SIR GUESTLING THORN

I think we have not just lost the plot, we don’t longer know what the plot was in the first place! What is going on? I am fed up, frustrated and angry. It is an immutable fact that if the spectre of Covid was not hanging over us, it may have been easier to deal with all the shenanigans and depression caused by our exit from the EU and the subsequent performance of a government whose behaviour seems worse everyday. Minister after minister defends their PM and become more aggressive and unreasonable while doing it. It’s like a badge of honour that if your in government you defend even when you know that you are lying! Minister after minister quotes incorrect figures, twists statements and try to justify comments that we all know should not have been uttered. Politicians have always been good at bending and spinning the facts to suit their agenda but this lot have made it into an art form! 

The “loan” Sunak is giving via the energy companies is the most stupid scheme yet. That is saying something amongst all the nonsense that has already been perpetrated on the country. Firstly let me say I have written to my energy supplier to ask them not to give the subsidy, I don’t want it, fortunately don’t need it and certainly do not want to pay it back. I have asked they pay it to anyone whose need is greater! There are many who will payback this “loan” who are not eligible for it. And if you don’t Council Tax you won’t get that £150 rebate. If you rent property your rent covers the cost of utilities and the “loan” won’t benefit you. Will your rent increase as landlords pass on the cost of paying it back, will they give you a reduction, of course not. There are those who for one reason or another will end up paying it back even though they never get it. It is an inherently bad scheme. Two last things, how do I know the energy company has given me the loan? They can claim they have but I can’t prove it? How will we know that the energy companies have paid it back to the government, remember this is our money to start with, these are companies who make vast profits why the hell would you give them the money in the first place? The poorest will not benefit from this they never do! Sorry but one last thing, what is the betting that energy companies will claim they need putting up prices even more because of the cost of administering this misguided scheme!

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