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andysouldancer · 1 year ago
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Completely agree because I know that this is true.
But, I often wonder if the Guardian regret undermining Corbyn and backing Starmer?
#politics #StarmerOut #labourcrisis #leftwing #socialism #SocialistSunday #crisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #fuelpoverty
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architectwaqas · 2 years ago
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Inclusion in another list of Productive Scientists. I am pleased to share that my name is included in the AD Scientific Index 2023. The AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index), unlike other systems that provide evaluations of journals and universities, is a ranking and analysis system based on the scientific performance and the added value of the scientific productivity of individual scientists. Furthermore, it provides rankings of institutions based on the scientific characteristics of affiliated scientists. https://lnkd.in/deUeWpxd #ThermalComfort #IndoorEnvironmentalQuality #SustainableArchitecture #BuildingPerformance #Climateresponsivedesign #Energy #fuelpoverty #Energyefficientbuildings #builtenvironment (at BUITEMS QUETTA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cobq2oNN2ur/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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fixed1t · 2 years ago
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Surviving Poverty : Can A Meths Candle Cook An Egg Part 4
In Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg   Part 3 I achieved my result a temperature of 80+ centigrade and a hard boiled egg. The time taken was cut by a third by adding insulation to 2 hours 15 mins. In this video Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg   Part 4 I've substituted the Tealight Candle for a candle sized Methylated Spirit Burner to try and reduce the cooking time to reach 80 degrees centigrade. My modification was really successful as you will see, if you watch all the video. Background The UK economy is in trouble, normal working people are regularly having to work two or three jobs and shifts in order to bring in sufficient money just to live. The energy crisis caused by the energy companies price hiking with no controls other than 'The Market' ie themselves means that working people are desperate to reduce their energy costs, fuel bills and food bills to try to reduce the increasing amount of debt they are having to take on just to survive. So where does that leave those without jobs, or in such poorly paid zero hours jobs where they find themselves with only a few pennies to spare for heating, lighting, food and cooking or the old on miserably low UK pensions and disabled on benefits, the worst in the free world. It leaves them with nothing. So I've decided to set about finding out what I can achieve with the meagrest of items and over this series of videos I will be doing truthful and repeatable experiments and eating, drinking and staying warm with the outcomes. scenario one: So your in a war zone, you need to stay indoors perhaps in a cellar, you have limited water, only a single small candle and a lighter plus a tiny 250ml pan and one egg stolen from a local chicken. If you like the video please subscribe to the channel, and if you know somebody struggling with poverty, let them know about this series,  the things I am learning will have greater significance than just the video and may spark them or yourselves into other ideas. Malcolm aka   @fixed1t
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newsfromtherooftop · 2 years ago
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Council candidates line up to end fuel poverty
Council candidates line up to end fuel poverty | Pledge launched to help local authorities to help those in need. #FuelPoverty #EnergyBills #LocalElections
Council candidates have been lining up to a pledge to help end fuel poverty as part of their local election campaigns. The pledge, created by the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, calls on council candidates to improve the energy efficiency of Council and housing association housing stock if elected. Prospective candidates signing the pledge also commit to backing better enforcement of existing…
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trippingthelightdyspraxic · 4 years ago
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SAVE £££ WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!
January 6th 2021
IT’S EASY: you could cut £143 from your energy bills and even more on housing costs just by not being poor! 
Money isn’t everything, say people who’ve never had to worry about it. Money can’t buy you happiness/love/insert cliche here. But as more and more of us are discovering thanks to the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s not that simple. 
One paycheck from homelessness
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t worried about money. From my parents constantly having to re-interview for their own jobs at the end of the eighties, holding whispered conversations about how to keep the house; to my own shock at finding my first salary after graduation wasn’t enough to keep the hot water and lights on simultaneously. I’m not terrible with money - I was self employed for ten years and did my own accounts throughout - and yet I’ve never been able to shrug off the awareness that I’m only ever one paycheck, one illness, one political decision away from disaster. I’m far from alone: housing charity Shelter reported in 2019 that three million people in the UK were one paycheck away from homelessness. This inevitably takes a toll on mental and physical health and on the lives of millions more trapped in the cycle of poverty and insecurity. 
The myth of 25p pasta
We’ve all seen the tweets from blissfully ignorant Tories claiming that a bag of pasta only costs 25p. That may be true, but the gas required to boil it, the pan, the cooker and the kitchen itself do not come for free. Cheap supermarkets don’t set up in areas full of rented flats but in out of town shopping parks you need a car to get to, or a bus. 
And besides, who would ever choose to live on plain pasta? Because that’s what money really buys you: choices.
