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Interesting proposal here, if well above my pay grade.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... rom-market

Energy users ‘could save £5bn a year’ if gas plants are removed from market
Former energy tsar suggests the ‘radical step’ as one of the few options the government has for cutting bills

The Government is approving tons of renewable energy, but it doesn't seem to stop gas setting the price. The UK system apparently isn't unusual in having a marginal pricing model, it's just unusual that gas sets the price as often as it does. France has nuclear setting the price far more often, and Germany even has coal doing it.

We're certainly installing lots of renewables, but the price of electricity doesn't seem to be coming down any time soon. Is that because gas is still going to be setting the price or because renewable energy is more expensive than it looks when you factor in back up and the costs up upgrading the grid?

There've been a few of these good low key changes. Liz Kendall isn't all bad, by any means. But they've got to move on the 2 child benefit cap. Lift it to 3 if that's all you can do within the budget.

Undoubtedly, a move in the right direction.

But these are barely footnotes to the political narrative. If Labour were not so irredeemably shite at comms, this would be part of the morning media round, dovetailing with kid-friendly issues like back-to-school (in England), rather than the Farage-Philps double act.

Instead, tumbleweed.

Nobody is interested in this stuff at the moment. It’s boats, hotels and tax rises.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 10:32 pm Nobody is interested in this stuff at the moment. It’s boats, hotels and tax rises.

and Rayner's tax affairs.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 10:52 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 10:32 pm Nobody is interested in this stuff at the moment. It’s boats, hotels and tax rises.

and Rayner's tax affairs.

On that subject, where does all this nonsense about "They're worth £x million" come from?