Warm Front Scheme-All is cosy for the Government while the poor freeze

Warm Front Scheme-All Is Cosy For The Government & Shareholders-While The Poorest Freeze In Fuel Poverty

Anyone on low income, courtesy of their local council will have had their details passed on to WARM FRONT…..supposedly they offer grants for insulation etc at extortionate way above market rates thus giving Government that warm glowing feeling that all is cosy in the pauper’s privately rented home.

Is it bollocks ! This scheme is so inflexible that it is a positive hazard to the roof over your head if you are one of millions who have to rent privately the worst accommodation, thanks to incompetent Councils who cosy up to Slum Landlords. (Remember, well maintained private rented accommodation demands higher rents, which have often to be met by morally- if not actually- corrupt Local Authorities

Why ? Well take a look at the form. It’s not enough that all your details have been passed on without permission by the Council. Thus inferring you qualify. But you then have to spill your guts & risk the very draughty, cold, damp miserable roof over your head.

How ? You have to give your Landlord’s full details. They get contacted. You are in the shit, because if you let the WARM FRONT surveyor in your front door, they’ll no doubt pass comment on the holes in your ceiling, the fact Eurovbitch above makes life hell by her shower water pouring through via electric cables……..they’ll contact the Council. The Council heavies will arrive, serve an improvement notice on the Landlord because now they have to(what they don’t see they can deny)…….and practically by return of post you’ll have notice served on you by said Landlord for “grassing him up”…..& within a few weeks you’ll be homeless. Oh the joys of the Assured Shorthold Tenancy(it’s happened in the last few weeks to a fellow tenants- they dared to demand repairs-no action -so reported it to the Council-now they are being served notice. Yet they were quiet, decent neighbours.)

Yet again the most vulnerable are fucked over by a scheme that is about THEM NOT US . No doubt if you are a home owner pensioner, you’ll appreciate a few hundred off a grossly inflated quotation for the installation of CH (proven by a BBC WATCHDOG investigation)

What we need .
I need B&Q/HOMEBASE vouchers for basic insulation materials that I can go & get for myself …… or a tank jacket-then I might have hot water (apart from shower & kettle)more than once a month. It’s too expensive to put the hot water on otherwise. Vouchers for Duck Tape & plastic sheeting so I can seal my ill fitted, single glazed windows would really help. I am terrified of the power my Slum Landlord has over my very life & death.

In a week the room I live in (with no heating) has dropped from 19.5’C to 17.5’C –manageable so far if I stay in bed with tracksuit & fleece(soon I’ll need two t shirts & two fleeces & two layers of tracksuit trousers just not to shiver under a 13.5 tog duvet & blankets.). The scary thing is I know in the next few weeks it’ll be 12’C most of the time dropping to 10’C with ice sometimes on the windows. There’s no point using an oil filled electric radiator until it drops to 10’C because it takes 24HOURS AT FULL POWER TO RAISE THE ROOM TEMPERATURE BY 1’C. I just cannot afford that. Soon it’ll be too cold to use my hands to write with a pen. Thank God my TV & light box lamp put out a reasonable amount of heat to take a bit of chill off (but they have to be on almost 24hrs/day to help but it masks the noise so it’s an added bonus) & the fact I can operate a computer mouse under the duvet means I don’t go stir crazy. Chocolate & hot milk is much cheaper than electricity to help build up some fat insulation.

My electricity supplier has now sent me a cheery room thermometer…….the lowest reading possible is 14’C ……..with the warning COLD-DANGER OF HYPOTHERMIA alongside. Currently it reads 16’C and falling.

You know it’s at this time of year I am surprisingly grateful to have ME/CFS- being bedbound much of the time and having days where you don’t even open your front door can be a blessing. If I had a condition where I was out of bed most of the time-this need to hibernate in bed to survive over winter would be hell.

Thanks to the internet…..our descendants will be able to read real contemporary accounts of millions of the people you & your cronies have betrayed. Your place in history is assured. Don’t you worry about that.

Merry Christmas WARM FRONT & BLAIR