Mercury Rising
Friends and readers. The freeze goes on and the energy companies continue to rub their hands together in glee at the thought of inflated bills poping through the letter boxes of the consumers. The horrendous cost of heating and lighting your home is frightening but the couldn’t care less attitude of Government and their pals at energy con UK continues unabated.
In truth these parasites would watch in comfort as those that struggle and there are many to pay their fuel bills, and not bat an eyelid that fuel poverty is a huge and ongoing issue in 21st century Britain. Money can be found in bucket loads to bail out the banks, so to wads of cash to pay for futile wars in far off lands, but little or nothing can be found to help those in need to ward off the real enemy, the fuel giants and their limitless greed.
Nobody it seems wants to take on the real war at home and smash the power of these all powerful energy companies. Those we elect to support and protect us are otherwise occupied and don’t appear to feel the need to end this incredible rip off and blatent robbery of the citizens of this country.
The price of fuel is the same for the rich as it is for the poor but it is to the poor and those that will struggle to pay these bills that this nation has a moral duty to protect. As with almost everything else the poor subsidise the rich so the great and the good can live in relative comfort while those that can least afford these falsely inflated fuel bills worry about wheather to heat or eat.
We will all know somebody who is having difficulty paying their fuel bills and that adds up to an awful lot of struggling people worried about the cost of staying alive during this lengthy cold spell. Our noble Government turn away from doing anything about this dreadful situation and avoid like the plague any talk of the subject.
The energy companies are free to push the cost of heating and lighting your home up as high as they like knowing Government will do nothing, and allow people to suffer without as much as word of compassion. You may remember some faceless politician when asked about fuel poverty remarked that those that struggled to pay their bills should put an extra sweater on, that dear friends is exactly the point we make they just don’t care and never have, you are on your own when it comes to fuel poverty.
Our nation lies in recession the worst in living memory but we see no help for those that have been hit the worst, these poor souls and they are a growing army will still have to pay the grossly inflated fuel bills and will be in trouble if they can’t. First and foremost their health is at stake if they go cold because of the fear of being unable to pay the bills on top of every other demand they face. Second and with out any kind of morality these blood sucking energy companies will not hesitate to cut you off if you can’t pay and then charge you a fee to re-connect if and when you can afford to do so.
Dear friends what kind of society do we live in that allows this obcenity to take place. What elected Government allows their people to go without heating and lighting putting their very lives in danger. What on earth has become of a nation that is so economically divided we almost take for granted that some of our citizens might die because they cannot afford to heat their homes.
Shame on this and every other Government that sits back and does nothing to help those in fuel poverty. Shame on this Government that spends billions on bailing out failed and greedy financial institutions that spent money as if it were going out of fashion and then turned out their pockets looking for handouts because their cupboard was bare. Shame on this Government that spends billions on futile wars designed to do God knows what and then turn away from those in this country that might really suffer because they are frightened to turn on their fires and heating for fear of the repercussions of the fuel bills coming through their letter boxes like the grim reaper coming to call.
Let us relax though comfortable in the thought that those elected to serve and protect will not have the worry of how to pay their fuel bills, their only worry is how to claim it back on expences and thats for their second home, ah yes life is sweet when you can afford to live it.