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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Dodgy Investments

The Department for Elderly Freezing, Rotting and Apathy, in association with the Department for Bankers' Expenses and Regulatory Relaxation, has released figures showing that three and a half million households were suffering fuel poverty in 2006, an increase of forty per cent on the numbers for the year before. Two and three-quarters million of the three and a half million were households classed as "vulnerable", namely those containing a juvenile consumer potentiality, a pensions crisis culprit, a drain on the NHS or other non-viable human resource. The Government, with its usual astuteness, has connected the rise to the increase in energy bills between 2005 and 2006. Given that shareholders in energy companies have continued to receive their legal entitlements, prices have continued to rise since 2006, and Help the Aged and Friends of the Earth claim that there are now at least five million households suffering fuel poverty. On the bright side, it is doubtful that many such households are occupied by City speculators, short sellers, venture capitalists or anyone else whose gambling debts are a desirable commodity in today's free market.

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