Britons foot the bill to keep power prices down in France and Germany
FOREIGN electricity companies are exploiting British households in order to protect their own country folk from rising prices.
Electricity bills in Britain have increased EIGHT times faster than in other major European countries because here our electricity is provided by the foreign firms who control our power supplies.
Electricity unit prices in Britain have risen by 15% in the 12 months to October 2008 whilst in France electricity bills have risen by just 5.5% over the same period – and that’s despite the fact that many British and French households are receiving their power from the same supplier, EDF.
A clue as to why might lie in what ‘EDF’ stands for – Electricite de France!
In Germany, households have paid just 1.7% more over the last year for electricity sold them by German firm RWE. Now that’s just one-eighth of the price rise the same German firm has demanded from of British families receiving their supplies from Npower, the British arm of RWE.
It is quite natural for French and German companies to want to put the welfare of their own people first, and in France there’s the additional safeguard of the Government regulating the prices that electricity companies can charge the French people.
What a contrast to here in Britain, where successive Labour and Tory Governments have stood by and allowed foreign firms to come here and exploit the British people, by aiding and abetting the privatisation of our power industry and its sell-off to companies overseas.
The British National Party believes that electricity, as well as gas, water, railways and other essential utilities and infrastructure should be taken back under the control of the British people. These services should be run solely for the welfare of British people and not for private profit or to keep energy prices low prices in France and Germany.
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