A campaign to cancel direct debit payments when the energy cap is raised has signed up more than 120,000 people.
The 'Don't Pay' initiative plans to get at least one million households to stop paying for energy by direct debit from October 1, when the cap rises to £3,549 for customers on standard tariffs who use an average amount of energy. The 80% increase from the current cap of £1,971 and lack of Government help sparked the protest.
Don't Pay says: "It's simple: we are demanding a reduction of energy bills to an affordable level. Our leverage is that we will gather a million people to pledge not to pay if the government goes ahead with another massive hike on October 1st. Mass non-payment is not a new idea, it happened in the UK in the late 80s and 90s, when more than 17 million people refused to pay the Poll Tax – helping bring down the government and reversing its harshest measures.
