David Cameron is set to cut 10,000 jobs amidst cutting the Green Deal and ECO deal by 30%, it comes as David Cameron tries to make the Tories look as brow bashing of the energy companies as humanly possible. Yet it is in fact the energy companies such as British Gas, EON, EDF who determine what the government does. David Cameron may think that the government looks as though they have bullied the energy companies into reducing bills, yet he has missed the main point all together.
Energy Companies produce record profits year on year, yet any government intervention to actually help put money back into consumers pockets, is always rolled down onto bills. Never really costing energy companies anything at all, no matter how severe the apparent government slap on the wrist appears to be.
The Energy Companies Obligation (ECO) will be cut by 30% and solid wall insulation will go from 80-100,000 installs a year, to only 25,000 under the new plans. This will cut an estimated £20 off energy bills in the UK. However, it will also be the cost of up to 10,000 jobs in the construction and insulation industry. It will bankrupt families, it will also bankrupt businesses who have heavily invested their own money and peoples livelihood into insulating homes, under the government scheme.
Now it appears that, the government clearly do not care about the general public, only how they are perceived to the general public. Because if there are less insulated homes over a longer period and not an immediate change in energy bills, the elderly and fuel poor homes, will have to choose this winter, heat their homes or put food on the table.
Something which those workers who had jobs in the insulation industry will have to think about heavily this winter, whilst politicians and energy companies stay warm and financially safe in their homes this winter, the real workers of this world go hungry and cold, with Christmas just around the corner did David Cameron really think this was a good idea?
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