@Ed_Miliband So, up here in Northern Scotland (Aberdeenshire) we are blighted with wind farms which ruin our landscape/ecology (we have wild cats, the most rare cat in the world and you are insisting on digging up their habitats!) our standing charge is 70p compared to 48p in SE England!
@Ed_Miliband@Keir_Starmer@RachelReevesMP I hope you are all lovely and warm today, we however have snow and northerly winds today on NE Scotland boiler is off so no heating/hot water because we can’t afford £900 to buy 500 litres of heating oil! Elderly will die with no help!
@SeddSezz what are you doing about the millions of people can’t afford do buy heating oil & don’t qualify for your ‘help’ i know you won’t be able to understand what it’s like literally not to be able to find the money to put oil in our tanks as the price has tripled The elderly will die!
Thanks for all the messages and comments following yesterdays #PMQs
People clearly see through the pre-scripted nonsense from Starmer, and it appears you were as annoyed by it as I was.
The official 📸 from yesterday captures my frustration at his disrespect to the House well ⬇️
Well done @A_J_Snowden telling @Keir_Starmer what all of us are thinking Hopefully you will be the first of many during PMQs to hold him accountable on answering questions @KemiBadenoch@CommonsSpeaker it might as well be called PM reads out pre written statements PMROPWS !!
@Keir_Starmer Can I ask politely that as our democratically elected leader that when asked questions in #PMQs you answer that question not totally change the subject! I am so fed up with this sort of disrespect by you over and over again! @KemiBadenoch@No10Official
@Ed_Miliband@MartinSLewis Is it a secret how we apply? I doubt very much most of us hard working people will get help! This was yesterday’s prices, in Jan it was £300!!
@MartinSLewis thanks for being on the #oilheating case I’d like to ask @Ed_Miliband just how people are meant to know if they will get help See the latest prices it was £300 in @JohnSwinney is doubling Scotlands?? but nothing in the news how do we get help @Aberdeenshire
@GBNEWS I suspect it will be quite heavily targeted!! My daughter is 27 and bought a small house on her own last year on 25k a year isn’t classed as a low enough earner for things so I doubt she will get help! She’s on oil for heating and hot water as are we! I’ll wait and see!!
@mgshanks@Ed_Miliband No, they won't.
You ignore heating oil, lpg, solid fuel, diesel, petrol. These are all energy vital to rural people. You've already shown that you don't care about us but please stop pretending that you cap energy prices. You cap mains electricity & mains gas only.
So fuel duty is going up 5p in September.
They want us to use public transport.
Trouble is in places like where I live, the buses stop at 6pm and don't run at all on Sundays.
But it's ok. The Londoners who make these decisions have 24 hour, 7 days a week public transport. 🙄🤬
@MartinDaubney please mention those of us in rural areas who rely on oil for heating and hot water and also no public transport available, we have to drive 20 miles to the nearest supermarket! Heating oil has risen by over 150% in a week no price caps available #gbnews@GBNEWS
@afneil The price of heating oil has more than doubled in the past week. I'm sure Trump isn't concerned about about those of us in rural Wales & around the UK now bundled up in fleeces & woolly hats because we've had to turn the heating off. Heating oil is not regulated by Ofgem.
@MartinSLewis@Ed_Miliband The oil price has more than doubled so we're only putting the heating and hot water on for 50 minutes in the morning, it's off for the rest of the day, we need to make what we've got left last till the price comes down again. We're in NE of Scotland, temperature high today 9°c
how many Labour ministers can actually understand rural living? not being able to afford oil to get heating & hot water & having a water supply that will likely be contaminated by the tons of concrete to put 200m turbines next to your house hands up @Ed_Miliband@10DowningStreet