Gas & electric has trebled - surely it's time to vote the Tories out now?

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I've been waiting to see how much it'd go up by and the bill's arroved - it's now just under £300 a month. That's more than 10% of my monthly income.

I've had very low gas readings recently as our heating isn't working properly. We just had a cold winter as we couldn't afford to get it fixed, I guess next winter is going to be cold too. This is the UK in the 21st Century, FFS!

What is it going to take for people to vote these fuckers out? They're bleeding us dry and destroying our children's future. And, how many dead under Covid, due to their mismanagement of the crisis? More concerned with giving lucrative contracts to their mates than lives or well being of the general population. Their parties are a symptom of this attitude. We are absolutely not "all in it together".

Does anyone really still think this group of entitled, self-serving, priviledged wankers have our best interests at heart?

My local ward is a Lib Dem-Tory marginal. I don't usually vote Lib Dem, but I will this year in the local elections to get these fuckers out.

Who's joining me for some tactical voting?

They actively reduced child poverty. The Sure Start centres were a really good innovation, so good that the Tories have just brought them back. Under a different name of course.

Here you go:

The party significantly reduced child poverty and pensioners’ poverty, introduced the national minimum wage, low pay commission, created Sure Start and tax credits. Labour invested in the NHS and schools, created the Human Rights Act and introduced devolution. Under Blair the deficit was maintained at a low rate prior to the financial crash compared to what it is now. We had more teachers and nurses and the welfare system wasn’t the threadbare net it’s been reduced to today

There’s plenty more in the article it’s extracted from.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/new-labour-tony-blair-socialism-working-class-families-a8182031.html

Years ago if a government was inept and corrupt the electorate would simply vote it out.
And there's no reason why it can't happen at the next GE except that it won't - there are too many people who don't agree with your opinions.

Police are busy investigating in Liverpool.
Again.
It's always land, isn't it, and planning.

But as you surely actually know, corruption is, and has always been, a feature of local government (and of course national, but we can save that for a different thread) where an effective 'one party rule' is in place - Tory or Labour.

It's why Private Eye manage to keep a long-running column dedicated specially to it: Rotten Boroughs.

This still makes no sense. My energy bill was significantly less than yours, before it was nearly trebled by the company.

They've done a handy chart. In one, I've hovered over March to get that data and in the other it's May's data showing.

In March I spent £88 on electric (and £14 on gas as system not working). If your total bill was about double that, I'd imagine you spent similar on electric?

The chart shows the increase is mainly because of them putting their bastard prices up.

Some of my electric bill was for expensive electric heaters (not hottubs, FFS) but not a huge amount as they're expensive so I used them sparingly.

Sorry, I wrote the months wrong!!

It should say:

They've done a handy chart. In one, I've hovered over January to get that data and in the other it's April's data showing.

In January I spent £88 on electric (and £14 on gas as system not working).

It's not the Tories making prices go up. The wholesale price of fuel has gone up, partly due to the war in Ukraine. Your annoyance should be directed at that cretin, Putin.

You can be annoyed with more than one thing at once. French energy bills have been held down by Macron, if he can do it why can’t our government?

When will people stop creating threads telling people how to vote?

No, my annoyance is at the Tories. World crises happen. It's Government's job to deal with them. They're shit at dealing with it.

Never. HTH.

My mum had Ted Heath hold her dog outside the polling station, then nipped in and voted Lib Dem. 😂

This. 100 years of women's rights are being binned by Labour so no I won't be voting for them. I'd rather be cold.

We need a viable alternative who can be trusted not to turn into Momentum the second they get into power.

That's a brilliant image 😂🐕

Oh god yes our bills have gone up so much and I literally have no money to pay them I don’t understand this! It’s so stressful

Never. HTH.

It doesn’t work. HTH.

100 years of women's rights are being binned by Labour so no I won't be voting for them

Oh, are they stopping us from voting now? That’s a bit counterproductive.

Well that didn't take long.

Perhaps some other people are more concerned about heating, eating and keeping a roof over their heads.

Have bulb trebled the prices you pay per unit and daily standing charge?

Our fixed price deal ended in February and we went onto their standard variable rate.

We were on 4p per kWh for gas and 20p per kWh for electricity, now 7p and 27p respectively.

I did the maths and if we repeat last year's usage we will spend 42% extra.

I think some people were paying as little as 2p per unit of gas on old fixed deals so they really will be feeling the increase on the new variable rate.

I honestly can't make head nor tail about those picture op. Do you know what your annual usage was in previous years and does it look anything like what they are projecting?

There are many reasons I don not want the Tories to be in government.

We have a few years until the next election. Labour need to shake themselves up they should be stressed ahead in the polls not a 5/6 points.

In all fairness, all MPs are useless. I'm right leaning but I do not trust one MP. I can't relate to any of them, they're all money grabbing freeloaders. The whole of parliament need emptying & started again.

The Utilities should never have been privatised. Lots of share holders making money from other peoples misery.

That's the tories for you. Somebody has to be making money out of everything, and if it's one of their own, so much the better.

You can be concerned about women's refuges, or you can vote Labour/Lib Dem. You cannot do both. Because only the Tories actually recognise women's sex-based rights.