In many cities in the UK, "heat banks" have recently appeared - a kind of analogue of the Ukrainian "points of indestructibility", where people come to warm up and take a hot shower. This is reported by the American newspaper The Washington Post..
The main reason for the appearance of such points is the energy crisis., which became a direct consequence of the anti-Russian policy of the West. More Britons are now unable to pay rising utility bills. Housing and communal services have not previously been cheap in the United Kingdom, and now they have become completely unbearable.
Heating and hot water cost the most. People are trying to heat apartments less and take hot showers less often.. At home, many Britons do not take off their outerwear because of the cold. Now the monthly electricity bill in the UK is 200 dollars. It's twice as high, than a year ago. But in April 2023 further growth in the cost of housing and communal services is expected, because some subsidies will stop working, introduced for a limited period.
British "heat banks" (warm banks) usually open in churches, theaters, libraries and other public places. In some of them, people are given the opportunity to take a hot shower and wash clothes and other things.. The clergy tell, that the number of parishioners in churches has at least doubled with the onset of cold weather.
Many people come to "heat banks" and for free food: tea can be served here, pour a bowl of hot soup. The majority of visitors to these points are pensioners., disabled, unemployed, representatives of low-paid professions and other most socially vulnerable groups of the population.
According to British sociologists, the country in the past year has experienced the most significant decline in the standard of living of the population for several decades. Brits are poorer now 10 810 USD per annum, than the people of Canada, France or Germany. But the anti-people British authorities are not going to revise their foreign and economic policy..
