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BBC website Home page 09:15am.
Currently fifth , not top, story and article is just out today.
“Energy prices forecast to rise by 9% in October”
Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at the forecaster, said “While we don’t expect a return to the extreme prices of recent years, it’s unlikely that bills will return to what was once considered normal. Without significant intervention, this may well be the new normal“
“Charity National Energy Action said any increases in prices, alongside less support from the government, could stretch some households’ finances “beyond breaking point”.
So is it just me or does anyone else recall Labour before the GE being most vocal at the Tory UK government in them , Tories, not intervening and acting on bringing high energy prices down for consumers. Then also during Labour’s GE campaign they promised to bring energy bills down for consumers.
Story is also the fifth story on their UK page.
Story is not on their UK Politics page but they do have room for a story on that same politics page about the SNP removing the whip from John Mason ( eighth story –one day old and sourced via the Scottish Politics page) and also on their UK Politics page is the Tory leadership contest in Scotland (in their Features & Analysis section of the UK politics page – eleven days old and also sourced via the Scottish Politics page).
Seems though this “energy price forecast rise” is not to be made a UK political story by the BBC on their website ,which is incredible considering it, high energy bills, was a major feature of the Labour party’s attacks upon the Tory UK government when they, the Tories, were in power.
Also incredible considering the pledge made by Keir Starmer was that he promised that if Labour won the GE then energy bills would decrease under them, as the new UK government, same Labour party who are a UK political party but the BBC fail to make this a political story on their UK politics page on their website.
This blatant omission by the BBC , in them failing to highlight this situation is a clear example of Labour not fulfilling that which they promised they would fulfil, would be considered, as a similar BBC omission, a miracle if the BBC also did it for the SNP.
Unfortunately that, as a situation, will never happen.
Upon writing the above comment I checked again and the energy price rise story is now sixth on their home page. So it is falling down in significance in their Home page and also falling down as a really important and currently relevant story too (but it is still, as for now, the fifth story on their UK page and still nothing noted about it on their UK Politics page).
I think eventually, as a story, it will disappear off their pages on their website which is, as a situation, not one they, the BBC, ever grant for the SNP as a BBC action in any and all stories linked to them the SNP.
In fact the opposite is the case with the BBC on their website. Where we often see multiple stories of the exact same story at the same time.
Regurgitated stories on the same subject which are often resurrected by those who are either in opposition to the SNP or those individuals who are against the SNP as a party based purely on their constitutional position.
Remember this energy price story was only added today on their website yet already it has gone down ,as a story , on their Home page !
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
These companies are con artists. They fleece their customers, only raising prices when we really need to use their product. All the more profits for their shareholders. We keep them in the manner to which they have become accustomed simply because we have no choice.
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Please note Labour have not even bothered to replace the Tory Donors that run the BBC with anyone neutral as it suits their Tory agenda
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Pre the GE Keir Starmer was never away from Scotland, same Scotland that he said was at the heart of his government, so since the GE how many times has he, Keir Starmer, been up to visit Scotland ?
More than before the UK GE or far far less ?
Well he came up on the 8th July , just after the GE, but he only came up to Edinburgh to tell us Scots and others who live in Scotland that “”This is part one (as in Labour’s win in the UK GE)” but he then added that “part two comes in 2026.” (Holyrood election).
However sourced from the BBC website they said that he, Starmer, also :
“Insists that he wants to reset relations with governments around the UK, hence his decision to make an early dash through Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as meeting English mayors, in his first few days in the job”.
“A dash through Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales” !
Mind you his visits to Scotland pre the UK GE were also fleeting.
But the reality is he, Starmer, has no intentions of resetting relations with Scotland as , like the Tories, his plans on this is for his UK government to bypass our Scottish government and parliament.
I read this on social media today:
“Labour has set aside £150m to give to Scottish Secretary Ian Murray to do as he pleases. The cash, if handed over to the Scottish Govt, could fund the winter fuel payment for all pensioners in Scotland”
However The Sunday Mail reported that “The Westminster Government could introduce new legislation to allow the Scotland Office to allocate £150m for local authority measures to combat poverty”
So in other words Labour, like the Tories before them, are bypassing the Scottish government and allowing Ian Murray SOS to give money directly to the Local authorities , but if things go wrong or are not improved , then in them doing it this way I am confident that some of those respective local authorities, the Labour PM, the Labour SOS Ian Murray and also Labour at Holyrood will all blame the Scottish government for failing to act in reducing poverty in Scotland.
So much for Labour’s other pledge pre the GE in them promising to strengthen devolution.
This action by them is the opposite.
Indeed it is weakening devolution in Scotland but I wonder if Labour Mayors in England will also see their funding bypassed to elsewhere too?
Starmer also said in his visit to Scotland “”We won because we campaigned as changed Labour,” he then added: “And we will govern as changed Labour” so he is actually admitting that the “Change” he and others in the Labour party were promising and promoting during the GE campaign was only for us to see the Labour party as a changed party.
(Meaning that the “change” in their election slogan was them no longer wanting to be seen as a socialist party but more wanting to be seen as a party similar to the Tory party as per their actions and words once elected as the new Labour UK government).
So the “Change” is not actually the public in the UK seeing anything significant in the way of actual “change” to their lives in the UK from the misery and hardship many of us suffered via the former Tory UK government via their cruel policies , high energy prices ,high food price etc
(Another one to be filed under Gordon Brown’s “see the small print”).
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Scotland in surplus in fuel and energy and nearer the source. Energy prices should go down. Instead of Scottish fuel and energy going South to cost less. The energy companies wanted to charge Scotland less. Westminster Gov would not agree to parity. Another burden on the Scottish economy. Not equal or fair. Westminster poor, bad policies. Not enough heat to keep people warm. Starving the mothers that gave them birth. Another scandal.
Westminster spending monies on war, nuclear. Tax evasion, Brexit losing £Billions. The poor, the sick and the vulnerable not supported properly.
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‘We don’t expect a return to the extreme prices of recent years’, eh? If prices, charges more accurately, have not been reduced, and in fact are being raised, then the ‘extreme prices’, CHARGES just to be able to actually keep warm in your house in freezing temperatures, are still ‘extreme’. We all know who’s being made the fools here, and it ain’t the massively rich CEOs, and the ‘extreme’ profiteers, (parasites) of the private monopolies, ripping off the people sitting freezing too scared to put heating on in winter. Suppose Kidstarver Starmer will delight in more warm banks being required this winter. Food banks, warm banks, it’ll be oxygen banks next!
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