Why be angry at scottish power raising energy prices??

MillicentBystander

diable wrote: »

I just hope Scottish Power ply there trade in Scotland ;o))

I'd like them to be honest and change their name to Spanish Power and see how they go on. I would wager a massive majority of their customers don't even know they are wholly owned by a Spanish company!

grizzly1911

MillicentBystander wrote: »

+1. The devil incarnate, basically. And we have Thatcher Mk2 in at the moment (shudders)

PS I've thought of another advantage to add to my earlier list:

NO switching sites!!!! :j

NO stressing over using them only for them to trouser the 'affiliate income' when you do switch. What a shower of **** this industry has turned into.

Who pays for that affiliate backhander and the associated admin costs of suppliers losing and gaining a customer together with all their marketing peeps. Bet there isn't much change out of £150 a time we end up coughing up in unnecessarily increased prices that achieve nothing.

Why can't we just have two fair prices, one variable and one fixed. It is just electricity and gas. Not as though one is a Ferrari?

In some cases the suppliers don't even touch the stuff just traded paper:mad:

norapower

Yes MB Thatchers devil spawn are alive and well Hidden in the right wing press, Greedy bankers, Company bosses, 10 Downing street, and CEOs of Utility companies. God help the pensioners and the poor because no one else will

grizzly1911

norapower wrote: »

Yes MB Thatchers devil spawn are alive and well Hidden in the right wing press, Greedy bankers, Company bosses, 10 Downing street, and CEOs of Utility companies. God help the pensioners and the poor because no one else will

Or the kids who don't ask for this - Documentary on BBC? portrayed some particularly sorry tales last night.

page3

No complaints here about Thatcher's years in office, but plenty with the state 10+ years of Labour has left us in.

grizzly1911

page3 wrote: »

No complaints here about Thatcher's years in office, but plenty with the state 10+ years of Labour has left us in.

Off thread but I don't think it would have made a great deal of difference who was in power.

Events are outside of control of this country now and have been since we entered EU and Thatcher sold the silver. The writing was on the wall then.

The later Governments did nothing to arrest the slide and the banking crisis ,that was global, was the final nail.

Uncontrolled capitalism and globalisation just starting to implode here.

norapower

page3 you must be a Sun reader, Have eyes but cannot see.
Have a brain but cannot think
Have a swinging brick instead of a heart.

A true child of Thatcher
Brainwashed by Murdoch
Conned by Cameron

I would think your motto is sod everyone else I am OK SAD

bendipa

norapower wrote: »

Why does no one mention Thatchers role in this mess, Selling all the gas and electricty compaines to overseas buyers. Now the profits all go to Spain France or Germany instead of being paid in the UK. When they were owned by the govenment all the profits were paid to the British taxpayer instead of overseas. If they doubled gas and electricty prices we could do nothing about it.

Thanks Maggie thanks alot, What a terrible legacy she has left

I'd go further than that. The brilliant British electorate voted Maggie in with both feet 3 times. They/we were more than happy to see the energy industries privatised as envisaged by Maggie. Now we really are reaping what we've sown. The energy industries, most of them now foreign owned can charge whatever they like and there's s-d all anyone can do about it. There is a virtual monopoly despite the idiotic notion put about by government that the different energy companies gave the consumer a choice. Scottish Power have simply jumped first despite announcing £1.3 billion profit in February 2010, an increase of 8% without dropping their prices in the preceding 12 months, and oil prices falling sharply in 2009 So far Scottish Power seem reticent to announce their latest results, which they are legally obliged to do. These are well overdue. If they have been announced there is nothing on their website. Meanwhile Ofgem, the quango supposedly set up to safeguard consumer interests will continue to turn a blind eye as they habitually do.

bunny71

steven88 wrote: »

I dont understand why there's alot of angry people out there when one company raise energy prices.... if you think about it, everything is being raised:

petrol
clothes
food

It's the extortionate percentage increase that people are complaining about, not the fact they're raising prices. I don't see clothes & food prices increasing that much (don't have a car and rarely use public transport to know about or comment on petrol prices).

We switched from Scottish Power over a year ago, and saved a fortune. They were expensive then (and their online facilities were very basic, but that's another story) so I pity anyone still with them.

Sure we're all likely to see large increases no matter who we're with, but if enough people cause an outrage now, then Ofgem will surely have to do something about it.

grahamc2003

All those windmills most people seem to want have to be paid for, and have a massive subsidy when operating, and even when not operating. Then there's carbon creits, the renewable obligation, subsidised insulation (something with which I agree, but still loaded on our energy bills) and a seemingly never ending list of 'green initiative' which whill be loaded onto our bills in greater amounts as years go by.

Here's an article published today

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001181/Hidden-green-tax-fuel-bills-How-200-stealth-charge-slipped-gas-electricity-bill.html