#fuel poverty

[intersectionalpraxis]

You know why I don't feel badly for King Colonizer? While millions of Britons face food and fuel poverty, royals in Buckingham Palace will never see a day of extreme hunger or being deprived of basic necessities. If you also even know a little about what this man has done -especially to Princess Diana, he's absolutely heinous.

Let's also not forget the history of the British empire and what it still represents -from it's settler-colonial and imperialistic roots to their huge legacy of violence, forced enslavement, white supremacy, dehumanization, and mass deaths they inflicted across the globe onto many racialized groups of people and communities they deemed 'other' and 'inferior.' The impacts from their exploitation also continue to this day.

Decolonization includes abolishing the monarch.

#feminist #social justice #settler violence #current events #king charles lll #united kingdom #british imperialism #british royal family #british royalty #decolonisation #decolonize #poverty #food poverty #fuel poverty

[ceevee5]

#uk politics #energy companies #cost of living #energy bills #fuel poverty

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

British Gas reports record £969m profit after price cap increase | Centrica | The Guardian

Hmm, looks like energy companies may have been profiteering after all...

#uk politics #uk cost of living crisis #energy bills #fuel poverty #British gas

[clatterbane]

#uk politics #the ongoing shitshow #fuel poverty #environment #cost of living crisis #energy crisis

[rumade]

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Having a normal one on shit-hole island

#uk pol #fuel poverty #poverty #revolution brewing

[sataniccapitalist]

#uk cost of living crisis #disability #fuel poverty #household bills #poverty

[schrankartoons]

Two cartoons for The Times, from 8/8/22 and 27/8/22, on the Tory leadership election. Faced with the prospect of extreme fuel poverty over the coming winter all Liz Truss has to offer as a solution is her intention to cut taxes.

#liz truss #fuel poverty #energy price rises #cost of living crisis #tory leadership election result

[merelygifted]

Macmillan survey suggests hundreds of thousands of people with cancer struggling to make ends meet

#uk #WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TORIES?! #cost of living crisis #cancer #food insecurity #fuel poverty #poverty #Health #bojo the evil clown #OMFG #WTAF #evil #screw the sick #screw the people #lies #bojo the clown #fuck the tories #corruption #tories #conservative politics

[newsfromtherooftop]

Political leaders urged to act on social workers' concerns

Political party leaders have been warned that vulnerable adults and children living in cold, damp, mouldy homes is a national scandal in an open letter from campaigners. The letter comes after research among members of the Social Workers Union found that two-thirds (61%) of children’s social workers witnessed young people living in conditions with excessive levels of mould. At a wider level,…

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#Fuel Poverty #Housing #Social Workers Union

[totallyhussein-blog]

Companies make ‘eye-watering profits’ on Britain’s Victorian living standards

PROFITEERING energy distributors are enjoying “eye-watering profits” as their own workers and bill-payers are forced into food poverty, activists have told the Morning Star newspaper.

Campaigners protested outside the Crawley offices of mega-rich UK Power Networks after Unite the union warned that its members at the biggest electricity distributor in south-east England are struggling to make ends meet.

Staff are being denied a “cost-of-living” wage boost and more than 15,000 residents in the West Sussex town are unable to pay record-high energy bills as the firm’s profits top £2.4 billion, the union charged.

Research commissioned by Unite shows that a fifth of Crawley’s population — 23,700 people — are suffering from food poverty as 40-year high inflation combines with a move by Tory ministers to freeze gas and electricity costs at an average annual high of £2,500.

The study, conducted by leading polling firm Survation, also reveals that nearly a third of people in the area have either gone into debt or increased their debt levels to meet soaring grocery costs.

The energy bills of a quarter of British households are therefore being inflated by the firm’s “excessive profits, in turn hurting communities like Crawley,” the union argued.

“It’s time to challenge the profiteers and end corporate greed,” Ms Graham said. “Workers and communities must join together to demand higher wages and freedom from fuel and food poverty.”

#crawley #poverty #uk #hong kong #food poverty #foodbanks #manchester #labour party #democracy #enough is enough #sharon graham #china #unite the union #nhs #politics #london #liverpool #morning star #fuel poverty #living wage #keir starmer #labour doorstep #rishi sunak #christmas

[carhatred]

The analysis of data from 2019 highlights “significant inequalities” in energy use across the country. Those in the top 10% of incomes used nearly three times as much energy in a year as people in the bottom 30%.

This was particularly true for transport. Car journeys and flights taken by the richest British people – especially “white, wealthy middle-aged men” – used more energy that year than 60% of the population got through in total.

The authors of the study, published in Ecological Economics, say energy consumption is currently “too high” to achieve the world’s climate targets, even as many indulge in “excess energy use” while millions languish in fuel poverty.

Yet, by combining their energy analysis with measures of wellbeing, they conclude that a high standard of living can be achieved in the UK with relatively low levels of energy consumption.

(...) Those in the global north are known to be disproportionately responsible for both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The average person in the UK uses roughly four times as much energy in a year as someone in India and 21 times as much as someone in east Africa. But within these relatively high-income nations there are large variations in wealth and the energy intensity of people’s lifestyles. 

The inequality is huge. In 2019, the wealthiest 10% of people in the UK used around three times as much energy driving cars and five times as much for recreational activities, when compared to the bottom 10%.

One of the greatest disparities came from people’s use of planes. Domestic and international flights taken by people with the highest incomes used around five times more energy than those taken by the poorest.

In fact, as the chart below shows, the 102 gigajoules (GJ) used for flying by the average adult in the top 10% of earners in that year was more than the average person in the bottom fifth of earners used for everything, including flying, driving and heating their homes.

Baltruszewicz and her team were also able to assess who precisely was responsible for “unabated excess energy” use. They found that “those who most often overshoot energy use are white, wealthy middle-aged men”. By comparison, Baltruszewicz tells Carbon Brief:

“Those who are most energy poor…They also tend to be non-white, female [and] rent houses…there is so much social injustice engrained in those who don’t have enough energy.”

(...) at the lower end of the energy use spectrum, wellbeing initially increases a lot as energy footprint rises. But there are “diminishing or no returns” as energy use gets higher. There is also a large range within each group, reflecting the number of factors at play. (...) The authors conclude that “excess” energy use is not essential for a high quality of life.

#uk #carbon footprint #carbon pollution #fuel poverty #class warfare

[ceevee5]

Truss is just lying left and right to get the job of PM. The constant tell is how she talks about her secondary school education in Leeds, with many students rebutting her weeks ago. You get the sense Truss doesn’t know what’s coming, with regard to energy bills and the scale of the challenge this winter.

#uk politics #liz truss #blackouts #fuel poverty #energy bills

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Didn’t someone post this as a piss take on here a couple of days ago? And yet now we’re here.

#uk politics #energy #energy prices #cost of living #heating #fuel poverty

[stroudtimes]

Children deliver Christmas cards to Stroud MP to shine a light on fuel poverty and the climate crisis

More than 300 Christmas cards will be delivered to Stroud MP Siobhan Baillie on Friday to demand government action on fuel poverty and the climate crisis. The cards, many of which have been beautifully coloured in by children will carry personalised messages that highlight a growing concern in the community about rising energy prices and the negative impact of fossil fuels on the climate.…

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#Climate crisis #fuel poverty #Stroud MP

[funeralserviceprovider]

#cost of living #rising funeral costs #fuel poverty #cost of living crisis #monthly funeral plans #simple cremation

[sataniccapitalist]

#fuel poverty #cost of living crisis #business #society #poverty