Lagamorph wrote:They'll spend more means testing any help for energy bills than it would ever cost to just fix the price for everyone.
The main thing that needed changing with the existing help was that it needed to be funded by taxes on energy wholesalers, not general taxation.
Over 6 months was Labour's plan and makes more sense. Why commit to 2 years of borrowing at this point when you don't know what the fuel price will do?
6 months makes more sense and can be revisited again in April.
What makes this worse is if there is another leadership contest we'll have another 2 months or so where the government will do nothing until the new leader comes in. We're so strawberry floated.
Qikz wrote:What makes this worse is if there is another leadership contest we'll have another 2 months or so where the government will do nothing until the new leader comes in. We're so strawberry floated.
They can't have 2 month leadership contest.
They'll change the method of election. It might piss off their membership but better to piss off people who will definitely vote for them than the rest of the country even more.
Qikz wrote:What makes this worse is if there is another leadership contest we'll have another 2 months or so where the government will do nothing until the new leader comes in. We're so strawberry floated.
I don't think so. They'll either change their rules, or arrange it so that candidates drop out before it goes to the members.