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REMEMBER when Ed Miliband promised to cut your energy bills by £300?
How’s that going for you?

for October — around £60 for the average household.

A worried senior man standing in his kitchen, holding bills and a cup of tea.Battered Brits are set to battle their highest energy bills in three years Credit: Getty Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Ed Miliband smiling.Ed Miliband promised to cut your energy bills by £300. What has happened there? Credit: Getty

It will take to their highest level in three years.

But it’s only just the start of what will likely be another winter of discontent for low income families and elderly folk trying to heat their homes.

Experts say a nine per cent rise is likely in January, equivalent to £149 on bills.

With the , wholesale energy prices aren’t coming down any time soon.

Successive Governments have allowed the broken energy market to fleece consumers unchecked.

But new yesterday finally admitted an important truth behind spiralling costs:

Miliband stupidly agreed to pay way over the odds in guaranteed subsidies to wind farm firms whether they produced electricity or not.

But the creaking grid network is still hugely reliant on gas to keep the lights on, which pushes up bills. Britain is stuck in the worst of all worlds.

don’t deliver the cheap energy that was promised, and the shameful running down of the North Sea means we must import gas from abroad.

As a result, being saddled with the world’s highest electricity prices has decimated UK industry, wiped out pubs and sent food and drink prices soaring.

But rather than taking decisive action to fix the mess, Prime Ministers have reached for the short term sticking plaster of a taxpayer-funded bailout.

became the latest when

Within a month of it being announced, it has been swallowed up entirely.

Yesterday, the PM hinted a vastly expensive new bailout is on the way, possibly for poorer families only, in the Autumn Budget.

Where will he find the money from?

Working families and businesses face another double whammy of higher taxes and soaring bills that leave everyone poorer.

Ba ba Brum

DOES Birmingham have a death wish?

. Now Britain’s second city wants to impose more misery with blanket 20mph speed limits.

Could it be the decision is linked to City Council drowning in debt and barely functioning?

Given that 20mph zones increase journey times and keep cars on the roads for longer, is there a “green” argument for them?

Perhaps the city’s rabble rainbow coalition of Greens, Lib Dems and Muslim independents are hoping for a bigger slice of the stacks of cash coming the Government’s way from the inevitable massive increase in speeding fines?