Posted on 10/22/2022 4:28:19 AM PDT by dynachrome
The axing of the energy price guarantee from April next year could lead to almost 11m UK households falling into fuel poverty, campaigners have warned, which is about 26m people.
It means more than one in three British households face the grim prospect of hardship: there are an estimated 28.1m households in the UK. The average household in Britain has 2.36 people.
The End Fuel Poverty Coalition described the outlook as “frankly terrifying” and urged the Government to focus on a new package of support and energy market reforms, alongside investment in home insulation and renewables.
The predicted increase from the current seven million households in fuel poverty to 10.7 million after the Government lifts its guarantee limiting the average household energy bill to £2,500 from April will then fall slightly – but will still leave 10.1 million households in fuel poverty in the winter of 2023/24, the group said.
Protest in London The figures come as protesters gather in London to ask MPs to back plans for a universal basic energy allowance to meet heating, cooking and lighting needs, part of the ‘Energy For All’ petition which will be handed to Downing Street on Wednesday with more than 600,000 signatures.
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Their mandatory commitment to a carbon free “green” transformation will keep them warm....
I have a repro Land Pattern Brown Bess. A few years back I was shopping for flints and came across an antique firearms dealer that was selling a set of Napoleonic era knapped flints. Apparently, at one point, in fear of a potential invasion by the French, the British armaments industry went into overdrive prepping flints, ball and powder for defense of the home isle. When that never came about, the excess were sent to the colonial possessions just in time for the conversion to percussion caps.
I bought a couple sets of the flints (with provenance.) It's fascinating to fondle them and know that they were furiously shaped by some arsenal worker in Leeds or Manchester over 200 years ago doing his part to face down what he had to believe was an existential threat...
Britain has huge deposits of coal and oil.
Thanks to global warming, they will all freeze to death!
A cold winter could also means thousands of deaths from the effects of hypothermia.
That is really cool. I love buying antique weapons and pieces of history. I can actually touch history vice staring at it through a class case.
They’re being dragged right through fuel insecurity all the way to fuel poverty.
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