Leeds man forced to ‘eat bread and butter and cook once a week’ as council flat electric is ‘£10 a day’ 

An irate Leeds man has raged about paying “10 pounds a day” for electricity at his council flat despite only “cooking once a week” and eating mostly bread and butter to save energy. 

Unemployed Mamadu Djalo, 63, is struggling with money having only recently applied for  Universal Credit. In addition, he is burdened with a prepaid meter that eats up his balance at an alarming rate, where he pays “£50 every five days” – although he takes extreme precautions to limit performance.

Author: Andrew Collins

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