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OFGEM safe for now

NPowerUser
NPowerUser Posts: 409 Forumite
Mortgage-free Glee!
Government could have decided to switch OFGEM's powers to another regulated organisation but decided against it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/8524551/Ofgem-safe-in-review-of-energy-watchdog.html

Perhaps an opportunity missed to force the cartel to stop using gas and electricity users as cash cows for shareholders?

Comments

  • undaunted
    undaunted Posts: 1,870 Forumite
    edited 20 May 2011 at 4:29PM
    So, one set of Civil servants established that another were useful, even though they aren't :mad: I reckon they should have let Lord Sugar have a look at Ofgem & then we may have got somewhere. As he said somewhere recently (of Civil servants in general) you have to wonder just what do half of these people do all day? :p
  • KimYeovil
    KimYeovil Posts: 6,156 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    So the body with the cojones to fight for the consumer is being abolished but the body whose primary bent is supporting the suppliers and "competition" is being maintained. Now there's a surprise!
  • undaunted
    undaunted Posts: 1,870 Forumite
    :beer:We often don't agree on threads so you know it's bad news when Kim & I are agreeing with each other on a thread don't you Kim? :p
  • KimYeovil
    KimYeovil Posts: 6,156 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    :p, indeed.
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