The resistance is growing as more than 75,000 irritated people in the UK have pledged not to pay their electricity bill this fall when prices jump again.
“75,000 people have pledged to strike on October 1st! If the government & energy companies refuse to act then ordinary people will! Together we can enforce a fair price and affordable energy for all,” tweeted “Don’t Pay UK,” an anonymous group spearheading the effort to have more than one million Brits boycott paying their power bill by Oct. 1.
🔥 75,000 people have pledged to strike on October 1st!
If the government & energy companies refuse to act then ordinary people will!
Together we can enforce a fair price and affordable energy for all.https://t.co/RYOlAVoLqd #dontpayuk pic.twitter.com/HeF4RiOVVH
— Don't Pay. (@dontpayuk) August 5, 2022
The strike comes as an inflation storm of high energy prices has obliterated household incomes. Brits are the most miserable in three decades as inflation is expected to hit 13%. And while Bank of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey hiked interest rates the most in 27 years to tame inflation, risks are mounting of a recession.
On Oct. 1, the average household will pay almost £300 a month for power, the BoE warned. Couple surging power costs with negative real wage growth, and it becomes apparent households are being squeezed. This excludes soaring prices for shelter, food, and petrol at the pump — this trend is unsustainable and could result in social instabilities.
British news outlet Glasgow Live said the strike is similar to the “action in the late 1980s and ’90s to fight against the poll tax brought in by PM Margaret Thatcher. In protest, 17 million people refused to pay.”
UK financial journalist and broadcaster Martin Lewis said this about the strike:
“I think I can categorise it more accurately now, the big movement that I am seeing is an increase of growth in people calling for a non-payment of energy bills, mass non-payment. Effectively a consumer strike on energy bills and getting rid of the legitimacy of paying that.
“We are getting close to a Poll Tax moment on energy bills coming into October and we need the Government to get a handle on that, because once it starts becoming socially acceptable not to pay energy bills people will stop paying energy bills and you’re not going to cut everyone off.”
Meanwhile, Ofgem (UK energy regulator) Chief Executive Jonathan Brearley told BBC Radio 4’s Today on Saturday that people shouldn’t join the strike for two reasons.
“First of all, it will drive up costs for everyone across the board. And secondly, if you are facing difficulty in paying your bill, the best thing you can do is get in touch with your energy company.”
He added: ‘I would not encourage anyone to withhold their paying their bill because that just damages things further and it will impact them personally.’
Last week, the UK government slammed the movement, calling it “highly irresponsible.”
“This is highly irresponsible messaging, which ultimately will only push up prices for everyone else and affect personal credit ratings,” a government spokesperson was quoted by The Independent.
Don’t Pay UK believes 6.3 million UK households will be pushed into power bill poverty this winter, with millions more feeling the stress of out-of-control inflation.
People on Twitter responded to the moment by saying, “the Revolution has begun” and “a bit of civil unrest on its way onto our streets & rightly so.”
Perhaps the movement’s involvement will be an excellent proxy for the growing discontent festering among Brits that could result in civil unrest this winter as millions will struggle with keeping the lights on, the furnace hot, and putting food on the table.
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That’s what happen when you agree to close nuclear plants……..
Revolution – lol.
I’ve lived in Britain. Middle aged, beer bellies, can’t run to the corner shop, most fighting age youths not of English stock, obsessed with soccer, and best of all unarmed. Mostly vaccinated to boot so expiry date built in.
When they have the equivalent of what is going on in the Donbass then call it revolution.
Go Vlad! Crush the NWO.
The elites in the collective West have totally misjudged the ordinary man and woman. They are guilty of believing their own propaganda that the legacy media spews out daily, failing to see that most people go to other sources for their information these days. Putin is probably more popular than their own politicians in some Western countries if the truth be known.
Outnumbered.
“Go Vlad!”
The irony is in your face.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Impaler
Part-n-Parcel.
Somewhere. Just today. “COVID Came from ukraine!!!! (according to some ‘russian’)
Please. Part of the greatest show on earth.
This way to the Egress!
What is your alternative? Just smile and eat the bugs? Trust the Science? Stand with (((Ukraine)))?
Our evil and feckless congress just passed the “Ruin America Now Act”
so perhaps we can just stop them by The We Won’t Allow Our Country To Be Ruined Act
and simply refuse to pay federal income tax. Starve the beast.
Exactly… they gonna toss 180 million people in jail??? Who’s gonna pay the taxes??? The purple haired and soi boiz woke crowd that already doesn’t pay taxes?? Those with ebt cards?? They gonna pay?? Maybe put more taxes on blacks, hispanics, asians because the white nazi’s are not paying…
LOL… but I’m willing to bet most will still pay their taxes because they are terrified of the govt. Maybe thats why the IRS has not only an arsenal but millions of rounds of ammo too…
and no, I don’t pay taxes, only the tax that the stores collect is what I pay and only because you can’t opt out of paying that.
“If government and energy companies don’t act, we will force them to.”
We will protest fascism by demanding more fascism.
Sorry folks. You can’t peacefully protest or boycott your way out of this any more than you can vote your way out.
I just received our monthly electric bill, 306.00 highest ever by 110.00. Lancaster County Pa. Guess I’ll get out the hoppes and the rem-oil and touch up.
