Cancel direct debits to leccy etc. You got kids or disabled or pensioners, they can't cut you off. Winter is going to be shocking
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Cancel direct debits to leccy etc. You got kids or disabled or pensioners, they can't cut you off. Winter is going to be shocking
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They won't cut you off. They'll get a warrant to enter your home and install a pre-payment meter on which you will pay signicantly more than a Direct Debit tariff.
Great shot to the foot
I agree that winter is going to be shocking. I can't see how many people are going to meet the bills
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Need to cut the VAT and/or pause the Green levies which add 12% to the cost.
Sunak says he will do the former and Truss the latter so it's not going to be quite as bad as they're predicting but it's still going to be bad enough.
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No action you might suggest about redirecting the huge profits made by energy giants made though, no?Originally Posted by great_fire
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Why do this or any government allow any utility company to decimate, humiliate and drive any human being to suffer such turmoil with such demanding fees?
Why are the government not imposing massive windfall taxes not only on utility companies but every fleecing not enough tax paying leaching ****s that suck the life from the UK?
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Utility companies have to pay the market price for gas and electric. If they don't pass it on to their customers they go bust - just like many did last year.
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Give up man, they are making millions over and above and please don’t blame Russia or the Ukraine thing! Every two hat is using that scenario just to hike everything. I shop for my household and I’ve seen big price hikes on goods that aren’t affected by what I’ve mentioned so why is that?
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But utilities don't operate in a normal free market system. They are actually regulated monopolies with guaranteed returns. All the big six energy companies make profits by generating as well as supplying power. It's a licence to print money
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When we're talking about record profits in the back of te current crisis, we're talking about producers, who are raking in massive billions of pounds of profits, not the utilities, who as you say have to pay and pass on. Might there be some scope for the Governments to intervene and use the money gained to support customers, many of whom are simply not going to be able to make it through the winter, even with support from the utilities - they just don't have that kind of money.
I'm not committing anything but I'm registered with the Don't Pay UK scheme which is calling for a collective non payment from 1st October if there is no action taken to reduce these bills but will only act if over a million join the scheme. Probably won't happen as only have 100k at the oment, but it seems a peaceful protest that we can collectively pursue, and avoids, which I fear will happen if this goes on unchecked, violent street protest.
Check it out, be interested to know if folk think it might help force action if enough customers join in: https://dontpay.uk/
This is a horrific calamatous situation unfolding before us and we need the government to take the lead with strong and unprecidented intervention. It seems the first thing they could do is share the windfall made from the crises to help those most in need. Just my opinion.
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Yeah, it's great this cheap renewable energy eh?.........what they sell at the prices set on the International markets......why didn't the Governments set a limit when they applied to build all these windmills? After all wasn't they built and costed out at a far lower price per unit years ago?
......................unbelieveable Jeff
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