And energy prices are going to keep rising. Regardless that the wholesale price of gas is lower now than before the war in Ukraine.
It’s upsetting that some are dying because they can’t afford to keep warm anymore.
Definitely not doing my condition (s) any good. Only putting it on when it gets really bad. Layers only work so long impossible to type (when WFH) with gloves on. Trying to keep daily total under £6…
An interesting concept of NHS paying sick people’s energy bill
Shouldn’t have bought so many fucking avocados then. Come to think of it the lady in the thumbnail’s uniform looks awfully green…
Yeah my parents have just turned off the heating for the last time. They were just about getting through with solar panels and a battery system but now it’s too expensive again.
La la la it’s ok just turn it off for a bit they will give you some cash.
Thatcher voted down in building one nuclear plant a year as coal was cheaper..
Blair fucked over by green peace..
Clegg “ no point building them as they won’t be ready till 2022”
Fuck me even the mad as fuck trump saw the threat of Russia cutting supplies.
We did nothing and now reap the rewards of decades of inaction.
The Government will use any excuse to hide what is happening. Rising cost of living, rising energy bills, rising inflation, rising strikes. This is such a massively mismanaged country and has been for 13 years. Surely it’s not a coincidence that this country hasn’t had pay rises in over 10 years, all these terrible things happening, all while Tories are in Government. When will people stop making excuses for them and pointing the finger at Labour who haven’t had power to do anything.
Ended up keeping my heating off too much this year, and it dipped below freezing indoors at one point. Even now it’s only 15 degrees in the room I’m in. Costs are just diabolical.
I’m not surprised! I have moderate asthma and can’t afford to put my heating on
as it’s £2.60 for half an hour. There’s literally no point putting it on because there is zero insulation in my rented flat and as soon as I turn it off it disappears almost instantly, but I turn it on once a day to stave off mould. It’s been so cold I’ve been sitting here in thermals and multiple jumpers with blankets and a hot water bottle trying to work and I’m physically SHAKING and can see my breath. In the last couple of weeks my clothes have taken two weeks to dry and I’ve started to get a really nasty cough and my breathing has been getting worse. I’m only 25 and really struggling, I can’t imagine what it’s like for the elderly or more seriously ill.
This is an example of how short term cost cutting by government actually costs us more money.
So the fact people are living in cold homes is caused by energy and food prices caused by lots of factors, Brexit, Climate Change, War in Ukraine, Covid etc.
The most expensive way to help these people is through the ambulance service. If there were other services available to help they would be used instead rather than ambulances, which then clog up hospitals. It feels like the real solution to these problems is to look at what’s generating need and try and stop it. Ambulances shouldn’t be going to see people who are cold because they can’t heat their homes.
I was 10 stone and had very very little heating over a couple of winters , it was really tough , I’m nearly 17 stone now and it’s alright , a skinny old person would be fked,
They are right and I know quite a few people who have massively cut back on their heating including ourselves, I am a full time unpaid carer for my wife who has multiple health issues and ven though we have our heating set to 15c, we cannot afford to keep it on all day anymore.
People are getting ill because the government gives zero fucks about the majority of its population
My 80-year-old mum has had her boiler break down twice in 2 weeks. Bear in mind this boiler is only 18 months old, it was just badly installed. She was in tears yesterday because she’s gotten ill, and her Dr says she could be at risk of mild hypothermia. She does have electric heaters for an emergency, but you know, money. And they don’t heat the entire house like the radiators do.
It was repaired fairly quickly, but I swear if it breaks down again anytime soon, I’m going to demand a complete re-fit under warranty because it’s not fit for purpose.
As a boiler installer, you don’t want angry, grieving children on your case because you fucked up. Because it WAS their fuck ups that led to this.
This is / was blatantly obvious, everything is compounding to make the entire situation intolerable.
You have energy producers raking in obscene profits because “the markets” dictate prices should be through the roof, and not come back down quickly, while businesses go bust and people suffer. I understand supply and demand, but the energy markets seem particularly ridiculous.
Those businesses would have been paying tax most likely, contributing to local economies and employing people, so if they go bust people lose jobs and the government lose tax income. That money is instead hoarded by the energy producers, with promises of “investment”. Those investment promises mean they bypass the tories windfall tax, and an investment by nature will recoup the spend over time as it’ll most likely generate them profit/cash in the future, so they win anyway even if they do spend money investing in projects. They will then transfer price/ management charge / do whatever they need to to avoid paying tax anyway, so that money is gone forever.
Businesses folding, people becoming unwell, putting additional strain on the NHS. Homes are going to be getting damaged with damp etc which adds further financial strain to people already struggling. It’s just a disgrace the state everything is in just now. I can’t even get started on the tories, they just disgust me I can’t let me blood pressure get any worse.
