Campaigners have slammed 'unfair' profits recorded by the owner of British Gas after it made £159m in the first half of the year. Organisations Warm This Winter and End Fuel Poverty Coalition have called out the profits, saying bill payers have been bled dry by huge corporations, including Centrica. Earlier today, Centrica revealed its profits had tumbled in comparison to last year.
08bn a year ago and said group profitability will be 'heavily weighted' in the first half.Warm This Winter spokesperson Fiona Waters said six million people in the UK were officially in fuel poverty and called for taxation in the energy sector. 'It is not a crisis for these mega corporations who are bleeding bill payers dry and now Centrica has banked another billion before breakfast.'It is just so unfair and there has to be a line drawn in the sand.