Your MP can help us hold the government to account for a long-term plan to tackle the energy crisis. Email your MP today asking them to sign the Warm This Winter pledge to help keep us warm every winter.
Caroline Lucas MP is hosting a debate on Fossil Fuels and Increases in the Cost of Living in Parliament at Westminster Hall on the 11th of January from 9.30am to 11am. It's a great opportunity for us to show MPs why fixing the cost of living crisis means taking the leap away from fossil fuels - and why it needs to happen now. But first, we need to get MPs in the hall.
Millions of people are spending their winters living in cold damp homes, and energy bills are still at unaffordable heights. It couldn’t be clearer that our energy system needs to change. So we’re asking every MP to sign the pledge to help keep their constituents warm every winter by urging the government to:
But we need your voice to make it happen. That's why we're asking you to email your MP today and urge them to sign the pledge if they've not already. Together, we can make sure that nobody has to choose between heating their home and putting food on the table. You can check if your MP has signed the pledge yet here.
There's a template you can use, but more personal messages can make a big impact. If you're able to, you could make your email more powerful by writing in your own words, and telling your MP about your own experience of the current crisis and what it means for your local community.
With your help, we can put pressure on the government to take action and fix our broken energy system for good.
You were elected to government with an enormous majority on the promise of change. You have a real opportunity - and responsibility - to deliver it. We’re encouraged to see that you’ve already stuck by your promise to end the ban on new onshore wind in England. But there’s still much more to do to make our energy system fairer and protect households this winter.
For too long, our broken energy system has prioritised oil and gas company profits and left millions of people living in cold, damp, mouldy homes, forced to make a stark choice between heating our homes and eating.
Millions of people are still living in fuel poverty. Whilst energy bills fell in the summer, we all know the benefits will be wiped out when they rise again in October. At a time of soaring energy debt, many of us simply cannot afford another winter of the same old system.
In your manifesto, you promised urgently needed change: to lower energy bills, insulate homes and invest in homegrown clean energy while getting us off oil and gas. Now, you must take urgent action to support struggling households through the coming winter.
We urge you to stick to the promises you made and deliver on them for communities all across the UK by: protecting vulnerable households, launching a Help to Repay energy debt scheme, expanding renewables, banning forced prepayment meters and ensuring smart meters work for all who want them, ramping up insulation programmes, reforming standing charges and ending energy industry profiteering.
There are simple and immediate ways you can begin to deliver on your commitments, and make things fairer for households, including:
- Launching the Warm Homes Plan
- Introducing a more comprehensive Warm Homes Discount this winter
- Protecting us from soaring energy prices by getting off oil and gas for good
We voted for bold solutions to the energy crisis.
As the UK government, you have a once in a generation opportunity to show that you will bring meaningful change to fix our broken energy system for good.
