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It is sad we ordinary people pay the price for what the mess those politicians have made.
don't blame me! i wanted jeremy corbin to win the last election!! those people who voted tory have got what they deserve!!!
@@normankennith7919 Wrong.. The people who vote Tory generally are wealthy and the Tory ALWAYS favour the rich and upper classes not the poor. .The rich are in heaven in recession as all there stashed income goes up with high interest rates ..the peasants have to "Put up and SHUT UP".
Let the gov drill and dig for energy. Let the gov build. King Charles wanted to build a green community but the green people are fighting it. They are just anti everything and the public suffers.
@@sarahjones-jf4pr i don't deny that many wealthy people vote tory! the tragedy is that so many working class people were duped into voting tory at the last election! some of whom are now dead1 sadly, many women are tory voters! it's probably the snob in them!!! it's time the peasants showed the tories what revolting really is!!!
@@normankennith7919 You appear to have an axe to grind against women ..re read what you have written and for the record I am neither a snob or a bloody Tory.
Is it just me who keeps thinking were in 1822 and not 2022 🥶
i knew the the government were using a time machine.
1929 Great Depression II. It's building towards 2029 if not before.
Exactly @Darren Meears! It is like watching Blade Runner when it first came out and we thought wow! that could never happen.
Yeah we have regressed
Human race never changes, war, poverty, disease, decline of morals. It goes on forever.
Bet the politicians in this country arn't having to choose between heating or eating 🤬😡
Or going on Vacation or not. Or buying a pair of new shoes. Or whether to use their toaster. It's plain madness and is so WRONG! 🇺🇸🍀🍀🍀♥️
Neither are the royals.
@@southerngal345 What an awful situation to have Millions of people in! And in the 21st Century!! Unbelievable!!! 🇺🇸
Can someone please explain to me, how on earth will old & vulnerable people get to a warm bank in cold & icy conditions? Because the council certainly dont grit the roads nor provide safe transport to/from cos buses dont run on time, get cancelled etc. plus it gets dark early. This Government & the councils should be utterly ashamed of themselves. Their greed & ignorance is astonishing
Sadly nothing ignorant about it. All by design. Everything is manufactured.
@@lisakrische3732, yes, for sure.
Maybe the migrant hotels should offer a warm bank too seeing as they have heating 24/7 and free hot meals . 7 million pounds a day for them but not for our own people
ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL, WHY.
@@eileenpritchard9154 agenda 30
The rich tory bastards want you to blame immigrants instead of them so they can keep lining their pockets, please don't fall for it.
TOTALLY?!?!?!?
There's that steady British racism rearing it's head. And they said "we are very much not a racist family" 😂😂😂
The royal family and the government should be ashamed and embarrassed at how they’re letting their constituents live.
Yes. I’m American but this made me angry.
I'm glad there is one sane person over there. Most brits just worship the so called royal family. They live in the lap of luxury while citizens struggle to pay for bare necessities. SMH
No, you should cut down the power lines to their homes. Make them live like you have to. Yes, King Charles come after me. Do it. You've done this to the poor citizens. LEAD BY EXAMPLE. Cut off your heat. Your hot water. Maybe Harry is right. Oh, neither YOU OR ANY HUMAN IS ORDAINED BY GOD AS BETTER THAN ME. I'll make it easy. I'm a US citizen. Remember us? We kicked your asses out of our country twice. I don't wish or condone violence upon anyone. Unlike you. You need to live EXACTLY like you ask your, can't believe I'm saying this, SUBJECTS to live. Subjects? You people put up with that?
They aren’t the rulers. Only for show. They have a prime minister and government very similar to the states.
Charles was always weak...
A country is judged by the way their elderly and needy are treated. Doesn't look good does it?
Or the young
the tories want to get rid of them, because they are benefit scroungers!!!
No it isn't. People should take responsibility for their lives, and not expect the taxpayer to pay their bills for them.
@@perolagrande fuck off, the government should take fucking responsibility and do its job. UK has worst insulated housing stock in Europe. Where was the national insulation investment over the last 12 years? Would've saves hundreds of pounds off energy bills of the most vulnerable
@@perolagrande do you reckon the government should introduce euphenasia?
