Surely they can’t expect us to pay 240 per month for power!

[Ellie198712]

Just read Martin Lewis’s latest email and it’s predicting average bills of £2900 per year!! Surely the government will need to step in and subsidise this cost. Our current bill is about 100 per month, and this just seems untenable for the vast majority

It’s all well and good saying use less but with standing charges going up the bills will be increasing no matter what you do.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

The government made a huge error giving away millions in grants to middle classes (and above) to install electric charging points

We paid for ours

Sorry to generalise (did you miss a trick though?)

@CheesusWept

What will happen if people can’t pay their bill? Will they have to agree a payment plan with their supplier? Or will they be looking at debt collectors at their door and their supply cut off? I just can’t see how some people are going to manage.

Pre payment meters. A choice between topping it up or not.

I haven't seen 100 quid for a long time OP, you've been lucky.

It's terrifying. We already pay £250 a month and that's up from £83 this time last year. And our thermostat has been set at 16 most of the winter, occasionally 18 when it's really cold.

What with food price increase, plus all the regular bills going up each year I don't know how we will cope.

Or perhaps it was introduced after you installed yours Arse?

Anyone happy to share a screenshot of the email, I don’t subscribe and hubby and I are at a loss of what to do.. we’ve got a fix offer of 190 which is double than what we pay rn but if the bill average looks like it will be £240 a month then we’re better off fixing

Didn’t electricity and gas board used to be nationalised? So not in the hands of profit making private businesses? Maybe we need to return to that.

@Higgeldypiggeldy35

Ours has jumped from £60/month to £190. And we have solar panels so our day time electricity use is generally quite low. I'm really worried for us because food and fuel prices have also rocketed. I don't know how people on the breadline will manage to be honest. We are both in professional jobs with a modest mortgage but with two kids in nursery have very little left over as it is. It's very worrying the way things are going and a lot of people are going to go in to debt.

They won’t manage. I’ve heard people ring in to LBC on the radio in tears over this. People are really worried.

The May elections are coming up - between this and the mishandling of the pandemic don't vote Tory!

I'm in a council house on benefits and have a pre payment meter. We very rarely put the heating on but do need it to dry clothes occasionally

My electric is already at a point where I struggle to afford it

@FourTeaFallOut

*i'm a 70's child

i remember the constant power cuts
i remember the drought with no water in the taps
i remember food being a lot scarcer than it is now
i remember having just one coal fire as home heating*

Do you remember the excess winter deaths?

The government will see that as an opportunity to pay less in state pensions

@Clarabe1

God knows. My thinking is they will say what Biden said today. It’s war and we have to stomach rising costs. We have been thinking what we can do to limit our use of energy and I will be honest, not a lot springs to mind.

Sadly I fear you might be right. This could be our equivalent of ww2 food rationing and no material to make clothes. Yes, it’s hit us different but it’s hit us.

LED Fairy lights all the way.

When you go to bed, switch off - at the wall - your cooker, microwave, chargers, gaming stuff, telly, plug-operated doorbells, alexas that aren't needed overnight, printers, laptops, PCs, TV. Leave nothing unnecessary on standby.

I have an electric blanket (godsend and v cheap to run) and bought myself and my lad one of the wonderful oversized fleecy hoodies on amazon for £24 each. They're brilliant. Toasty warm.

My feeling is, this is a war. And when you are at war with a killing machine who will stop at nothing, we must be prepared and willing, to make sacrifices. And share the pain of those Putin is killing. Our pain (for now at least) is sanctions - so higher bills, food prices, petrol.

But the squeeze/stranglehold on Russia MUST continue and we just have to manage as best we can. With set jaws and strong hearts.

Yep. I e said this on another thread

Was paying £140. Last year They upped to £170. April will be £275 a month

So another £100 a month, £3 a day extra sounds nothing but add that up and just £1200 a year

And the worst is yet to come as mortgage rates are going to rocket too which will impact on renters too as landlords will increases rents to compensate. Sorry I don’t mean to be a doom-mongerer but this is the reality we are facing and yet Boris and his government don’t seem concerned as it doesn’t affect them personally.

@QuebecBagnet

Didn’t electricity and gas board used to be nationalised? So not in the hands of profit making private businesses? Maybe we need to return to that.

We all said at the time that it was a bad idea. No essential service should be a profit making business for shareholders

@Waxonwaxoff0

What if people just don't pay it because they can't afford to? Will they get cut off?

That's generally what happens when people can't pay their leccy bill yeah

@HereComesSpringAgain

all our contracts will drop off throughout spring/summer

i'm a 70's child

i remember the constant power cuts
i remember the drought with no water in the taps
i remember food being a lot scarcer than it is now
i remember having just one coal fire as home heating

we need to adjust our mindsets now....as harsh as it sounds, its how many other countries manage. it can be done and we all might be a bit better off in other ways. it doesn't have to be as miserable as we think

What a shit existence that'll be

Yes there is another price rise in October

This morning on the news,I heard that there's a possibility that fuel bills could hit £4000 a year! 😱😱😱

I don't know how we will cope, if we don't pay we won't have any power or gas as on prepayment meter.
I am disabled, the cold causes me asthma attacks and I won't be able to use my stair lift if the power goes out.
Fuck knows how we will cope.
Yet the government gave Ukraine £175 million this week... yet refuse to help people. What the actual fuck is that about.

You do know other countries are not experiencing this because their governments have capped the rise or nationalised energy etc. The conservatives have chosen this path, as they chose Brexit.
They don’t care. They are warm.

@ALongHardWinter

This morning on the news,I heard that there's a possibility that fuel bills could hit £4000 a year! 😱😱😱

Only rich people will afford heat then the maths don't work for poor people

£297 per month universal credit allowance that is to feed clothe look for work run transport etc in the past people have been threatened with a sanction if they deliberately get rid of there car or Internet as they are preventing themselves from securing work they get overturned yes but it takes awhile

The oil and gas companies are the ones making the money.

Shell plan to give $7billion back to shareholders instead of absorbing the costs.

The government could support households with a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. But they won't.

Oil and gas companies gave £400k to the Tory party in 9 months last year.

We are going to have to pull together as much as possible and keep an eye on our neighbours. This is what they did during WW2. I was collecting for Ukraine at the weekend , I live in a very poor city and the generosity from the poorest of people made me cry. The trouble is in this country that since 2008 the gap between rich and poor has got progressively wider. Middle classes people who think they are struggling really don’t get it. Real poverty is frightening. Our govt have really let us down.