Britain is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis. Energy bills are already unaffordable for millions, yet the unelected Climate Change Committee (CCC) is quietly pushing a policy that could make things far worse.
Their plan isn’t complicated — but it’s cruel.
The CCC wants to shift “policy costs” off electricity bills and onto gas bills or taxation. On paper, this might sound like clever accounting. In practice, it’s a stealth tax on working people, pensioners, and anyone who still relies on gas to keep warm. And that’s most of the country.
🔥 80% of Homes Rely on Gas Heating
The majority of UK homes — around 80% — are heated by gas boilers. For these households, heating isn’t optional. It’s what keeps children warm, keeps the elderly alive, and allows families to live with dignity.
The CCC knows this. They have made it clear that their strategy for Net Zero involves pushing people away from gas and towards electric heating like heat pumps. But here’s the catch: they’re not doing it through innovation or affordable alternatives.
They’re doing it through financial punishment.
💸 Shifting Costs ≠ Cutting Costs
Policy costs currently make up around 16% of an electricity bill and about 6% of a gas bill, according to Nesta. These are government-imposed charges used to fund renewable subsidies and environmental schemes.
The CCC’s “solution” is to remove these charges from electricity bills to make electrification look cheaper, while pushing them onto gas bills or general taxation.
That doesn’t save households a penny.
It just hits gas users harder — the very people who can least afford it.
For a pensioner living alone, a young family in rented accommodation, or a disabled person on a fixed income, that extra cost isn’t theoretical. It’s the difference between a warm home and a cold one.
🏚️ Punishing Those Who Can’t “Transition”
The CCC and their allies talk about “encouraging the transition” as if everyone can just install a £10,000 heat pump tomorrow. The reality is far bleaker:
Millions of homes — especially older properties — aren’t suited for heat pumps without costly retrofitting.
Electricity remains more expensive per unit than gas.
Even if policy costs are shifted away from electricity, grid upgrade costs will push bills back up.
For many people, there simply is no affordable alternative to gas heating. And under the CCC’s plan, they’ll pay the price for that.
🧊 A Dangerous Policy with Deadly Consequences
Every winter, the UK records thousands of excess deaths linked to cold homes. These are not statistics. They are real people — vulnerable pensioners, struggling families, disabled individuals — who can’t afford to heat their homes.
By deliberately making gas more expensive, the CCC’s cost-shifting plan could push many more into fuel poverty. This is not climate leadership. It’s a cold war on the poor.
⚡ All Pain, No Climate Gain
Even if the CCC succeeded in forcing millions onto electric heating, it wouldn’t change the global climate trajectory one bit. Britain’s emissions make up less than 1% of global totals. Meanwhile, countries like China continue to build coal plants and expand heavy industry.
So the UK inflicts pain on its own citizens, drives up bills, destabilises the grid — and achieves nothing meaningful for the planet.
🏗️ The Real Reason for the Sleight of Hand
Renewables are not cheap when the full system costs are included. Massive new pylons, grid reinforcements, synchronous compensators, and battery storage will cost tens of billions of pounds.
The CCC wants to hide those costs by shifting levies around — making electricity look “cheaper” while gas becomes unaffordable. It’s political theatre, not serious energy policy.
🧮 Energy Poverty by Design
This isn’t a side-effect. It’s the plan. The CCC believes people will switch away from gas if they’re financially squeezed hard enough.
They call it a “market signal.”
But let’s call it what it really is: energy poverty by design.
And in a British winter, energy poverty kills.
🛑 It’s Time to Confront This Head-On
This is not a technical debate. It’s about whether government policy serves the public interest or an ideological agenda. No unelected committee should have the power to drive people into poverty and hardship under the banner of “Net Zero”.
Britain needs affordable, reliable energy — not accounting tricks, stealth taxes, or forced transitions. That means:
Ending punitive levies on gas users.
Investing in secure, dispatchable generation like nuclear and gas.
Stopping ideological policies that punish the poor to appease climate lobbyists
.📝 Final Word: Warm Homes Are a Basic Right
You can’t fight climate change by freezing pensioners.
You can’t decarbonise by bankrupting families.
And you can’t build energy security on a foundation of cold homes and empty wallets.
The CCC’s cost-shifting plan must be exposed and stopped. Energy policy should protect the public, not punish them.
SAY NO TO THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR LAND 
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