What can we do?
We are paying £315/month up from £165ish. But then that will rise in the Autumn and again next year.....
SS you may be able to find that amount of money for a long time to come, but many can't. I won't be able to make it for long.
This crisis was caused entirely by our politicians, by their creating money to pay for their stupid covid measures, and there is no way out of it - the money has gone, it has all been given away in a massive shift of wealth, and what we used to call pounds sterling is now no more than fluff in our pockets. Nothing has changed in the physical world of gas and electricity though - it is all still there for us BUT our politicians are standing in the way of it. They will not help you and they do not want to help you - they are the ones who have got you into this mess and they only want to keep taking your money, they are vampires, and they still want you to vote for them! As long as you keep paying and keep voting nothing will change... and when I say nothing will change, I mean that the situation will keep worsening.
It is the politicians that need to be got rid of. The solution is within our grasp but it doesn't involve the Conservative or Labour parties. Have a look at my post, no. 58, in this thread, about what the Sri Lankans did to their rip-off politicians.
https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/696-migrants-14-boats.595121/page-4#post-5276695
The Sri Lankans have not been successful and have ended up with rationing, but they tried, and I hope they try again. The history of Britain, and what made Britain great, is the people not putting up with bad leaders. The days of us "not putting up with bad leaders" are long gone, and we have all but forgotten those days with all our modern creature comforts. Those creature comforts are largely created by gas and electricity; what will happen when they are out of our reach?