[arista]

[arista]

[Rachel Reeves insists middle-income families
WON'T get help with spiralling energy bills - as she is accused
of only handing taxpayer cash to benefits claimants]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...inflation.html

[arista]

New


[The £150 reduction on costs starts from April 1, 2026,
aimed at reducing electricity and gas bills.
Why: The government is reducing bills
by cutting funding for the
Energy Company Obligation (ECO)
and reducing costs for the Renewables Obligation.
Who: This reduction is expected to be passed
on to customers by suppliers,
including those on fixed-rate tariffs.]

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

More than 60% of the price we pay for fuel is tax. Maybe she could consider giving some back? I mean, we buy fuel with money we've already been taxed on. It's a racket...

Exactly and as for VAT on heating fuel its a disgrace just get rid of it, heating is not a luxury

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

[Rachel Reeves insists middle-income families
WON'T get help with spiralling energy bills - as she is accused
of only handing taxpayer cash to benefits claimants]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...inflation.html

Rachel spends 15 minutes telling us nothing

What we heard instead was Ms Reeves trotting out a series of previously announced policies - somehow sidetracking to two child benefit and nursery funding when concerns are on energy and fuel. But there were no new plans to deal with a spike in prices.

No wonder the silence in the Commons was deafening - Reeves took 15 minutes to read out an announcement of nothing.

There was no movement on fuel duty, nothing on further support for energy prices, no extra defence spending and nothing on extracting oil and gas from the North Sea.

Not only was there a defiant put down to demands from the Opposition benches but there was also a swipe at Labour MPs.

The chancellor has been under huge pressure from Labour backbenchers and some cabinet ministers to loosen up her rules on borrowing and spending to help deal with the crisis.

But Ms Reeves had a blunt “no” to those pleas.

She told the House that she would be “acting within our iron clad fiscal rules” - so no new borrowing, no flexibility in the rules, just more of the same.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...eb5a4291&ei=10

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Exactly and as for VAT on heating fuel its a disgrace just get rid of it, heating is not a luxury

I feel like they're screwing every penny they can wrench off us and frittering it away on nonsense.

[Cherie]

I wonder if she is still availing herself of freebies, she is nowt but a bully and power mad