Thousands take to the streets to protest over the cost-of-living-crisis

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Sabrina Johnson
Saturday 2 Apr 2022 3:30 pm
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The People’s Assembly said the lifting of the energy price cap will create an ‘impossible choice for many’ (Picture: PA/North News and Pictures)
Thousands of people have gathered in cities across the UK to protest over the cost-of-living crisis.

The demonstrations come a day after a long-feared hike in energy prices, an increase in National Insurance, council tax and other bills all came into force.

The jump in household bills is the biggest in living memory and has seen costs rocket by 54% to just under £2,000 a year.

Unions have complained that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spring statement last week did nothing to allay fears about soaring bills and inflation, with the TUC calling for an emergency budget to help families.

The People’s Assembly said yesterday’s lifting of the energy price cap will create an ‘impossible choice for many’, to eat or heat.

The campaign group said in response to the crisis a protest was planned for outside Downing Street in London, with similar events in towns and cities across the country.

A spokesperson for the campaign group said: ‘Public outrage over the cost-of-living crisis is growing fast, and our response is gaining momentum.’

Away from the capital, demonstrations were held in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Glasgow, Hull, Ipswich, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Preston, Redcar, Sheffield and Southampton.


People took to the streets in Newcastle to protest against the cost of living crisis (Picture: North News and Pictures Ltd)

The People’s Assembly has called on the government to do more to help people who are struggling (Picture: PA)
Ahead of speaking at the London demonstration, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, said: ‘With rising fuel, food and energy bills, the soaring cost of living is pushing millions into poverty, and the disgusting treatment of the sacked P&O workers needs urgent action from the government.

‘Demonstrations will be taking place all over the country, with thousands of people coming together to demand redistribution of wealth and power and decent wages for all, as well as justice for P&O workers.’

Laura Pidcock, national secretary of the People’s Assembly, said: ‘What people are experiencing is intolerable.

‘No matter how patiently we explain that Government inaction over soaring energy and fuel costs and sharply rising food prices is deepening poverty, misery and hunger, it is met with at best indifference and at worst more of the same.

‘The truth is they are so wedded to the economic system we have, comfortable with a hands-off approach, that even when markets are obviously failing us, they continue with business as usual.

‘We tell them about children going hungry and the Government shrug, politically speaking.’




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Like if you support Russia's invasion,share if you don't.

UK cost of living is biting them hard this is when you sanction yourself thinking you hurt Russia....


God bless putin..

God bless mother Russia.

Nigerians see una mates.

Over pampering dey disturb these ones.

If only you guys can go through 10% of Buhari has put us through.

Not related to Russia.

The sweet don dey reach everybody.

Consider the tens of millions of pounds the UK is channeling to Ukraine and what this could do in the lives of average britishers.

Golan007:
Not related to Russia.

Look here

Putin Puppets will masturbate over this news.

VictorUSA:
Putin Puppets will masturbate over this news.

So you are crying over the news. Lol

Betscoreodds:

So you are crying over the news. Lol

Oh! Best my friend, you again...?
I shouldn't cry when I know this is a propaganda.

VictorUSA:
Oh! Best my friend, you again...?

I shouldn't cry when I know this is a propaganda.

You mean metro that owned by pro UK government is doing propaganda against it self lol are you serious lol.

This started before the Russian War
Has nothing to do with it.

VictorUSA:
Oh! Best my friend, you again...?

I shouldn't cry when I know this is a propaganda.

In one month time you will smell the coffee soon...Germany gas reserves will dry up. Then you will see protest.

descarado:
This started before the Russian War
Has nothing to do with it.

You are wiser than biden who even said putin is the cause of gas inflation price rise.

How do you sanction another country and your own citizen are bitten by the hardship? Which kind yeye sanction be dis?

Tell them to withdraw the sanction so their citizens can get relief. It makes no sense. I thought only Nigerian politicians lack sense.

Betscoreodds:



You mean metro that own by pro UK government is propagandaring against it self lol are you serious lol.

They are doing it just to make putin flag his muscle the more so that he'll fall sooner than expected.

MetaPhysical:
How do you sanction another country and your own citizen are bitten by the hardship? Which kind yeye sanction be dis?

Tell them to withdraw the sanction so their citizens can get relief. It makes no sense. I thought only Nigerian politicians lack sense.

