The government has announced energy companies have agreed to no longer forcibly fit pre-payment meters… if you’re over 85 or have a terminal illness. Everyone else that is struggling to find money to cope with sky-rocketing bills is out of luck! This action comes after the scandal of magistrates issuing warrants en masse, allowing bailiffs to get into people’s homes and put in meters. So when people can’t afford to pay, they pull out the key and cut themselves off from their energy supply.
Energy companies have made massive profits and given bumper payouts to shareholders off the backs of thousands of working-class people paying them through the nose. We need to take the energy companies into democratic public ownership, with no compensation given to the fat cats at the top, so we can all heat and light up our homes.
