29p a day. Every day. Ask yourself where the pennies go
The standing charge is 29p a day. Per household. Millions of households. Every single day, whether you use any gas or not. We did the multiplication. They don't like it when you do the multiplication.
Now a 'thinktank' called Nesta — look into Nesta — appears with a fully formed plan the same week a new prime minister needs an announcement. Convenient timing? There is no convenient timing. There is only timing.
And notice what the plan actually does: it moves the charges. Doesn't delete them. MOVES them. Into 'general taxation', which is the place where numbers go when they don't want to be watched. The £2.7bn debt wipe? That's not generosity. That's a ledger being cleaned before someone audits it. Who's coming to audit it? Exactly.
They say your bill drops £130. Count what you actually pay this winter. Write it down. Keep the paper somewhere safe, not on your phone. We'd say more but the boiler just made a noise it has never made before. You do the math.