People who’re running warm bank for free are angels.
so were nurses & teachers angels, but look at how the tory government has treated them!! they would rather spend billions of british taxpayer's money on sending weaponry to ukraine, than care about the people they should be representing, ie, the UK, not UK-raine!!!
@@normankennith7919 unfortunately the UK government is just like the US government. Using the war to make the politicians and their friends richer all the while the regular population suffers.
@@elizadawne3896 it's a shame the population doesn't wake up & realise it!!!
I’m not entirely sure this is for free - I’m guessing they get a grant from the local council or something. Not that it isn’t kind hearted, but there will certainly be some funding from somewhere or they’d not be able to afford it either
@@normankennith7919 or 50 billion on test and trace you plonker, aid to Ukraine is not the drain on the economy, the Cons, Brexit and dodgy PPE's costs are many times greater than the aid sent to them. I suppose next you will be rabbiting on about boat people.
And this is Britain 🇬🇧
We were only great 200 years ago
Bet the politicians have nice warm houses and food....
Bet you do as well
@@colinb8103 I don't have a warm house
I do
@@colinb8103 Guess you're one of the lucky few
No one of many ,I spend less than a fiver a day and thats in the North East
That is absolutely disgraceful! Worse, current government is okay with this! A general election is needed immediately!
i say co co the clown should be in power. at least he shows his real colors
Agree with you mate.
Tories dont want they no time is up for their austerity stupidity wrecked country shocking and labour brutal
A new system is needed an election will solve nothing
Absolutely
Why are OFGEM allowed to set the pre-payment meter charges higher than for those of us that pay in arrears??
My 89 year old father lives with me 6 months out of the year and the other 6 months with my brother. 😁 He’s plenty warm with us and has all the good food he wants.
Your point?
@@elterrifico9522 Look after your elders
@@elterrifico9522 Really ? My point is that the kids of these elderly folks need to make sure their parents are warm and fed. That’s what those parents did for them !
God bless you
Yeah UK, just go back to the stone age. No problem. How long until you lose your developed country status with attitudes like this one? Lol. Only look after your tribe. Why bother having a government, society or nation?
This is heartbreaking. It feels like a dream or a joke.
It feels freezing to me...even indoors. I'm not joking.
......a nightmare !
@@lsmoulton ABSOLUTELY.
Not to mention the chronic mould problem in this country! Even if I could afford to put the heating on more at the moment I can't without worsening the mould. It's beyond shocking now. More needs to be done but no one seems to know what to do.
Shocking isn't it £15 a day having my heating on for 2hrs a day (£450 a month) that including my electricity with the heating off only cost me £5.90 a day.... Now I only run the dehumidifier for 1hr a day helps you with the mould and my electric blanket...
this is what happens when you get a mouldy old tory government, many of whom are not white!!!
Oh They do but is costs dosh which most of us haven't got
Try investing in a dehumidifier I had horrible mould issues too, no one wanted to fix it, I'm sure these councils want some of the properties to fall into disrepair, my dehumidifier has been a life saver, my small apartment needed a dehumidifier that manages a 3 bed house so buying a little more powerful is better you'll be surprised at how much moisture is held on to in these homes and good luck.
Man I'm shaving as we speak get out of bed at 8am to work come home at 5 tea and back to my warm bad cannot afford to turn the heating on I know someone used his two 2kw/h heating for a whole month in November recently received his bill around £980 just for electricity these bills isn't a joke...
How are the seniors going to be able to walk in the bad weather.snow ice. This is so sad
It's not heartbreaking, it's diabolical, evil. #ReformNOW
What isn't being discussed is how these "warm spaces" are able to pay their bills especially at the high business energy rates.
I might get a grant from govermnent or from charities .
This is terrible😱 WTF😡 an no real help from No 10, those people built this country and deserve so much better😡
Ukraine. I been ranting about it for nearly a year. Stop paying for this conflict.
This is just bonkers. Feels like back to the 70s. Not surprised so many can’t afford it. Wars, globalisation, poor planning coupled with complete incompetence and a dysfunctional system!
that is conservatism & capitalism for you!! you shoulda voted for jeremy corbin!!!
this is by design, its the tories stealing billions from us.
@@normankennith7919 Go live in a communist/socialist country. The conditions are far, far worse. I lived 2 years in China and 1 in Viet Nam. Most eople there suffer terribly.