Amazing the way this country just takes it, and doesn’t hold its leaders to account.
That’s me. I’ve been catching colds and throat infections near constantly this winter.
My sick days have also triggered back to work meeting with hr because I’ve taken 9 days now.
Luckily they’ve understood.
Also fortuneate that I’m young and healthy. Can’t imagine what other people are going though, I at least have been able to eat well and regularly.
I want to cry everytime I think about what the tories have done to our country.
This is a problem that will only get increasingly worse as the weather becomes less and less predictable. I work full time at a charity making a little over £22,000 p/a and this winter was absolutely brutal.
In November our rental home’s ceiling collapsed – our landlord thought it would be more appropriate to seek eviction than fix the issue. My work allocated me the wrong tax code and I saw £600 pounds taken from my £1200 salary before i’d even had the chance to pay my £750 in rent. Student status means no benefits so me and my wife had to subsist on roughly negative £100 for an entire month.
We didn’t eat, I lost 7kg – as a 6’0 man I now weigh barely 50kg. We relied on food banks and ate primarily rice and beans. We have a prepayment meter so no option to defer payment. We sat in a cold, damp leaky house getting less and less well. I developed reynauds disease so severe that I couldn’t use my laptop keyboard to work from home, and couldn’t afford the bus to work. I work for the largest benefits and legal advice charity in the country, and my own employer told me I was thoroughly fucked. We only made it through at all because my Grandfather died of a heart attack and left us £800.
So many of my clients are in the same boat, and once they’re out of food and fuel vouchers there’s nothing more we can do. This country is in absolute shambles.
This is exactly what myself and my partner are going through. Smart metre helpfully let’s us know we’re spending a fortune every time we dare to think about putting the heating on, plus I work from home. We’re both so unwell, having colds stick around for weeks when they’d usually be resolved in a few days. We’re both in our mid-twenties and luckily healthy enough otherwise. I dread to think what people with health conditions are going through.
I am one of the people in a fortunate enough position to be able to both heat AND eat, but that’s only because I’m on Disability and live with my 70-YO mum. And even then we have to be circumspect with the heater. I can’t even imagine how hard it is for others without that protection. People should not be freezing to death in their own homes in 2023, it’s insane.
Surely these people at least keep their swimming pool at a decent temperature, otherwise there would be no point having one.
If the rest of the house is too cold, can’t they just go in the pool to warm up?
Seriously guys, why isn’t there a big uprising? France is in the streets right now over their government trying to push retirement age again. We would also have been in the streets much earlier had we been faced with the same stuff as here.
RISE UP. STRIKE. BLOCK THE WHOLE COUNTRY. FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO FUCKING SHELTER.
We need a general election.
I know it’s hard but what can you expect from a developing country with poor funding.
Oh we’re one of the wealthiest countries in the world? Weird.
I’ve got medical conditions and still haven’t received the first Energy bill support voucher for my pay as you go meter. Flats sat at around 12 degrees, which is definitely not toasty.
My husband has just been discharged from hospital after a pneumonia infection. He has copd and despite knowing better, the cost of heating stopped us putting it on. Lesson learnt, the heating is now on when we need it and we will worry about paying for it later.
We need to fucking riot. What I’ve learnt lately is the British are bunch of little pussies.
The government know what to do yet refuse to do anything. They are willingly allowing people to suffer and die for their own agenda. They brought the NHS to its knees and are now delivering the killing blow.
France have gone nuclear over the retirement age going up 2 years yet here we are happily bent over the table and taking everything and doing nothing
This hurt me so much to read:
“ So they’ll sit quietly at home and it’s usually a relative or a friend who will phone for them as they don’t want to bother anybody.”
Seriously!!!! Everyone needs to try to physically check on friends , relatives and acquaintances. Especially if older. Share what you have, whether time, money, heat or food.
Maybe it is my African communal upbringing. One does not make it alone. One doesn’t have to ask for help (or feel loss of dignity doing it). Others see a need and offer (or even beg) to help, in turn you offer assistance when able and community lives better.
That stiff upper lip mentality is going to kill off more people. Which I guess could be the goal. Just so heartbreakingly sad.
Welcome to the club, unfortunately. For many including myself, this has been an issue for years. I have to spend all my life in winter in bed or I’ll be paralysed by the cold, chronic pain and chronic fatigue
‘I can’t afford my heating so I’ve gotten I’ll, better see my doctor’
‘That’ll be £80 please’
‘Oh’
Just what the fuck has happened to this country
How have we gone backwards 50 years?
Its so depressing
*Sees the country rolling over and taking it, again.*
Good job, another normal day on a normal island
The rich literally want the poorest people to die so they can buy their estate homes for cheap and charge people insane rent. Don’t own the house? Well that’s a rent they can increase for the next tenant.
