In a poll that ran from 8am on Friday, March 11 to 8am on Monday, March 14, Express.co.uk asked: “Do you actually want [Chancellor of the Exchequer] Rishi Sunak‘s energy bill ‘loan’?” A whopping total of 6,601 people voted, and no one was in the mood to mince their words in the robust comments left below the accompanying article.
The overwhelming majority of those who voted – 94 percent – said “no”, they don’t actually want the loan at all.
Just four percent said “yes”, they want it, and two percent said they didn’t know.
A follow-up question asked: “Should the energy bill loan be mandatory?”
Of the 6,556 people who voted on that question, 95 percent said “no, there should be an opt-out option”, while just three percent said “yes”, and two percent didn’t know.
Overwhelmingly, people expressed their feelings of being let down by a Government largely out of touch with the majority of the public.
Username Stand Strong wrote: “I don’t want the loan; I want…cut fuel duty and scrap VAT on fuel. [Rishi Sunak] is ripping off the general public with his stealth taxes.
“As long as his rich mates keep getting their bonuses he is happy.”
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Username Snowpilot50 added: “Let’s not forget, MPs are getting a £2,212 per year pay rise. I guess they won’t be needing the loan.”
This 2.7 percent increase in MPs’ pay, due to come into effect in April, is nearly…
