The hidden green subsidies and taxes on electricity bills is the “biggest silent rip-off in Britain” according to Nigel Farage, who has launched a campaign to hold a referendum on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Build Back Better net-zero agenda.
Farage said that while the spiralling cost of gas prices in the UK are having a “disastrous effect” on the standard of living for the average Briton, the true scandal is the cost of electricity and the fact that energy bills don’t inform the public of how much they are forking over to prop up the so-called green energy industry.
According to a February report from the government’s own energy regulator, Ofgem, the average household is paying 25.48 per cent of their electricity expenditures towards “environmental/social obligations” or in other words towards the green energy sector.
On top of that, a further 4.76 per cent of electricity bills is committed to paying a Value Added Tax (VAT), a tax which although Prime Minister Boris Johnson previously cited as something which Brexit Britain could cut once freed from the European Union, the government has refused to scrap despite soaring costs.
“The fact that our bills don’t even tell us that 30 per cent of our electricity goes in tax and green subsidies” is the “biggest silent rip-off in Britain,” Mr Farage said on Sunday.
Farage went on to claim that the main beneficiaries of the government’s green schemes are “rich landowners who’ve been paid for years to have wind turbines on their land and large foreign giant multinationals who are building these monstrosities out in the north sea.”
“I think with energy prices going up people will start to notice this gigantic rip-off and I think our MPs should be held to account for what is genuinely rip-off Britain,” he concluded.