@@happycook6737 so most 'eople' suffered terribly did they? i'ts a wonder you lived there for 2 years! i would have thought if it was that bad , you would have only lived in china for 2 weeks!!! i have been to moscow & i thought it was a fabulous place but my home is in england despite having to live under a conservative dictatorship!!!
My husband put £60 in the gas. We turn all the lights and switches off when they're not in use, all our radiators are off or on the lowest setting, we have our heating on 1 hour a day and we shower together twice a week, keeping it to 2 minutes each time to save heating costs.... do you know how long £60 lasted....? 3 days..... 3 fecking days!! We're now in rent arrears because of the heating bills. We have never been in rent arrears.... never!!
It's alright the government saying heat just one room but when you don't have the money to put in the meter how can you stay warm. It's wrong that people with prepayment have to pay more for their gas and electric when they are the least able to afford it. The government needs to address the payment rates that people with meters are charged.
You do not have to have a prepayment meter; have it taken out.
@@juliewills8034 Sadly if you are on benefits you won't get an alternative way to pay
It is so heartbreaking how people have to suffer in the UK . People are suffering. People are really struggling. The politicians don't care what normal hard-working people are going through. Politicians will never understand what geniune hardworking people are going through. Politicians are completely out of touch on the struggle of hardworking people. The politicians have created a mess when are they going to fix it
Society knows the system and government doesn’t care about them so why does it continue to elect these so called officials to govern them? You have to ask who is the real idiot? Divide and conquer. We’re finished.
Never they dont care time for a revolution
PROBABLY NEVER THEY DON'T CARE.
It's all about profits for politicians and energy companies otherwise visas for African countries would have been abolished decades ago. People need to move south.
Pre-payment meters r actually dangerous and will cause a lot of deaths this winter!
People act surprised yet the uk has always done this to the vulnerable. How long until the work House returns and 5 year olds go to work ...
April next year.
give the tories a couple more years and we'll have workhouses
will it be warm in the workhouse? how can I apply?
@@Adam-zd2bk sell your soul to capitalism
@@Jono1982 i just want to put in my 20 hour shift in the workhouse to be warm.
Anyone over 65 should never have to worry, imo gas and electric should be free to pensioners along side tv license
and all the younger people having to move back to their parents because they can't afford a normal life and also use that gas.
the tories want old people to hurry up & die! johnson & co did a good job during the so called 'covid' pandemic, having also got rid of a few sick-uns, which meant they saved a few bob!!!
I'm 68 I don't think my gas and electric should be free I live in the states
@@normankennith7919 that is their voter base though
@@Adam-zd2bk they would still probably vote tory on their death beds!!
What a great idea. Warm your heart and soul at the same time.
Our OAP,S should not be going through this,they've been through enough already,sunak respect your elders!!!
Elderly people should respect the young people too
@@James_Doyle83 obviously your a little whipper snapper..
many oaps would have voted tory, so they are not in a position to moan!!! their imminent deaths & money saved, will give the tories a chance to send more weaponry to ukraine - courtesy of the british taxpayer!!!
the elderly voted for this mess, the young didnt, but you want us to pay even more?
@@kanedNunable me personally,I don't want anyone paying more,I don't think anyone should be suffering,and personally I was brought up to respect and look out for my elders,one day you may do the same,but there again judging by the way you answer,I doubt it.
Uk should prioritise its own citizens first before spending unaccounted money on ukraine.😡
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
The british people should make that known to their politicians. Just about every single one of them are Ukraine 1st candidates. Just sad
and stop funding Albanian and other immigrants until uk citizens are looked after
What a wonderful woman. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
To think we have people arriving here legally, they are kept in nice 5 star hotels with three hot meals a day, it's a national disgrace
Illegally..
Pipes will freeze with one warm room. Which room do you imagine rishi and the Tories keep warm
The room that's in their own special place in Hell
Bloody disgrace, put the cap back on and stop people becoming ill and dying of the cold. I'm sure it was warm in parliament today 😡
but surely the people of ukraine come first? the british people are only not eating or having heating but in ukraine people are dying!! alright, so a few thousand old 'uns will die through hypothermia & starvation in britain, but that's not the point
@@normankennith7919 Thanks a bunch Kenny What sort of person are you? Or maybe your are not even a person? So if thousands of us Oldies and disabled and under privileged snuff it will it reduce Your energy costs?
