Martin Lewis has spoken out about the Don't Pay UK campaign urging people not to pay their energy bills on October 1. The 50-year-old financial expert addressed the movement on ITV News' Peston show on July 20 in regards to a question about civil unrest due to rising energy prices.
At the time, the Twitter campaign had about 5,000 followers but now has close to 93k followers. The Money Saving Expert referred to the potential non-pay event as essentially a consumer "strike" comparing the plans to the poll tax revolt in the 1990s.
The campaign was created in mid-June and aims to build a million pledges by the beginning of October. It claims that if the government fails to act by then, by failing to deliver affordable energy prices to all, then members will cancel their direct debits en masse.
