My blood was boiling when I read about 87 year old Barbara Bolton from Bury . She couldn't afford to heat her home and was admitted to hospital with hypothermia and pneumonia and died after a few days in hospital. With energy companies making their highest profits recorded . Disgusting. This government need to be held responsible too

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Awful. And I bet there are so many cases like that being swept under the rug

@johnlishman4946

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip 🏆🏆🏆🏆

@tedwoods9594

Жыл бұрын

Ya but we don't do nothing as usual it's are own fault

@coffee6783

Жыл бұрын

It was the same in Scotland under Thatcher, elderly people were dropping like flies during winter.

@Writeous0ne

Жыл бұрын

Obviously it's sad but the situation is a lot more complex than greed. Energy costs so much because the market was unstable due to world wide geopolitical issues. We shouldn't be taking our anger out on businesses we should be directing it at the decisions of governments and world leaders. (also the solution to our energy costs is to become self sufficient in energy needs but it would require nuclear power stations and to cut out gas signifficantly as a way to heat our homes - these would be extremely difficult though being that we spent 60 years building britain gas central heating)

British gas have always been A holes. My house doesn't have gas. 10 years after I brought it they decided to start sending me a bill for a standing charge. I called them to query why they were suddenly trying to bill me for something I didn't have. They claimed they were the registered provider for the house so were applying a charge for the upkeep of the pipework / meter to the house. I told them I was never going to pay them as I have No gas supply to the house. They sent an engineer to discount the meter to our house, who was surprised to find we didn't have one. Never did give them a penny.

They don't need to charge standing charges, it's just pure greed

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Init. Shocking stuff

@1blackballed

Жыл бұрын

The standing charges are to pay for all the energy companies that went bust! So us plebs pay the price for private companies goes out of business!

@russmartin4888

Жыл бұрын

And other people's green deals

@higreentj

Жыл бұрын

California is introducing a standing charge because they are selling a lot less electricity owing to so many people installing rooftop solar.

@leedonlan5408

11 ай бұрын

I looked into this and by law the energy companies cannot make a profit from standing charges, its there to pay for the upkeep of the infrastructure apparently. Strange though how, come summertime when people are using less units, they put up the standing charge hmmm

I just discovered David's Wandering Turnip you tubes a week or so ago and have enjoyed all dozen or so of them I have watched so far, in particular this energy rip off one and the other one -where have all the banks gone and where has all the cash gone. Very impressive young man. This is the kind of young person we need as leaders. I live here in California in The US (Irish, Scots Irish, English great grandparents came to America early 20th century) and here we could use leaders like this young man. I am sure the same holds true in The UK and Ireland and elsewhere. David is youthful, bright, articulate, handsome and energetic with a non corporate attitude. The kind of leader that is needed in our countries, not the tired old duds like we have to choose from in The US, Biden or Trump, both inept imo and not for the working man. I'm a senior, retired teacher, so it is refreshing to see someone with that attitude of young people I remember from the 70s, unlike so many young people who seem to chase money and embrace corporate capitalism. Anyway, better get off my soap box.

@ireneprobert2254

6 ай бұрын

They're closing banks intentionally as they don't want us using cash. Digital wallet

@155gerard

6 ай бұрын

@@ireneprobert2254 I agree and the reason being for Control. All the more reason to tell ten people you know to tell ten people each to then tell ten people each exponentially etc.... to continue using CASH, cash is king. Don't make it easy for the corporates to control.

My Dad would have called this 'Legalised Robbery'. Especially with the cost of energy having come down for the energy companies. He applied this phrase to other things as well.........Parking Fines, Standing Charges, Credit Card interest rates etc........and he was right !

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

That is exactly what it is. Your Dad sounds like one of the good guys 👍👍

@helensavvides6582

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip He was. He challenged almost everything. In the nicest way but with logic. Always quietly proud of the way his mind worked. He would have liked you. Independent thinker.

Get rid if the smart meter

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s the plan

@PoorPaddy

Жыл бұрын

Good luck with that. Once installed not 1 company will remove it.. been trying for 3 years now...

@goluckysand1145

Жыл бұрын

Same I even put my suppliers on notice

Biggest joke is why the hell do you have to pay VAT time people demanded that VAT be abolished .😠

@jujuUK68

Жыл бұрын

It was one of the brexit lies told to you by the tories. That VAT was a "euro" thing and leaving would allow a Govt to reduce to omit it. But they lied about everything else, so coulour me surprised.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Init 😞

@sofiadf4688

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Im paying VAT of £15 i think per month

I left the UK nearly 8 years ago and couldn't be happier. I came back last year to visit and couldn't believe the state of the place ..