@@noramartin96 i will probably dead before you, as i've got terminal cancer!! like you, i am an 'oldie' - 77 to be exact!! however, you must have realised that i was being sarcastic/ironic about the tory scum who govern the uk today? it's they who do not give a toss about the sick & elderly, as 'covid' proved & now their involvement with ukraine in sending billions of ponds worth of weaponry to the warmongering slag, zelensky so that he can prolong the conflict in ukraine, rather than care for the vulnerable britsh people first!! but don't blame me - i wanted jeremy corbin to win the last election!!! stay strong!!!
😢😢😢😢How come government have moneys for help Ukraine but not support British people with living crisis and energy poor and sad😢
They have got money just crap government.
Becuaee ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world 😂
Because the brainwashed British public shout ‘get a job’ and the government don’t care.
@@mdx7460 Exactly!!! It's up to us to force the government to do more to help vulnerable people here instead of giving Ukraine millions of pounds. But we do nothing.
because the are bent
Freeze peasants while Richy Sunak throws another wad of 50s on his massive open fire!
No one has told him to stop funding the Ukraine conflict...
@@kal77uk The Armament Oligarchs are making Bundles out of this tragedy, they always have made profits out of arms and war.
Are you watching Rishi?
I wonder if there is a TV in the new indoor pool room.
This is dystopian.
We've got a leccy blanket stretched over the settee and we're boiling watching telly. It uses 60w, same as a single bulb and it only needs to on for about 15mins per hour. Obv I wear a woolly hat and fleece jacket. I only put on the main heating for about 20 min per day.
It's tricky with a couple of toddlers who are not old enough for nursery to stay still at home
I've set 67 quid as a target so my bill is currently zero. I'm 62 and live very well at the level of the state pension fresh veggies, Internet, nice bottle of wine.
@@tarat26Make a tent with blankets. Plan for 45 minutes in tent and 15 minutes run around.
I bought an electric heater for £20 for my living room. I only put the actual heating on for short periods of time. The rest of the time I have the electric heater on low, set at 650 Watts, so it costs less. Before I go to bed, I have a fan heater on for 30 mins or so. Just enough to feel toasty warm before sleep. I'm planning to get an electric blanket when I can. Yeah the bathroom stays cooler but not enough to actually suffer. If I use it, then the steam from the bath or shower heats it up. This seems to be working for me!
The age pf abundance is over. The age of consequence has begun.
Ridiculous lockdowns aside, I also feel that crunch time has been on the way for a good while. This country has always borrowed more than we could ever afford, individuals and the government alike
@@Maria7Maria one solution would be a currency reset based on Gold to wipe out the debt, of course our American friends would have to agree this.
When economic crisis hit Greece in 2010, you Europeans called us lazy and stupid that our politicians tricked us. We were the first successful experiment into throwing a whole nation into poverty and guess what, all of you now are next. This is only the beginning!!
LEFT WITHOUT HEAT WHILE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COME IN HUNDREDS TO LIVE OFF TAX PAYERS IN HOTELS WITH ROUND THE CLOCK HEATING, 3 MEALS A DAY AND SPENDING ALLOWENCES FOR "NECESSITIES"... What is going on in the U.K.? We neglect the British that have contributed to the success of this country for generations and allow those to come here with their hands out waiting for the hand outs, taking all of our council properties and benefits that should benefit BRITISH PEOPLE first!
we spent 1000x more on tory corruption than 'illegals' last year. do you understand numbers? i bet you voted tory didnt you?
We need those immigrants here to show off our wealth & democratic way of lifestyle.
You can save more money by not funding the conflict in Ukraine....
Are you an actual idiot? Do you truly believe that the reason we are struggling is because of immigrants, rather than the Conservative government creating cutbacks and inflation and refusing to raise our wages?? You are blaming the completely wrong people here
@@guinevere788 i think you are the idiot because no-where did I say the reason we are struggling is because of immigration 😂
A bedroom doesn't need heating. Before you go into bed, put a hot water bottle in bed to warm your feet. Three blankets: One that covers your shoulders, one up the chest, and one folded up the knees. Otherwise you won't sleep well because of overheating throughout the night.
I got two thick double size duvets just for me.... your comment seems utterly ridiculous and so British.... don't forget cold shower in morning!
