Gordon Brown released his plans to help those facing a fuel poverty over this winter. The need for action is in response to rising energy costs.
The £8.50/week cold weather payment will rise to a handsome £25/week – so long as the temperature stays below Zero celsius for seven consecutive days. Apart from the half-million poorest households (and some of those will undoubtedly be single-person households) fuel prices will continue to rise. Other help is with insulation.
So how the hell is that going to help people this winter? Will my aged relatives get their houses lagged for free before the cold weather they can’t afford to heat their homes through comes heading to our shores?
It would appear that the Government may have scored another own goal. One of incompetence, and showing just how out of touch the upper echelons of Labour are, compared with the grass roots of the party.
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