This is my take on this.
I'm 46 years old I've left school with no gcsesi was classed as thick because I'm dyslexic.
Which I didn't know till I went to college to do joinery.
Anyway I'm from a working class family .
I now have a really gòd job or I think it is as a site manager..and I think I even really good money.
Probably about a60k a year.
My misses earns about 25k a year so in total 85k.
Some people might think that's a lot some might think that's fuck all.
My point is I earn that we don't go mad we have a 3 bed semi etc etc.
But if these bills keep going up we are going to start to feel it.
Why is all the help for people on low income or people on the dole.
I've nothing against anyone who needs help and is genuinely out of work.
But I feel like I'm in the middle of don't need help cos I earn good money and oh fuck him.
I've work really hard to be where I am today but this is getting stupid 3k a year for gas nd electric and its only going to go up.
Will it ever go down again.
I bet not.
Night blues ctid
You think you're "in the middle". Well I'm 63, self employed running an small online retail website as I haven't been able to work for many years due to severe back problems. As such, I probably barely earn minimum wage every week and now, because of the "financial crisis", my bills are going up and my income dropping substantially because people don't have the money to spend any more.
My wife is 67, has arthritis and fibromyalgia and should have retired by now but has decided to stay on a bit longer with everything going up again. She earns a little more than me as a nurse looking after autistic, but it means starting early, or finishing late, often weekends and sometimes on overnight shifts. Through no fault of our own we rent our home and have done for over 20 years, as we've never had enough to pay rent AND save for our own place. We don't get any benefits and manage perfectly fine but where we'll be when she decides/has to retire I have no idea.
So we're not in the struggling, desperate bracket and I'm not complaining at all - in fact I actually don't think £3k a year or £58 a week) is all that bad in the greater scheme of things, but undoubtedly we're going to have problems going forwards unless it miraculously drops back to what it all used to cost, and we all know that's not going to happen.
For me, I think something needs to be done to stop the greedy companies at the top from raking it in for an essential service while people are struggling. Handouts are not the answer, bringing prices down makes more sense. BP TRIPLED their profit to £6.9 BILLION last year, so something's not right. They need to be called out on the excuses they're making for increasing prices so much, instead of concentrating on how people are going to pay it, tell us why it's so high in the first place - the truth - and hit them with windfall taxes or whatever. I thought the point of the price cap was supposed to prevent all this?
