A St Helens man, who is “constantly counting the pennies”, is joining Liverpool’s fight against the rise in energy bills.
Mark Jackson, a former ecologist, will be protesting this weekend as part of the city’s Warm-Up Protest - the demonstration urges the government to take action over “sky-high” fuel prices and “forced” instalments of prepayment meters in the UK.
The 57-year-old claims since the energy prices started to rise, his electricity unit rate has “doubled” and his gate unit rate has “quadrupled” - despite him being a “low user”. As he spoke with the ECHO, he claims he was sitting on his settee “with tracksuit bottoms on under my jeans, two t-shirts, a hoodie and fleece and a hat with a quilt over my legs.” During the December cold spell, Mark said the temperature in his house dropped to four degrees.