Without money, your choices are reduced to these.
Shall I put the heater on or have a bath? Which will keep me warm for the longest for the least outlay? 
How long can I spin out this bag of pasta? 
What can I sell next? 
What shall I buy with this pound, three courgettes or twelve burgers? 
(The last one is a trick question. You learn to avoid the courgette aisle.)
With an increase in zero hours contracts (Close to a million people by 2019) and an unemployment rate of 4.9% (October 2020), they are stark choices that an increasing number of us are being forced to make. Without job security or a regular income, you can’t save for a deposit or get a mortgage, so you’re forced to rent, usually privately. According to Santander Mortgages, the average deposit needed by a first-time buyer is £51,9052.
If you’re able to raise that, you’ll pay £723 on average in mortgage payments, while average rents are £912. That’s a poverty premium of £2,268 per year. 
And that’s not the only way being poor is going to cost you.
Prepayment electric costs at least £143 a year more than the equivalent unit cost for direct debit tariffs. My energy company quoted me £120 to get it switched, then said they couldn’t actually do this as my 30 year old heaters weren’t compatible. Had I thought about getting them replaced?
Unreliable income means that you are more likely to need an overdraft, at a cost of anything up to 40% interest. 
If you don’t have a freezer, you can’t buy cheap or in bulk. If we use the Macaroni Cheese Meal For One Index for illustration, at Asda it’s £2 chilled or £1.20 frozen. At the Spar on the corner it’s £5 for two. 
If you need a loan, your interest rate is higher than someone who has a good credit rating and a house for security. You’re more vulnerable to loan sharks and payday lenders. 
If you can’t afford to buy white goods and furniture upfront, there’s a company out there who’ll sell you them for monthly payments of anything up to 119% APR. 
If an old car is all you can afford, it’ll cost you more in repairs and fuel consumption. If you can’t afford one at all, your job choices are limited to those on bus routes. 
As we enter a third lockdown here in the UK, it doesn’t look like things are going to improve any time soon. So do YOU know any weird tricks to avoid the cost of being poor? 
Alison J North
Alison J North
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trikerpoet · 2 years ago
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Austerity
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1073705273343819&id=100008284478199 Please watch and share.
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unpluggedtv · 2 years ago
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he third-largest oil importer and consumer in the world, India, brought in 863,950 barrels of crude per day (bpd) from Asian countries, an increase of 4.8% from the previous month, while its purchases from Russia fell by 2.4% to 855,950 bpd. India's share of OPEX oil decreased to 59.8%, the lowest level in at least 16 years, despite Saudi Arabia's growth due to a reduction in imports from Africa. India's monthly oil imports from Russia, which hit a record in June, are declining as Moscow has scaled back the discounts it offers for its oil and refiners have increased longer-term supply.
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limejuicer1862 · 3 years ago
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#DifficultTimes #PayingForIt #FuelPoverty #FoodPoverty #Payingforit .A special theme in response to our rising bills. Please join Tim Fellows and myself in marking with your writing and artworks . I will feature your published/unpublished poetry/short prose/artworks about this issue. Please include a short third person bio. This is an ongoing post
#DifficultTimes #PayingForIt #FuelPoverty #FoodPoverty #Payingforit .A special theme in response to our rising bills. Please join Tim Fellows and myself in marking with your writing and artworks . I will feature your published/unpublished poetry/short prose/artworks about this issue. Please include a short third person bio. This is an ongoing post
-Tim Fellows Starves Our daughter starves so our grand bairns can eat.She decides to live on energy drinks.We take all out for dinner as a treat,get a good meal inside her, make her think. If she’s not there, who will be there for them?We give what we can to make it better.Tell her bairns need her. Who will make and mend?Moments don’t come again. Make them matter. When they were homeless we gave…
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andysouldancer · 2 years ago
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Either we have an economy that runs society.
Or
A society that runs its economy.
