RISING FUEL BILLS

My apologies for the long gap in blogs, but hopefully all being well I can get started, fingers crossed!!

My first moan is about the fuel bills and what we can do about them. Since the Thatcher government privatised our country in the 80's our gas and electric bills have gone through the roof. Now just suppose the voters of this country weren't fooled by the lies spewed forth from the iron bitch and she was never voted into power. We never suffered liberalisation and we as a population still owned our gas, electric, trains, telecommunications etc. Now how much would our fuel bills be today? Granted they would obviously have to rise, but with no greedy shareholders demanding more from greedy capitalist companies, somehow I can't see how they would be as astronomically high as they are today. Who knows we may not have to give winter fuel allowance pay outs to our pensioners because the bills would be more affordable.

We have of course had a Labour government running the country since then, alas this government was run by the wrong Tony. Instead of Benn or a party member of the same ilk, it was Blair, Thatcher in a pink shirt with a big smile!! Instead of a man who concentrated on equality we had a lover of the bankers and the rich (how many Socialists of the past would have turned in their graves to see him running the party they loved). Henceforth our utilities remained owned not by the people but by the rich foreign companies.

However at present we live in the real world. A world of millionaire cabinet members and a Tory/ Lib Dem coalition government. So we can forget any hope of the poor being helped, at least until the next general election. For the modern Labour party all I can suggest is this, NATIONALISE!!! If we kick the money oriented companies out and own our utilities again perhaps then we can move forward towards a fairer society. One where the old and the poor don't go cold during the winter.

One further thing, eminent scientist Steven Hawkings once said that all we need to do is work out nuclear fusion and our heating and lighting problems would be over. We would have cheap and clean fuel for our homes. So the other little pointer for Ed and his cabinet is sink money into science and the rewards would be bigger than our wildest dreams. Just think no more fuel poverty and no more rich greedy evil companies ripping us off so they can make more. Just a thought...