The Gas Chamber

God, I'm so fucking angry! It's The King's New Clothes all over again and I'm that little boy in the crowd (probably hangin' out with BGT, Vicus, Betty, Malc and a few other cats).........only no matter how loud I/we shout everyone thinks HRH is sporting some dead trendy gear, even though he's stark bollock naked!
Why, oh why, oh why, oh why can't the fuckwits who've never known anything but right-wing government in this country (the desensitised, ignorant, self-obsessed, materialist, poorly-educated, greedy, uncaring under-30s) see not only that the king has got his knob out but also that all of us are being abused, ripped off and laughed at by corporate bastards on a daily basis?
Like the slight give-aways that you can see the royal nipples, arse and bollocks, evidence of this economic obscenity stares us in the face and can't be hidden by the transparent veil of bullshit, soundbites and propaganda wrapped around the whole sorry sight by those whose naked greed stalks our streets.
Why am I screaming so loudly from the crowd today. Well, consider the following:

1. Gas companies in this country made profits of more than £1 billion over the last year - British Gas alone made £600 million of that total.
2. "Energey poverty" - an awful, Blairite-type phrase which basically means the number of people who are having difficulty paying or can't afford to pay their fuel bills - has risen dramatically in recent years.
3. The gas companies have been withholding - for 15 months now - more than £150 million they made in windfall profits when wholesale prices slumped, money which, under our ludicrously ineffective regulatory system, is supposed to be paid back to customers.
4. Fuckwit Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks says it is basically down to the energy companies to do something about the looming "energy poverty" crisis.
5. The gas companies, through their "Fuck you, what do we care?" mouthpiece the Energy Retailers Association, say it's the government's fault (get this, their argument is that the government should make sure there are better houses and that people earn more so they can meet their over-inflated charges!)
6. The gas regulator Ofgem says it is everyone's responsibility "in a competitive market" and it is seriously considering thinking about looking at considering what they think.

PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE AN OBSCENITY!!! We, the fucking taxpayer, paid for the infrastructure of the entire energy industry. It was then dishonestly given to corporations (the tax-payers were not asked if they wanted to give it away) to cream off as much profit as they could get away with and we got sod all in return - that's called fucking THEFT! (1968 Theft Act - the dishonest appropriation of property from another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it). These greed merchants' ONLY interest (yes, their ONLY, ONLY, ONLY interest) is to make as much profit as is humanly possible at the expense of the victims of their theft.
This constitutes both PROFITEERING (Dictionary definition - "making an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods") and DEMANDING MONEY WITH MENACES! (Common Law). Why? Because they are demanding money for a "service" which is essential to people and if they choose to do without it they face the menace of freezing and/or starving to death! "Ah, yes, but in a free and competitive market, if people are not happy with a service or product they can go elsewhere." Like fucking where??! The gas companies are an unofficial cartel who set prices among themselves. Gas is gas! What's the alternative product? Buy a cow and shove a tube up its arse to get methane to power your home? Electricity? It's invariably produced by the same cartel of suppliers!
Oh fuck 'em! Anyway, I've just had a call to say I can go in for my operation today and so having my leg hacksawed off is infinitely preferable option to sitting here thinking about how I'm being ripped off and abused every day by these arseholes.
Privatisation, particularly of public utilities, and all those apologists in Labour who agreed to scrap Clause 4, can fuck off to Grantham.