Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has
called for an emergency tax on the profits of the UK’s top energy firms.
The ex-Conservative leader said recent price rises of more than 10% were
"unacceptable" and action was needed.
The government could claw back the cost of extra winter fuel payments
through a one-off tax, he suggested.
This is interesting because Major
rarely says anything in public these days, and it’s interesting that his plan
falls slap bang in the middle between the current policies of the government
and Labour.
Labour would freeze energy prices,
where as the government seem content to do nothing let the energy companies do
as they please.
Of course for this measure to work it
would have to state that energy companies couldn’t simply slap on a few extra
percent rise in their prices to compensate for having to pay a windfall tax.
But still it’s better than nothing,
because with the price rises they're announcing the big six energy firms clearly
think they are untouchable.
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