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Millions of UK households forced to unplug fridge to cope with rising bills
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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I wonder if the guardian asked 10 people, of which one of them said this, and so they assumed 10% of the country is doing it. It says "since May", when it was at times 30C+, I dont beleive this at all.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
The guardian don't link to the research used to make this claim. It's apparently from the Joseph Roundtree Foundation but a quick scan of their site didn't turn up anything to corroborate the guardian's analysis. I must stress I am at work and only looked for a short amount of time.
Nevertheless it would be useful for a paper such as the guardian to properly quote and attribute their claims.
These stats are according to "the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity", the guardian are just reporting what they said