Tories Freeze Benefits

SO Mr Os born conspiracy, want to squeeze more out of the poorest to cut the deficit - he should be ashamed.

It was the fat Bankers that caused the problems let them pay. We've baled out the banks - I mean you and me to the tune of £1500 per man, woman and child. Can I have my money back now please, George. At the same time he gives money back to the rich, by cutting the top rate of tax.

Surely the fairest way is to put 1p on income tax and then everyone WORKING pays their fair share until we have recovered.

I do agree that Benefits should have a cap - its not a blank cheque and we can't afford it, but not the poorest to suffer. Also limit their rise to 1% that 's what I've just got after 5 years of no rise. Give the Midwives 1% too.

Again why is VAT at 5% charged on Gas and electricity bills? The poorest (on benefits/pensions) have to pay it or do without Mssrs Cameron and Osborne don't worry about their bills 'cos they're rich. The poorest pay the most relative to their income. If you're going to freeze them (literally) then why not take VAT off the first £1000 of bill?

Lastly yes - if everyone could work and not claim benefits then there wouldn't need to be a freeze on benefits. SO get everyone working Mr Osborne. Hitting them when they're down won't work.

Fuel Poverty is a Scandal

I've said it before it is grossly unfair that the poorest in society have the most expensive fuel bills.

Don't believe me? Think about it.

• Most tariffs are geared at people who can afford to have big bills, the more you use the cheaper per unit it gets. 
• Also with the standing charge even if you used NOTHING you'd still have a bill to pay.
• All bills have 5% VAT, so the higher the price the more HMG gets
• Regardless of your income - you may be on benefits or a pension YOU pay VAT
• If you're on a pre-payment meter - you pay in advance and can't swap supplier.
• Prepayment meters are the dearest tariff
• The GREEN Tax - another 10-15% goes to GREEN energy - what's that? Paying big businesses millions to build Wind Turbines that only work a third of the time, the rest of the time they get paid even more! Unbelievable - check it out.
• The Big Green 'uns get paid even more.
• If you're in arrears you can't swap suppliers.
• Poorest people live in homes with the worst efficient heating/insulated homes.
• Poorest people often can't manage their heating.

Need I go on? Basically VAT and the Green Tax is a Robin Hood in reverse Tax, making the poorest pay the most so the Rich get richer.

Energy prices up or down?

So now because apparently Wholesale Gas prices have halved this year and the campaign is to get the Energy Companies to cut their prices.

Actually I AM in favour of saving the planet. We need to cut down on energy use, that is the best way until FUSION power is here. It will be decades before we don't need to use Fossil fuels and its those that are contributing to the CO2. Reduce GAS prices we just use more! This is the argument for FRACKING - cheap energy. It just means more CO2 and so more Turbines to offset it!

WASTE OF TIME - cut down!!

Remember that 5% is VAT - good old HMG get more as prices rise!

To me this is unfair on the poorest. Often they are stuck with the highest tariffs so proportionately pay the highest TAX. The rich can shop around and when you're on a big wad Heating bills are insignificant!

Why TAX those on benefits?

I say CUT the VAT on all bills less than £2000 per year and scrap the GREEN levy. Taxing the poor to pay the rich is immoral.

Why all the Windfarms and Solar panels? Its Cos you get DOUBLE your money in subsidies!! HaHa!

Hasn't anyone noticed?

I despair.

How dare they? Energy companies profit from your money

Have you ever wondered if you could get millions of people to lend you £100 for nowt. Then you'd put it in a building society account and collect the interest? Million in interest.

Well I suppose this is what the energy companies do.

You pay £x a month your bill but when you're in credit and there must be millions in their bank accounts surely they can sit on it an collect millions in interest?

DO we get any "credit" for it - no.

All they do is put their prices up by 10% plus! No one else would get away with it but what can you do, you've got to have electricity and gas? Well you could switch, try Quidco.

British Gas rise

No surprise BG put up prices just 10+% is a bit steep . The rest Will follow . What do we do? People Will revolt . It Will take a while but when it bites? Riots? Its the government's fault. There's been no sensible policy for years. Dash for gas, no nuclear ~ now no gas, coal shutting down. if like France we had solid cheap nuclear now the prices would be stable. For now they could help by cutting VAT. Why tax the poorest ?

