{"id":5985,"date":"2010-02-04T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2010-02-04T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:51:00","slug":"uk-privatised-energy-market-does-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/04\/uk-privatised-energy-market-does-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"UK privatised energy market does not work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/feb\/03\/ofgem-uk-energy-supplies\">Ofgem: UK cannot trust energy companies to keep the lights on | \t\t\t\tBusiness | \t\t\t\tThe Guardian <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thatcher created privatised markets controlled by regulator as her way of maintaining central control whilst selling off the UK's assets all in the name of dogma. And now a regulator bites back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Gas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/gas\">G<\/a>a<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Gas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/gas\">s<\/a> and electricity could be sold to consumers via a state-controlled body under radical reforms, proposed by the regulator Ofgem, which acknowledge that the decade-old free market approach to energy is no longer working<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another nail in Tory economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>Question is - are there any left?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofgem: UK cannot trust energy companies to keep the lights on | Business | The Guardian . Thatcher created privatised markets controlled by regulator as<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/02\/04\/uk-privatised-energy-market-does-not-work\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}