3. They allow Ofgem to set the price cap to ensure companies don't fail, not to ensure that citizens can afford the price (protecting profits not people). But if the people can't pay the companies can't sell the energy, so this is a lose lose system.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564888754405392384
2. They bailed out Bulb to the tune of £2 billion from govt funds instead of turning it into a publicly owned company and using it as the solution for customers without a surviving for profit company.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564888750848675841
1. When an energy distribution company fails due to the rising cost of fossil fuels, they transfer the customers to another private profit company and transfer the cost of the failed company's debts to the energy bills of other citizens, pushing up energy tariffs accordingly.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564888747258384384
A list of some completely lunatic (and unfair) things that the UK govt has done so far in the cost of living crisis, that have made things 1000x worse. Feel free to add more.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564888745433878528
RT @novaramedia: Even before inflation rose, postal workers were already resorting to food banks, carpooling and walking long distances to work.
https://novaramedia.com/2022/08/26/postal-workers-have-no-choice-but-to-strike/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564879885771874304
Anyone else got a Twitter bug which makes the app suddenly quit every time you add a hashtag that's anti Brexit or anti the Tory "government", so you lose the tweet? 🧐
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564877920933449728
Ha ha, the deluded think there is positive Brexit news that's being silenced 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
And don't realise that the pro 🇪🇺 chorus is getting louder because we're utterly undeceived and happily pointing out exactly what is happening in the UK.
#BrexitHasFailed
RT @_HenryBolton: There’s a concerted ramping up of the ‘Remainer’ disinformation campaign, plus attempts to ‘cancel’ positive Brexit news and the expression of any views …
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564877289573203968
RT @greenmattbfd: 🇬🇧 Meanwhile in the UK, the Conservatives have spent the summer trying to put people off using the railway.
🪧 They have tried to cut jobs and refused to negotiate with unions.
🤦 And the #rail companies like Avanti have slashed service due to a lack of staff.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564873168451473416
RT @greenmattbfd: 🇩🇪 At the start of the summer, the German government launched a €9 monthly tickets for local trains.
👛 Not only did it help save Germans €s this summer, but it reduced emissions.
👉 This is what #ClimateLeadership looks like.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564873115221598208
European commission looking to separate electricity prices from gas, finally allowing electricity to reflect the lower prices of renewables. If only we could have that too. But we have no leaders to sort it out.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564745320881348608
RT @alextomo: We therefore can but hope there’s an equal massive expansion of offshore wind energy 8x cheaper than gas and way quicker to build than gas - onshore wind and solar energy too: so fast, so cheap…Also…
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564723274512228359
RT @alextomo: The effect will be zero on your bill since oil and gas is sold on the international market. Unless Truss plans to nationalise the fossil fuel industry. Also…
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564723231965208576
RT @doctorpallavi: My first foray on @LBC today with @BenKentish. We talked about the importance of not losing focus on #climatechange and #GHGemissions even as we battle the #costloflivingcrisis. We need #insulation for all, a payment freeze to 2021 levels, and sensible leadership- @TheGreenParty
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564710323944361984
RT @ed_hawkins: Why are we still building housing developments with gas for heating, no solar panels on roofs and no cycling infrastructure?
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564708899202138119
RT @JolyonMaugham: Unprecedented droughts, floods and rising sea levels. And the #ToryDeathCult's response? Discourage renewable energy and encourage more oil and gas. Pure evil.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564708855048716288
RT @KarimaDelli: 💚🚲 Ami-e-s cyclistes, votre avis compte !
Vous pouvez participer à la grande consultation européenne sur le vélo ici ➡️ https://94cdt46z6ub.typeform.com/to/bHYdwBiV
Faisons du vélo le 1er moyen de transport en Europe.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564707339185315846
@GuardianLabs @SuntoryBF_GBI It's still plastic. Plastic is the old plastic and it's ruining our world. We need zero plastic. Full. Stop.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564703847653703680
Good heavens!
RT @TomEPPayne: Exclusive: A spy working for Canadian intelligence smuggled Shamima Begum and her two friends from Bethnal Green into Syria and Britain later conspired with Canada to cover up its role, according to explosive news claims @thetimes
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564703246140297217
RT @JeremyCliffe: "Germany’s 3-month experiment with super-cheap public transport reduced carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to powering about 350,000 homes for a year." << low cost/free public transport probably the long term direction across Europe given climate targets
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1564702546442293248
RT @HetanShah: We are looking for a new @BritishAcademy_ Director of Research (£80k). Amazing job, brilliant colleagues, Grade 1 listed office, supporting a huge variety of humanities & social science research nationally and internationally. Please spread the word!
https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/3134/director_of_research/
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