AUDIO NEWS: Energy costs stops consumers investing in homes and Charlie Mullins anti-traffic policies
Posted: Friday, April 28th, 2023
Soaring energy bills and the increase in the cost of living is preventing consumers from investing in eco-friendly tech like heat pumps, EV charges and solar panels. The National Home Energy Survey by The Eco Experts estimates over 40% of Brits have become less likely to invest in low-carbon heating systems due to the ongoing financial challenges. Josh Jackman, lead writer at Eco Experts said: “our survey shows the appetite for green energy is there, but the cost-of-living crisis is making it impossible for people to make the changes they want too.” --- Charlie Mullins, the UK’s richest plumber, launched a scathing attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan this week. The former owner of Pimlico Plumbers lambasted the mayor for his policies which he claimed were “the single biggest thing holding London business back” during a speech at the SME Expo. Mullins said that while the capital was facing continued business challenges, such as a recession, a skills crisis, inflation, and lingering effects of COVID and Brexit “the Mayor Khan’s anti-traffic, anti-business bloody-mindedness is now strangling London to death.” --- Thieves have made off with £12 grand’s worth of equipment from two sites in Bishop’s Stortford. During Easter weekend crooks broke into a housing development and nicked a diesel water pump generator from a housing development, and then £5000 of electrical cabling was also lifted from a nearby site. Listen to the news below.
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