Posted on 2013-10-21 | 10:48

Speaking to Party activists at a meeting in his constituency, Roger slated the latest announcement by British Gas that they are raising their prices for gas and electricity by nearly 10%. This followed on from the recently announced rise by SSE, another of the big energy companies.

Said Roger: “These energy giants, which are nearly all part of globalised multi-national corporations, really do think us consumers are a bunch of fools. When Ed Miliband recently announced that a future Labour Government would freeze gas and electricity prices for 20 months, they went ballistic with threats of blackouts and shutdowns. While household energy bills have risen by 29% in three years the senior management of these companies have been paying themselves vast salaries and bonuses, and the shareholder payout from British Gas, Centrica, Scottish and Southern Electricity and National Grid alone is £3.4 billion in dividends.

"What Ed Miliband was suggesting was a very modest proposal”, continued Roger, “whereas in my opinion energy supply companies should be taken back into public or community ownership because there is no real competition between these companies. You can be absolutely guaranteed that the other big companies will soon be announcing electricity and gas rises very similar to those announced by British Gas and SSE.”