If you're wrapped up at home with three layers on right now, you're not alone
The heatwave lulled us into a false sense of security, that became abundantly clear this weekend. With energy prices soaring for April 1st and the promise of Spring on the horizon, many chose to turn off their heating permanently for the spring/summer season last week, hoping they could manage the brisk British nights for a few weeks. Except they’re not brisk, they’re absolutely freezing.
Over the weekend, temperatures in London reached lows of -3 degrees, the rest of the UK following similar suit. Countless people shared their indignance to warm their houses, terrified of the cost that would ensue, but the cost to themselves was high too.Nottinghamshire Live . ‘I am one of those people who have to choose between eating and heating - and I am a diabetic. My bills are around £300 at the moment and, with the new increase, this means that I will be asked to pay somewhere around £600. I do not know where I will get that money from. I cannot even afford to stock up food, I just simply cannot.’Amy*, 29 from London, says everyone she knows is terrified of the cost-of-living crisis.
This weekend, one caller on James O’Brien’s LBC radio show went viral after breaking down during a heart-breaking interview about the effect on her family and how broken theUltimately, her testimony proves that for all the government promises, all the money advice and all the charity, there is no easy way out for the millions affected by this crisis.
‘We are going to have to put money into the system or we are going to have an absolute poverty crisis, with people being unable to eat or dying because of the cold,’ Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, told the BBC last week.
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