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Miliband and Price Freezes
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Interesting that Ed is spouting all this cobblers about freezing energy prices, but has no such qualms about constantly rising rents, which I would suspect are an even greater burden on many people.
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Interesting that Ed is spouting all this cobblers about freezing energy prices, but has no such qualms about constantly rising rents, which I would suspect are an even greater burden on many people.
Irrespective of the politics/desirability etc. at least freezing energy prices only requires the government to work with 6 companies.
How many landlords are there in the country? 250,000? 400,000? I don't know.0 -
And how about food prices - or now we need to be digitally enabled to interact with govt how about telecoms prices, both rising faster than inflation. Come on Ed - promise to cap them.I think....0
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Ed's message has been a consistence 'need for plan B as plan A isn't working'
however now we seem to be on a recovery path even if a little slow, he needs a new message.
so he has invented a prices cap on utilities knowing it will be economically meaningless but knowing it will appeal to a certain section of the electorate and his own wilting troops.0 -
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I'm surprised anyone takes this nonsense seriously.Interesting that Ed is spouting all this cobblers about freezing energy prices, but has no such qualms about constantly rising rents, which I would suspect are an even greater burden on many people.
It's politics and appealing to the electorate for votes. It gives the Daily Mail readers something to talk about.0 -
Interesting that Ed is spouting all this cobblers about freezing energy prices, but has no such qualms about constantly rising rents, which I would suspect are an even greater burden on many people.
Very interesting, considering it won't happen and he is going to look a right idiot after promising to do so.0 -
There's a compromise somewhere down the line. He's creating an anti-energy company feeling with the public that will probably force them to make some sort of compromise somewhere in all of this nonsense.Very interesting, considering it won't happen and he is going to look a right idiot after promising to do so.0 -
And how about food prices
They had a shadow cabinet minister on the daily politics & asked him exactly that, really showed him up for the ignoramus he was. He came on with his preloaded soundbite (can't remember what but "hard-pressed families" would have been there somewhere). Then he was asked how much profit the energy companies made. Errrrrm he didn't know. So then he was informed it was less than the supermarkets, so why food - which is at least as important as energy & has gone up by more - isn't being capped. He was totally flummoxed & resorted to just repeating "oh come on, the big power companies make much too much profit" even though he repeatedly had to admit he didn't know how much they made.....0 -
And how about food prices - or now we need to be digitally enabled to interact with govt how about telecoms prices, both rising faster than inflation. Come on Ed - promise to cap them.
It's ok, Socialism has apparently ended scarcity so nothing needs to be rationed any more. The solution is to get the richest few people in the country to pay for everything for the rest of us.
http://conservativepapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/soviet-gulag-camp.jpg0 -
It's ok, Socialism has apparently ended scarcity so nothing needs to be rationed any more. The solution is to get the richest few people in the country to pay for everything for the rest of us.
http://conservativepapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/soviet-gulag-camp.jpg
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