White people are the ones who started suicide bombing with airplanes it was not Muslims who started it.
.
So they know how to inflict pain on themselves if they know the pain will hurt their enemy.

Betscoreodds:


In one month time you will smell the coffee soon...Germany gas reserves will dry up. Then you will see protest.

Eya see how you're tearsing profusely.Will it even take up to a month for Germany to crash for not buying russian gas in ruble? My friend, take a cold bottle of kunu and chill

Lol.....what did they honestly expect.

BSdetective:
Lol.....what did they honestly expect.

. They no longer think for themselves USA thinks for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqQIbZ5cBOw

London: Families braced for huge cost of living squeeze

These people can't take ordinary small choking, they should come to Nigeria and see what people are passing through

Hunger in the land.
The final downfall of the British empire
Regime change.
Boris Johnson is gone.

SpecialAdviser:
Over pampering dey disturb these ones.

If only you guys can go through 10% of Buhari has put us through.

that's why they have a country that works, in democracy you are not to endure but demand government do ya biding

Betscoreodds:


You are wiser than biden who even said putin is the cause of gas inflation price rise.

Nairaland armchair analysts.

Biden is now uk prime minister.

descarado:


Nairaland armchair analysts.

Biden is now uk prime minister.

When people like us talk sit down and listen.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mps-ukraine-russia-gdp-graham-b986556.html?amp

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/russia-sanctions-ukraine-uk-energy-impact-b2020819.html?amp

https://www.ftadviser.com/ftadviser-focus/2022/03/01/double-digit-inflation-believable-after-russia-sanctions-mps-told/

Well in just 3 weeks on EU sanctions on Russia, the Irish government have spent around €1B to subsidy the gas and oil prices but they said they can only do it till April ending.

Irish gas and electricity companies said from on 15 April bills will increase by 20% and it will go up to 50% by September.

Germany is

Betscoreodds:


When people like us talk sit down and listen.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mps-ukraine-russia-gdp-graham-b986556.html?amp

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/russia-sanctions-ukraine-uk-energy-impact-b2020819.html?amp

https://www.ftadviser.com/ftadviser-focus/2022/03/01/double-digit-inflation-believable-after-russia-sanctions-mps-told/

I actually read those quotes.

Uk energy crises has been ongoing for so many yrs. Getting worst as the Yr goes by. Already, as at the end of last yr, we already know energy price will increase. It got worst cos of covid and brexit.
Covid grounded so many economies of the world especially developed economies. Uk just got double ration cos of their exit from EU. As for Russian war, even if your country isn't participating directly in the war it will still have its ugly effect on your economy. That's the consequences of war. Whether uk, usa, Senegal, Philippine etc, all will be affected especially when one of the major player is a world power.

I guess you know I live and pay my tax in uk.
One of your articles said deepen. Which means there is already an existing crises. War happens and when uou have crises, it deepens, so also what's happening in USA currently.
Have a nice day.

descarado:

I actually read those quotes.

Uk energy crises has been ongoing for so many yrs. Getting worst as the Yr goes by. Already, as at the end of last yr, we already know energy price will increase. It got worst cos of covid and brexit.
Covid grounded so many economies of the world especially developed economies. Uk just got double ration cos of their exit from EU. As for Russian war, even if your country isn't participating directly in the war it will still have its ugly effect on your economy. That's the consequences of war. Whether uk, usa, Senegal, Philippine etc, all will be affected especially when one of the major player is a world power.

I guess you know I live and pay my tax in uk.
One of your articles said deepen. Which means there is already an existing crises. War happens and when uou have crises, it deepens, so also what's happening in USA currently.
Have a nice day.

Funny you really need to find an excape route... Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J28nUFzqCLI

Cost of Living Crisis: Jeremy Corbyn says the UK Government is 'out of touch

Protesters across the UK have urged the Government to pass rising energy prices on to providers instead of low-earning workers.

Around 100 people, among them former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, waved signs reading “tax the rich” and “freeze energy bills, not people” at a Downing Street protest on Saturday.

Similar demonstrations were staged across the nation, including in Belfast where campaigners called for every household in Northern Ireland to receive £1,000 to help mitigate the increasing cost of fuel and food.

At Downing Street in central London, demonstrators made speeches asking for energy bills to be frozen and for benefits to be boosted