We are paying the energy companies an outrageous daily standing charge that could amount to millions in profit to them...or provide 2kWh of heating per household. Capitalism is Greed.
God bless you Ruth for your generosity.
This is for pensioners who are home all day. Therefore, to heat the home day and night will be very expensive. However, most people are out working and only at home in the evenings.
Rip everyone working from home
What about those who can't get to the warm banks, is there transport available for all of them? I thought not.
I didn't look forward going into work ...now I do as the place is heated
While I'm at work knowing my child will arrive home from school to a freezing house. 2 parent family working and still watching the smart meter like we are peasant s. Should advertise this to the illegals flocking to the boats.
@@xsentfromuk8938 As an grown adult not being able to provide the basics as a warm home for your child. This means you need to get off KZhead and find a job that pays more or find a second income. However, complaining to a stranger on KZhead will not change things.
Uk has its own gas and oil use it
Why not sleep in the front room & only heat one room instead of warming up two!
Nobody has a kitchen with a door and walls now, as a small room to heat. Open concept floor plans are so horrible.
very sad..whatever has this country come to.....?
What a disgraceful situation - UK Gov needs to issue a payment directly to people for heating and food,
They already have
Meanwhile people in prison get better treatment than this 3 meals a day .. free gym .. no bills to pay
Well the coronation of king Charles next year will cost millions,just saying.
off with his head.
He should pay for his own coronation.
@@jacqui7672 Do we need a Coronation? We know he is KIng. The Jubilee helped to wreck the economy.
@@hightide4782 Exactly. TBH it never even occurred to me that it would cost the country. More fool me. Just adds fuel to my fire!
Just warm the living room? How do people do that? Still costs a bomb
Electric heater on low, 650w: 20p per hour. I only have a burst of gas central heating morning and evening. Also fan heater on in bedroom 30 mins before sleep. Good food includes home made stew that can be made in a huge saucepan and later microwaved in portions. I wrap up warm, layers and keep active when I can. It feels super warm when u get in from a walk outside. Look up frozen farm food deliveries in your area. I get the mini meals which are cheaper and top up with fresh veg. Saves on cooking and loads of washing up. See if u can visit friends or family for a few hours. My now older parents have their heating on nearly all the time. They get company and I stay warm. I do odd iobs for them too so it's all good.
Well thats nice . Well done torys .hope your proud .
don't blame me! i wanted corbin to become pm!
@@normankennith7919 You still here?
I use an electric wheelchair, and I have to choose whether to eat, heat or move around.
I know it's not funny but you made me laugh....thanks
I can,t believe its happening one woman said...........love its been going ON before this economic crisis etc............poverty isn,t just something thats "just" arrived.............
But we've never has this extortionate rise in heating costs before. Its like 1 million percent increased 😱
How dare they suggest you warm one room! They should be legislating relief for those who cant afford to heat their homes!
I can't heat just one room because I have a radiator in the hallway that cannot be turned off manually, which means it runs all the time so it's 2 radiators running if I want to heat one room. It's a new system apparently it's the thermostat heater. I can't afford two radiators so now switched the gas off at the mains and use my electrick cookers oven to heat the kitchen and I live in the kitchen.
It is the same in my house. The radiator in the bathroom is the thermostat heater and is on whenever I put on the heating in the sitting room.
@@juliewills8034 yep, more hair brain ideas they think is helpful, they should keep things as they were invented to work, it's like the toilet cistern used to work simply and now it needs a brain surgeon to fix if it breaks. We are heading back to the seventies, back in time we go 😊 hope you manage to stay warm and keep your head above all the shit! ❤️
I have 2 radiator’s in my home that can’t be switched off if the central heating is turned on. One in my bathroom and one in my hallway.
This is insane. They have to go to warm banks? Governments allowing this to happen are evil. Who is getting kickbacks from the power companies?
Disgraceful situation for everyone
Windfall tax the energy companies! Their Profits are through the roof.
And we dont question why the Royal family dont suffer this hardship?
Warm banks. Banks are the problem. Sunak isn't cold. Riot for your lives
I wish people would.
So sad to see people in such destitution, with awful 😢 dire consequences for them to choose between heat or eat breaks my heart to see those people in those circumstances.🙏😢
Heart breaking!!!
