Nearly as Effective as Tim Yeo

Hard-working families at British Gas have suffered the unpleasant experience of being attacked by a doormat. Ed Davey (not to be confused with Ed or Davey), the Bullingdon Club's junior fracking monitor, has made another of his nearly noticeable interventions, this time dashing off an orange-ink missive to the energy regulator suggesting that British Gas might possibly be in line for a bit of a dressing-down. As is customary these days in matters of mere public interest, Davey belched forth a large quantity of pre-electoral hot air, urging the regulator to "think radically", even unto the possibility of breaking up British Gas should that company be seen to make uncompetitive use of its humble forty-one per cent share of the market. Lest the uncharitable among you should suspect a bluff, Ed Davey is a Deputy Conservative, no less; so any threats he makes towards profiteers and cartels naturally have the full and enthusiastic backing of Britain's Head Boy and all his chums. For its own part, British Gas is almost certainly chastened to approximately the degree one would expect.