@ragger1225

Жыл бұрын

It’s called a shit tip mate

@andydixon2980

11 ай бұрын

So are you going to tell us where Utopia is?

@camelotenglishtuition6394

10 ай бұрын

@@Lucky-pd9gd first to Spain.. now south east Asia

@user-mc4fs6jc7w

9 ай бұрын

I also left over 6 years ago. I will never go back. Btw my energy bill for the last 6 months came to approximately 35 pounds a month.

@real_wakawaka

5 ай бұрын

​@user-mc4fs6jc7w wow must be in Asia for the price 😢 uk is sooo bad

I am all electric Dave, In Scotland, with pre payment, it is a nightmare. Feel free to rant about anything, it is your channel ! Keep it up dude

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

I think I might make ‘ramble and rant’ a regular feature…

When I bought the house in 1992 in which we're still living, the first thing I did was put insulation around all of the radiator pipes. A relatively small investment of 75,- Dutch guilders that turned out very profitable because the energy company had to pay me back more than 750,- Dutch guilders. In 1993 we installed double glazing everywhere. This was followed by insulation of the roof and under the floor. We checked the walls for insulation, they were fine. In 2010 we had 18 solar panels installed. Today I am paying € 100,- per month, only € 10,- more than what I payed the last three years. We produce more electricity than we need and we are well under 800 M3 gas per year. The 100,- per month are largely several kinds of tax and they make you pay VAT over all of the tax. In The Netherlands we also pay a percentage that is meant for maintenance of the energy infrastructure (your 'Standing charge' I presume?). And Dutch citizens pay a special tax that is payed to companies as a subsidy to encourage them to invest in sustainability. The people who pay this tax have NO acces to the subsidies they pay tax for. Still, having invested in the sustainability of my house prevented us from paying up to € 300,- to € 400,- per month.....

Couldn't agree more. It's disgusting how much its costing. I'm struggling to put gas on. I'm a single mum with 2 boys. I'm on pre payment smart meters. I boil the kettle to do dishes. We use cold water to wash hands and I don't have the heating on and it's still costing a fortune

@FloofyFlora

6 ай бұрын

Same , haven't had my heating on for 2 years, blankets, hot water bottles are the norm. Sick of the damp😢

The only gas powered appliance in my apartment was my stove and they were charging over $17 a month even though I rarely turned it on. I bought an electric hotplate for $10 and had them disconnect my gas.

We moved 6 months ago to Charlestown from the other side of town. Our electric price was unbelievable. 6 months of fighting and we proved our “smart” meter doubled every unit we used! How many others could this happen to? We spent a lot of money to sort this and they never admitted responsibility

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

That’s really interesting to hear thanks for this. I’m going to look into it because it’s clear something is going on. Cheers pal 👍

@iancollis966

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip we got a new meter eventually but we had to threaten ombudsman and got proof as we were lucky enough to have solar panels fitted ( they came with an app showing how much we ACTUALLY used from the grid compared to how much they charged us( double) The people that sold us the house must’ve been paying double for years ☹️

@millywood6801

Жыл бұрын

I'm with Edf I keep getting phone calls and emails saying I should book to have a smart meter fitted, no way I am NOT having one. I know the tumble dryer costs but I have asthma and I can't have wet washing hanging around the house. I just love the advertisement on TV telling us to switch off lights in rooms that are not used. That advise must have saved people loads of money. It makes my blood boil.

@mrstephenpariah

Жыл бұрын

That's why they're desperate to install smart meters everywhere.

@studiotech6194

Жыл бұрын

@@mrstephenpariah Really happy I did not take the smart meter they are offering me before.

The problem here is that we have allowed energy providers to normalize a standing charge but what has also happened is that they have used prepayment to nickel and dime customers for even the most basic usage. it's become dangerous, it needs to be sorted out so ppl never pay more than £200 a year, per energy type. as that's what it's really worth.

The worst thing is wholesale gas prices have dropped lower than than they were before the big price hike in October. Yet the suppliers will not pass this onto any of the consumers. So they are blatantly keeping prices high to make extusionate profits from us all. And as for smart meters. I refuse to have one. They keep emailing me. Sending me letters phoning me and sending texts to book an installation. But they get told no or ignored. I see these as another form of tracing like you covered in your cashless vlog. Knowing when I'm in. What I'm using and when. It's too intrusive. They can also remotely disconnect your supply with the smart meter. This can affect non or late payments. So again as on a cashless society problems you raised The big corporations have taken control and Joe public is held to ransom. So be smart yourself. Cancel energy direct debits Refuse a smart meter as they are not mandatory. Do your own meter readings and only pay for what you use. And hold on to what little control you have left. Love this channel Great vlog. .

