On Thursday’s Question Time, Tory MP Greg Hands called the £200 loan to offset fuel increases 'a discount', but we have to pay it back over (I think) four years...which makes it a loan surely?
Hands went onto justify it because it was “put on the price point, not the individual”.
He seemed adamant, so I wonder - perhaps he's right?
Or is it like when Johnson said that crime figures had fallen by 14% - just a statement that's the opposite of the truth?
I do wish you could refuse it. I see it as a hassle, something I have to have which I don't want and must remember what I have to do with it. And I'll forget.
The £200 rebate will be applied to electricity accounts from October this year.
You can make an additional £200 payment to your electricity account now, while you mind on it or at a later date and that will take care of the £40 levies for the next five year.
There will be a lot of poor people who will struggle to pay the increase in fuel bills. But instead this daft concoction of an idea will loan everyone, rich or poor £200. I think it is safe to say the increase for everyone will be more than £200 so the amount is far too low to begin with. So poor people will still go into debt, and people who can afford the rise will be saddled with a debt that they never wanted.
I really don’t see the point at all.