Oh, that’s right, Dr. OZ and Doug Mastriano are going to save me with that big RED WAVE. Red Wave alright
Geez, you keeping a 5000ft mansion at 65 degrees?
That is a normal Phoenix summer bill.
But it’s a dry cool.
Dang nabbit! And i was just catchin’ on to another ‘color-code’ scheme, until not too many years ago. THEN, the 2,two,too party system switched colors.
Turn your aircon off. Cook with charcoal. Cut back!
I save around $4 a day with solar. It keeps my bills down to around $150 a month, and I chew threw electricity like you can’t believe. It took me 4 years to pay back the outlay, and will have to be refurbished after 12. Not a great investment, but beats paying the electric company.
Also recommend a inverter air con, and also a heat pump water heater – both highly efficient.
Look at what Spain did to people that installed solar panels.
There was this thing called geothermal when I constructed a simple home. Good idea but much $. Make sure you understand the type of soil you are in and it’s compatibility. etc. Around here if all else fails, shade trees in summer.
306…I’m shy of that by 90 but peeps around here say their bills spiked to 510. WTF? The “reasoning” in this area is the cost of fuel two months ago being absorbed by the consumer now. Electric customers on my grid paid 40-60% more on latest electric bill. Of course usage is up because it’s hotter than hot in Texas.
How about that Dr. Oz fuck, Trump’s pick?
Playing with the bull and get the horns.
The revolution has begun. Lulz.
When politicians, civil servants, bankers and corporate businesspersons are being used for home and commercial heating, then we shall know the “revolution” has begun in earnest.
When these government robototrons are afraid to go to work you you will finally realize that it’s “showtime”.
Dual purpose breed. Eat-n-Heat?
It appears that the socialists are running out of other peoples money in Britain. Coming soon to USA.
You underestimate their ability to squeeze blood out of a stone.
Hmmmmm……,not sure how that will work out but perhaps we Ameromutts ought to try that with taxes…….,just saying.
won’t help. Read Creature from Jekyll Island. They get your money no matter what. Barter or trade with physical PMs is the only way to thwart them.
Of course, they control the PM market, too.
Nothing short of killing every last one of them is going to stop them.
Download Creature From Jekyll Island here … it’s been in public domain for years … totally legal to download it …
https://ia902609.us.archive.org/14/items/pdfy–Pori1NL6fKm2SnY/The%20Creature%20From%20Jekyll%20Island.pdf
I was mentioning that book in 2007 and with results overwhelmingly the deer in the headlights look.
(less than $1.90 per day)…
Well… that puts me in the top 1% class right there… I get $6 a day Wheres AA!?!? Gotta strut my wealth… lol
You ARE rich!! I had a feeling. So impressed…
Does $1.90 per day in Madagascar provide the same as it $1.90 provides here in the United States?
Folks use these nonsensical numbers all the time …
I worked with a guy from Guatemala … where they ‘live’ on some paltry amount of money per day in US dollars — and, like he told me, at that rate you live really well …
Something keeps reminding me of Twain’s quote about liars, damn liars and statistics …
We’ll subsidize it. If we don’t, you’ll know that the suffering and protests are intended.
The revolution will not be televised as they got their power cut…
75,000 in a country of 67 million, is less that one in every 800 people. Not exactly a popular revolution. I hope the Brits do stand up, but this is hardly a revolution. It will take some real hardship before that will ever happen. The government will simply offer financial subsidies for those who obey and the people will succumb. That has been the plan all along.
When they lost London to the ragheads, oligarchs, and Chinese I knew they would never stand up.
I have lived in London. It was a great city, perhaps the greatest. They gave it up without a fight. Last time there I was staying around the corner from Harrod’s. A raghead pulled up in the middle of the street, stopped his gold Bentley in the middle of the road, and left it there. Walk off to whatever. Traffic both ways blocked. Wtf askedI of the hotel. The guy just shrugged and says it happens all the time. Eventually it gets towed, but the ragheads don’t give a fuck. They just pay the fine to get it released, and send a crony to pick it up.
Across the road was a huge apartment building, every apartment 20 million pounds. Every one empty. All owned by ragheads and oligarchs. Londoners can’t afford to live in their own city anymore. They gave it all away to foreigners.
When you go to the web site for this movement, you’ll see that they’re not going to pull it off unless at least 1,000,000 people sign up for it …
Gotta ‘smart meter’? shut down remotely. Unplug and bypass? remote alarm. Eventually, you will get a FREE! booster in one form or another. Ultimately, a drone home kinda thing.
A revolution ! Give me a break a modern day teaparty lol. England has more Pakis Indians and niggers that whites . But you go ahead and show em by not paying that bill!
Sounds like a good way to spend Oct and Nov in the dark…
Do they not realize how easy it is to cut off power to a house? The government does not care if you freeze to death in the dark.
Do you not realize how easy it is to restore power to a house? We don’t care what the government wants. Across the West, the governments are wholly corrupt, and have absolutely no legitimacy at all.
Saying you are going to do something, and actually doing it are two separate things.
That said, I suspect way more than 75,000 will not be able to afford to pay winter utility bills.
A good start but this won’t end until the corrupt politicians are dragged out into the streets and you know, the thing.