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Then you reintroduce the price controls that were scrapped in 2002, that were there to protect the consumer.

No-one can answer that. But price controls were in place to avoid the privatised companies hiking the prices up. These were scrapped in 2002. But competition meant that consumers could swap suppliers and get the best rate around - no-one was moaning about that. Rather like the other thread on...

I thought they did. At least I am pretty certain that they did when they were first set up. Wiki(!!): Before there was competition on domestic markets, Ofgem set price controls fixing maximum price that the monopoly suppliers could charge domestic customers. These price controls remained in...

If that is deemed excessive, it is up to Ofgem to sort them out. Many will argue that privatisation and the subsequent competition has kept the prices down over the years. All I know is that there is state owned energy provider here, with no competition, that has more than doubled the price of...

Are you sure? If the far right were now in power, you would not have the opportunity to vote them out!

My Uncle was heavily involved in setting up the IMF and World Bank after the war, as a representative of the Bank of England. Not entirely sure when though as he was still fighting when the Bretton Woods conference was held. Just thought I would throw that in as a bit of an aside.....

Thatcher's :kiss:

No Prime Minister, Labour or Conservative, since the war has got more than 50% of the vote, so the majority have disliked all PM's since the war.

I am not an economist but I would say that: QE has increased the price of gold because QE has increased the amount of money in the money supply, thereby devaluing that currency because there is more of it, so investors have bought gold rather as there is a finite supply of it. The bit about if...

:thumbsup:. Me too.

Am pretty sure that Expats can vote if they were on the electoral register in the last 15 years in the UK. This may or may not apply to BadFish of course.

Whether you agree with this or not, there is a time and place for an article like this. Her death day isn't it. Shows a distinct lack of class and respect imo.

The ultimate conviction politician. Whatever you thought of her policies, oh how today's bunch could do with a 10th of her guts. RIP.