To think it’s not going to be a case of heating or eating for many families

[LadyCatStark]

We can forget heating altogether! I know it’s a nice little rhyme but for many, many families it’s going to be a case of eating or putting just enough petrol in the car to get you to work to pay all these increased costs. Eating yourself, or feeding your kids (hopefully most people will choose their kids). Eating healthily or eating cheap rubbish.

I’ve just nipped to Aldi as I had a work appointment cancel in the area and spent £40 just on the few bits I needed, not even a proper shop. I could have cried that I’d driven even just the 15 minutes to my appointment and it was cancelled and every drop of fuel counts.

I think the dividing line will fall between the competent and incompetent, frankly. If you are competent and economically active, you are probably okay. If you are running on a wish and a promise, and hoping for interventions from on high, I would worry a lot.

Food banks have had potatoes refused due to the fact that people cant afford the fuel to cook them

If you cant pay your gas bill @DogandMog then you're hardly going to be able to afford to install a woodburner.