The rise in energy bills is a huge concern to people across the country, yet this Conservative government are sitting on their hands with no plans to tackle it.
As millions of people struggle to make ends meet, oil and gas company BP saw their profits soar to their highest in eight years.
Only this morning, BP’s boss has described the rise in prices as a “cash machine” for his company.
That follows Shell, whose profits have rocketed to £14billion – in just one year.
These companies are raking it in and the money is coming directly from your energy bill.
It’s time the Government stopped indulging in its own dramas and did its job for the British people, by acting on energy bills now.
Labour has a costed plan which the Tories have refused to support. We have spent months calling for a one-off tax on these booming oil and gas producers to help struggling families.
This windfall tax would help fund Labour’s package which would take around £200 off energy bills for all families and up to £600 for the lowest earners, pensioners and the squeezed middle.
It tells you everything you need to know about whose side this Government is on, that they see no problem with oil and gas giants earning a fortune as people struggle to afford to put the heating on.
The truth is that it is a decade of Conservative failure that has left us insecure as a country. Their refusal to levy a windfall tax shows yet again they cannot be the answer to this crisis.
You are paying the price of their failure.
