Regional GAS and ELEC prices.....care to continue to deny they exist??
http://www.ukpower.co.uk/regional_energy_prices/
http://www.ukpower.co.uk/regional_energy_prices/
lower benefits for Northerners and longer school days
- Thread starter Locky
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Sorry, I dont and never have taken drugs, sniffed glue or claimed benefits. Being a northerner the same probably cant be said of you though!
The only thing that costs more in the south is housing..
Benefits should only be calculated on essentials which cost roughly the same throughout the country.
Don't go adding in how much a phone costs or sky tv or a pint in the pub or a meal in a restaurant, these are not essentials at all.
people in the south do get more benefits in the form of housing benefit as the price of housing is more expensive.
Benefits should only be calculated on essentials which cost roughly the same throughout the country.
Don't go adding in how much a phone costs or sky tv or a pint in the pub or a meal in a restaurant, these are not essentials at all.
people in the south do get more benefits in the form of housing benefit as the price of housing is more expensive.
I said this like 3 pages ago
housing benefit is regional, and food etc aren't that much cheaper up north to make a difference so this whole tory wet dream is just a way to slash benefits and keep the rich/poor divide growing
Take a closer look...
Average monthly cost [2]
...ooh [2]? A note!
Note 2:
[2] Based on average consumption of 16,500 kWh for gas and 3,300 kWh for single rate electricity, averaged across all regions, paying by Monthly Direct Debit, rounded and including VAT. Prices shown are as at 27th November 2012.
Now why might they feel the need to average across regions?
Perhaps because it varies?
I could be wrong but this looks like a way of finding a supplier in your region. It doesn't appear to point at different prices dependent on where you live.
It's a post code lottery and people in the north and south lose out on it.
Yet to see a north south devide?
Well i'm not about to spend my evening trying thousands of postcodes but so far the few northern ones i've tried vs my own Southampton postcode have all been cheaper.
It may well be the case that there are some that are more expensive and other places in the south east that are cheaper than here but I can't be bothered to spend much more time trying.
Pick a random northern postcode, then a random southern. Enter same details for both and i'm certain the northern one will come out cheaper.
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/...2-a-year-and-hit-poorest-hardest-7873539.html
The Highlands only manage it because of Scottish Hydro, but any net benefit is removed by other above average fuel costs primarily petrol but gas also.
Problem is, policy direction or idea is one thing, actually getting something like this to work across multiple diverse economies is something else.
They can't and won't do it, which is why they should shut up frankly they are damaging themself by even suggesting division.
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Surprised 'Southern England' shows as one of the cheapest, as I hadn't yet found a postcode giving me a more expensive quote
I had to source gas and electric for a national company with branches all over the UK. South Wales got the best deal as they had a very cheap supplier. The same supplier didn't supply elsewhere so it was more expensive for the rest. It isn't necessarily cheaper in the north.
Doesn't matter what the prices are as such...
When I lived up North electricity prices where slightly lower... but I used more of it as I used heating, etc. more than I did in the South...
Same with fuel tho I don't recall any difference in price - but even if it had been cheaper the chances are your driving longer distances living in the North for every day stuff as you do in the South as a gross generalisation.
When I lived up North electricity prices where slightly lower... but I used more of it as I used heating, etc. more than I did in the South...
Same with fuel tho I don't recall any difference in price - but even if it had been cheaper the chances are your driving longer distances living in the North for every day stuff as you do in the South as a gross generalisation.
It may sound trivial but the geography in the North is more expensive to travel because of the inclines and hills. Some of my routes through just even some of the cities are stupid on economy. If you are in a very hilly region already compounded by expensive fuel costs it becomes more prohibative economically.
Very much this.
So that leaves housing and groceries.
Housing is a seperate benefit so thats out of the equation.
Food prices are so simmler is it worth the extra cost to the goverment to keep things analysed?
There has been no call for it before so why now?