The fall of the Tory party

No.

But its pretty embarassing for the government because that was Labour's position all along. I.e start off with blanket coverage and switch to targetted and means tested. The gov rejected this approach.

AS recently as last week Truss was laying into Starmer for only wanting to provide blanket support until April too.

I agree that means testing would be preferable, continuation of the grant would in my opinion be better than the blanket cap. The cap benefits the rich significantly more as they use generally more energy.

I’m sure they’ll fuck up any implementation of means tested subsidises though, cannot wait to hear the treasury review.

The wider picture is more worry, when people actually felt they had some certainty with their bills.

I suppose the bigger question now in relation to the thread is What does Liz Truss actually stand for?

would means testing subsidies be bad?

Often the administration of means testing costs as much as providing the benefit to everyone. Plus if people have to actively apply you end up excluding those who don't hear about it / can't fill out paperwork / don't have good internet access etc, which is inevitably the poorest.