Cost of £1bn energy relief plan 'will end up on household bills'

Gordon Brown faces a double revolt despite announcing a £1 billion package yesterday to help struggling households to cope with soaring energy prices.
The Prime Minister said that energy companies and generators had agreed to stump up £910 million to pay for all low-income and pensioner families to get free loft and cavity insulation, with six million others offered half-price deals. The measures were a “better alternative” to a windfall tax.
Families could save up to £400 a year from the help offered, ministers said. Mr Brown confirmed that the payments from the companies would be authorised by legislation to be introduced into the Commons shortly, insisting that he did not expect the cost to be passed on to the consumer.
That aspiration was immediately called into question when industry figures suggested that part of the bill always ended up with the customer.

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You have to hand it to Gordon Brown he really does know how to shaft the public.

He gives us a £1billion pound deal which we end up paying for in higher energy bills

This man has no bollocks at all. Could it be because his brother Andrew is a Hea Of Media at EDF energy?