h / t Breitbart; Boris Johnson’s Green Britain has plummeted to new depths of humiliating energy poverty, with the revelation that in 2020, Ovo Energy advises customers to exercise and cuddle their pets if they can’t afford the heat. warm for your home.
The energy company is famous for asking customers to hug their pets and dance stars to stay warm
Ovo Energy customers have claimed the company has offered tips like “pet cuddles” or “hula hoop contests” to stay warm and avoid using heating as prices rise.
ByBen Bloch Tim Hanlon News reporter
05:48, January 11, 2022Britain’s third-largest energy supplier has apologized to customers after they were criticized for offering advice such as “hug your pet” or do housework to avoid overheating due to rising prices.
Ovo Energy says it is “embarrassed” by advice sent to customers to avoid using heating amid soaring energy bills, reports BristolLive.
Email, viewed by Financial Times, which includes 10 “simple and cost-effective ways to stay warm this winter,” and they include recommendations like “cuddling your pets and loved ones to help keep the space cozy” and “ try cleaning the house”.
Other tips include “challenge the kids to a hula hoop,” “jump some stars” and “open the oven when it’s done cooking.”
The email is said to have been sent to customers of SSE Energy Services, which was acquired by Ovo in 2020.
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Read more: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/energy-firm-blasted-telling-customers-25910019
There is no doubt in my mind that energy bills in the UK are a real problem. Boris Johnson’s green energy policies have caused unjustified suffering to ordinary Britons.
When I lived in the UK, some of my neighbors couldn’t afford to heat their houses – they survived the annual winters in freezing cold houses or apartments, by constricting themselves with clothing. warm and blankets, and drink plenty of hot drinks. These people, mostly older Britons, who have worked and paid taxes all their lives, and trusting that the government will honor its promises to care for them after retirement, they will endure. their struggles with courage and dignity. The heater always works immediately when there is a visitor. But I bet it disappeared from the PDQ when the guests left.
One day, I stopped a neighbor of mine while he was leaving his house. The pavement was covered with ice, and he was struggling with a cane to walk the mile to the nearest grocery store for himself and his wife, because he couldn’t afford a taxi. The sidewalks are covered with ice because the council has run out of flint – they plan to deliver flint based on the MET’s forecast for a warmer-than-usual winter. I skated twice on the ice.
I took care of their needs that day.
Show Inflation raises the price of green energy in recent years, and the economic impact of the UK’s Covid lockdown, it must be much worse now than when I left, especially for older people on a fixed income.
I am lucky, I can afford to heat my house, I am young and healthy and have a good job. But I can’t deny the horror of thinking that one day I might be like my neighbors, living my late years in a cold, unheated house, risking my life. hobbled across the frozen sidewalks the local government couldn’t maintain, because I couldn’t afford a taxi.
For shame Boris Johnson. That day you are not Prime Minister.
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