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November 6, 2013

British Activists Burn Energy Bills in Austerity Bonfire 
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Similar rallies were held in cities worldwide as part of Guy Fawkes Day,
the commemoration of a failed effort to blow up the British Parliament
in 1605. In London, protesters gathered on the Westminster Bridge to
collectively burn their energy bills in what organizers called a
"Bonfire of Austerity."

Owen Jones: "So what people are doing is piling energy bills on the
bonfire, because at the moment energy bills are soaring, because the big
six energy companies are effectively holding consumers across the
country to ransom. They have hiked energy prices by up to over 10
percent in many cases, at a time of the longest fall in living standards
since Queen Victoria sat on the throne of this country. It's going to
drive nine million people into fuel poverty. It is going to kill elderly
people, as well."

 

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