If ever there was a just case for blowback the antics of the Energy Six is such a one!



By Stanley Collymore

You plainly don’t care, do you? And realistically why should any

intelligent person choose to imagine that there’ll be any concern

on your part for the financial woes of your customers which

you’ve premeditatedly, gratuitously and greedily created

and lumbered them with because you clearly knew

from the start that you could get away with

doing so; obviously seeing these faceless people, whom you

provide gas and electricity to, solely as profitable milch

cows and nothing more, to be loathsomely fleeced

in the onward, abhorrent and avaricious march

of your ungovernable and unaccountable

pursuit of ever escalating personal

and corporate aggrandisement?

Vulnerable people like old-aged pensioners, single

mothers and the unemployed with no effective

or genuine alternatives to turn to or replace

you with, since everyone, except the

utterly credulous, fatuous or totally brain dead knows

full well that with the covert and keen approval of

Ofgem: the fancifully misnomer named energy

regulator, which is anything but a credible

watchdog; the government, influential MPs

and House of Lords lawmakers, all of whom are

themselves venally, deeply, willingly and corruptly

either implicated themselves in consultancy roles

with you or else deeply embedded in your huge

and limitless financial pockets and therefore

deliberately turn a Nelsonian eye out of

their own financial interests to what

you’re doing, that no one in power

will do anything to rein in and

ultimately eradicate this

travesty of justice that’s

being inflicted on the

British people.

Instead what we witness them all repeatedly and cynically

doing is mouthing well rehearsed and totally meaningless

platitudes of contrived outrage, the hot air emanating

from which if skilfully harnessed would instantly

solve all our energy problems well into the future. But other

than uttering populous words and phrases exclusively for

public consumption and to take away the incandescent

heat of a justifiably irate public from their singed

asses, the powers that be: because they too are

deeply involved in this criminality from which they’re

also handsomely profiting, will not seriously essay

to let alone effectively retrench the all-pervasive,

insidious and damnable perniciousness of the

energy utility companies that operate in

the UK, and which indisputably are now

the primary contributors, even more

so than the banks, to the perpetual

hardships that the vast majority

of us are unconscionably

and quite indefensibly

being subjected to.

EDF, SSE, Scottish Power, British Gas, Eon and N-Power:

a powerful cartel of criminal elites, whose names and

crimes should be inscribed forever in a prominent

Rogues Gallery for all to see along with those

of their craven Chief Executives; the latter

though brazenly arrogant to the core and with a robust

disdain for the British public generally nevertheless

like the bullying yet cowardly bastards that they

are were evidently too shit scared to appear in

person before a House of Commons Select

Committee to face the music they’ve consciously orchestrated,

far less explain and justify, because they knew they couldn’t,

their exorbitant price hikes that are well above the average

national rate of inflation when everyday wages are also

in relative terms drastically falling for everyone else

but them, or disclose what they actually fork out

for the gas, would you credit it, that lacking all

measures of transparency that one can logically

think of and is hardly conducive to any kind

of competitive environment or ethical

state of affairs if you ask me, they

monopolistically purchase from

and then sell to each other.

Leaving that demeaning chore, as they saw it, with its

associated insult to a long suffering and enormously

ripped off British public of not actually attending

in person that House of Commons Select

Committee hearing to their identically PR coached

lackeys to obsequiously, and all too eagerly but

unconvincingly, do their dirty work for them;

while most of our nation, utterly confused

by it all, helplessly stand by and watch.

The monstrously inflated gas and electricity prices that the

UK’s public are currently being subjected to we’re told

by a complicit and far from trustworthy corporate

media will be a vicious battleground come the

2015 British general elections with the various political

parties intent on using this public grievance as their

standard bearer and rallying call for support from

the electorate. That will certainly be the case,

I suspect, and specifically so for their

self-centred and political ends juxtaposed with a generous

helping of public posturing and political theatre. But

if you believe any of the crap they’ll be copiously

spewing out between now and the elections or

more ludicrous still think that they have your

true interests and general welfare at heart

vis-à-vis those of their beloved Energy

Six then God help you; for you’re

without doubt, in my honest

opinion, in desperate need

of urgent psychiatric

counselling!

© Stanley V. Collymore

31 October 2013.

Commentary:

This poem was written from the collation of several personal and horrific experiences I’ve encountered at the hands of the Energy Six or personally know about and have recorded, and of the kind which many of you have also and for far too long been forced to endure; and I stand by every word I’ve written. So if those mentioned or involved, proverbially if the cap fits pull the string, who don’t like how they’re justly characterized here then they’re most welcomed from my perspective to prosecute or sue me. As neither prospect scares nor will ever induce me on these pages of mine or in court into retracting an iota of what I’ve said!