Greedy bastards
British Gas upped gas prices to households by 35 per cent with immediate effect yesterday. Its parent company will shortly announce record profits of £880m, obtained in just the first half of this year. If the Labour government gave a damn, they’d legislate to take every single penny. But let’s never forget that it was the Tories who privatised British Gas in the first place.
tags: British Gas, fuel crisis, privatisationThe dirty lucre of British Gas
British Gas could only become more immoral if it started snatching babies or producing serial killers. Annual profits rocketed from £95m in 2006 to £571m in 2007. Centrica, British Gas’ parent company, announced group pre-tax profits for last year of £2.1bn. Last month, British Gas increased charges for gas and electricity by 15%. Every winter elderly people in their hundreds of thousands die in Britain because they can’t afford to put the heating on. Despicable. But it’s even more disgusting that our government doesn’t do something to end this obscene profiteering.
tags: British Gas, business, electricity, ethics, fuel, gas, profits
