UK vs France

The French people own their energy. Why don't we?

[iainmackenzieUK]

because Maggie sold it all to private businesses in the 80's

[Manu-Official]

The Conservative Party would like to thank the British public, for voting to protect their offshore accounts in 2016.

[sidgb]

We don’t own energy companies because the Tories sold them off in the 80’s and here we are. Vote Tories out!!

[tamhunter]

Sadly we used to own our Energy Companies, Telecom, Public Transport and Postal Services. It is now time to turn back time.

[Stegibbon]

BECAUSE THATCHER. Almost everything we complain about prices going up for is BECAUSE THATCHER.

[martinkerrmusic]

The Labour party should be using this as a campaign video.

[theviperuk]

We are being fleeced on every front... when do we stand up??

[Wishing_you_peace]

EDF just tripled by Direct Debit on a house I own but no one lives in. Only the boiler is using energy, kicking in at temps below 10.

[hugolage]

More dividends go out, more expensive, but the gammon don't seem to care... It's really strange how Brits put up with high energy prices, raw sewage in our waters and... Everything's fine.

[mpjkea]

so true, we had a house in France and one in the UK, both edf 40% dearer in the uk.

[terorantanen]

Same in finland. Government sold our energy companies and next year our energy bills increased like 200%, now they are like 1000% before they sold them. Awesome right. Good thing one or two persons got rich out of that.

[WorldGoods]

People will still believe tories aren’t out to line their own pockets

[trumpstinyhands]

Thank you Maggie. Wait until this guy hears about who owns the rail network we prop up

[andrewlowe]

So the cost of electricity did increase globally. And the British subsidised the French so that there’s bills didn’t increase… great work Maggie!

[davidwilliams]

Get the thievng torys out and we can do this

[peterl]

Maggie even misused EU funds to get companies out of debt so she could sell them.

[khartoonbegum]

Disgusting how we pay for France n thy benefit from UK whilst we struggle. It’s absolutely ludicrous we need to take back control

[pault]

Britain has the highest energy bills in Europe [sigh]

[kevinedie]

The worst part of this is that the energy created Scotland is sold to the companies and then sold back to us. (We have dozens of wind turbines)

[KingsOfTheIronAge]

Because the goriest flogged them all off. If you see Sid, tell him.