There’s a cost of living crisis. Families are struggling to pay their bills and children are going hungry. But there’s no profit crisis at
@BritishGas
whose profits are up 900% from last year. Or at
@Centricaplc
, their owners, who made £6.5 billion profit in just 6 months this…
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
They (the Tories) really do have to go. It has long been apparent how they are wilfully destroying the social and economic fabric of British society, and they sell it by telling the most shameless lies.
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
Week after week we’re getting regular news about energy giants making record profits. What will it take to make people angry??
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Oil companies brought in $200 billion in profit last year. Yet the prices at the pump and on our utility bills remain high.
“That, ladies and gentleman, is what we call the oil cartel.”
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@MayorJD
But Jamie… in 2019 you promised that as North of Tyne Mayor you would:
“Create a Regional Energy Company owned by workers and customers. Ending energy ripoffs and investing profits in renewable energy.”
Where is it?
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
As Mahari Black said it’s not a cost of living crisis - it’s a cost of greed crisis
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
The only solution is to bring these companies back into public ownership.
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
Thanks Jamie they took 3 times what they would normally this month. I spoke to 2 different people who quoted me 2 different amounts. No one knows what's going on yet I'm being told I'm using more gas than ever recently. My winter payments were never this high and my gas is off??.
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
So where is the 'regional energy company' you promised in 2019 if elected mayor?
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
it is a much wider issue. check out the privatised Water companies paying huge dividends to shareholders while they dump sewage in rivers and coastlines and under invest.
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
Everyone had the chance to avoid this, energy could have been nationalised but instead were scared off. Now look at us
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British Gas has benefitted from
@ofgem
raising the energy price cap to the tune of £750m in 18 months. "Bills are still double what they were" Jonathan Bean of
@FuelPovAction
tells
#c4news
"That money is desperately needed by households .. and should not [go to] shareholders"
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
Jamie I honestly wish that you,mick lynch,Corbyn and others on the left would form an independent Labour Party, now there is a big vacuum with no left of centre party in the UK…people need a choice!
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@MayorJD
@BritishGas
@centricaplc
I've often asked myself, how gas firm bosses sleep at night as OUR sky-high energy bills sent THEIR profits soaring to stratospheric levels? If bill payers spend sleepless nights through worry, why should fat cats be allowed to snooze soundly, instead of being haunted by guilt?
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