would benefit too. more targeted reform the warm homes discount, a one off payment of £140, available to a limited number of people on certain benefits. make that more generous and widen the eligibility. then there are green charges on our bills of £170 a year. we could scrap those, or move them into general taxation. maybe fairer, because higher earners would pay more. and how to pay for all of this? maybe a windfall tax on the gas producers making big profits as prices soar. chancellors, both conservative and labour, have done it before. that would deter investment in domestic gas sources like the north sea, says 0 shea. one way or another, the uk s rising energy bill has to be paid. ultimately, everybody in the uk is a taxpayer and an energy cofisuttiei . so, the cost of this is going to have to be paid by uk citizens. the question as to whether that s paid through the energy bill
and the chief executive of bp says they ve got more money than they know what to do with. he described running the country, it s like a cash machine right now, but the people paying out are ordinary british families so let s have a one-off windfall tax and use that money for expanding warm homes discount so the poorest who live on modest incomes get some more help and also cut vac on domestic gas and electricity bills to give everyone a bit of money off their biffles right now. and that is the sort of measure that i would have like to have seen in the spring statement yesterday. but there are critics who also say that doesn t go far enough. and if inflation is going up at the extraordinary rates, and incomes aren t, that s the disconnect, and i mean would the labour party go further and would the labour party tie benefits to inflation? so the package we have announced on the energy crisis would have taken up to 600 pounds of the bill. of around a third of people. so it would have m
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