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We could be doing so much more, Prime MinisterThis post came to me in an email this morning. It's from a correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous.
Some 7,800 people die during winter because they can’t afford to heat their homes properly, says fuel poverty expert Professor Christine Liddell of the University of Ulster. That works out at 65 deaths a day.
Hitler managed to kill 65,000 civilians in the UK during World War 2, an average of about 12,000 tragic deaths annually for each of the five and a half years of the war. So, ConLibLab's expensive energy policies are killing us at 2/3rds the rate Hitler managed. WW2's civilians can be said to have died in the struggle for our freedom. How can ConLibLab justify the lonely death of people in their own homes in peacetime, what noble cause are they dying for? Do Mr. Cameron & Mr. Clegg feel proud of their policies to make electricity more expensive? How does Mr. Cameron's father in law feel about pocketing a reported £1,000 a day from the windmills sited on his land? Does Mr. Clegg's lawyer wife feel working for one of Europe's largest installers of windfarms is socially acceptable? Does Mr. Milliband still feel comfortable with his record as a minister in bringing into law the 2008 Climate Change Act which set targets for the reduction of CO2 which underpin today's expensive energy bills?
Unfortunately, worse is to come. A recent Credit Suisse Bank study reports increased UK energy cost and states, "The bank blamed the roughly fivefold rise in the government's new tax on carbon-dioxide emitting power generation over the next seven years", and went on to forecast that within three years rising UK electricity prices will be almost double German prices, which are currently twice as high as electricity costs in the US. How many more will be killed by unnecessary, tax-driven energy increases?
As a financially challenged OAP I cannot quite reach your tip jar. However, I wish you all the best in your important work, for which I thank you. If you make reference to this, please describe me as a "correspondent"