• HSBC banking profits doubled
• Shell energy profits doubled
• BP energy profits doubled
• BP CEO pay doubled
• Shell CEO pay doubled
And they tell you it is your 18 year low wage packet that is causing the inflation crisis.
Mugged in broad daylight.
History books are gonna have a FIELD DAY with the fact that the guy who spent the entire 2016 election accusing his opponent of mishandling classified information (she didn’t) became the first former president to be indicted for exactly that.
🔴ENERGY BILLS SOAR
OFGEM announces energy price cap
YOUR energy bill will be £2,074 this next year (from July)
An 80% RISE in your energy bill compared to 2 yrs ago
BUT wholesale gas today is 4p per therm CHEAPER than 2 yrs ago
👉IT'S A SCAM.
@BeckettUnite
🧵The 9 ways the Tories are rigging the upcoming local elections (and future GEs?):-
Let's walk through each one...
1. Require mandatory voter ID at an estimated cost of £200 million to solve a non-existent problem (see Electoral Commission quote below).
https://t.co/XrkBhu70zH
Everything they are doing to the NHS they did to British Rail.
Underfunded it, exhausted the service, got the public angry, and then said privatisation is the solution.
Please RT if you won’t fall for it.
Tomorrow Ofgem announce the new energy price cap.
Wholesale gas is 6 times cheaper today than August. Wholesale gas is sitting at its lowest levels for 18 months.
Ofgem must cut energy bills.
Jeremy Corbyn’s wage policy would have meant the wages of CEOs of companies bidding for public work would be capped at a maximum of 20 times the wage of their lowest paid worker. If they wanted more then pay workers more.
We need that policy now.
British Gas owner, Centrica, just had a fivefold soar in their profits.
There is no such thing as a cost of living crisis. This is a cost of greed crisis.
Bankers bonuses up 44%, bankers profits at 15 year highs, energy corp profits above £40bn this year, supermarket profits up, rents up, water corp profits up.
There is no cost of living crisis.
There is a corporate greed crisis.
BP has just announced record profits: £5,000,000,000 in the last 3 months.
But Boris Johnson today again rejected using a windfall tax on these companies to cut soaring energy bills.
He's choosing to squeeze your living standards, not their profits. That's whose side he's on.