AIBU TO WONDER HOW IN GOD'S NAME PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE INRESE IN ENERGY PRICES

[Diamondsareforever123]

OK this obviously won't affect those who are lucky enough to have money - but - how are those on low incomes/benefit, poor pensioners, etc. ever going to possibly be able to afford the energy price increases? Also the increases will have a knock-on price increase effect on everything we buy - food, clothes ...... I am concerned.

Remember Gandi said not everyone will go to prison, & what would be the point of going? you come out & still can’t pay, interesting scenario

@mogsrus

Remember Gandi said not everyone will go to prison, & what would be the point of going? you come out & still can’t pay, interesting scenario

True

You wouldn't go to jail you'd just be dumped on a pre-payment meter. And apparently smart meters can become pre-payment meters with a remote flick of the switch.

You don't go to prison for not paying your gas bill. You end up on a credit blacklist and with the bailiffs at the door taking all your possessions.

Can you imagine how many bailiffs they would need, courts would never see the end of the Q,

I predict this country will be a very grim place come this autumn. What's happening is very worrying.

@FourTeaFallOut

You wouldn't go to jail you'd just be dumped on a pre-payment meter. And apparently smart meters can become pre-payment meters with a remote flick of the switch.

So glad I haven’t got one

@Gardeningcreature

We should not have to live like this that is the entire point. Both dh and I work full time. I absolutely should not have to tolerate this shit. I didn’t vote for it. I’ll say it again. You will get the ‘Let’s blame X lazy bastards, they shouldn’t live in a house with central heating/feed their children/own a pair of shoes/own a car/have a phone etc etc etc When will people wake the fuck up. This government have spent BILLIONS on their mates and giving tax payers money to their mates. They do not give one fuck about anyone who has to actually work for a living. If you have had the privilege of attending a private school which cost £23,500 PER YEAR per child plus over £1000 for a uniform, you have no idea, repeat no idea what it will mean to go out to work to earn a living. The thought that some people will not be able to give their children a hot meal or bath them due to the sheer expense is incomprehensible to entitled (usually white middle class males) who are in power. You may as well talk in Chinese for all the comprehension they will have.

If the left get in I'll have to pay more taxes. I'm the epitome of squeezed middle and have a small child in London so pay £1600 each month for nursery, vvv narrowly miss even child benefit. I can't afford to pay more tax, so I vote Conservative. I don't deny other people are worse off, but my family can't take further reductions in our take home pay, so I'll never vote Labour.

Not to mention, no other party knows what a woman is.

If the left get in I'll have to pay more taxes

I don’t remember much of a tax rise when Labour got in. What l do remember is a child benefit rise, and child tax credits even for middle earners. In 2000l was taking home about 80 quid extra per month.

Which is £143 according to the BoE inflation caluculator.

Don't know, already struggling

I don’t remember much of a tax rise when Labour got in. What l do remember is a child benefit rise, and child tax credits even for middle earners. In 2000l was taking home about 80 quid extra per month.

At one point during labours last reign they actually increased taxes for someone eating below 21000 and decreased them on people earning over.

They corrected it after but it still happend.

I don’t remember much of a tax rise when Labour got in. What l do remember is a child benefit rise, and child tax credits even for middle earners. In 2000l was taking home about 80 quid extra per month.

At one point during last labour made it so people on around 18,000 had taxes increased, whilst if you were on above 21,000

The point is, that l was better off due to Labour being in power. Mainly because they don’t screw people over who are on middle to low incomes.

Unlike this lot.

Sorry but if any of the people moaning on here voted Tory then let this be your lesson. It’s the oldest trick in the book - getting the working & middle-classes to vote for an upper-class elite, who, once in power tax the poorest to the hilt whilst retaining their privilege. They take from the poor & give to the rich, & care not a shiny shit how you fare; whether you freeze or starve, or both.

Don’t.vote.Tory. Simple

@CaveWoman1

Sorry but if any of the people moaning on here voted Tory then let this be your lesson. It’s the oldest trick in the book - getting the working & middle-classes to vote for an upper-class elite, who, once in power tax the poorest to the hilt whilst retaining their privilege. They take from the poor & give to the rich, & care not a shiny shit how you fare; whether you freeze or starve, or both.

Don’t.vote.Tory. Simple

Exactly

I don't deny other people are worse off, but my family can't take further reductions in our take home pay, so I'll never vote Labour

Income tax did not increase under the last Labour government, it decreased. The Tories are raising tax this year in the form of freezing the personal allowance and hiking NI. It would have been far fairer to raise income tax rates, though.

For those who qualify there is The Big Difference Scheme

*The point is, that l was better off due to Labour being in power. Mainly because they don’t screw people over who are on middle to low incomes.

Unlike this lot.*

Except they did back in 2007 they increased taxes on the low paid.

I tell a lie, Labour introduced a new top rate for earnings over £150k, so technically an increase. But most people earn nowhere near that.

On top of this Rishi wants us to not ask for pay rises. FFS!!

Not to mention, no other party knows what a woman is.

This and the anti semitism are why I couldn't stomach voting Labour. Now I, and others, are paying for those principles.

In our case it will be a case of using every trick in the book to make the most of the energy we use and simply, if we can't afford to put heating on we won't be, will live in 3 layers of clothes, hats, gloves etc, done it before and will just have to do it again.

On top of this Rishi wants us to not ask for pay rises. FFS!!

Has Rishi said that too?

we won't spend more we don't have more in our budget we will just use less.

I tell a lie, Labour introduced a new top rate for earnings over £150k, so technically an increase. But most people earn nowhere near that.

No they also made the low paid worse off with the change to the 10p rate.