Britons to burn their bills in weekend wave of cost of living protests
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#648ST)
Dozens of rallies planned from Plymouth to Aberdeen as 150bn energy price guarantee comes into effect
UK householders are poised to set fire to their utility bills on Saturday, in a wave of cost of living protests timed to coincide with the jump in gas and electricity unit prices that will cause bills to soar.
In what organisers forecast will be the largest nationwide protests against an economic crunch, which got worse this week with money market chaos and mortgage rate rises looming, dozens of rallies will be staged from Plymouth to Aberdeen, while postal and railway workers also strike.
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