Posts Tagged “fuel poverty”

Gordon Brown seems well insulated from the complaints about fuel prices.

Already considering a deal with Jeremy Kyle on a TV show to get people off the dole, the government may want to address the death rate this winter as heating prices go through the (poorly insulated) roof.

Maybe Brown and Channel 4 could work together on a variation of ‘A Place In The Sun’ - ‘A Place In The Ground’, where pensioners can pick out their ideal burial plots. Presented, of course, by Amanda Lamb, once the face of the Scottish Widows advertising campaign.

If it’s true.
NB - I have had to block one international site from running an image that was using my bandwidth very heavily. However, if this measure has affected visitors to this website seeing them (or seeing them on your own non-commercial sites if you are running my images), PLEASE LET ME KNOW and I’ll try and fix it.

I’ve decided I have to do something about how restricting it is to use set figures and poses so I’ve decided to start ‘mashing up’ a bit more.
So I’d be grateful if you can bear with the rough edges (and inconsistent light directions) until I get this damn technique right.

As reported in The Sunday Times here.
After the 10% tax band fiasco, this could be the final nail in the coffin for Brown and New Labour.
If it’s true and not fabricated.
Seems to be a bit too convenient and would fit a Conservative strategy perfectly.
The Conservatives will already win the majority of their key marginals; disaffecting core Labour voters even more would sew it up very nicely.
The way in which it is mentioned in the adds to my suspicion.
But these days, nothing much would surprise me as to how divorced Gordon Brown and his advisers are from reality.

How long ’til they have ‘fuel pauper’s graves’ and can winter fuel payments be used to offset the price of cremations?

As EDF whack up their energy prices, a little comment about Jake Ulrich, MD of Centrica, owner of British Gas from Frankie Boyle.
NB - This only works in Firefox, IE users will hear the damn thing at 5 times the correct speed.
I’ll try and put an alternative version up later.

more on the BBC iPlayer here.