“People will go hungry and cold if we don’t act now,” they warn in the UK

Former Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday warned the British Conservative government to “generate an emergency budget” or risk a winter from October. terrible Dickensian poverty, With people to die of hunger and cold in Great Britain in the face of new energy and food prices.

heating will cost 4,000 pounds (64.7915.60 Argentine pesos) annuals in the kingdom. No poor or middle-class families or retirees they will know how to deal with it from the arrival of the first cold, in the month of October.

“People will have to run out of food and will not be able to heat their homes by October unless the government takes urgent action on the cost of living crisis,” warned Gordon Brown.

Speaking to the British press, the former Labor Prime Minister said he sees poverty in his Scottish hometown of Fife “which I never expected to see again in my life”, targeting conservative policies.

He said charities are stocking up duvets, sleeping bags, hot water bottles and blankets “because they know that people can no longer afford to heat their homes”.

Meanwhile, religious groups are “thinking of opening their churches as heating centers so that retirees, instead of freezing at home, can have a warm place to go.”

“There is no doubt that people will run out of food, they will be hungry and cold in October if we don’t act now, ”warned Gordon Brown, who managed to reduce poverty in Britain during his tenure.

A financial time bomb

“If charities and community organizations are taking urgent steps to do something, I think it is time for the government to respond. The vacuum at the heart of government must really end,” he said.

Brown, an economist, former chancellor of finance under Tony Blair, a former journalist and former chancellor of the University of Edinburgh at just 30, said a “financial time bomb it will explode in October: cost of living, food and energy “.

Energy companies like the British BT won 7 billion pounds thanks to the energy crisis generated by the war in Ukraine, the Russian invasion and the gas blackmail of the European countries of Vladimir Putin.

Energy consultancy Auxilione has predicted that the price of energy bills will reach 3,687 pounds next October, double the previous year, for every British household. In Britain, there are 24 million households affected by the cap that companies can charge. They cannot charge more than a fixed amount per unit.

The “unexpected tax” to companies

Brown called the “window earnings tax” or “unexpected tax” of the British Conservative Party “idiot”, arguing that the exclusion options included in the tax, introduced when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor of Finance, have reduced the value of the tax from £ 15 billion to £ 5 billion of pounds.

Calling for more government intervention, he set out his vision for tackling the cost of living crisis, including changing the windfall tax, cap on the energy bill and reform of the system of benefits.

But he ruled out his own return to frontline politics: “When you’re out, you’re out,” he said. Brown resigned from his Labor parliamentary seat after losing the British election. He is Chair of Education at the United Nations, as well as dedicating himself to humanitarianism.

An absent Conservative government

So far the Conservative government is campaigning to find a replacement for Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The two candidates – Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss – had ignored poverty until they started touring the country during the campaign and observed the dramatic situation. They will not be able to avoid it.

Sunak, former chancellor of finance of Boris Johnson and who is losing the challenge against the neo-Thatcherist Liz Truss, now promised “Introduce a multi-billion dollar package to help with the cost of living and its crisis ”. He believes that the country must face a clear choice: “realism or having a vision, a dream”. He called Liz Truss’s decision to exclude any aid to single-family homes this winter, when the energy bill first arrives in January, wrong.

Liz Truss believes it is “the tax cuts and not the cuts or charitable giveaways” that will help those struggling to get through the winter.

On Sunday night, Sunak urged Truss to “be realistic” in the face of the economic crisis in the kingdom. We need to help the poorest and above all the pensioners, who will suffer the crisis.

but trellis He has a 7-point lead over Rishi Sunak until now. Only the volume of the economic crisis in Great Britain can change this trend, when Boris Johnson, forced to give up power, wants to participate in the challenge to lead the party by force and be investigated for his performance to Covid parties because he is considered “lynched “. Anything can happen between now and September 5th, when the winner will be known.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak feel the temperature of the crisis amid calls for daily emergency meetings of the COBRA emergency committee on crises in the kingdom.

Gordon responded to the Tories

Gordon Brown’s comments come after former Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden attacked Brown’s record as prime minister, claiming that he left the country “without money”.

“I don’t take great lessons from Gordon Brown. Remember this was a guy who gave us a 75p raise for retirees. So he doesn’t really have a great track record on that sort of thing,” he said.

But Brown responded to the “completely incorrect” allegations against him, criticizing the government’s lack of leadership in the midst of the cost of living crisis and saying that “no one seems to be in charge.”

He said it was “ridiculous” that Boris Johnson and Foreign Minister Nadhim Zahawi they went on vacationwhen the Bank of England warned of a recession and rampant inflation. He said that Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss’s “obsession” with tax cuts would not help struggling people pay their bills.

Call the cobra urgently

Asked what he would do if he were in Downing Street right now, Brown said the first thing he would do would be to call an emergency COBRA meeting with the leadership candidates.

“I would talk about changes to the universal credit system to give people the money they need. And I would talk about potentially limiting energy bills. This would have the effect of reducing inflation, as well as of course helping people more to need, “former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.

“None of these things seem to be discussed right now the way they should be. And it’s really not good enough for leadership candidates to go around the country and say: “I’ll have a plan next month, next month”. This is the crisis. He needs to be dealt with now, “he intimidated them.

Truss and Sunak are under increasing pressure to respond to the economic crisis after a report commissioned by Brown found that families they are in worse shape up to £ 1,600 compared to last year due to the cost of living crisis.

Paris, correspondent

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