I was just without heat for a week and the Korean faux milk blankets saved me! I suggest getting one if you’re in this predicament. i wish that they’d make house coats with that material lol! 20 degrees outside and 60 inside. I stayed very warm with that one single blanket. 🙏🏻Being cold really wears you down.
Please confirm what blanket.... ?
@@sassi7966 I found them. They are on Amazon. Korean faux mink blanket. I'm pretty sure they're microfleece
@@patsy4959 thanks I'll have a look.
All because stupid governments privateers energy should be nationalised 1million percent
That's sad that people have to suffer. The cost of heating oil where I live is insane!
I am poor too, 67 years, on pension, but I dont have to choose between eating and heating. I have both. But I am living in Germany.
I live in Guernsey in the Channel Islands and over here you are either poor or rich. I live in a council house and the rent is £344 a week. I've been there for 28 years and the council are quick enough to take your money but do nothing to make the house livable. They have done absolutely nothing to my house for all of the 28 years I have been living there. Massive cracks everywhere on every wall and ceiling also on the outside walls. The mould is terrible, the windows don't fit properly not do the doors so it's freezing. I have 3 bedrooms upstairs and they can't really be used because of the damp and the cold. I neally died from getting pneumonia once so I cannot risk sleeping upstairs. I have slept on my sofa downstairs for 8 years now. I am also disabled as well and even tho the council pay my rent they give me £180 to live on a week to live on but that's a pittance over here because everything is way more expensive over here compared to England. Our cheapest bread if is £1.65 and our milk is £1.45 a litre. No cheap shops at all. The cheapest clothes shop we have is New Look. So expensive to live here. Our cheapest supermarket is the Co-op. The poor are screwed over here. 🥶😭
@Calmlocket Hi im shocked! 😯 £500 rent a week..bloody hell. We don't have council anything over here. We call your council the States of Guernsey. The states for short. So the States own my states house and they are the biggest power in Guernsey. So if I have a problem in my states house I have to call the states to come and look at it. So basically I have to complain about my states house to the states housing. I complain about them to them lol. There is no one higher and if they need to find money for anything ie road repairs they put our rent up. So my rent is £334 but if my adult kids move back in with me they would be charged £80 each on top of the £344 rent. It's a law over here that states owned property must have fire doors but most of us don't and there's nobody that can make them. I cannot believe you pay £500 a week. That has shocked the hell out of me!!!
Island full of newborn mortality and miscarriage. Cancer is in the air over there
All in this together mps get another pay rise next year due to inflation sums up Jeremy hunt tax increase..... 10,000£ increase in 5 years
And our prime minister is worth £730.000.000!
So what! Go make your own!
And how much is your Royal family worth ???
Heart breaking
I'm 75, disabled too & don't leave my home except for my infusion appointments every week. I don't drive any longer either. BUT, I want to help these people...this breaks my heart...how can anyone help, especially the elderly & disabled, does anyone know? I'm not rich, but I'm sure every little bit of help would be greatly appreciated.
The Tories have a lot to answer for
So does labour. The indigenous people should be put first
Why has heating, energy, always been a problem in the UK? People have always had to mind what they use to heat their homes. It is no different from my great-grandmother's day. The way things are going in the UK a generation or more are in for a shock. They are going to have to deal with what their grandparents did. Do they have the common sense their ancestors had? In how to deal with heating the home, fighting off hunger and basically just getting by!
I paid £20 a month since October for gas and about £65 for electric a month for a two person household. What are these people doing!? Running the shower for an hour? Heating every room to 40°C? Oven on for 6 hours a day?
Sorry if you voted for the Tories or Brexit , you got what you asked for
yet people say leaving eu has not affected nothing, they are still blinded by the lies
It's got nothing to do with brexit It's our corupt and incompetent conservitives and gready globalists riping this Country of
the tories didn't really want brexit, that's why they are allowing so many illegals into the uk!! the biggest crime was voting tory! many oaps probably voted tory, so they have got what they deserve! the tories need to stop sending weapons to ukraine, which is costing the british taxpayer billions!!
I didn't vote and probably will not at the next general election...the Labour party are a bunch of self serving hypocrites...democracy is only for lobyists, big business, and elites not for the working class. As for Brexit it was 2 fingers to the establishment not a judgement call of the countrys best future direction.
