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Originally Posted by Vicky.
I honestly do not believe we will have powercuts through them not raising the price for a while.
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We hear all the time of bad Unions attempting to and threatening to hold the Country to ransom with threats of this and that, here we have the energy giants doing so and they are near hailed for it.
There should be no need whatsoever for any power cuts and I believe there won't be becasue these greedy energy companies will have to work with a Labour Govt. if they win in 2015 and long after this price rise freeze too.
What the energy companies should in fact be doing, is making provision from the vast profits they have had over the last 2 decades at least and also the profits they will make in the 20 months up to the next election to prepare for this short interruption to even more profits from their customers.
They can surely be more selective as to how they 'waste' those profits up to that time.
The other thing is, Ed Miliband is using that 20 months of a price rise freeze to look at the whole energy situation thoroughly and also setting up a new regulator which will have real teeth to deal with them.
Nothing bad then about this policy at all except for the already ugly threats of the big energy companies screaming because their vast profits are going to be limited for 20 months and now they think they can hold the Country to ransom.
Absolutely ridiculous and they should be made to toe the line or clear off and let others take over.
This Govt. has failed miserably to deal with them and allowed far too much freedom as to price hikes, it is time they took action against these companies too.
No need at all for any blackouts whatsoever and with 20 months to plan ahead for this policy, it would be a sign of sheer and total incompetence for the energy companies to not be able to plan ahead too with so much time.
Scaremongering,pathetic greed and also ugly threats just about sums up these energy companies.
It is time they were really brought into line and made to serve the Country they are responsible for the energy for and not just keep looking to lining their own pockets year after year,decade after decade.
If they won't do that then they should be made to.
I again applaud Ed Miliband for at least making a start to stand up to them.
I am equally though stunned at this Govt. in power now, even allowing the energy companies to do this scaremongering and also to make the ugly threats they are as to power cuts.
Where is Cameron in standing up for energy consumers, where are the Lib Dems too, time they were brought to account too for allowing so much as to price hikes over the 3+ years they have had power.
Labour failed to grasp this too when in Govt.
However it seems Ed Milband has learned that lesson and he is someone at last who is setting out to do a lot more for the consumers rather than the greedy big 6 companies.