It’s great to see Polly Toynbee’s article about our proposal for Energy for All, a free band of energy to cover basic needs (People are struggling to pay their energy bills – here’s a simple idea that could help, 21 April). As she says, this would reverse the present perverse situation where cutting down on energy leads you to pay more, not less, per unit. And it would provide some desperately needed security. The article helped take our petition to more than 350,000.
Our proposal is that the core funding should come from ending the huge taxpayer subsidies now going to fossil fuel extractors, and a windfall tax on the obscene profits being made by extractors and suppliers.
