Sent to the Backbenches (energy expert Shapps)

Every year I get a reminder that I'm locked into an energy deal which is not the best I should have and that I need to go and change supplier because the regulation of the energy market doesn't work ..

Like UK Gov't it's not clever and not smart 

Sometime ago I helped CAB with their Energy presentations/explanations (and I used to make a good job of it too) at the time  I felt duty bound to shop around for best energy deals so I was across the problems that disadvantaged consumers had (as some of the team were pretty clueless) .


Well it's fair (I think) to say that Grant Shapps MP was not an unmitigated success in his roles in front line government (although some would say he's good on Wikipedia) but he's having a bit of a stir regarding the governments energy management in particular the so called 'Smart Meters' (costing billions and saving consumers up to £11 per household) but which have yet to provide any worthwhile benefit.


Some might suspect that the Smart Energy project was a way of funnelling money  to the Telco industry (to make a whole new comms network)  and certainly the prospect of hard up energy consumers getting any benefit feels like a bit of a pipe-dream.

Although Theresa may tried to steal Red Ed Miliband's energy price cap policy for popular support nothing has so far come of it and the crazy racket where brokers profit from energy consumers switching continues with the so called Big Six remaining un-shackled.

So what is the way forward - perhaps stronger regulation of the cash cow utilities could deliver benefit to consumers instead of  profiteers  who do so little to help energy conservation?

If UK government was not totally consumed with Brexit shenanigans perhaps they'd focus on this fiasco and other things which affect 'hard Working' families.