Don't Pay Your Energy Bills?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
As the Tories roll back their energy support package, households are faced with £5,000 energy bills - just completely unaffordable for millions, and threatening to driven large sections of the population below the waterline. What if we all refuse to pay our energy bills - and forced the government to come back with proper support?
That's the plan of Don't Pay UK who are asking for one million people to together commit to not pay their energy bills - sign up here: https://dontpay.uk/
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| 0:20.5 | What if all of us refuse to pay our energy bills? |
| 0:23.3 | Here's what I talked about |
| 0:24.5 | on the Jeremy Vaughan show last week. |
| 0:25.9 | Look, if you take into account inflation, |
| 0:28.1 | prices surging. |
| 0:29.0 | If you take into account people's real wages, |
| 0:31.4 | which have been squeezed |
| 0:32.6 | in a long period in generations, |
| 0:35.7 | we're talking now about bills of five grand plus. |
| 0:38.4 | People can't pay that. |
| 0:39.4 | Small businesses will go to the wall, by the way, |
| 0:41.2 | so you'll get mass unemployment off the back of it. |
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