I’ve had no electricity since October and the privateers leave me cold

I spent Christmas without electricity, as did many other people. We are all likely to be customers of Bord Gais Energy, the newly privatised former arm of Bord Gais.

We did not endure this great inconvenience last Christmas, when Bord Gais was entirely national, and, though many of us were in arrears, in these times of serious financial pressure, we were making regular payments, and all was going smoothly.

Enter the British consortium to which that part of Bord Gais was sold.