The standing charge is the biggest rip-off going. You can cut back all you like to save on your usage but they have you over a barrel with the standing charge. I heard on the radio the other day that wholesale prices are down 70% yet they are still talking about price increases in April when the current price cap ends. Absolute madness.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah total madness

I’m watching this video, sitting at home with a blanket around my legs and layers of jumpers on. You are right to highlight these extortionate charges. Money for nothing. Now that Government subsidies have come to an end, it will be even more difficult for pensioners to find the money just to keep alive. God sees and knows who the greedy people are and will bring them into judgement. The people responsible will not get away with their profiteering .

When you have your smart meter fitted, you have to ring them up afterwards to tell them you actually want to be charged for what you’re using, otherwise they still leave you on an estimate, despite you having the meter. That caught me out when I didn’t see any change in my bill for a couple of months.

@andydixon2980

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. Just had a smart metre fitted recently, and they are charging me an estimate which is way above what I'm using. I hope they will reimburse me when I get in touch.

I'm lucky, fixed in december 2021 when everyone was saying not to, fixed til jan 2024. I also don't have a smart meter and won't be getting one anytime soon. I send readings every month and have my own spreadsheet with my usage and costs calculated. I don't trust the energy companies to not have my own records.

I'm so sorry for your trouble, it's galling to know how much they're charging you, when you hardly use your heat energy. This is truly evil, what is going on. Please hang in there, and keep posting.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for watching and taking the time to write this I appreciate it 😀

Our electricity tariff has just doubled and there is just the two of us aged in our 60's in a small house!

Speaking of train tickets to London. I took my wife last week and the cheapest return tickets were £286 not including the tube. So we drove down to Luton and back at a cost of £12,parked all day £9 and two return tickets with use of the tube all day in all areas £52. Bit of a difference compared to £286

Don’t turn on the heating for an hour a day as it will be running flat out during that hour, it will warm the house up to well over outside temperature which will maximise heat loss. You would be better off on a thermostat keeping it just above freezing or at a low temperature which keeps temperature gradient to a minimum which also reduces heat loss. My electricity bill last year was zero as I’m off grid with solar panels but I have to economise in winter. Gas was £45 basically a gas bottle a year mainly for cooking in winter. Heating is foraged wood.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Ah cheers for that! That sounds like the way to do it, fair play 👍👍

@nickbrown6457

Жыл бұрын

I agree. When I'm away, I put the heating to permanently on, but reduce the temperature on the thermostat to 7 or 8 degrees or something like that. This is definitely a proven method to lower costs, but stop anything freezing, when you're away.

January I had a bill for £399 just for electric E - ON and I had to have the coal fire on, I now hardly use the cooker now, turn off all the heaters, I use my slow cooker and go to bed early to keep warm. It's 14th October my house is starting to feel cold, but I am going to hold off for as long as I can so I don't have to put the heating on. It will be living in a one-room situation in the end. Dreading the full effects of winter it is just miserable and I feel sorry for the elderly, I really do, The government has done sod all about it. Legal racketeering. Disgusting.

Yes indeed. Have to keep a check on them every month to make sure they're not overcharging. They overcharged me several times. Estimating bills when I sent in meter readings. When you try to contact them on the phone it's the usual long wait to actually speak to a human being. Try and chat on their websites and you just get a robot.

I reckon Ted had the heating blasting away and having parties while you were away! 😂

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Haha 😂😂😂

We were paying 60-70 a month and were fixed. But, we moved house and had to end our fixed deal. Then we were at 300 or so a month over winter and that is with a brand new boiler and brand new windows and just 2 of us. There isnt much we could have cut back on without giving our pets hypothermia

Support from The Völve, Asatru shaman of Denmark and the lands of the North. I don't have gas but electric heating in my rural flat, here out by the coast. My electric bill was 6000 Danish kroner for three months (712 pounds), twice, this winter. Now it's down to 1750 (205) for three months. It has to do with Putin's war in Ukraine - but also greedy energy companies, charging extra for the 'transport of energy'. The press needs to focus on this issue. Cheers from The Völve

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Hey cheers for this. Really interesting to here from other country’s so nice one 👍 and thanks for watching

My friend has been going through this as a single mother.. Its so,so awful. The country is eroding faster and faster.

Makes you wonder, if they secretly charge a base rate hoping nobody will notice because you are expected to be using energy anyway.

