Cheryl Brumley
I once sat in a basement floor room in a Whitehall building, with sleepy fluorescent lights above me in place of windows, writing stacks of letters on behalf of ministers. The words I wrote in some of these letters, I truly believed – though I must say many I typed with angry, grudging keystrokes. These were letters I had to write defending energy companies and the extortionate and unfair prices they waged on consumers. Many were responses to shakily handwritten pieces from elderly citizens worried about their ability to pay their fuel bills on a fixed income. Surely fobbing off the “fuel poor” to Ofgem (who in turn only has the power to then fob them off to an ineffective energy Ombudsman), represents a greater issue underlying the UK energy market as it stands today – it is unsustainable in terms of expenses and supply …[Continue Reading]
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