Campaigners build cemetery outside Parliament warning ‘cold homes cost lives’
Hundreds of headstone erected as Greenpeace activists blame government for years of failure to address cold homes ‘national scandal’
Hundreds of headstone erected as Greenpeace activists blame government for years of failure to address cold homes ‘national scandal’
“The next government’s energy policy should aim at ending fuel poverty, not managing it, and the money to do it is right there in energy company profits.”
‘Without more support too many will continue to rack up unmanageable debts or try and survive in unheated homes causing ill health, misery, and avoidable death.’
‘The price cap may be down but energy bills for millions of households will still be crippling’.
“Not everyone is suffering from a cost of living crisis.”
Among the hardest hit groups will be pensioners, with 86.4% of pensioner couples expected to fall into fuel poverty, along with 90.4% of lone parents with two or more children.
Over half (55.7%) of lone-parent households (855,938) will be in fuel poverty from today
‘This is poverty at its demeaning and degrading worst.’
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