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'Eat or heat': Britons hit by crisis

2022-05-26T17:24:41.347Z


REPORT - The Johnson government deploys 15 billion pounds of aid to households and taxes energy companies.


From our correspondent in London

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It's a new form of slavery, a modern alienation that she never thought she would experience.

“We have become slaves to our prepaid gas and electricity meters.

What they take from us and what they leave us as money determines our lives, what we can buy to feed ourselves,”

says Kathleen Kerridge.

This resident of Portsmouth, mother of four children, describes with modesty and emotion the descent into precariousness caused today by the soaring cost of living.

A situation that is affecting millions of British households, while the crisis in the cost of living represents the greatest challenge of the moment for the British government.

Like many residents of the neighborhood and low-income families in the country, the Kerridges use this system of prepaid cards that are introduced into the meter after buying it in a neighborhood shop.

Without credit, everything stops.

With the rent and the housing tax, these expenses…

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Source: lefigaro

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