Greenpeace activists beam film about people struggling with fuel poverty to Rishi Sunak’s country house in North Yorkshire on the eve of the autumn declaration
- The film is called the Cost of Living and was projected on the Prime Minister’s house
- A trailer for the production was blasted onto its £2 million South Yorkshire pad
- Created by Greenpeace and the New Economic Forum to highlight poverty
Greenpeace has beamed a trailer for their film about the cost of living crisis on prime minister Rishi Sunak‘s empty £2 million mansion.
The activists snuck into the South Yorkshire village of Kirby Sigston on Wednesday evening to carry out the stunt.
It made the documentary with the New Economics Foundation.
The film – which has not yet been released – would tell the story of those who live in the Rothertal.
It is said to show families fighting to keep food banks open as demand escalates during the cost of living crisis.
In a statement, Heather Kennedy, a New Economics Foundation community organizer who works in the Rother Valley and helped produce the film, urged Sunak to establish a nationwide home insulation program as temperatures plummet.
Greenpeace UK projects the trailer of a new film The Cost Of Living about the struggles of people in fuel poverty at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s country house in Yorkshire
A bespectacled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a statement to MPs in the House of Commons
She said: ‘The cost of living shows communities in South Yorkshire, but the conditions they face will be familiar to people across Britain. After the longest drop in incomes on modern records, and more than a decade of underfunded, crumbling public services, we are hit by high energy costs that make fossil fuel companies rich and us poor.
“The rise in energy prices is compounded by our poorly insulated, leaky homes, which waste our money every time we turn on the heating.
“But there is an investment the government could make in this budget to protect us from rising energy costs this winter and winters to come.
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Our Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should launch a national program of home improvements to insulate Britain’s cold, drafty homes this winter. This program would reduce people’s energy bills now and in the future and keep people warm in their homes.
“The faster we do it, the more carbon, money and lives we will save.”
It came as Jeremy Hunt will reveal a pre-Christmas nightmare of tax hikes and austerity today as he races to prop up the government’s books.
Rishi Sunak has rallied the cabinet to sign a ruthless autumn declaration, with the chancellor warning the British there is no choice to ‘face the storm’ and make ‘sacrifices’ to weather the turmoil at home and abroad .
Middle earners face paying thousands of pounds more in tax as a threshold freeze drags people ‘stealth’ deeper into the system. Mr Hunt will also try to show that the rich are being duped too, by lowering the level at which the top rate of 45p is due from £150,000 to £125,000.
Town halls will be given the freedom to raise council tax by up to 5 per cent without the need for a referendum, and subsidies on utility bills are expected to be cut to save money, with the average bill likely to rise from £2,500 to £2,500 from April 3,000.
While budgets will be protected, other departments face another grim period of austerity – possibly delayed until after the general election.