It's not astonishing, it's calculated. Listen to the media when doctors ask for a pay rise. They're told they're being greedy and that it's "not reasonable" to ask for £20 an hour.
Meanwhile the billionaires think that it IS reasonable to put up energy bills 200%+ and increase food prices beyond anything seen in previous generations.
I do agree, but this is why we have a regulator. They approved loads of new energy companies that would have failed stress tests, which we're paying for when they all went under and they should be setting a reasonable price cap.
Almost £900m taken from people's spending power. Money that could have been used to make lives better, like higher quality food, holidays, housing, transport.
It's not even "higher quality". This profiteering is forcing British families into severe hardship. We have something like 2 million children living in poverty. All while some foreign corporation is ringing the cash registers.
We should fine these arseholes (all the profiteering energy companies) for the amount of profits they made since the start of the pandemic. Then put them in public ownership.