Sounds serious.
From CityAM, July 29:
The chairwoman of the Committee on Fuel Poverty, Caroline Flint, said this morning close to 3.2m households are living in fuel poverty according to official statistics.
“But those statistics were before these price increases happened and there are a number of organisations – National Energy Action and others – who are predicting it could double that or even more,” the former Labour MP told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Flint said the Government should have a fuel poverty winter plan which is actively monitoring the situation on the ground, and consider whether more cash support is needed....
...MUCH MORE
It is quite possible that after paying for food, clothing, shelter and energy those six million households will have nothing, zero, income to spend on anything else.
This is remarkably similar to the financial condition of that slice of medieval society from peasants/serfs up through "middle class" occupations such as carpenters, clerks or masons. At least up to the period a generation after the Black Death, with its rising wages for the survivors.
