Helping to Keep Household Bills Down in Reality- Not Rhetoric
Posted by Laura Sandys, MP for South Thanet, at 12:14, Tue 15 October 2013:
Keeping household bills down is not just highly desirable but absolutely essential for residents all over Thanet, as well as people up and down the country. Over the past few months I’ve been working on a revolutionary piece of legislation making its way through Parliament at the moment: The Energy Bill. We want to make a real difference in keeping your outgoings down whilst ensuring we have a secure energy supply for the future, preventing the lights going out for the next generation.
At present every day people are still paying for the failures of the last Labour government. Its dithering about our long-term energy supply made the UK more dependent on importing gas from abroad. Fuel poverty in the UK rose by 2.25 million households in Labour’s last five years and under their leadership, our gas bills doubled and electricity bills rose by over 50%! Ed Miliband (who was in fact Energy Secretary) has been talking about the cost of living recently but I’m not sure that I could trust a man with this legacy to solve our problems.
I firmly believe that we do not have to accept this history as our future and the Energy Bill is all about keeping prices down whilst delivering a secure, clean supply for future generations. The main change that we will all notice is that energy companies will be forced to put us on their cheapest tariff- a change that could mean a saving of £158.
With little in the way of policy on display at last week’s Labour conference, Ed’s ‘flagship’ energy gimmick sadly began unravelling as he was walking off stage. Promises of the impossible are, as we all know, worth very little- if anything at all.
In Government however we are taking real action to help tackle the cost of living. In addition to the Energy Bill, I’ve been campaigning for a fuel duty freeze until the end of this Parliament. It looks as though we have now successfully secured this freeze meaning that every time you fill up your tank, you’ll be paying 20p a litre less than you would have under Labour plans. Keeping these prices down has to be a priority and we’ve really made it one- and not in rhetoric but reality.
- Laura's View. Isle of Thanet Gazette 04.10.13
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Posted by Tim Pilcher, 12:34, Tue 15 October 2013: (Is this post abusive?) #
Its a real shame that Nigel Farage isn't considering Thanet as a challenge now because I for one would vote for him. Your doing absolutely nothing about the influx of migrants. Nothing about clawing back UK law policies and REFUSING to give the UK people a democratic vote on the EU. You people make me sick. You give hundreds of millions of pounds to Syria yet 'Food Aid' is running at full capacity in the UK. You don't care about us or its people. I hope you lose the next election.