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Labour: 'we promise to reduce your bills by making energy more expensive'

Reform: 'hold my beer ...'


(From Julian Jessop on X, formerly Twitter

Julian Jessop on X: "Labour: 'we promise to reduce your bills by making energy more expensive' Reform: 'hold my beer...'")

Labour came into office having made an election promise that their new energy company would cut energy bills yet have many policies which were always going to put energy prices up, and indeed, energy bills have been rising.

Julian is referring to this and to the energy policy launched by Reform UK this week, claiming that they would "lower energy bills for working people" when all four elements of it would put energy bills up.

Reform UK's energy policies announced this week are:

TAX: "Windfall tax on renewable generated power"

                Extra Taxes won't cut energy bills, it will put them up

TAX: "A Solar Farm tax on farmers"

                Have farmers not suffered enough extra tax from Rachel Reeves without Nigel Farage hitting them with even more new taxes?

BAN: "Ban on Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)"

               There is a debate to had on when and where Battery Energy Storage Facilities should get planning permission, and all such systems should have to meet rigorous safety standards. But do Reform not realise how many jobs a total ban would destroy or the cost implications for energy bills?

LEGISLATE to force National grid to put cables underground

               Again, there is a debate to be had here, and there are certainly areas of natural beauty where underground cables would work better than pylons. But blanket legislation is probably not the best answer - and it would put energy bills for working people up, not lower them. 

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