#politics #ukpolitics #crisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #fuelpoverty #foodbanks #RightToFood #energycrisis #EnoughIsEnough #torycrisis #EconomicCrisis
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fixed1t · 2 years ago
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Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 3
In Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg   Part 2 I achieved my result a temperature of 80+ centigrade and a hard boiled egg. It can be done with patience, you can cook a hard boiled egg, this video shows how. However, it took a very long time to boil the egg a toal of 3 hours 52 mins. In this video Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg   Part 3 I've made some alterations to the plan in order to try and reduce the cooking time and therefore cut the time the candle is burning. My changes were really successful as you will see, if you watch all the video. Background The UK economy is in trouble, normal working people are regularly having to work two or three jobs and shifts in order to bring in sufficient money just to live. The energy crisis caused by the energy companies price hiking with no controls other than 'The Market' ie themselves means that working people are desperate to reduce their energy costs, fuel bills and food bills to try to reduce the increasing amount of debt they are having to take on just to survive. So where does that leave those without jobs, or in such poorly paid zero hours jobs where they find themselves with only a few pennies to spare for heating, lighting, food and cooking or the old on miserably low UK pensions and disabled on benefits, the worst in the free world. It leaves them with nothing. So I've decided to set about finding out what I can achieve with the meagrest of items and over this series of videos I will be doing truthful and repeatable experiments and eating, drinking and staying warm with the outcomes. scenario one: So your in a war zone, you need to stay indoors perhaps in a cellar, you have limited water, only a single small candle and a lighter plus a tiny 250ml pan and one egg stolen from a local chicken. If you like the video please subscribe to the channel, and if you know somebody struggling with poverty, let them know about this series,  the things I am learning will have greater significance than just the video and may spark them or yourselves into other ideas. Malcolm aka  @fixed1t
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newsfromtherooftop · 2 years ago
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Public call to solve energy price crisis
7 mill households were in fuel poverty this winter | A 400,000 strong petition was handed to Number 10 calling on the government to take decisive action to solve the energy price crisis #WarmThisWinter #DeborahMeaden #FuelPoverty #EnergyCrisis
Over half of adults (54%) believe the country should aim to get off oil and gas as quickly as possible by ramping up efforts to improve energy efficiency and developing significantly more renewable energy. Just one in ten respondents to the poll conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Warm This Winter campaign felt that the UK should aim to continue to meet its energy demand primarily with oil and…
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trikerpoet · 2 years ago
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Dead like me!
David Cameron was poster boy for the parasitic establishment.Theresa May was their attempt to lose power and blame the opposition.Boris Johnson was their desperation to have a whipping boy to blame for all the turmoil Cameron and May caused.Now Truss is there desperate attempt to discredit the entire Tory government and install their next poster boy for the Establishment, pretending the Labour…
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insulatenetwork · 6 years ago
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Tackling The Fuel Poverty Crisis
Tackling The Fuel Poverty Crisis. It's a case of "heat or eat" says @IMA_Org . Read the article online Now. #insulation #fuelpoverty
Heat or Eat? The Need to Tackle the Fuel Poverty Crisis
This compelling article regarding fuel poverty was first published in the April 2018 Issue of Insulate Magazine. For more from Simon Storer and IMA, you can claim your free subscription to Insulate Magazine here.
With the ‘Beast from the East’ striking three times in succession this month and the threat of Storm Toby over Easter, this March…
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boilerhut-blog · 6 years ago
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If you've been struggling to heat your home, there is help available in the form of free boiler grants under the ECO Scheme. You can get a brand new condensing boiler, which can help you save between £300 to £400 on your annual energy bills.
Summer months are ideal to replace your boiler or full central heating system. Please act now, as the grants may not be available after August 2018.
To apply for free boiler grants online, simply click the following link: https://boilerhut.co.uk/free-boiler-grants/
PLEASE NOTE: Funding available for Oil and LPG boilers only at the moment. No funding available for gas boilers. We will post updates on Facebook for gas funding as soon as it is available.
If you prefer to talk with someone, please call our office on 029 2009 9898 and one of our team members will gladly guide you through the process.
You can also email us on [email protected]
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newbeltane · 7 years ago
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Good read: '£4.4m for a social purpose bond? Not a problem for Ethex investors motivated to address fuel poverty!' via @ethexuk: https://t.co/2wxM9ZaMHl #SocInv #FuelPoverty
— Big Society Capital (@BigSocietyCap) February 20, 2018
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jamiemallan · 4 years ago
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RT @CrewDarkwood: Some brilliant coverage of our wide ranging, volunteer led covid response. #LocalEnvironment #IsolationAndLoneliness #FoodInsecurity #FuelPoverty #PositiveAboutMentalHealth #OneCommunityManyPartners #NaeHairToGreyHair https://t.co/TfT82AncP4
Some brilliant coverage of our wide ranging, volunteer led covid response. #LocalEnvironment #IsolationAndLoneliness #FoodInsecurity #FuelPoverty #PositiveAboutMentalHealth #OneCommunityManyPartners #NaeHairToGreyHair pic.twitter.com/TfT82AncP4
— Darkwood Crew (@CrewDarkwood) June 29, 2020
via Twitter https://twitter.com/jamiemallan June 29, 2020 at 06:12PM
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