How are they going to sort this out if they refuse to invest? All I’m hearing is we’re heading for austerity 2.0.
Surely we need to get to work on our housing stock. Making them thermally efficient, installing heat pumps where appropriate, etc. We should’ve done this a decade ago.
Looks like Im gonna be about £7 in profit from the £66 they put on the leccy. Might phone them and see If I can swap it for gas.
A dear friend of mine is struggling with her bills. She is still able to stay afloat, but her sister has already had to move back in with her parents because of the cost crisis and although she jokingly asked her parents about doing the same… I have a feeling at some point she might do the same because living in London is insane right now given her current wage. How she manages it I don’t know.
Thoughts out to anyone who is struggling, really hope it gets better in the future.
I had this realisation last night that the next few months are gonna be tough even though I consider myself comfortable usually.
I had a conversation with someone over the weekend about how I felt a little bad taking advantage of the £400 energy rebate because I don’t use all that much and my energy bills are still affordable but then last night I went to Asda for a few bits and pieces and realised that, although my energy bills are still manageable, my food shop costs have gone up astronomically.
Asda’s shelves were deserted. I ended up having to bulk buy certain items because they had sold out of the lower quantities. Not a single jug of milk under 4pts. No boxes of eggs under a 10-pack. Fruit and veg looked like it was already off while it was still on the shelf. I couldn’t even get toilet roll without having to buy at least a 9-pack. I’ve basically stopped buying meat entirely because it is just too damn expensive. I need to buy bulk because the lower quantities are out of stock, and it’s also the only way to not feel ripped off, but I live by myself with a tiny freezer and buy in small quantities specifically to save on food waste (and also because I have to walk to the supermarket so I physically can’t carry a bulk shop).
I’m glad I didn’t go in with set recipes in mind because there would be so much I couldn’t get. I suspect that, if I chose to get shopping delivered, half of it would be substituted too so other things would go to waste.
When the only way to get chicken breast is to buy bulk at £6.50 a pack that goes out of date in two days time, I might as well just go to the McDonald’s next door for lunch instead.
Wait until winter kicks in and people need to turn on/up their heating.
Shit is going to get a lot worse.
Thanks Tories and Tory voters!
Meanwhile my neighbour is still buying takeaway every day…
Half ? I knew it was bad but this seems catastrophic.
I fear it will get a LOT worse under Sunak who has never hidden the fact he’s all for suffering more pain now to make it better for future generations.
I’ve no idea how I will get through this winter’s energy crisis. Nothing has been done for people who are stuck with 100% electricity (no gas/oil option). My winter bills last year for a 1-bed house were £450 a month – that’s Economy 7 storage heating for you.
The solution is so easy, put a cap on big companies making billions per year. There is no justification for them to get richer year on year by putting prices up and up. The prices going up constantly are for profit, not maintenance of their product, it`s to keep them and their shareholders getting richer every year, it`s wrong. Just need someone with the power who isn`t corrupted by their own gains to stand up to them, it could literally stop overnight. Sad we just let them get away with it and just moan about it rather than banding together to stop it.
People are not finding things difficult, they’re finding it impossible. What do you think poverty means? Too many people are having to choose between heating or eating, and child poverty is very real and on the increase.
I’m so glad my parents own their home now coz with the way things are right now we’d really struggle with a mortgage.
There is only one or two ways out of this.
They can’t burrow to fund more cuts to our bills
They can’t frack
They can’t build power plants quick enough nor build off shore wind etc
They can windfall tax the energy firms
Or my personal idea from experience levy co2 reductions on them.
I used to own a insulation company we installed loft and wall insulation free of charge for using money from them.
Now you will have an issue with solid walls as that means cladding
But you could get them to fund solar. Social housing install solar the worst off are helped straight away we then benefit from cheaper electric that’s pushed back to the grid.
Without defending the government who ever is in charge will suffer the same issue
When hospitals are having to open their own food banks for staff, you know things are fucked. We are also being sent plenty of links for money saving advice and to services for debt management, all for people who were supposedly heroes just two years ago.
