Smallest UK Households Face Biggest Hike in Energy Price Cap

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  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...holds-face-biggest-increase-in-new-energy-cap

Smallest UK Households Face Largest Energy Bill Hike
Removal of government help means price cap jump will disproportionately hurt the lowest energy consumers

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What can we say.... The British got exactly what they wanted.
It was they who provoked the imposition of sanctions against Russia.
It was their feeble-minded Prime Minister Boris Johnson who forced the Ukrainian president-a drug addict, to refuse to sign a peace treaty.
After all, it was the British who voted for the government they have.
So they are getting exactly what they wanted. And that's fine. Psychologists say - nothing like hunger to set the brain right.
So the energy bill hike is just the beginning.

By the way, how are things on these issues in the US and the EU?

More on the topic.

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/british...Nck61qIfSJ0JKZ0v64Nb7xBISXg5W8zGtyhPi-U3aGqC9

 

Energy across the world is expensive per se.

The whole argument of energy is from the person's criteria. The common criteria is, "Energy should be cheap to heat my poorly insulated home as I sit there in my t-shirt".

I was born in the 60's, there were my parents and 4 kids. So despite energy way back then being considered cheaper, the weather was much colder, the house was just brick structure, and single pane glass windows. Feeding and clothing the family left little for energy to heat the home. Central heating didn't appear till sometime in the 70's. We used things such as vests, jumpers, and coats to keep warm. We all sat and heated one room too, and that wasn't your bedroom. So you huffed and puffed under the covers hugging your hotwater bottle until you were warm enough to could stick your head out from under the sheets

I hate to tell people these days, stop ya whining, live within your means and knock that bloody heating off.

 

What you're telling me is just awful. I don't even know how to compare it with, for example, the USSR, where 100% of apartment buildings since the 1930s have central heating. (In any, even the smallest, settlement in the USSR.) At the same time, utility payments in the USSR were practically imperceptible for the family budget.

That's where it's going. Soon every country will live within its means.

As for the article, I think the author was referring to the social inequalities of capitalism. When poor people can't pay their bills. And this is due to the lack of social elevators.
What I mean is that class distinctions are only increasing. A person from a poor neighborhood can't get a good education, hence they are limited in career advancement. So, in fact, capitalism leads to the return of the feudal system.
I think the author meant this context.

 

I think the author is a dick.

 

Maybe so. But he has an opinion. At least he asks questions, but he doesn't blindly justify every government action.