Energy price cap: Worst hit areas revealed as two in five households with children affected by fuel poverty
The estimates, exclusive to Sky News, show the scale of the impact of energy price rises on the most vulnerable in society.
Saturday 2 April 2022
Let's narrow it down and call it green poverty
Energy price cap: Worst hit areas revealed as two in five households with children affected by fuel poverty
The estimates, exclusive to Sky News, show the scale of the impact of energy price rises on the most vulnerable in society.
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"green poverty": very good. I imagine that the green fascists are largely useful idiots and that some are the agents of Russia. Just like the anti-nuclear people decades ago.
Costs of net zero currently running at 12% of a bill that just equalled the Energy Price Cap. They could solve that one at a stroke, lifting millions out of Green Poverty, by deciding not to collect it for a couple of years at least. That would enable the government to look around and see what technology should really be invested in, rather than rushing in and being the first to invest in completely dud kit. Maybe let Japan, the USA and Germany do the inventing, and we'll do the copying this time around.
And what a progressive, socialist-friendly move that would be. It would stop poor people paying for rich middle class investors to have photo-voltaic and heat-pump installations that will never benefit the poor. And it would allow the elderly to stay warm in their declining years while the tax is in abeyance.
Meanwhile, if those insulation schemes are really needed, they should be easy to sell to the rich middle class public. That money saved on Green Tax can go on insulation and low-energy solutions, ready for when the tax starts up again.
This issue can simply not be allowed to fade away unchallenged. The entire climate scam needs slamming endlessly.
The middle class eco-religion is about to run headlong into the brick wall of mass public heretical revolt. The current groundswell of public anger at rising energy prices is only just beginning - wait til bills rise by another 50% in the autumn, just as people need to turn the heating up. And we haven't even attempted to get the masses into electric cars or replace their gas boilers yet.
Lets face it, regardless of what the politicians say now, it all isn't going to happen. Because there's an election due in about 2 years time, and no politician will want to be nailing their colours to the mast of 'More expensive greenery' by then. They'll dress it up in nice language but the reality is they'll do a 180 degree turn and run a mile once Grannies start turning up frozen to death because they couldn't afford to turn the heating on, and they are assailed by people on benefits screaming at them that they can't heat their houses and feed their kids. Politicians are nothing if not 'intellectually flexible' and are quite capable of making out they were never in favour of something that they personally introduced in the first place.
For an island race such as we are here, it is utterly ridiculous that we have to import such basic commodities, when we have plenty of our own fuel reserves to last many years. Our farmers are totally capable of growing so much more of our basic foods, but there again, the green lobby want to reduce good land to 'wildlife', which used to survive perfectly well before their crackpot ideas became popular in Islington.
The greens are doing irreparable damage to this country - look at Brighton for more evidence of utter stupidity!
Well said Sobers!
dearieme - some probably are the agents of Russia, but it would be no surprise if donations to activist groups tend to disappear before they reach their intended destination.
Sam - we should probably get fracking to begin with, but to my mind we need an energy market without government interference except to ensure that it is a market.
James - it probably can't fade away now, but the vested interests are colossal.
Sobers and Tammly - yes I'm sure they will do a 180 degree turn and run a mile and Boris could be pretty good at that. But it isn't clear where they will run to apart from an enormous amount of propaganda and some projects hyped up to the skies. Fracking would be a good start, but the people who dragged us here are either crooked or mad and that won't change.
Scrobs - it is ridiculous, but the people who dragged us here are ridiculous and mostly home grown.
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