I live on the isle of man. I'm not loaded, I'm a Postie. Electric board just announced 60% increase next month. So there's a thing going round to cancel your direct debit. If we all do it they're knackered. Nice one David👊👊

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah need to get that going over here I reckon before next winter if they keep it up like they are at moment. Thank god summer is nearly here

Keep it up brother, love the topics you choose to discuss. Fighting the good fight

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I appreciate it 👍👍

Greetings from Slovakia. Man, at these rates it makes sense to have solar panels to support consumption even at Your location with lower yearly yield compared to lower latitudes. I am so shocked about the status of Your beautiful country from the first person perspective You share with us. Cross my fingers that things get better!

I have had my supplier chasing me for years to try and convince me to have a smart meter installed. I'm so glad now I never got round to it. Ironically I had it booked at one point, but they never showed up (long story). This was about 4 years ago. I made it a point to never give them the time of day since. Looks like these meters are very smart indeed. Smart enough to inflate your usage and assist with legal robbery. I have a couple of other properties again with no smart meters. I think I'll stay away from them for as long as I can legally.

Just stumbled across your channel. Love the fact that you don't swear. Goes to show you can express annoyance etc without bad language. Subscribed. Ps I love chimneys and learned to dry stone wall in the 70s.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for watching! I appreciate it and also glad you are a fan of chimneys and walls 😀😀

The national grid are the suppliers of gas and electricity to most homes within the UK. The so called suppliers charge you for use of the meter or the serial number of a meter. Fit your own meters, become the "supplier"and charge youreself the rate you deem acceptable. Come on people its time to wake up.

Funny when people get smart metres, there bills always go up !!! Lol 😆 🤣

I have to put £10 gas on daily and I'm sure it's running out more quickly like they are putting the cost up weekly, absolutely annoyed, I can't save up any money for anything like household items, clothes etc!

@stevekenilworth

Жыл бұрын

£70 A week, diesel gen should use less than that inc rent for one. all sorts gadgets out like a diesel turbine heater whats prob not the safest but installed right use very little fuel can easy heat a few rooms. about time we took things in our own hands, make what ever heat and electric whats cheap off grid, im up for re installing wood burners/ coal fires so at least if you run out of money your not going to die due to cold as small walk you get enough small fire, illegal or not i will not go cold

Now that ladies and gents is what you call a rant, Wandering turnip style.

Do absolutely rant on about the charging for energy being made by the producers, but also recognise that it usually isn't your supplier/provider who is actually making much from this situation. They are capped as to how much profit they can make from their supplier operations. Those making the massive profits are the energy producers who are extracting gas and selling it to your supplier, who then have to sell it on to consumers and not make a loss on it (and go out of business, like many have). The other big problem is that the price of energy it fixed at the cost of the most expensive part of the supply going in to create our electricity supply, this is currently the same Gas (remember the "dash for gas") and that is very costly - but that system is a whole different complexity needing sorting.

Wo, straight from the heart. Same here, Austria.

Your dog is so cute. Almost distracts from the horrific story about profiteering

My grandma was paying £150ish last year and then this year in about january EDF sent the bill through of £690 so i looked back through it and was trying to work out where the £690 was spent, she was in her 90s and was slim so she does have the heating on. but as a chap who worked and studied for provision of energy and green energy NVQs i did some maths and worked out that what they were charging was outrageous and if it wasn't for me spotting the bill and having a look they would have continued. this was the second month they had charged that. Thankfully my grandad was a smart man and had set her up with a reasonable private pension that he had paid out of his own pocket before he passed away so she could just about afford to cover that for only the time period before i did the maths and changed her to a new provider using the accurate figures of what she had used the year before with EDF and a slight increase based on what they had quoted for the year ahead. Up until she passed away at the end of april this year she paid no more than £230 a month for both gas and electricity (and the heating was set higher than your average user) When i was trying to leave EDF they were saying stuff like "leaving now isn't the best thing to do with the uncertainty" but my question was what was it not best for because they gave no clear indication as to what the down side was for her, so my assumption is that it was only bad for their profits. I feel like those things that we use as an essential means of living such as heating, electricity and water should be either better regulated or nationalised and therfore profit the greater good and not those large pockets of the Big Wig energy CEOs and stakeholders. I appreciate your rant and 100% sympathise with what you're saying and you're right, those of us that have the money shouldn't be penalised but also those who can't afford it should also not be punihed because some of them are unable to work or stuck in a job that doesn't render them the funds to then live with even the heating on for an hour a day because they are living scared of large bills followed by late fees and maybe even baliffs and court charges when they fall into that sinking pit where once they could just about budget to keep themselves and thei familes warm and are now left with bills they can't pay all huddled up under blankets trying their best to stay alive, hoping that the time passes quick enough and they survive the night where they can send their children off to school to be warm and go to a friends house or work to take away their own chills. The world we live in is absolutely twisted at the minute and its crippling all but the ones causing these same proiblems.

