„Die Rechnungen steigen immer weiter“: „Warm Spaces“ in der Gemeinde nehmen in Großbritannien zu
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/21/community-warm-spaces-rise-uk-walworth-living-room
Von BulkyAccident
„Die Rechnungen steigen immer weiter“: „Warm Spaces“ in der Gemeinde nehmen in Großbritannien zu
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/21/community-warm-spaces-rise-uk-walworth-living-room
Von BulkyAccident
14 Kommentare
How disgusting that these have to exist (ditto with food banks).
They claim the UK is the 6th wealthiest nation, that is what we are told everyday.
Worst insulated housing stock in Europe. Yet we could be using blown cellulose fibre (mashed up paper) and be halfway cosy.
Combined Heat and power/district heating was on the cards but then we found fossil fuels under the North Sea.
Remember. Food banks didnt really exist pre tory govt with Cameron coming to power. Just go look at them now. Tells you all you need to know.
If we raised the tax on everyone, we wouldn’t have these issues
But no one wants to pay more so things will get shit
Boomers didn’t have enough kids, now there’s too many of them and not enough working people to pay for it all, plus draining the public money with zero interest in giving anything up/back
This is absolutely disgusting, and the fact that the prices will keep rising.
I wonder how much of this is down to rising energy costs, and how much of it is down to the decreasing number of what used to be warm spaces?
Youth clubs, pubs, bingo halls, community centres, etc….they were never designed or advertised as „warm banks“ – but many of them did provide that. So perhaps the decline of third spaces has exacerbated this.
Bills *dont’* keep going higher though, energy bills are lower than in ’22 and ’23 (source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6942cb008f4636fa2c547df5/quarterly-energy-prices-december-2025.pdf), and I don’t think those numbers are even inflation indexed so the reduction is more than that.
> The average annual bill for typical gas and electricity consumption under the energy price cap is now £1,755, 44% higher than winter 2021-22.
Yeah but 10% cheaper than 22/23 and almost 20% cheaper than 23/24.
One thing I really dislike about the Guardian is the way it always looks for the angle that makes Britain look as bad as possible. It fuels an impression of national decline in all areas, and that just isn’t accurate.
(afaik) This was the whole point of pubs across history. The PUBlic house would be warm and social. Might as well use the money you’d use for heating at home, on getting a drink or a meal, and keeping warm throughout the night along with it.
UK energy production peaked in 2005 and has been declining every year since then. Incredibly complex demand management, cross-subsidies and price controls are now baked into the system.
Ever-greater reliance on intermittent sources like wind and solar is going to make this even more of a problem, because they’re both expensive and unreliable.
All of this was totally avoidable, politicians just had to stop listening to nutjob environmental activists who simply wanted to feel good about themselves. Serious people in the energy sector have been warning about this for decades.
Advanced countries run on energy. If you don’t have cheap, abundant energy you will no longer have an advanced country. It’s literally that simple.
And how many of these are OAPs living in far too large homes and budgeting poorly?
Folding council tax into PAYE makes sense for everyone. Would certainly prevent local councils rinsing residents with little to no oversight.
Electricity costs 4x in the UK what it costs in the USA.
Inflation adjusted wages in 2025 are 2% lower than in 2008.
That’s what the uniparty has done for you.
It’s okay. We shouldn’t tax billionaires or mega companies more. They need more money to research ways to fuck us even harder.