If energy produced by gas sets the price of all electricity supplied into the national grid, then one way to rescue the price payed by consumers is to end that market-making price structure.... of courses the gas-driven energy suppliers would be unhappy, but the bigger prize would be a major reduction in the cost of living & the continued consolidation of the UK's renewable energy sector....
the Q. is will Labour take that route?
@ChrisMayLA6 Alas, they probably won’t have the internal fortitude to do so. My guess is that they may receive funds from the industry, thus reducing the likelihood they would.
Any question about this asked of them would probably result in the usual flannel about ‘the complexity of the system’ or ‘the delicate balance that certain economic factors have as their nature’ and so on, until they run out of air or the questioner’s eyes start glazing over from sheer boredom.
Any UK pensioner will tell you that winter heating costs are exorbitant and no mistake. Yet, the Labourites refuse to care.
Power is as near a human right as it can be, without actually qualifying to be one.
Whither Socialism — or even compassion — today? That’s my question.
Indeed; any hint of socialism has ben rendered as insurrection!
@ChrisMayLA6 Somewhere between that attitude and the one of the USA where isurrection is treaded as — ¯(°_o)/¯ — would be what should be the case for western governments.
Oh! if only!
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!