#fuel poverty
We should start thinking of the idea of energy companies being run for-profit in the same way we think of for-profit healthcare. Like bro this shit is vital to human sustainment you’re sort of a piece of shit for wringing as much money as you can out of it. People are being brutalized by fuel prices rn. It’s fucked up.
Not to mention the massive environmental cost of mismanagement of fuel and all the wars fought over fuel, and all the money and weapons that go towards human rights war crimes and abuses in exchange for fuel.
UK is only major economy to put up taxes during cost-of-living crisis, research finds
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UK is only major economy to put up taxes during cost-of-living crisis, research finds
The tax rise is for the poorest people not the richest, obviously. Tories can’t be pissing off any of those Russian oligarch friends. Also MPs just got a £2000 pay rise because of course.
MPs handed £2,000 pay rise on same day families are hit with double cost of living blow
You know things are bad if the Telegraph is criticising the government.