MIliband puts up energy prices again

Ed Miliband is pretending to be the advocate of lower energy prices, but yesterday for the third time he was responsible for higher prices, this time for British Gas customers as BG put up prices by 9.2% yesterday after SSE increased prices last week.

The first time Ed Miliband put up energy prices was as Secretary of State when he introduced the green taxes which currently represent about a tenth of the typical home's energy bill.

The second and third times were SSE and BG price increases, which I regard as at least partly a  consequence of his speech promising a price freeze if he is elected in 18 month's time.

Of course, British Gas claim that their price rise is due to various rises in costs, including the impact of the green taxes originally introduced by Ed Miliband when he was secretary of state.

But even though this explanation may well contain a large element of truth, does anyone in their right mind believe that at least part of this increase isn't due to Ed Miliband's speech since it is likely that SSE and British Gas will have chosen to err on the side of a larger increase so as to get the prices up before Miliband might possibly get the chance to implement his price freeze?

Comments

Jim said…
going back to why i think cameron was lying, wich is fact, then i can alswo say milliband is telling porkies too.

The only thing that his policy does is raise enrgy proice (as has already hpppened with 3 of the big 6, and the other 5 will follow)

I i know you said in his defence that the pm my have beleived what he was saying, but then Ef Milliband may actually beleive what he is saying here. Tuhus if that is actually the case then cameron is grossely incompetent of being the PM of a member state, and Ed milliband is not competent to run a local scout group.
Jim said…
sorry my typing on this laptop is really bad
Chris Whiteside said…
You'll note I didn't accuse Ed Miliband of lying. But I agree with you that on the evidence of what he has said he would not be competent to be PM.

We've had a number of debates about whether David Cameron was "telling porkies" which I don't accept that he was. I think that in an incredibly difficult situation he is doing about as good a job as PM as a mortal human being could.

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