Despite Britain experiencing a mild winter up until frost descended only a few days ago, a staggering 43 per cent of householders say they are worried that they can’t pay their next fuel bill.

Citizens Advice, who released the astonishing statistic today, said that their advice services dealt with over 500 fuel-related problems each day over the past three months.

Household energy bills averaged were on average 21% higher than they were at the start of last winter – rising from £1,069 in November 2010 to £1,294 now. This means that one in six people plan to only heat half, or fewer, of the rooms in their house this winter. (source: Consumer Focus).

The government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change Propaganda calculates 5.5 million households in the UK as being in fuel poverty. Fuel poverty is defined as 10 per cent or more of household income being required to pay for energy bills.

Research carried out earlier this year by the Post Office found that 36 per cent of credit card holders are relying on their plastic to meet ordinary household expenses. No wonder that Citizens Advice Bureaux deal with literally millions of individual debt problems every year.

Factor in the £200 billion estimated as being required for “upgrading” Britain’s share of the power smart grid – all in the name of criminal climate change measures –  that’s planned across Europe (and eventually beyond (similar projects are rolling out across Asia, the US and elsewhere) and impoverishment is certain to continue.

Our government and the energy companies are inflicting economic violence on the people of Britain!

No doubt smart meters will be touted as the ultimate answer. But that’s another story …