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The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it)

The Verso Podcast

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Energy Price Guarantee

This energy supply is off again. So it's a question of on whose terms. And that's a political issue about us saying what we want out of the nationalisation, for example, price controls. You can just have the government write a law and say you will not charge more than this. That's your price control. We never ever call it this. It's not really polite for the Conservative Party to admit they've introduced the biggest single price control this country has seen since the 1970s. The reason she was doing it, it's very simple. Energy suppliers were saying that the threat of non-payment represented an existential threat to their business model. If enough people didn't pay

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