Energy Price Hike - what should Dave do?

Now we are being hit, just when the winter begins. Last winter was bad enough I guess our bills went up by around 15% because of the cold.

On my bill there is approximately 15% that is Tax. 5% is VAT the rest is the Social Payment! That is what they pay to the Windfarm Gold Miners.

OBSCENE. Pensioners and people on beneits are Taxed to make greedy landowners ever RICHER. Robbing the poor to make the rich richer,


Have I mentioned the MILLIONS that the Windfarm owners GENERATE in income?

LOOK

4 x Turbines producing 10MWh

Even at 30% efficiency over 25 years they GENERATE 
£61 million!!

Not to mention if they're in the wrong place and can't export their power the owners get even MORE in CONSTRAINT payments.

Appallingly obscene.

WE'RE Paying for this. Write to your MP to get it stopped.

Total MWh of Farm	Percentage Efficiency	Total annual MWh produced	ROC price	Wholesale Electricity price	Total annual income	25year income
			44	50
10	1	87600	£3,854,400.00	£4,380,000.00	£8,234,400.00	£205,860,000.00
10	0.5	43800	£1,927,200.00	£2,190,000.00	£4,117,200.00	£102,930,000.00
10	0.3	26280	£1,156,320.00	£1,314,000.00	£2,470,320.00	£61,758,000.00
2.6	0.3	6832.8	£300,643.20	£341,640.00	£642,283.20	£16,057,080.00

No 2 asserby Windfarm and Turbines everywhere, except for m

Are you happy to pay your £34 to make the Turbine builders Millionaires?
What have I said before, don't forget that of your typical annual bill of £1300 5% is VAT, or £65 so the Government keeps getting a bigger share of the profits as well as prices keep rising.

Mr Milliband is thinking right, but what he should do is remove VAT on the first £1000 of your bill. Its the poorest who are trying to save money by cutting back who pay the most. Tariffs for prepayment are the highest and often these folk are on benefits or fixed incomes. They cut back to save but still pay tax to keep warm when they pay no Tax on their income - come on Mr Milliband do the Labour thing.

Yet - I can't have a Domestic Turbine in my garden Planning Permission won't allow!

Higher Energy bills but we save?

So now the Government are trying to convince us that by puttin £100 a year on our bills will save us money?

Are they MAD, who are they fooling?

Energy bills will not go down whatever.

What they should do is whatever they can to help people use LESS, power and energy.

It can be done, we have much more efficient appliances. If we switched to LED bulbs we'd save a lot. Some people don't actually know that if they shut the windows and doors it saves energy. If they are cold they turn the heating up. YES they are crazy, ignorant but crazy.

If we all had solar panels on our houses at least during the day consumption would plummet, then why not a win turbine on every house?

Companies should be made to cut energy by tax incentives.

It can all be done.

We really don't want the lights to start going out in a couple of year, or do we?

Energy Prices UP - Interest rates for Savers DOWN

So what are we to do? they're all as bad. Energy companies all put their prices up - all Banks put their interest rates down.

Remember on Energy prices (Gas and Electricity, and home fuels) out Government takes 5% VAT and about 7% in the GREEN levy. Green - what they mean is give it to energy companies - as if they don't have enough of our money anyway - to build Wind Turbines which are Useless. If the Wind doesn't blow what do we do? shut off out TV and computers and go to bed?

Did you know 1 small gas fired power station is equivalent to 5000 Wind Turbines - YES 5000. So how many turbines would it take to power the country? I think we'd need one per person and then we have to have Gale Force winds to get the power (oh I forgot they don't generate in Gales either).

I wrote to my MP about the VAT on home fuel, he sent it on to the Minister who replied (after 2 months) with baloney about Duty on Petrol and Diesel. So it proves they haven't a clue what they're talking about.

I've said before - VAT on home fuel is the most unfair Tax hitting the poorest hardest. You can't avoid paying it, even if you try to economise usually you're on the most expensive tariff because they discount it the more you use, so the rich folk get fuel cheaper. Isn't this always the way? Millionaires don't pay 45% tax, they get accountants to come up with ways to avoid paying.