@@eddieharris6004 if you dont vote then you cant complain about anything. If you dont like the political parties then start your own.
This old people that worked hard all their lives don't deserve such treatment. Maybe Gretta should live like them for a month.
How sweet!
I had to look up the conversion rate from pounds to dollars and I almost fell over that the one woman is paying almost $200 per week for gas and electric? Can that possibly be correct (and this video was almost a year ago)?
get the entire government out and start from scratch. get decent hard working people in that understand the needs of the people in this country!
@@mariecleary i dont trust any current politician to be honest. all of them have huge silver spoons in thier mouths. we need honest hard working men and women who know what its like to be on the breadline.
It is so sad.
This is criminal, in this day and age. Politicians need to be held responsible for all this. Mind your own country first.
How in the name of all that’s wonderful is anyone using 50 quids worth of gas and a hundred pounds worth of electric EVERY WEEK??? What’s she running, Blackpool Illuminations? I don’t even use that much in an entire month…
Frugality Starts at Home Your lucky then it's costing me £12 a day gas and electric and that's only having the gas on low for a few hours a day and cutting down on electric my smart meter says £1-81 to £1-90 in the morning before I even start to do anything
Indeed. I saw 66 quid as a target and I will only be maybe 1 pound a day while it's cold. I'm 62 and never heated my whole house. I heat my feet and my bed.
@@susanwoodward6307 that’s shocking, absolute bloody daylight robbery in fact, and I feel for you - because in the days when I had a prepayment meter I worried constantly about topping it up and prices weren’t even high then…But even your costs are half what this lady is saying she spends, presumably on top of the £66 pm from the government and whatever other entitlements she might get, and it just seems obscene and insane that anyone would have such a tariff in the first place, especially when there’s a cap on what the energy companies can charge.
Just read your message, I live in a basic two bedroom apartment don't use all my radiators obviously to save money, mine is a prepayment meter and I worked out I am buying £20 gas every three days so I can say maybe about £50 per week on Gas with the electric being slightly less, and I can assure you without fear of exaggeration I am trying to be as careful as I can.
@@susanwoodward6307 Susan I know from experience that you are telling the truth!
In Finland we are getting double electricity bills from two different companies each month . The electricity corruption is between criminal organizations and the government with the fiddling going on with electricity bills here in Finland. Life is not easy here in the winter for thousands of families.
The power company in my area isn't allowed to turn off the power if there are elderly, handicap, or children living in the home. You can also donate to the needy right on the power bill. I would rather see people willingly donate then it being taken out in taxes.
That's so very sad
What about the homeless people .?
How can the energy costs be 5 times higher than North America? Someone is making money somewhere. The UK has always lagged behind in insulation of buildings for many decades now, but homeowners have also not done due diligence to have other heating options for their homes. In my Canadian home I have three forms of heat, heat pump, propane and two wood stoves. I always have on hand at least six bush cords of seasoned wood, two 1,000 lb propane tanks just in case. I have found being prepared is best.
It’s so sad😢
I have had to cut right back on everything. However, there are still many out spending as if there is no tomorrow. Designer this and that, and most on credit cards.
Quite right!
in the age of cell phones,electric cars , ai ..............this is so sad and a indictment on our society
This won't end in Great Britain. This is atrocious!
These warm places are a good idea but no use if pavements are too icy to walk to on.
People only need to heat the house an hour in the morning and an hour at night, 21 degrees. The prepayment meters , are scandalous.
dont talk shite. depends on the house etc.
@@kanedNunable that's not shite that's actually true. 😂 You don't need heat all day unless you have disabled/elderly and even then can only heat one room if you have to. Stay bitter 🤣
@Dollie 😂 live your life.
They have to walk in the cold to get there and return home. Is there a way to get a job vs sitting in a caffe all day? Bring in some income to help with the utility bills and also not have to heat the house while at work?? I'm 68 years old and that's what I do. Cut the heat while I work a part time job and have additional money for my bills, it's a win win situation.
Shame on Great Britain. Shame on that great nation. Your leaders have reduced you to this. And God bless those loving souls who help other's in time of need.
I don't understand some pensioners get £300 cold winter payment while other working class people don't get any help towards energy cost. But yet still the
Much Love from India
its not going to end for the next 4 years