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And energy prices are going to keep rising. Regardless that the wholesale price of gas is lower now than before the war in Ukraine.
It’s upsetting that some are dying because they can’t afford to keep warm anymore.
Definitely not doing my condition (s) any good. Only putting it on when it gets really bad. Layers only work so long impossible to type (when WFH) with gloves on. Trying to keep daily total under £6…
An interesting concept of NHS paying sick people’s energy bill
Shouldn’t have bought so many fucking avocados then. Come to think of it the lady in the thumbnail’s uniform looks awfully green…
Yeah my parents have just turned off the heating for the last time. They were just about getting through with solar panels and a battery system but now it’s too expensive again.
La la la it’s ok just turn it off for a bit they will give you some cash.
Thatcher voted down in building one nuclear plant a year as coal was cheaper..
Blair fucked over by green peace..
Clegg “ no point building them as they won’t be ready till 2022”
Fuck me even the mad as fuck trump saw the threat of Russia cutting supplies.
We did nothing and now reap the rewards of decades of inaction.
The Government will use any excuse to hide what is happening. Rising cost of living, rising energy bills, rising inflation, rising strikes. This is such a massively mismanaged country and has been for 13 years. Surely it’s not a coincidence that this country hasn’t had pay rises in over 10 years, all these terrible things happening, all while Tories are in Government. When will people stop making excuses for them and pointing the finger at Labour who haven’t had power to do anything.
Ended up keeping my heating off too much this year, and it dipped below freezing indoors at one point. Even now it’s only 15 degrees in the room I’m in. Costs are just diabolical.
I’m not surprised! I have moderate asthma and can’t afford to put my heating on
as it’s £2.60 for half an hour. There’s literally no point putting it on because there is zero insulation in my rented flat and as soon as I turn it off it disappears almost instantly, but I turn it on once a day to stave off mould. It’s been so cold I’ve been sitting here in thermals and multiple jumpers with blankets and a hot water bottle trying to work and I’m physically SHAKING and can see my breath. In the last couple of weeks my clothes have taken two weeks to dry and I’ve started to get a really nasty cough and my breathing has been getting worse. I’m only 25 and really struggling, I can’t imagine what it’s like for the elderly or more seriously ill.
This is an example of how short term cost cutting by government actually costs us more money.
So the fact people are living in cold homes is caused by energy and food prices caused by lots of factors, Brexit, Climate Change, War in Ukraine, Covid etc.
The most expensive way to help these people is through the ambulance service. If there were other services available to help they would be used instead rather than ambulances, which then clog up hospitals. It feels like the real solution to these problems is to look at what’s generating need and try and stop it. Ambulances shouldn’t be going to see people who are cold because they can’t heat their homes.
I was 10 stone and had very very little heating over a couple of winters , it was really tough , I’m nearly 17 stone now and it’s alright , a skinny old person would be fked,
They are right and I know quite a few people who have massively cut back on their heating including ourselves, I am a full time unpaid carer for my wife who has multiple health issues and ven though we have our heating set to 15c, we cannot afford to keep it on all day anymore.
People are getting ill because the government gives zero fucks about the majority of its population
My 80-year-old mum has had her boiler break down twice in 2 weeks. Bear in mind this boiler is only 18 months old, it was just badly installed. She was in tears yesterday because she’s gotten ill, and her Dr says she could be at risk of mild hypothermia. She does have electric heaters for an emergency, but you know, money. And they don’t heat the entire house like the radiators do.
It was repaired fairly quickly, but I swear if it breaks down again anytime soon, I’m going to demand a complete re-fit under warranty because it’s not fit for purpose.
As a boiler installer, you don’t want angry, grieving children on your case because you fucked up. Because it WAS their fuck ups that led to this.
This is / was blatantly obvious, everything is compounding to make the entire situation intolerable.
You have energy producers raking in obscene profits because “the markets” dictate prices should be through the roof, and not come back down quickly, while businesses go bust and people suffer. I understand supply and demand, but the energy markets seem particularly ridiculous.
Those businesses would have been paying tax most likely, contributing to local economies and employing people, so if they go bust people lose jobs and the government lose tax income. That money is instead hoarded by the energy producers, with promises of “investment”. Those investment promises mean they bypass the tories windfall tax, and an investment by nature will recoup the spend over time as it’ll most likely generate them profit/cash in the future, so they win anyway even if they do spend money investing in projects. They will then transfer price/ management charge / do whatever they need to to avoid paying tax anyway, so that money is gone forever.
Businesses folding, people becoming unwell, putting additional strain on the NHS. Homes are going to be getting damaged with damp etc which adds further financial strain to people already struggling. It’s just a disgrace the state everything is in just now. I can’t even get started on the tories, they just disgust me I can’t let me blood pressure get any worse.
