Power to the people.

Politics - don't ya just love it?  At last we have something controversial to discuss instead of the sat on the fence policies that are designed to just go under your 'controversial limit' from all the main parties.  It's the 'we'll freeze electricity prices until 2017' policy just announced my Mr Milliband that has lit up the comments pages in the newspapers, prompting 'furious' responses from the electricity companies.  Personally, I can't see this working to the customers advantage - are we expected to believe that a private company will lose money?  If they do manage to get some agreement to keep prices the same, we'll just end up paying for it somewhere else, like via the fixed charges, or inflated prices for the year before it.  It's a purely political statement, no more, no less, but what I expect is that some anti-privatisation people will jump on it as the best thing since the nationalisation of the East Coast trainline.  I expect government/elec company discussions will be interesting!