Various of the governments we’ve had since 2010 have employed various experts at various times to advise them about both energy policy and the now-infamous price cap. They’ve been told that it needs reforming, is heading for disaster, that the regulator OFGEM is useless, that we can’t rely on wind farms and competition amongst the now mostly-gone-bust ‘energy providers’. And, just as with the other disaster of social care, they’ve grasped no nettles and have kicked the problem down the road until it’s hit the predictable brick wall/fan/pick-your-own-metaphor. As a result, both problems will now cost exponentially more, in every sense, than need otherwise have been the case. Putin was perhaps unpredictable; the rest of the story, already written.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
