you have a very simplistic look on something that was enacted before Labour ever came into power…but please explain, to the folks on the internet how the total cost of what you think you will pay, versus how much you actually make per year off the pension model please, because you left those actual numbers out.

    • @geoffbucks5803
      @geoffbucks5803 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@williamelewis464 so our state pension and private pensions is around £336 per week Taking us above the earnings limit by a few pounds a week to claim pension credit

    • @geoffbucks5803
      @geoffbucks5803 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@williamelewis464 justify the increase in standing charges ! It’s indefensible

    • @jondonnelly3
      @jondonnelly3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pensioners don't vote for Labour. So Labour punish them.

    • @calvintaylor4033
      @calvintaylor4033 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jondonnelly3 I haven't seen the stats but I know quite a lot of pensioners have voted Labour like their parents did before them .

  • @tomvandersteen5880
    @tomvandersteen5880 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    If people thought that voting in Labour in would immediately cancel out the last 14 years of poor decisions by the British electorate they were sorely mistaken. Nothing is going to fix the situation in the short term and things are going to get worse before they get better, but at least we are taking the right steps to start fixing the problems instead of continuing to allow them to get worse.

    • @veganbarnsley15
      @veganbarnsley15 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Explain what they are doing to alleviate this? I don’t expect things change overnight but what exactly are they doing to help working people, the people they were formed to represent and serve?

    • @tomvandersteen5880
      @tomvandersteen5880 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@veganbarnsley15 The thing they are doing to specifically alleviate the energy price problem is the creation of great British energy. Once up and running for the first time in modern British history we will have a publicly run energy company both providing affordable competition and subsidising British energy bills. The French have been doing this for decades with EDF and it works for them well and helps keep energy prices lower for the public. However as I said, it’s not going to help us overnight, there’s no magic bullet that cures our decades old reliance on Russian resources and poor energy infrastructure, so we’ve got to have a government that puts the hard yards in and thinks long term, but at least we have that now (hopefully, I’m not so naive to assume success is a given, but at least it’s the right direction).

    • @20165776YEAR
      @20165776YEAR 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      really? the goal is you will own nothing and be happy

    • @tomvandersteen5880
      @tomvandersteen5880 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@20165776YEAR Eh? 🫤

    • @tomvandersteen5880
      @tomvandersteen5880 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@20165776YEAR I don’t really get what you mean, but I guess as long as I’m happy 👍

  • @tahirqureshi628
    @tahirqureshi628 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The most expensive country to live in.....no one can afford anything

  • @keycuz
    @keycuz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Lead the campaign Matthew. Without public pressure, politicians won't do a thing.

  • @simonwhiting6929
    @simonwhiting6929 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Profiteering pure and simple. The whole industry should be nationalised.

  • @mattjones1207
    @mattjones1207 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Share holders gotta get their dividends

  • @johntthomson7538
    @johntthomson7538 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Get rid of this regulator. Works for energy companies.

  • @Human_Herbivore
    @Human_Herbivore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Long since time to tax the fossil fuel companies properly on their record profits.

    • @u2kjib4cjkqn
      @u2kjib4cjkqn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fossil fuel ,catch up

  • @aytw661
    @aytw661 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And yet people still oppose to renewables

  • @petermizon4344
    @petermizon4344 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    TAKE THEIR PROFITS OR AT LEAST HALF IF THEM AND GIVE IT TO THE PENSIONERS WHO MISS OUT ON WINTER FUEL PAYMENT

  • @mogainz
    @mogainz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Companies make more money, government gets more money from them simple really

  • @quizabox
    @quizabox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Bring back The Wright Stuff!

  • @chrysalis4126
    @chrysalis4126 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    In 2017 the tories closed down the gas storage facility which stored 70% of the gas storage of the UK. Centrica owned it,the same company who have made vast profits.

    • @AKHill-gj2uy
      @AKHill-gj2uy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Centrica closed it, the Tories/Labour/LD/Greens/SNP/PC et al failed to legislate to stop them.

  • @sardav160479
    @sardav160479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    How much will the bosses of the energy companies get in bonuses

    • @AngelaH2222
      @AngelaH2222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They certainly won't be wearing mittens and bed socks to bed

  • @Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter
    @Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I voted for Labour, but I am starting to think that they are the same as the others.

    • @thedreamer3454
      @thedreamer3454 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are aware that the Tories were in power for 14 years. What u think ..they could just change everything in 3 months with no money 😊

    • @Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter
      @Al-Hunt-acrylic-painter 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thedreamer3454 don't be silly. Of course I don't think that. 🙄 I just feel disheartened with things.

  • @baldobaz1
    @baldobaz1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Greed, plain and simple.

  • @oldwoman7047
    @oldwoman7047 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “Yeah but” a phrase I hear all the time in the UK

  • @brendanpells912
    @brendanpells912 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This shouldn't have come as a surprise, even as the price cap was being lowered in April, Ofgem was warning it would go up again in autumn.

  • @Wr5379-g2y
    @Wr5379-g2y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Rip of Britain why don't the patriots protest against energy prices

    • @juliejeavons6949
      @juliejeavons6949 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because the “Patriots” aren’t really patriots in the sense of caring for the country and wanting positive change.

  • @robbenton9470
    @robbenton9470 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Because electricity is more expensive today than it was yesterday because things...oh and profits were dropping.

  • @razr8296
    @razr8296 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    someone has to pay up for the energy shareholders, that will be you lot.

    • @My_HandleIs_
      @My_HandleIs_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get a heat pump (source: air or ground/geothermal), insulate your silly UK houses to decent standard (a swedish modern 150 m2 house uses 6-7000 kWh/year!!! Up north!!)
      Then get solar panels to offset the grid prices!
      Then get an EV or plugin hybrid to avoid fuel prices.
      I haven’t visited a petrol station for 2.5 years! Not even for lawn mower (electric plus Automower)

  • @abt833
    @abt833 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And still no answer why our prices are rising faster, especially when renewable costs have dropped

  • @BillyBobJoeSnr
    @BillyBobJoeSnr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Isn't brexit brilliant....

  • @dominiquegelin295
    @dominiquegelin295 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We are considered as well behind second class citizens

  • @billykershaw2781
    @billykershaw2781 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Interviewee evading the question......

  • @Stuark54
    @Stuark54 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Remove the winter fuel allowance and now this? It’s almost as if they’re going to undercut all energy companies when they create ‘Great British Energy’.

  • @SteveEvansFilms
    @SteveEvansFilms 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'd be happy to increase my taxes if it meant we could get to use100% renewables faster. We need to get rid of these greedy Oil and Gas companies

  • @mikehewitt1253
    @mikehewitt1253 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Also, they always put the price up for the highest energy use time of year - Winter. The price gouging and fleecing of the populace is so obvious.

  • @Mohammed-dy6xb
    @Mohammed-dy6xb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Why is this happening in the UK of Israel ????

  • @EVRealFacts
    @EVRealFacts 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Utter greed. When is this country going to drag these grifters out of power. The govt does not represent us or have our interests at heart full stop.

    • @sarahjaneross2918
      @sarahjaneross2918 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anyone would think that voting doesn't change anything 🙈 if it did, they probably wouldn't let us.

  • @DarrenBrians
    @DarrenBrians 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Because france run our power stations 😂. Charge us to build nice new ones over there. While ours are wrecked 😅

  • @Ade-y7l
    @Ade-y7l 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bruh... this guys blatant unwillingness to say its the government's fault is telling.

  • @Mohammed-dy6xb
    @Mohammed-dy6xb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "2 cheeks of the SAME backside". !!
    George Galloway. !!