Standing charges
There are calls among some people to abolish standing charges in the UK for electricity and gas. I do recall a time, a little over 10 years ago (and I don't know when this started and ended) when, instead of a "standing charge", there were "primary units" and "secondary units" of electricity and gas, the "primary units" being more expensive to in effect collect the equivalent of a standing charge. Why did this end with standing charges brought back? Who forced this?