"Devasting blow" for households in fuel poverty

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"Devasting blow" for households in fuel poverty
Not enough MPs bothered to turn up to vote for the Fuel Poverty Bill

The Fuel Poverty Bill has been thrown out of parliament because not enough MPs could be bothered to vote.

The Bill proposed to make homes more energy-efficient and introduce lower prices for vulnerable households, but was rejected in its second reading in the House of Commons this afternoon. It recieved 89 votes for and two votes against - but needed 100 votes to get through.
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[Ethics Gradient]

I suppose if I only earned £63,291 per year I couldn't be bothered to turn up for work on a friday.

That's 85% of our MP's didn't turn up to vote.... I'd like to know what those 555 MP's were doing on a Friday afternoon.

If I told my boss I was leaving early on Fridays to get home to the country, I would generally be told where to go in no uncertain manner.

[jendo]

This seems disgusting to me. Unless some information appears to change my mind, I am actually going to get off my but and do something and I ask you to do the same.
This link will find your MP
UK Parliament - Find Your MP

David Heath, the Liberal Democrat MP, put forward the Fuel Poverty Bill and can be contacted at this email
davidheath@davidheath.co.uk

[Anotherlimey]

Have emailed my local MP on the issue.

[JohnG]

If it's anything like my local MP then you won't get an answer and he won't be interested unless it gets him in the papers or on the television.
When I last spoke to my MP on the phone he was uninterested to say the least and sounded like he was asleep.

[oakie]

These scumers get travel for nowt so theres no reason not to turn up

Is there anyway to find out who went and voted?

[oldnewbie]

Originally Posted by oakie

These scumers get travel for nowt so theres no reason not to turn up

Is there anyway to find out who went and voted?

Disgusting isn't it Here is the list of those who could be bothered to turn up Hansard - Commons | Houses of Parliament

[JohnG]

I notice Mr Skinner was there, he must be one of the highest attenders in the house surely. My local MP (Alan Meale) was nowhere to be seen, as expected.

[Sporran]

Ours was home.

The irony being he was interviewed in Milford Haven welcoming in the first delivery of LNG.

BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | First liquid gas delivery in port

[paul1967]

Sent a letter to Dr Taylor just as he is there as a independant,health concern MP.

[Ed Selley]

I notice Vince Cable was there- can't we simply elect him as a benevolent dictator? It surely couldn't result in a shonkier situation than we have at present.

I shall ask my MP (who has always looked a little too much like Alan B'stard for my liking anyway) what he was up to yesterday. I'm a cranky, unemployed person- its the nearest thing I have to a job.

[damo_in_sale]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if my memory serves me correct, fuel poverty is where a household spends 10% of their household income on fuel.

If I have an income of one million pounds per year, and I spend one hundred thousand pounds per year on energy (my private Bombardier jet just gobbles up the fuel you know), then I am in fuel poverty.

Like that other lefty measure of poverty, relative poverty, it is a nonsense.

Please get upset about something that matters, like a £150,000,000,000 budget deficit for next year (many think that's optimistic). Or this years budget deficit, predicted to be just over forty billion by our chancellor in November, now touching 90 billion (very close to the one hundred billion that I predicted and Andy ridiculed not very long ago).

And if this energy issue is so important for you, then lobby the government to lower taxation on it, since the biggest slice of ones energy bill goes straight to HM Treasury.

Kind regards,

Damo

[Ed Selley]

Originally Posted by damo_in_sale

Please get upset about something that matters, like a £150,000,000,000 budget deficit for next year (many think that's optimistic). Or this years budget deficit, predicted to be just over forty billion by our chancellor in November, now touching 90 billion (very close to the one hundred billion that I predicted and Andy ridiculed not very long ago).

I'd still rather have Vince Cable in sole control for trying to deal with that as well.

[oldnewbie]

Originally Posted by damo_in_sale

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if my memory serves me correct, fuel poverty is where a household spends 10% of their household income on fuel.

If I have an income of one million pounds per year, and I spend one hundred thousand pounds per year on energy (my private Bombardier jet just gobbles up the fuel you know), then I am in fuel poverty.

Like that other lefty measure of poverty, relative poverty, it is a nonsense.

Please get upset about something that matters, like a £150,000,000,000 budget deficit for next year (many think that's optimistic). Or this years budget deficit, predicted to be just over forty billion by our chancellor in November, now touching 90 billion (very close to the one hundred billion that I predicted and Andy ridiculed not very long ago).

And if this energy issue is so important for you, then lobby the government to lower taxation on it, since the biggest slice of ones energy bill goes straight to HM Treasury.

Kind regards,

Damo

This is surely a wind up, Its called compassion, There are so many old people die each winter with the cold because of fear that they cant afford to heat there homes even though they get winter fuel payments, So I would suggest instead of concentrating on how the global downturn in the current financial climate is affecting just you why don't you spare a thought for others less fortunate ie have some compassion

[Ethics Gradient]

Originally Posted by damo_in_sale

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if my memory serves me correct, fuel poverty is where a household spends 10% of their household income on fuel.

If I have an income of one million pounds per year, and I spend one hundred thousand pounds per year on energy (my private Bombardier jet just gobbles up the fuel you know), then I am in fuel poverty.

Like that other lefty measure of poverty, relative poverty, it is a nonsense.

Please get upset about something that matters, like a £150,000,000,000 budget deficit for next year (many think that's optimistic). Or this years budget deficit, predicted to be just over forty billion by our chancellor in November, now touching 90 billion (very close to the one hundred billion that I predicted and Andy ridiculed not very long ago).

And if this energy issue is so important for you, then lobby the government to lower taxation on it, since the biggest slice of ones energy bill goes straight to HM Treasury.

Kind regards,

Damo

whether they voted for or against is not the full issue here - 555 MP's that are supposed to represent us the public did not even bother to turn up at 1:30 on a Friday afteroon.

They get paid £63k