Nationalise The Energy Companies

<p>These two statistics sum up how broken British society is: while BP are making £6.9bn worth of profits - a 14 year high - typical household energy bills are forecast to hit more than £3,600 a year.</p><br /><p>We should never have surrendered the natural monopoly of the energy industry to profiteers in the first place. We're joined by the incredible expert Mathew - Lawrence - founder and director of UK-based think tank Common Wealth - to explain why the industry is broken, why the energy company's arguments against more taxes are total bunk - and why we should bring the sector under public ownership for the sake of struggling families, a broken economy and society - and the future of the planet.</p><br /><p>Please subscribe - and help us take on the right wing media: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnZCUU5wLTYtTlRmYWhNeV9IUGlmRkt6bDNSUXxBQ3Jtc0tuODhJY1VGNms5S0otSFdTRl85LXVKT3VmRHdrYmhIbnpqT0dZMy1YaUZlQm1OTmFoeWFqNFdPQTZOalJualRyV3IzR0VlUzd3Nkx6VjhWRDg5alA5N3V5NU4wd0REQ3NLVjktd19VQXB0eVhhRWUxWQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fpatreon.com%2Fowenjones84&amp;v=lUSDYXcSe1k" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://patreon.com/owenjones84</a></p><p>Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast" rel="payment" target="_blank">http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast</a>.</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>