Chill and Wind

In Daveybloke's Big Society thingy, as we all know by now, the rich have rights and the poor have duties; accordingly, Daveybloke's Cuddly Coalition looks set to fail with a clear conscience in its legal duty to eliminate fuel poverty in the next five years. That nice Mr Huhne has accused the major energy suppliers of malpractice, and has ordered those pensioners who haven't yet sold their homes for the profit of Southern Cross and its ilk to do something about it. The energy suppliers, for their part, blame the rising cost of oil and gas; which presumably explains the enthusiasm of Daveybloke's Cuddly Coalition for alternative sources of energy. On the bright side, fuel poverty campaigners claim that the Government's own greenwashing measures "will be taken up by richer households but paid for in taxes on all households, in effect requiring the poor to subsidise the more affluent", as God and Saint George intended.