People of London: Is it too early to put the heating on?

Are Londoners happy to put the heating on, high bills a cause for concern?

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00:00Is it too early to put the heating on? Have you started doing that yet?

00:03Yes I have. I think if you're cold you put the heating on or you put a jumper on first

00:06then if it still gets very cold. I live in an old 1920s flat which is a bit rickety and

00:11a bit windy and a bit draughty so yes I have. But if you're a pensioner for instance if

00:16you're like my late mother was up until a couple of years ago would get genuinely concerned

00:20about putting the heating on in the winter because she lived in a house and it cost a

00:23fortune to heat it.

00:24I am very concerned but my strategy is I don't open bills man. I don't open bills until they're

00:31red and then I open up and then I go oh my god look where we are. So yes I'm concerned

00:37but we're beyond the point where we can do anything about it it seems. Do you understand?

00:41Yes I'm concerned about the unhedged increase in energy prices. The energy companies have

00:49run riots and treated it as a raging bull market for the last couple of years using

00:54the war in Ukraine as an excuse for scarcity of fossil fuels.