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Energy giants post soaring profits as households struggle with rising bills
“A damning verdict on an energy system that is failing the people it is supposed to serve.”
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Zack Polanski’s call to nationalise utilities to lower bills draws support
“And so say all of us!”
Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester
“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”
As energy prices soar in Britain, Spain keeps bills low with renewable energy
Overall costs of electricity, heating, cooling, water and waste disposal are 40 percent cheaper in Spain, where the cost of living is, on average, 26.5 percent lower than in the UK.
Boris Johnson’s ‘Orwell Britain’ column draws widespread mockery
‘I suggest you go back and re-read Orwell Boris…’
End Furniture Poverty calls on new government to ensure at least 10% of social homes are furnished
Only 2 percent of social homes are furnished or partly furnished, compared to 29 percent in the private rental sector, research shows.