UK: “Warm Banks” Open for the 16 Million People Who Can’t Afford to Heat Their Homes

The weather outside is frightening!

But the warm bank is so delightful!

RT:

Some 3,305 ‘warm banks’ have been opened across the UK, as millions of people face the prospect of fuel poverty this winter. The Met Office predicts that temperatures could drop to -10 degrees Celsius in some locations over the next week.

Organized by a coalition of Christian groups, the Warm Welcome Campaign has seen community organizations, churches, libraries, and businesses open their doors to people desperate to come in from the cold. Some of these spaces offer free tea and a space to work, and according to a report by The National on Saturday, many are “a third or even half full.”

There’s little doubt that we are heading towards a moment of crisis this winter in the face of energy and fuel inflation,” Christian minister Carl Beech stated on the campaign’s website. “People will be facing a stark choice between food and warmth. Creating warm and super welcoming spaces…is going to be an absolute necessity.”

According to figures from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, 16.4 million people in the UK will be unable to afford heating this winter. The Warm Welcome Campaign stated that one in ten excess deaths this winter will be attributable to fuel poverty, and that government assistance – despite adding billions of pounds to the national debt – will still come £800 ($980) per household short of making up for the increased cost of living.

What do you think is the total cost of this Ukraine war, when you add up all these inflation and energy costs on top of the basics of the weapons and financial aid? It’s clearly in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and it has probably already crossed the trillion threshold.

People can laugh about the fact that Russia hasn’t conquered Kiev yet, but they did not spend anywhere near this amount of money.