Windfall Taxes on Energy Companies

Yes, it's time to tax the windfall profits of energy and utility companies. Not so that the Treasury benefits, which is what Brown wants; but to reduce the bills of ordinary, struggling families. Net profits of hundreds of millions of pounds are obscene in today's belt tightening downturn, especially when those profits and dividends go to foreign owners. These utility companies may have been privatised, but they should be seen as, and operate as, essential public services where net profits are shared with the nation and customers. That would be fair.
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Brown lectures the people on waste

When Brown lectures ordinary struggling families about waste, the word 'hypocracy' comes readily to mind. It's not just that he chose to pontificate about British food waste while we watched the remains of a five course banquet being slung at G8 Toyako: it's the fact that this whole government is built on waste. Of the approx. £500billion of our hard earned money that Brown rakes into his counting house annually, some reports show that as much as £150billion of it is simply wasted every year! Labour's obscene, bloated bureaucracy can hardly carry its own weight. Think what that money could do for child poverty, supporting families, eradicating violence, properly educating children, reducing prices, caring for the old, supporting our brave forces better. But no, it's just thrown away.
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