Ed Miliband would “take action” against energy
companies if they defied a Labour government by raising prices ahead of his
promised freeze.
The Labour leader has pledged gas and electricity bills would not go up
for 20 months if he wins the 2015 election.
It has been welcomed by consumer groups angry at price hikes over recent
years, but the “big six” suppliers warned it could have serious consequences.
Yes the big six energy companies
are right it could have serious consequences, it would mean that they would no
longer be able essentially rob the public blind when it came to setting their
gas and electricity prices, under Miliband’s pans they, god forbid, might
actually have to offer their customers competitive prices and act on the interests
and needs of their customers rather than their shareholders.
It’s almost as if the
energy companies have no grasp on reality, either they are completely oblivious
to the current economic climate and think that they are giving their customers
a fair deal, or they are aware but continue to rip them off anyway, whatever it
is they don’t seem to realise it makes all the CEO’s look like real life Mr
Burns’ and everybody hates them.
While you have to praise
Ed Miliband for being the only big party leader to stand up and make a
statement on this, you’d have to say Cameron and Clegg have really missed an
opportunity on this issue, particularly Clegg, how hard would it have been for
either of them to make a similar proclamation, they wouldn’t have even had to
have gone as far just along as they showed some kind of acknowledgement and a
plan to tackle it.
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