Price confusion

READING about NPower increasing their prices (Evening Times February 4), here we go again.

The cry will go up change your supplier, do the politicians not realise we have a National Grid?

All energy generated goes on the grid then it is transported around the country.

There is a finite cost of the production of this energy. All the energy supply companies take the same energy at that price then con people into thinking they can sell it cheaper.

All the smaller suppliers are only switching money from your account to the National Grid’s account, they do not generate energy.

Why do people in one street all pay different prices for energy, when the cost of getting that energy to that street is the same for everybody?

William Allan , Hawthorn Terrace, East Kilbride

Provoking vote?

JUST after the EU referendum result the Scottish Tory leader said: “I want to stay in the single market. Even if a consequence of that is maintaining free movement of labour”.

The Scottish Government says that if the UK government compromises on at least negotiating to keep the UK in the European single market - which Ruth Davidson agreed supports 43,000 Scottish jobs - that they will not hold an independence referendum.

Ruth Davidson says the Scottish Tories would “oppose any attempt” for a second independence referendum but then oddly also said that ‘any attempt’ for a second independence referendum should not be blocked by UK government.

So why is she not supporting the Scottish Government’s compromise for the UK government to at least negotiate to keep the UK in the single market - which she said she supported - if she doesn’t want an independence referendum? Are the Tories trying to provoke one because they think they will win it, just like David Cameron thought he would easily win his EU referendum?

Graham C B Roberts, Caithness Street, Glasgow

No Green party

I HAD hoped the age of parasitic politics had ended with the demise of the Lib Dems.

Unfortunately, we have the Greens at Holyrood with their own brand of opportunism.

They preside over a litter strewn country covered in subsidised wind farms.

Our roads are at saturation levels resulting in polluting queues, in part due to an unaffordable and disjointed public transport network.

Trees and green belt land are disappearing at an unprecedented rate.

They may benefit from the “right thing to do” vote but their recent influence over income tax thresholds is a prime example of power without accountability.

Green Party? More like Light Brown for me.

John Halley, by email