This lie shows that both #BorisJohnson AND #KeirStarmer are toxic to the public
Among the litany of lies that Boris Johnson paraded before MPs – and the general public – at Prime Minister’s Questions on January 5 was that Labour would re-nationalise the privatised energy firms if it could.
When Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader, this would have been an accurate claim – and as a result the public would have been much better-off if he had become prime minister.
The existence of the energy firms as private organisations means not only that the public must shoulder the burden of skyrocketing prices, caused by Johnson’s incompetence as a national leader, but also that we must contributed to their shareholders’ annual increase in profits, no matter what other costs face us.
It’s a form of daylight robbery, you see. We all need energy – I’m using it to write this article on my computer and you’re using it to read the piece, for just one example. That’s why it should rightly be run by the state as a national asset, rather than by profit-grubbers as a get-rich-quick scheme.
The Tories – and the energy bosses, and their shareholders – know we have to have what they’re selling, so they know that we have to pay the hugely-inflated prices they demand. We simply have no choice.
And that’s ironic, considering the way a previous Tory government forced privatisation on us by saying it would give us more choice.
The fact that Johnson’s PMQs claim is a lie therefore reflects just as poorly on Labour – now – as it does on him, because current Labour leader Keir Starmer has u-turned on the re-nationalisation policy and announced at the party conference last autumn that a Labour government would not, now, return the energy firms to public ownership.
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Giving the public more choice with Energy companies did not last long….all the competition has been taken out far to easily leaving us all with the usual foreign ownerships. It feels like how all the small and medium businesses were also taken out by this Governments Covid actions and lockdowns such they are likely to fail completely if this Government of traitors go one more time hitting them financially and no longer supporting them financially. Even the Utilities eg Water Companies privatised and we find this same Government wants to add Fluoride into our water supplies telling the private companies via our so called Health Ministers that’s what is required. Why? The Government voted against this toxic chemical being added a few years ago, even Boris voted for clean water supplies. Far to much Government control and finger prints over all Public services….many already falling apart like railways when no money to be made.