@andrewdaley5480

10 ай бұрын

Never ever pay direct debit they will take way to much out. 🇬🇧

Whatever you do. Do NOT let them install a "smart" meter in your home.

@MAYHAM-ze8bo

8 ай бұрын

5G?

Found your channel last week and watched everything. You make fantastic content. Moved from England to Australia and we are getting the same sort of thing with our power. People having to fork out so much money for power even before they have used any of it. Its criminal.

@wanderingturnip

10 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for watching! I love it when my vids end up being watching in Australia. Very cool 👍👍👍

Nice one mate, people do need to talk about this as together we can fight the sods; conniving thieving ... well, you know where the rest of my sentence was going! x

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

I could finish that sentence in many appropriate ways 😂

We feel your pain mate, we are screwed.... Standing charge alone fkn rip off..... The greedy bass could drop price and rake in less profits to help us out ... But no.... Screw them at coldest time of the year...... So fkn angry

I despise what energy companies are doing in the UK recently with overcharging vastly more than other EU countries. After listening to my old mum's advice I decided to have a 1 month experiment and live like she does - no gas supply, just an electric heater set to 0.5kw and live mainly in one room, same as when I was a kid and she was a kid and her dad was a kid. Before the experiment, in December my energy bill was approx £180 for the month. Wearing a wooly hat and a jumper indoors, like many generations before us, brought a January bill of £35 plus £17 standing charge. It's not hardship, this is the UK, not Iceland. Fossil fuels are gold plated income and the value and the end user cost will increase exponentially in the decades to come. Even though there are many energy alternatives they don't make such an easy profit as simply digging energy out of the ground. I despair for future generations. Anyway - now spring is here please switch off your heating, wear a hat and a jumper if you are cold.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think next winter I I will have to take a completely different approach. And your right, summer coming. Big jumpers until then. Let’s hope it’s a hot one

@RachelLondon

Жыл бұрын

The UK is like iceland to me

@History-Untapped

Жыл бұрын

Many EU countries have state owned energy suppliers, and the energy is heavily subsidised. Also, countries such as Germany and Poland are using lots and lots of coal. We have so much of it, but won't due to Net Zero. I agree energy should be nationalised, but that won't resolve the problem. If you want to replace cheap gas and oil with expensive and unreliable solar and wind, this is where we are. Ironic that a guy said there is no wind, yup, so energy is expensive as a result. EU and UK now buy expensive liquid gas from overseas as there isn't enough gas, due to sanctions on Russia. In addition, these cheap energy brokers which went under, need to be paid for, our ageing infrastructure isn't capable of sending 5kw of energy to each house (required for EV and heat pumps) or transport hydrogen, so both electricity and gas infrastructure need to be upgraded, and paid for. All these solar and wind farms are very expensive to build, maintain and offset, so that needs to be paid for too. So, basically, if you nationalised energy, your monthly costs may drop by 20%, but that is all. Best to educate yourself about all the agendas and other points, as there is a lot more to this than meets the eye.

@ronlapworth5805

Жыл бұрын

@@History-Untapped In the UK there are state-owned energy companies, but they are owned by state-owned companies of other countries. Lots of essential UK resources arr now foreign owned, energy, water etc. Thatcher has a lot to answer for.

@kualabear

Жыл бұрын

The main reason you are suffering is the net zero policy. Any alternatives as yet aren’t efficient or secure enough. The policy is really just another tool along with the massive expense of uncontrolled migration , and funding foreign war, that is being used to dismantle the current system .

I feel your pain lad The energy companies are ripping us all off big time. I am with EDF early April I re fixed for another two years. 2022 my direct debit was 126.00 per month, they have now put it up to 285.00 per month. I phoned them, that was a waste of time. My husband and I are both on the OLD state pension, husband has bad arthritis so we have to have the heating on. We are lucky that we do have some savings which we are having to dip into. Love Ted and your videos, try to stay positive lad.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for this Milly. Sorry to hear you are in the same boat as me, the same cold 😂 I was saying good job summer is on the way then I looked outside and there’s snow everywhere… Thanks for watching I appreciate it 👍👍

@sofiadf4688

Жыл бұрын

£285 sounds ridiculously high unless you are on a fix. You need to find out your current tarrif rates. Just beware that if you are paying a set amount each month they may be overcharging you until you ask for a refund on your credit. I pay whole monthly which means i pay for the exact amount of electric i use each month so my monthly payments could be £88 in february then £92 in march. If you choose to pay budget monthly DD with EDF they do not charge based on how much electric you actually use, they charge based on a giess and often overcharge.

Monthly electricity bill for a family of four in Thailand is around 1,500 baht. That’s 35 quid.

