Harlow MP Robert Halfon faces questions on energy bill crisis
General / Sat 27th Aug 2022 at 10:20am
HARLOW MP Robert Halfon welcomed former chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak to the town on Friday.
Mr Halfon had gathered Conservative Party members from Harlow and surrounding areas for a question and answer session in the Monks Barn at Waterhouse Moor.
After Mr Sunak had departed, we spoke to Mr Halfon and again pressed him on what the Conservative government is doing for hard pressed Harlow residents who have massive energy bills looming.
jarrett
2022-08-27 10:53:11
Robert, Do you claim for your energy bills at your home?
gary roberts
2022-08-27 10:54:53
Another set of words to basically confirm this country is in a mess and those like Mr. Halfon doesn't understand the impact on residents' or has any idea how to sort it out. Mind you he has only been in office 12 years!
adam
2022-08-27 11:00:56
I like Rob but he has never worked outside politics really never created a business so he has no idea about the impacts and costs this will have on businesses. Similarly labour candidate work mostly in the public sector so also have no idea what is involved in the businesses which fund them. The majority of the UK is employed by SME not large companies, if the energy crisis is not sorted it does not matter about home fuel bills there will be no one able to pay them at all as most businesses will collapse. This is an issue which has arisen due to 40 years or poor planning from our "leaders" we have a class of professional politicians who play politics well but are unable to do the simplest things needed such as plan for energy security. As bills go up companies fail, people go cold, just why should we continue to pay taxes to be continually let down by politicians and the state. At the next election I am seriously considering standing as an independent against the lab/lib/con which have done so little for us except impoverish and trap us in debt to thier programs.
Irene
2022-08-27 12:54:55
MPs won’t have to worry about energy bills they will claim for them just like their other homes so why would they worry about normal working class people or pensioners
Dave
2022-08-27 14:30:33
I agree with what Adam says. Rob is a hard working individual who tirelessly campaigns for improvements that affect everyone including Harlow residents. But I think many politicians have no idea what the average person and average SME business has to put up with daily. The cost of living and energy price rise is going to be devastating for so many. We need enough people representing us, that understand first hand what it is like when prices and costs spiral uncontrollably. Just look at how Steve Barclay responded to the woman who called him out live on TV. Not an ounce of understanding came from him.
adam
2022-08-27 15:02:23
@Dave - the smart thing for him to do would be to survey Harlow business and create a simple working group which would feed back on issues in business to him. The Harlow chamber should do that but they are mostly focused on anything but business. One thing for sure business energy increases I am seeing are going to be ruinous
Theman
2022-08-28 12:03:44
I agree with Adam. It seems that SME owners are always never consulted, but nearly always get the rough end of the political stick regardless of who’s in power. Yet the majority of the working population works for SME’s, so you would think they would be treated better.
Dave
2022-08-28 17:07:44
@Adam & @TheMan perhaps the local FSB network could do that too?
adam
2022-08-28 21:05:57
@Dave never had any interaction with the FSB I have with Harlow chamber which is to be honest just appallingly focused on either the public sector, grants and advice from people with no experience of having done it. Or pushing net zero solutions which have caused this entire issue - They could never answer simple basic questions on the net zero one as they did not want to admit for most people heat pumps would be very expensive.
Theman
2022-08-29 10:32:27
FSB = chocolate teapot, from my experience, though they did give me free tickets to Silverstone Classic some years ago, which was jolly nice. Maybe SME’s could form an online group where we all hold back the tax payments to HMRC. As it is all online now we just need to not press the button. It would certainly get the governments attention very quickly. Sadly it will not happen as most SME owners are too busy keeping their enterprises above water.
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