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Funny hearing the BBC and SKY falling over themselves to provide excuses for the coming winter energy crisis yet not one person is asking why our prices are double the average of Europe. Must be another Brexit benefit.

Simple answer 'Privatisation'. The whole point of a free market economy is it's meant to add competition and lower prices but it does the exact opposite because when one company puts there prices then the rest will follow and the cost of living is rising while wages are stagnating.

Our energy companies are foreign owned as are the railway franchises as is a lot of public services in the UK. The right wing media want us to be in control of our own destiny and to 'take back control' but the minute publically owned energy or railway is mentioned they have a meltdown and start shouting 'Communism' or 'Marxism'. UK rail operators are owned by European companies and our ticket prices and tickets rises are subsidising cheap travel in Europe and to add insult to injury the European train operators are state owned meaning UK passengers are funding state owned systems. We as consumers and passengers are being mugged off.