Natural gas prices are at a 20 year low, they did spike last year but right now it is at a 20 year low. The standing charges are the killer, it is money for nothing and it is high time people and there is 10s of millions of us Vs a dozen major players in the utility supply sector, stand up against these greedy corporations. That is the only way to solve this problem.

I saw a dead dear at the side of the road on Tuesday 23rd, on the road up from Heptenstall on the way you’d go to Widdop, but go past it and further up the road, someone had put it in a kind of ditch by a tree on the left, I thought it was a kangaroo at first, mum thought it was a tree branch, it’s the biggest animal I’ve seen dead 💔

Take a thermal camera and inspect your property. I cut kWhs used by 20% by replacing window and door seals, and improving insulation above my bathroom which cost me £30

I have fitted smart thermostats on my boiler and some radiators to ensure my heating is on only where and when I need it. They are set to pay for themselves in 2 years, but even if I only broke even within their lifespan I'd be happy as I'd rather give money to their manufacturer than to energy companies.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s a great idea I’m going to look into getting them nice one 👍👍

Godd for you mate,it always seems to me that us Brits always pay the most than our European cousins.You need to be applauded for this

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Cheers for this 😃

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

And for watching 👍👍

Get rid of the smart meter. Prices change instantly with them automatically.Daily even.NEVER have a smart meter.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah gona get rid

@chichikov617

Жыл бұрын

@Jo Bloggs PAYG non-smart meter is the way to go. i used to max it out (£240 on meter + £240 on key) just before the prices increased. The last few years ive either been on the previous rate or the previous-previous rate. (electric)

@chichikov617

Жыл бұрын

also, you can make creative modfications to an ordinary meter

My parents have lived in the same house for 40 years. It's a larger house tbh and obviously bills have gone up a lot over these years. for the last year they have had to pay an extra 500 a month. 6 grand a year. Extra. Double. Insane.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear they are being affected bad as well. Thanks for writing this though I appreciate it 👍

Corbyn wanted to nationalise them all again. We need coal fired power stations, and coal mines reopened. Now they're all foreign owned, including the trains.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I am actually planning another video at the moment about the trains in this country, especially trains up north. Keep an eye out

Excellent chat about it all. Met a friend yesterday who has a flat and economy 10 night heating. I had heard of economy 7 but not 10 Too many different prices. The French protest with big bonfires in city centres, we should try that approach too

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah had quite a few people from France commenting and what they are saying is very interesting. They have had a tiny tiny increase in energy bills, and they made sure it wouldn’t go any higher

You m8 are a great speaker and ambassador for the ordinary people 👍🙏

Also, my water bill is ridiculous too.... me not mypartner admittedly shower as much, what with working from home more, yet bill has doubled. .. I even got paranoid someone had somehow got into my water supply cos it just doesn't make sense!! 😂😦😤

@Martin-88

Жыл бұрын

Do you not have the option to pay a set amount regardless of how much you use? I'm with Yorkshire Water and pay £38 per month regardless of what I use.

@mhbh1979

Жыл бұрын

Water is a funny one. At least here in the Severn Trent area we pay in advance. Makes no sense whatsoever. They were fined a few years ago for losing over 50% of the water they treat and pump to leaks.

@Anna-oo3yf

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, i am paying what i can afford, or feel is right (!!) But for around 2years, they've been sending me letters saying 'we're here to help...' I increased it up to a certain point but the bill was increasing, despite us using less than half the amount??? Now i ignore them.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah my water has just gone up as well 😫

@asilver2889

Жыл бұрын

​@@Martin-88 That sounds like a non-metered supply (old style). New installs do not have any option but meter nowadays, and low use households may have opted for a meter anyway. My YW bill is £5 a month for just me. Once on a meter, can't revert back.

it's also effecting those of us who live on boats! The marina I was moored in last winter had electric meters for each berth, and you had to top up your electric card with credit to keep the meter running. No joke, i was spending £10 a day, A DAY, throughout October to January when I decided to leave the marina. That was just for keeping my batteries topped up, keeping my fridge freezer on, and using a blow heater for only a couple hours a day, and charging my laptop, as I had solar panels for my 12v lights and USB sockets, and a wood burner for my main source of heating. I don't understand how I was going through £10 a day for such basics. Adding about £300 p/m on top of an already expensive mooring fee. Still, it's slightly cheaper than renting a double room in London. The marina I'm in now is costing me less than £10 a week for the same electric usage. Tbf it is summer now, but my usage hasn't changed much as I'm still using my blow heater occasionally (it's not cold enough to warrant making a fire but still having nights where some heating is required).

