cut to the chase
"The average yearly saving of switching providers is £176, it said."
I call Bullshit.
Not only is that £14.6 per month , which is more than most people spend , and twice what i spend...
...but also the money saving tactic of merely "switching" dosent really hold up for me - unless they are all in a big price fixing league and one says to the other "Right this year you go high , ill go low , see how many idiots you hang on to"
you might save a few pennies if anything - which will be far outweighed , by the errors and effort of switching