Spiralling energy prices will turn the UK’s cost-of-living crisis into a catastrophe – A £300 one-off payment to millions of low-income households is the minimum needed to mitigate rising bills
Spiralling energy prices will turn the UK’s cost-of-living crisis into a catastrophe – A £300 one-off payment to millions of low-income households is the minimum needed to mitigate rising bills
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Nah, the government would rather give that money their rich mates instead. As if they actually give a fuck about poor people suffering, probably just makes them laugh at the thought.
That or the more expensive to goverment funding that would save such households an equivilent amount in efficiency and cost. It would probably take double or tripple that to “winter harden” homes with even simple non-invasive insulation like window film insulations, draft excluders, insulated curtains, insulated pipes, old window replacement, darker better light absorbing paint or even proper insulating paint.
Way cheaper at this point to just give everyone £300 then pay catchup later.
And more like ten to twenty times as much per household to actually install proper in wall and in roof insulation.
Be cheaper to give everyone a few thousand for roof solar electric and solar water heating than actually insulating the homes themselves.
But honestly, we should have been doing all these things at a goverment backed national level over the last decade anyway lmao.
Why are there millions of low income households forced to either starve or freeze in one of the richest countries on the planet? It’s not like this in ‘poorer’ countries. Energy is cheaper. Food is cheaper. Wages are lower. But living standards are higher. Something is seriously fucked up with the UK.
This is the minimum short term measure they could have. It would be better than the VAT cut to energy bills favoured by Tory and Labour MPs.
Then they could do with insulating homes etc for the long term, but as usual they won’t.
It is kind of harrowing. Maybe everyone needs to plan their cost of living better other than having more income? Like cook a meal that can last many days and just freeze or refrigerate them and eating cooked food from the refrigerator.
When bathing, have a tub of hot water and get children to bathe at the same time or have one bathe after the other recycling hot water. Then use the now warm to cold water to water plants or garden to save costs.
That £300 won’t last all year though. It will also be swallowed by the rising costs of food and clothing too. A one-off payment is putting a plaster over a gaping wound that we cannot ignore for the remainder of the Tories’ time in power. Otherwise, we will get to this time next year and will find ourselves in a worse situation and many more people living in fuel poverty.
For me its the fact I’m doing shit that my parents used do during the 80’s to keep the house warm and save a few quid.
Shit like keeping all the doors in the house and only heating the one room.
Using hot water bottles and putting them in the kids beds about 30 mins before they go to bed with a few extra blankets as well as their duvets.
Making our own extra thick curtains using old blankets..
I brought my kids and wife those massive jumper things.. think they are called oodies or something..
Its fucking 2022 and doing shit my parents did in the 80’s to save money and keep warm..
Fucking Tories…
It’s just amazing how bad for our times the two main political parties are now. There literally isn’t a meaningful choice to make.
All Starmer is calling for is to cut VAT on fuel.
The irony of Corbyn is that without him Labour wouldn’t have been proposing their 2017/2019 popular policies on utilities, on transport and on working life. But Corbyn himself had too much baggage to escape the demonisation of the media.
Stop your winging. Either you or someone you know voted for the Tories that manufactured this dissaster. You need to learn to think for yourselves and pull yourself away from echo chamber social media, murdoch and russian owned media and gov propoganda machine that is the BBC. Voters get who they voted for. This gov never lied about a free market economy, where competition improves service and cost. Well, how did that work out for trains, busses, the post office, water and now utilities,? not very well eh ? And still people vote Tory at recent local elections. Lift your eyes from your phone, look to the horizon and do something about it, go see your MP, write to Boris. Do you think the French would just let this nonsense roll over them? They’d bring France to its knees.
This would just be handing more tax payer money to the big energy companies to pocket for profit.
Long term we need to be fixing the underlying causes of the problem instead of the symptoms.
Invest in insulation, and in upgrading some of our ancient housing stock. Introduce more regulations on energy efficiency in new houses. Invest in nuclear power and renewables so the UK is less vulnerable to future geopolitical events.