The news on the radio said the energy price cap was not going to rise in April as the wholesale price of gas is lower. That's good I thought, but then came the bad news. The £400 everyone got over the last 6 months ended this month. it was £60 off everyone's monthly amount, so next month, although the cap will not rise, it will be £60 extra more per month. I had been paying just £40 month a year ago, then Avro went bust, so I got put with Octopus, and the bill was £125 month for about 5 months, for the last 6 months, it was £68 month, but this will no doubt be back at more than £120 month from now on. Luckily I don't use much energy, and my thermostat is set at 14c. I feel sorry for elderly people who live in homes they have lived in for decades, and will not have turned their heating down enough, and through habit, lack of smart meter etc, have used loads of gas over the winter, as their bills will be massive.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that is so true. Totally just mugging us off and not expecting us to realise we are paying the same. Great point cheers 👌👌

@johnmcgregor9776

Жыл бұрын

Up here in Scotland, we get rises in April, then another big rise in October, seemingly the one in October is the killer one, surely this can't go on.

@kualabear

Жыл бұрын

This is not old peoples fault for not being frugal enough! You are all being shafted on purpose!

Putin warned the west a long time ago that spot pricing energy/putting energy to auction would cause these problems. He wanted to stick with 3 year contracts to keep stability and of course the west didn’t want that because that meant stability for Russia, the west want regime change in Russia and we are all having to pay for that, even if it fails or backfires which it most definitely is.

I’m writing this in January 2024. My energy bill is surprisingly cheap (compared to yours). I rent an old cottage with single glazed windows and it’s all electric. The house is freezing and our storage heaters 1 cost £5 a day to have on and 2 are rubbish. Fortunately we have a wood burner so we don’t ever put the heating on, I use about £70 worth of logs a month and around £10 of coal. No gas bill. Our electric is around £60-£80 a month depending how long we’re at home. However when people come round our house they usually can’t believe how cold it is, the living room gets very warm with wood burner but the rest of the house you can genuinely see your breath. We use an electric blanket at night to stop us freezing

What pisses me of the most is these companies are bragging about record profits and we suffer there is only so much people will take then the shit will hit the fan

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Yeah we need to act like the French. They had a tiny increase and protested and they stopped it all

@clintmannion5598

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip god dam right m8 it is a total joke

I’m living in Sweden and am on a fixed rate at the moment, but my son had his heating on and for December his bill was nearly £1000 and he doesn’t earn much. He’s had to turn everything off 🫣 - total nightmare. Sweden is apparently the worst for energy costs in Europe even though we don5 use gas and have loads of wind and hydroelectric power. Doesn’t make any sense, does it! Love seeing your videos - I love it all round Hebden. Used to walk my little dog round there loads before I emigrated and I miss it!

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

That’s horrible to hear about your sons bill, but I bet that isn’t uncommon at all. Most of the country is probably say in the cold, can’t afford to go out, can’t afford to stay in😞 yeah that’s odd about the amount of hydroelectric power you have and yet high bill. Very interesting. Thanks for watching I appreciate it 👍👍

@aliharve

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip sadly things everywhere are really grim right now and I’m not confident we will ever return to “normal”. Will these companies want to give up their obscene profits? And there is no will in govt. They truly don’t give a shit . I’m already starting to worry about the end of my fixed rate which is 3 years away! 🙄 Maybe start building a wind turbine in the garden? Plenty of wind where I live!

I quite agree with you. The thing is that because of the standing charges for utility (gas elec water) it does not push us to consume less because of the irreducible cost of it. I did some ball park calculation on the effect of changing your bulb to led, all these kind of changes in our home. Not worth that much at the end !

I live in London but have a house in Italy. Same there. I only use my Italian home for holidays.. still the bills are crazy even though it says I have used 0

Standing charges and also the prices are ridiculous. Question why were the energy companies allowed to raise standing charges?

Hi Again David Almost forgot to say ? What we Really & Truly need Around & In this World is an Open Forum For Debate ! Where we Share such Opinions As Yours ! I Hope You Have Opened Up a Great Can of Worms ! & Kickstarted ‘ TRUE FORUM DEBATE ‘ Nice One Dude !

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you as always for watching I appreciate it 😀😀

I used to work for Scottish Power and left as I got disilusioned to how they treat their customers. You can ring BG every month and change your tariff if you want. Not many people know that.

They want people just stop using gas and electric, the price hike being the mechanism to do it.

Another instance where we are being screwed. The gas and oil wholesale prices are not that high...Profiteering because they can..They go up so quickly but don't come down quickly

That's the problem with so called smart meters, you pay more with those, there is no obligation to have one fall stop.

