Local authority with highest fuel poverty rate in England is angry at economist’s comment Britons ‘need to accept’ being worse off
Karen Trainer, the manager of the Big Venture community centre and shop inShe was hearing about, who said Britons should stop seeking pay increases and “accept” they are worse off in order to prevent prices rising further.
Trainer said: “It feels like people don’t live in the real world. They need to come and spend a day here and see what’s going on. How can people ‘accept’ the fact they can barely afford a loaf of bread? People are in real poverty.” ‘People are in real poverty,’ says Karen Trainer, volunteer centre manager, left, with volunteer Fern Lowndes., and the city council was one of the first to set up a network of “warm hubs” to help people with soaring energy costs over winter.
Big Venture was one of the venues used as a warm hub over the colder months, and Trainer said a number of people had been calling for it to be brought back as a way to save money on heating bills and combat loneliness.
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