Mirror columnist Alison Phillips says fuel poverty is leading to excessive winter deaths and the energy industry is freezing people in their own homes
You may not have seen or read this because the powers that be are trying to
keep it quiet, but
there’s a serial killer out there.
In the next couple of months he is likely to slay thousands of people across Britain.
His work will make the likes of Harold Shipman and Fred West pale into insignificance.
Victims? Most will be elderly – they’re easier prey, tending to be weaker and their disappearances often go unnoticed.
Motive? Greed, of course – he doubled his profits to nearly £1.2billion last year – so you can see why he does it with earnings like that at stake.
Method? Well, this killer – who they dub “the energy industry” – freezes people in their own homes by charging bills that are so high folks dare not turn the radiator on.
It’s ever so effective – last year, we learn, there were 31,100 “excessive winter deaths”.
And the most extraordinary bit? That this mass slaughter of British citizens is all perfectly legal because our government refuses to eradicate fuel poverty or seriously take on the energy industry.
So they keep counting their profits, we keep paying the bills and the elderly and vulnerable keep getting killed. And that, surely, is criminal.
Mirror
In the next couple of months he is likely to slay thousands of people across Britain.
His work will make the likes of Harold Shipman and Fred West pale into insignificance.
Victims? Most will be elderly – they’re easier prey, tending to be weaker and their disappearances often go unnoticed.
Motive? Greed, of course – he doubled his profits to nearly £1.2billion last year – so you can see why he does it with earnings like that at stake.
Method? Well, this killer – who they dub “the energy industry” – freezes people in their own homes by charging bills that are so high folks dare not turn the radiator on.
It’s ever so effective – last year, we learn, there were 31,100 “excessive winter deaths”.
And the most extraordinary bit? That this mass slaughter of British citizens is all perfectly legal because our government refuses to eradicate fuel poverty or seriously take on the energy industry.
So they keep counting their profits, we keep paying the bills and the elderly and vulnerable keep getting killed. And that, surely, is criminal.
Mirror
