Brain-dead

Edstone Milipede’s latest piece of lunacy is a £30 tax on people with a gas boiler to give subsidies to people installing a heat pump. Which uses electricity costing four times as much as gas and needs a £7,000 contribution from the mug who goes for the scam.
    Volatile international gas prices are Milipede’s alibi. Caused by his ban on exploiting oil and gas under the North Sea and shale gas. But we’re not supposed to notice that. Or that gas prices charged by the main producers will fall next year.