Energy bills: worker revolt and consumer revolt
The Don’t Pay campaign is calling for a household energy bill paymens strike from 1 December, with the demand to reduce the energy price cap to the level before April 2021 (£1,042 for a “typical” household, as against £2,500 now). The campaign started in June 2022. At first it planned to get a million people signed up to payment-strike from 1 October. It dropped that when it didn’t get the numbers and after Liz Truss announced a £150-billion energy prices support scheme (via government subsidies to energy companies). It has revived the payment-strike plan now that the Tories have said that the...