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Monday, January 06, 2014

A Nice Warm Glow

Parts of the energy cartel have pledged to reduce prices; or, more accurately, have condescended to make their planned increases a little less exorbitant than originally threatened. This is, of course, a hoary trick, used by thugs of all stripes from the mafia to God; the latter most famously at Nineveh, via his boy Jonah. If you wish to upgrade your protection fee for a restaurant, it is rather crude politics simply to breeze in and demand the money. If, instead, you threaten to do a Bullingdon Club special on the place, and allow yourself to be bargained down to an increase in the protection fee, this will not only gain you the money but may actually help the victims understand what a service you are doing them, and lead to more productive relations all round. In this case, Britain's warmth consumers may or may not feel better disposed towards the energy companies; but Britain's Head Boy, who ran squealing to the cartel in the wake of Labour's pledge of a price freeze, will certainly have all the more incentive to dump the green crap.

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