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Originally Posted by Sirius
I don't need to explain the rest of the rises, anyone with half a brain knows they are to feed more money to shareholders. But the second that idiot Milliband said he was going to sort them out and halt there price rises, just like any bully they retaliated with even more bullying. This price rise is just them saying you have no chance of stopping us and if you try this is what we will do. Problem is thats thanks to the idiot we are all paying for it.
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No you should explain the rest of the raises because it makes your rant illogical otherwise. If your contention is that this rate raise is a anomaly as a result of Miliband then you need to answer why all the previous rate raises occurred when he hadn't said these things.
Why did British Gas raise their prices 6% last year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19921042 ?
Why did they raise their prices
16%! the year before that:
http://www.britishgas.co.uk/blog/201...energy-prices/ ?
Why did they raise their price by 7% the year before that:
http://www.britishgas.co.uk/blog/201...-announcement/ ?
Every year they raise prices but this time it's because of Ed Miliband?
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Wrong. EU membership means that once VAT is put on ANYTHING it can never be removed. 5% is the lowest rate our masters in Brussels permit.
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OK. I concede that. So one of the green taxes and the 5% VAT is down to the EU but it still leaves a lot that isn't.
The cost of fuel is down to the fact he didn't build new power plants 5/10/15/20 years ago. France is a member of the EU and has relatively cheap energy because they built nuclear power plants decades before. This is our own fault and we need to address it.