Countrypaul wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:23 am
Suely what theyare saying is that the average home (no prepaid meter) will pay an average of £1.33/month extra, that working out at an average of £16 over a year. Given that it will be paid via the cost of each unit, those with higher consumption will pay more and the payment in winter will be higher by virtue of consumption being higher in winter.
I can see that, but usually when an increase will be consumption-related they are careful to say the illustration is for the average home, a description which is conspicuously absent this time.
I wonder if it could be that - as it will most affect the heavy users/owners of big houses who are more likely to a) read the money pages of the newspapers and b) vote - they are misrepresenting it to try to avoid alerting that particular constituency?
It is a proposal at the moment as far as I can tell, wonder if things are clearer when it becomes an actual implementation?