WITH reference to the article by Helen Jones MP ‘How Labour will tackle rising energy bills, Guardian, November 7, yet again this is nothing more than playing to the gallery with a populist policy to try to win votes.

The 13 years that Labour was in Government there was no investment in securing our energy future with renewables. Labour kept on with fossil fuels and introduced green iniativies which now it transpires that the energy companies have passed on these green levys onto our energy bills, pushing them up.

When Ed Miliband was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 2008-2010, he mixed the UK energy market up so badly that it went from a monopoly of 14 companies to a cartel of the big six.

Mrs Jones says in her piece: ‘If Labour wins the election,we will freeze prices until 2017’. Shortly after Ed Miliband announced this at the Labour Party conference in September, some energy companies said ‘why wait when you can do it now’, so effectively Mr Miliband has helped set another price increase.

Mrs Jones adds: ‘We will break up the big energy companies so that we can get a fair deal’ but like so many of these headline-grabbing announcements, very short of detail. Is she suggesting re-nationalisation? Perhaps she would care to give us the full details as this is a very important issue.

Tony Fox Stockton Heath