Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Rather than cracking down on outrageous prices from the Big Six, the Tories promoted phoney ‘competition’ companies that only traded energy rather than produced it – one even hired the PM’s brother as a director, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street, London.
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WE are in the middle of an energy crisis which is throwing increasing numbers of people into “heat or eat” decisions. And right in the middle of that is a phoney market solution that fell apart. Because this is Britain, it is also marked by a Tory all-friends-together cronyism.
The government would like to blame the “energy crisis” on one external factor — Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
It is true that Putin’s bloody war has created a side effect of a big pressure on energy prices, alongside the main effects of killing, torture and injustice. But energy inequality is a problem that long predates Putin’s vicious war.
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