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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Protestors in London demand end to oil at the same time. Business guy drags them out of the road:
“Just Stop Oil protestors try to block traffic in London
Then a guy in a suit saves the day”
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1583112827920785408?s=20&t=D8l1ejuZYRi975Vfb9SZaw
“The people get what the people vote for” comes to fruition. Ain’t democracy great?
If freedom lovers can't win that argument, then each of us should become as energy independent as possible to insulate us from the chaos and expense caused by the warmageddon cult.
The handful of Brits posting on FR seem to support the slide into Third World status.
I have a wild, completely crazy idea.
How about fracking in the UK? How about drilling for more offshore oil? How about building nuclear power plants?
Its so crazy it just might work. Think about it.
End Fuel Poverty Coalition…urged the Government to focus on a new package of support and energy market reforms, alongside investment in home insulation and renewables.Everything but producing more. People like this got them into the mess in the first place with their “climate” fear porn. This is like expecting government to create problems and then fix them.
Brits Politicians brought this all on by themselves.
Who knew MI6 paid so well?...
Can we start calling them “Little Britain” from now on? Funny that yesterday was Trafalgar day, the anniversary of the battle that made Britain Great.
The UK has a Deep State, too.
What it doesn’t have is a Trump.
And it needs one.
Now.
The Russians would sell them all they wanted. They could drill in the areas they control for increased follow on. The Brits can end this anytime they wish by lifting sanctions and their own refusal to extract.
The vulnerability of freedom is that it allows itself to be destroyed.
Enjoy your Global Warming virtue signaling.
Easy to see why Scotland wants a divorce. Referendum next year should pass easily.
Trump couldn’t turn that country around. The vast majority of the population in GB love socialism.
I am a huge fan of Nelson and Trafalgar. I have been on the HMS Victory and own a piece of the decking removed when it was refitted in 1922. It is entirely possible based on her history that this piece of decking was at Trafalgar. That said it was not the battle that made Britain Great. Months prior to Trafalgar Napoleon had begun moving troops from the coast effectively ending any chance of an invasion. Of course the Brits did not know this at the time of Trafalgar. From a Naval perspective I would think there were a number of sea battles that were more important then Trafalgar. The First of June 1794 and the Battle of the Nile (from which the French never seemed to recover) come to mind. Something for the Brits to contemplate while they freeze their asses off this winter.
The government has too much control over the energy. And they are dull people.
Open the door for some free market capitalism.
He fought a losing battle. Pulls one climate simp out and another just moves in. The first thing to do is club them like baby seals so they don’t get back up. :0)
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