The movement will look to channel cost-of-living anger into action
A rush to sign up to the 'Enough is Enough' campaign has crashed their website, organisers say.
The movement, which is backed by unions, politicians and commentators, aims to channel anger surrounding the cost-of-living crisis into action.
They are calling for fair pay, affordable bills, enough to eat and a decent place to live, with a tax on the rich to pay for it.
Speaking in the campaign launch video,
Mick Lynch, the RMT boss, says people are "fed up with the way they are treated at work", adding that we need to "turn that mood into real organisation on behalf of the working class.”
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A surge to the website has caused it to crash just hours after the launch, with organisers saying tens of thousands of people have signed up already.
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The launch comes on the back of warnings from Gordon Brown to address the cost-of-living crisis soon before it is too late.
The former Prime Minister has called on leaders to organise an emergency Cobra meeting to discuss measures to be brought in before October, when energy prices go up.
He said: “With millions standing on the edge of a financial precipice, we call for urgent measures to cover the cost of a further £1000-plus rise in fuel bills on top of April’s already painful increases.
“The facts right now are grim: four in every five pensioners, four in every five single parents and four in every five large families face fuel poverty – that’s when their energy bills come to more than 10 per cent of their weekly incomes.
“About 35 million people in 13.5 million households are under threat of fuel poverty in October – that’s an unprecedented 49.6 per cent of the UK.”
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He warned that if no action is taken ahead of a further price rise in January, the number of fuel poor in the UK could reach 39 million people in 15 million households.
Mr Brown said: “Cobra, the UK Government’s disaster emergency committee, should be in permanent session to deal with the coming fuel and energy crisis.
“Even if Boris Johnson has gone on holiday, his deputies should be negotiating to buy new oil and gas supplies from other countries and urgently creating the extra storage capacity we currently lack.
“We should be persuading homes and buildings – as Germany is now doing – to cut back on energy usage wherever possible in the hope we can prevent formal rationing.”
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