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Whilst I understand your perspective it's a cop out. If our representatives were really interested in what's right for us and the country rather than lining their own pockets, they would have taken responsibility for running public services efficiently. Instead they just took the line of least...

Quite. We've all the choice in the world where it doesn't matter and very little where it does.

It's not a choice, it's a boring, onerous, overly complicated chore that amounts to a laziness/ stupidity tax.

Exactly my point. It's interesting when you compare it to supermarkets, where retailers who carry limited product ranges at excellent prices are very much in vogue at present (Lidl, Aldi.)

Which is where the bean analogy breaks down, I concede. It's not comparing apples with apples. The inconvenience here amounts to 5 minutes on the net every 6 months - seems a small price to pay for £250 a year but why are people put in that position? It's not right.

It's not acceptable to blame the consumer. This is a market that has deliberately convoluted itself in order that people give up trying to understand it. It's not the only one. Isn't it a sign of a failed market where people are paying over the odds for the same product? You wouldn't go into a...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33420734 "Millions of energy customers have been "paying too much for their energy bills", a year-long investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found. Between 2009 and 2013, British Gas, E-On, Npower, EDF Energy, Scottish Power and SSE...