It's ridiculous. My energy bill is a very similar amount to yours. I am disabled and am home all the time and I can't afford to have my home warm. The smart meter is a joke, it says I spent £178 last month, yet the bill they emailled me for last month was £208. My standing charge and unit rate are very similar to yours as well. I've lost my rag on the phone to them a few times now and even stated once that it would be cheaper to disconnect the supplies and get a generator and watch a bag of coal burn in my living room, at least I'd be warm..

Like petrol prices are dar too high for the price of oil not being at a high level

Thank you so much . Do not worry about a rant. We need to rant .

Never ever get a smart meter. I won’t have one I stopped my direct debit and just pay them monthly online and gets a good one I send my own readings in and I’ve never had a meter reader out in years and I only pay £40 a month never ever have a smart meter and I don’t pay any more

in the winter last year i didnt put my heating on until November and also i just heated my bedrom for like 3 hours in the evening. work from home so bought an electric blanket - life saver. i pay £102 pounds per month but for gas and electricity im with Shell Energy i live in a flat though

Thanks BROTHER.

58 p a day to have electricity connected to my house or in other words 211.20 a year!

i must say. your seriously above your game!!! you just need the right nerve to hit, the right news report to touch, and i think u may make a difference. you have the voice to speak to everyone!

We all live under the money makers with billions in profit that we pay them, I solve it by a small wood burner I use in winter, saving gas use heat and some cooking, I bought a small camping fridge and keeping the main fridge, freezer, on lowest setting over winter, with solar lights lasting two to three days lights up all rooms with out using mains, I sympathise with you mate but it's turning us all back to burning candles like the twentys, my advice is change your providers like I did, my gas and elec at moment is a month dd, 83, quid, she'll company, but that's about to change in August.

Your rant is good. I had been trying to understand what the huge increase in power cost were about in England. They seem crazy compared with our costs.

Don’t pay it ever

Time well spent bringing this topic to us all. Many people are having a hard time paying their bills. Trouble ahead for the power companies when Many people can't afford to pay. Specially the pensioners and lower income households. How about trying to get someone in government to answer for this situation that they have put pensioners in. It's a disgrace that pensioners don't get more help with their energy bills.

Good video I live alone ,at work full time ,hardly use any thing ,my direct debit is 135 a month for both electricity and gas the standing charges are a total ripp off ,but the government dont care

I love all your genuine honest straight Videos, keep it up!👍

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I shall 👍👍

@bornforfreetaxtothedeath..7542

Жыл бұрын

So u know, at the moment in the Europe and in the whole sale energy market, gas and elektricity prices are lower, than pre Ukraine war level... Have u notice how UK energy companies are lightning fast to put prices up, but they wont put prices down? 🙄 Its always works one way, its always about there profit, they dont care if you freeze to death in your home, or pay arm and the leg for your energy, its all about greedy profit they make.... 💷

Another great video mate always looking forward to seeing your new video keep them coming 👍

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀

We need to come together everyone needs to come together nothing will change till we all come together

I like the ranting. Its like me every day now.

@orlandocat308

Жыл бұрын

I don't want to be that person always complaining, but......😒☹️😾 😸

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

I might have to make ‘Ramble and a Rant’ a regular feature 😄

@Sharon.O

Жыл бұрын

@@wanderingturnip Please do. I like all your videos.

When I was living in the UK in the 90's, I had a one bedroom flat, and my electric was less than 30 quid a month and gas was even lower.. Today living in Florida, my electric is around $300 a month - it's been very hot so AC is on most of the time. We are all electric, no gas.

You are doing legitimate journalism. You should do a video on the trees that are dying everywhere...on which they will blame "climate change"...but it's not that killing them. Some soil samples would solve the mystery...especially the aluminium levels.

@MAYHAM-ze8bo

8 ай бұрын

chemtrails

Fabulous content….well done..

Cancelled my direct debits and told my utility companies how much i was prepared to pay. In a nutshell, i informed them that they could accept my offer or i would change supplier. Both companies backed down and i pay by standing order from now on

There’s a really good video on KZread that explains the UK energy market. Sorry I can’t remember which it is… basically energy comes in to UK wholesale at set price, is auctioned off, then each energy company charges us for basically the to adverts, branding, marketing and customer service, and essentially make up a price for the actual energy costs.

@wanderingturnip

Жыл бұрын

Oh nice I’ll have to try find that

Good Rant, but I feel bad that we have to. Best wishes going forward in life, you are a good guy.

Gas companies have got their own men in the regulator. Its the regulator put in place by the government which decides things like standing charges. Things like that mean the poor are subsidising the rich.

That is really sad and I’m sorry :( to compare, my hydro electric bill for a one bedroom condo with electric heating in downtown Ottawa is about $80 per month in the dead of winter when it’s minus 25 and toasty warm inside.