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MPs claim utility bills on expenses whilst the rest of us heat or eat

By John Hirst

MPs claim utility bills on expenses whilst the rest of us heat or eat

A couple of things captured my attention on the Andrew Marr show this morning. The first was when Ian Duncan Smith said that Labour was more interested in a row than in power. And the second was when a reviewer mentioned that as the poor were forced to choose between eat or heat, energy companies earned £1,000 per second. In this report it states that those of us who use Pre-paid Meters are more likely to pay an extra £140 per year. All I know is yesterday I put £20 on my gas card and when I put it in my PPM it registered £12.18 for gas once the company had clawed back money for debt and emergency credit! It is all very well Brown trying to come up with savings in the future rather than a windfall tax now, that's a bit like trying to revive the extinct Do-do when breathing life into it before it expired is what was needed.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on September 07, 2008 (boomark / email).