Amazing the way this country just takes it, and doesn’t hold its leaders to account.
That’s me. I’ve been catching colds and throat infections near constantly this winter.
My sick days have also triggered back to work meeting with hr because I’ve taken 9 days now.
Luckily they’ve understood.
Also fortuneate that I’m young and healthy. Can’t imagine what other people are going though, I at least have been able to eat well and regularly.
I want to cry everytime I think about what the tories have done to our country.
This is a problem that will only get increasingly worse as the weather becomes less and less predictable. I work full time at a charity making a little over £22,000 p/a and this winter was absolutely brutal.
In November our rental home’s ceiling collapsed – our landlord thought it would be more appropriate to seek eviction than fix the issue. My work allocated me the wrong tax code and I saw £600 pounds taken from my £1200 salary before i’d even had the chance to pay my £750 in rent. Student status means no benefits so me and my wife had to subsist on roughly negative £100 for an entire month.
We didn’t eat, I lost 7kg – as a 6’0 man I now weigh barely 50kg. We relied on food banks and ate primarily rice and beans. We have a prepayment meter so no option to defer payment. We sat in a cold, damp leaky house getting less and less well. I developed reynauds disease so severe that I couldn’t use my laptop keyboard to work from home, and couldn’t afford the bus to work. I work for the largest benefits and legal advice charity in the country, and my own employer told me I was thoroughly fucked. We only made it through at all because my Grandfather died of a heart attack and left us £800.
So many of my clients are in the same boat, and once they’re out of food and fuel vouchers there’s nothing more we can do. This country is in absolute shambles.
This is exactly what myself and my partner are going through. Smart metre helpfully let’s us know we’re spending a fortune every time we dare to think about putting the heating on, plus I work from home. We’re both so unwell, having colds stick around for weeks when they’d usually be resolved in a few days. We’re both in our mid-twenties and luckily healthy enough otherwise. I dread to think what people with health conditions are going through.
I am one of the people in a fortunate enough position to be able to both heat AND eat, but that’s only because I’m on Disability and live with my 70-YO mum. And even then we have to be circumspect with the heater. I can’t even imagine how hard it is for others without that protection. People should not be freezing to death in their own homes in 2023, it’s insane.
Surely these people at least keep their swimming pool at a decent temperature, otherwise there would be no point having one.
If the rest of the house is too cold, can’t they just go in the pool to warm up?
Seriously guys, why isn’t there a big uprising? France is in the streets right now over their government trying to push retirement age again. We would also have been in the streets much earlier had we been faced with the same stuff as here.
RISE UP. STRIKE. BLOCK THE WHOLE COUNTRY. FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO FUCKING SHELTER.
We need a general election.
I know it’s hard but what can you expect from a developing country with poor funding.
Oh we’re one of the wealthiest countries in the world? Weird.
I’ve got medical conditions and still haven’t received the first Energy bill support voucher for my pay as you go meter. Flats sat at around 12 degrees, which is definitely not toasty.
My husband has just been discharged from hospital after a pneumonia infection. He has copd and despite knowing better, the cost of heating stopped us putting it on. Lesson learnt, the heating is now on when we need it and we will worry about paying for it later.
We need to fucking riot. What I’ve learnt lately is the British are bunch of little pussies.
The government know what to do yet refuse to do anything. They are willingly allowing people to suffer and die for their own agenda. They brought the NHS to its knees and are now delivering the killing blow.
France have gone nuclear over the retirement age going up 2 years yet here we are happily bent over the table and taking everything and doing nothing
This hurt me so much to read:
“ So they’ll sit quietly at home and it’s usually a relative or a friend who will phone for them as they don’t want to bother anybody.”
Seriously!!!! Everyone needs to try to physically check on friends , relatives and acquaintances. Especially if older. Share what you have, whether time, money, heat or food.
Maybe it is my African communal upbringing. One does not make it alone. One doesn’t have to ask for help (or feel loss of dignity doing it). Others see a need and offer (or even beg) to help, in turn you offer assistance when able and community lives better.
That stiff upper lip mentality is going to kill off more people. Which I guess could be the goal. Just so heartbreakingly sad.
Welcome to the club, unfortunately. For many including myself, this has been an issue for years. I have to spend all my life in winter in bed or I’ll be paralysed by the cold, chronic pain and chronic fatigue
‘I can’t afford my heating so I’ve gotten I’ll, better see my doctor’
‘That’ll be £80 please’
‘Oh’
Just what the fuck has happened to this country
How have we gone backwards 50 years?
Its so depressing
*Sees the country rolling over and taking it, again.*
Good job, another normal day on a normal island
The rich literally want the poorest people to die so they can buy their estate homes for cheap and charge people insane rent. Don’t own the house? Well that’s a rent they can increase for the next tenant.