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How are they going to sort this out if they refuse to invest? All I’m hearing is we’re heading for austerity 2.0.
Surely we need to get to work on our housing stock. Making them thermally efficient, installing heat pumps where appropriate, etc. We should’ve done this a decade ago.
Looks like Im gonna be about £7 in profit from the £66 they put on the leccy. Might phone them and see If I can swap it for gas.
A dear friend of mine is struggling with her bills. She is still able to stay afloat, but her sister has already had to move back in with her parents because of the cost crisis and although she jokingly asked her parents about doing the same… I have a feeling at some point she might do the same because living in London is insane right now given her current wage. How she manages it I don’t know.
Thoughts out to anyone who is struggling, really hope it gets better in the future.
I had this realisation last night that the next few months are gonna be tough even though I consider myself comfortable usually.
I had a conversation with someone over the weekend about how I felt a little bad taking advantage of the £400 energy rebate because I don’t use all that much and my energy bills are still affordable but then last night I went to Asda for a few bits and pieces and realised that, although my energy bills are still manageable, my food shop costs have gone up astronomically.
Asda’s shelves were deserted. I ended up having to bulk buy certain items because they had sold out of the lower quantities. Not a single jug of milk under 4pts. No boxes of eggs under a 10-pack. Fruit and veg looked like it was already off while it was still on the shelf. I couldn’t even get toilet roll without having to buy at least a 9-pack. I’ve basically stopped buying meat entirely because it is just too damn expensive. I need to buy bulk because the lower quantities are out of stock, and it’s also the only way to not feel ripped off, but I live by myself with a tiny freezer and buy in small quantities specifically to save on food waste (and also because I have to walk to the supermarket so I physically can’t carry a bulk shop).
I’m glad I didn’t go in with set recipes in mind because there would be so much I couldn’t get. I suspect that, if I chose to get shopping delivered, half of it would be substituted too so other things would go to waste.
When the only way to get chicken breast is to buy bulk at £6.50 a pack that goes out of date in two days time, I might as well just go to the McDonald’s next door for lunch instead.
Wait until winter kicks in and people need to turn on/up their heating.
Shit is going to get a lot worse.
Thanks Tories and Tory voters!
Meanwhile my neighbour is still buying takeaway every day…
Half ? I knew it was bad but this seems catastrophic.
I fear it will get a LOT worse under Sunak who has never hidden the fact he’s all for suffering more pain now to make it better for future generations.
I’ve no idea how I will get through this winter’s energy crisis. Nothing has been done for people who are stuck with 100% electricity (no gas/oil option). My winter bills last year for a 1-bed house were £450 a month – that’s Economy 7 storage heating for you.
The solution is so easy, put a cap on big companies making billions per year. There is no justification for them to get richer year on year by putting prices up and up. The prices going up constantly are for profit, not maintenance of their product, it`s to keep them and their shareholders getting richer every year, it`s wrong. Just need someone with the power who isn`t corrupted by their own gains to stand up to them, it could literally stop overnight. Sad we just let them get away with it and just moan about it rather than banding together to stop it.
People are not finding things difficult, they’re finding it impossible. What do you think poverty means? Too many people are having to choose between heating or eating, and child poverty is very real and on the increase.
I’m so glad my parents own their home now coz with the way things are right now we’d really struggle with a mortgage.
There is only one or two ways out of this.
They can’t burrow to fund more cuts to our bills
They can’t frack
They can’t build power plants quick enough nor build off shore wind etc
They can windfall tax the energy firms
Or my personal idea from experience levy co2 reductions on them.
I used to own a insulation company we installed loft and wall insulation free of charge for using money from them.
Now you will have an issue with solid walls as that means cladding
But you could get them to fund solar. Social housing install solar the worst off are helped straight away we then benefit from cheaper electric that’s pushed back to the grid.
Without defending the government who ever is in charge will suffer the same issue
When hospitals are having to open their own food banks for staff, you know things are fucked. We are also being sent plenty of links for money saving advice and to services for debt management, all for people who were supposedly heroes just two years ago.