Cost of Living Crisis

[Billy Jean King]

2 hours ago, Duszek said:

Completely agree. Time to end the disastrous education experiment.

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[jakedee]

6 hours ago, Leith Green said:

Petrol and diesel being one massive cartel / scam. Prices are way over where they should be (based on oil prices). Its the "up like a rocket, down like a feather" pricing as usual.

Also, the differential between diesel and petrol (about 20p) is completely unjustified.

Do the tories challenge it? Of course not as most of the cost is tax....................

So much this. My local Tesco was 5p per litre more expensive than Dundee Tesco. When the Jet garage nearby reduced their prices, so did Tesco, now 2p per litre cheaper than their Dundee counterparts.

Area pricing is the biggest scam ever....

[Suspect Device]

4 hours ago, Billy Jean King said:

???

He was making a joke about the autocorrect of inflation to information.

I think.  

[jakedee]

6 hours ago, Soapy FFC said:

Just wait until the small CPI + 4% prices rises come into force with all the internet and phone suppliers. Of course these rises are all reasonable and completely justified no doubt. 

Already happened, my BT television/net is rising by 13.9% this year.

[Leith Green]

On 22/03/2023 at 12:56, Leith Green said:

Petrol and diesel being one massive cartel / scam. Prices are way over where they should be (based on oil prices). Its the "up like a rocket, down like a feather" pricing as usual.

Also, the differential between diesel and petrol (about 20p) is completely unjustified.

Do the tories challenge it? Of course not as most of the cost is tax....................

RAC getting in the media on this today.

Their take on the story is absolutely bang on, the wholesale price of both are the same, yet there is 20p difference at some retail outlets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65098942

Wonder if the Bank of England will give them grief for this, as it absolutely must be adding money to prices for everything?

[BillyAnchor]

[Have some faith in Magic]

Plebs - accept your poorer and don't ask for a 'big' wage rise. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65308769

Bank of England chief economist 

"Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices, whether through higher wages or passing energy costs on to customers etc," he told the Beyond Unprecedented podcast from Columbia Law School.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

Plebs - accept your poorer and don't ask for a 'big' wage rise. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65308769

Bank of England chief economist 

"Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices, whether through higher wages or passing energy costs on to customers etc," he told the Beyond Unprecedented podcast from Columbia Law School.

Yet he's at least against energy companies making their customers subsidise their profits. So he's still less right wing than about half the UK electorate.

[Wee Bully]

On 17/11/2022 at 17:59, Todd_is_God said:

You may wish to read better. I said mostly flat which, compared to 1% month on month increases when the war kicked off, it absolutely is.

If you think Inflation come April isn't going to begin falling off a cliff then I would love to know why

This is going well. 

[thisal]

15 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:

This is going well. 

Ffs if you're going to start highlighting pish that he has posted, we're going to need a bigger forum.

[Todd_is_God]

2 hours ago, Wee Bully said:

This is going well. 

Well I said it would start falling off a cliff come April. The school I went to that means "starting from April."

We've not even had April's figures yet, never mind the subsequent months.

Nice of you to add an unprovoked massive L to your collection, though.

Edited April 26, 2023 by Todd_is_God

[Wee Bully]

9 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Well I said it would start falling off a cliff come April. The school I went to that means "starting from April."

We've not even had April's figures yet, never mind the subsequent months.

Nice of you to add an unprovoked massive L to your collection, though.

Tell us how it is going to fall off a cliff then.  

[Todd_is_God]

1 minute ago, Wee Bully said:

Tell us how it is going to fall off a cliff then.  

I did already, back in November, so no.

If it doesn't then by all means come back and point and laugh, but at least wait till we are actually in that period.

[Benjamin_Nevis]

4 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:

Tell us how it is going to fall off a cliff then.  

Look if you stop encouraging him he might piss off back to his Covid thread comfort blanket

[DeeTillEhDeh]

14 hours ago, Have some faith in Magic said:

Plebs - accept your poorer and don't ask for a 'big' wage rise. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65308769

Bank of England chief economist 

"Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices, whether through higher wages or passing energy costs on to customers etc," he told the Beyond Unprecedented podcast from Columbia Law School.

This is being painted as wages-price spiral inflation when it much more complex than that.

There are other drivers of inflation including the spivs manipulating the energy market and companies profiteering.

https://www.cityam.com/lets-face-it-profiteering-is-feeding-the-inflation-beast-not-just-pay-rises/

 

 

Edited April 26, 2023 by DeeTillEhDeh

[Soapy FFC]

We're looking to buy a mattress topper for the spare bed. 18 months ago we bought a super king size one from IKEA for £129 but now the same one is £219, a 70% increase in that time. I knew IKEA prices had went up, but that's ridiculous.

[Wee-Bey]

[Mark Connolly]

16 minutes ago, Marlo Stanfield said:

I used to enjoy the Daily Mash when it was at least slightly believable

[maicoman]

On 22/03/2023 at 12:56, Leith Green said:

Petrol and diesel being one massive cartel / scam. Prices are way over where they should be (based on oil prices). Its the "up like a rocket, down like a feather" pricing as usual.

Also, the differential between diesel and petrol (about 20p) is completely unjustified.

Do the tories challenge it? Of course not as most of the cost is tax....................

There is a garage in the middle of no where ( Creetown in Dumfries and Galloway) that was selling deisel for the same price of their petrol weeks a go  You might think that it being remote that their petrol was expensive but no they were selling both for £1.38 a litre! This was when the other garages and piss takers of the supermarkets were selling it for around 90p a gallon more My brother in law is from Stranraer  and has been going on about their prices for a while now Was not paying much attention about it until someone posted a photo of their prices online  I could not believe it when i saw it

[maicoman]

28 minutes ago, maicoman said:

There is a garage in the middle of no where ( Creetown in Dumfries and Galloway) that was selling deisel for the same price of their petrol weeks a go  You might think that it being remote that their petrol was expensive but no they were selling both for £1.38 a litre! This was when the other garages and piss takers of the supermarkets were selling it for around 90p a gallon more My brother in law is from Stranraer  and has been going on about their prices for a while now Was not paying much attention about it until someone posted a photo of their prices online  I could not believe it when i saw it

If you are wondering how they can sell it so cheap it sits beside the A75 With all the lorrys coming off the Irish ferrys they have built 2 lanes for the lorrys coming in heading to England to fill up  With a artic lorry carrying 500 litres of fuel and some of them a lot more add on the normal traffic coming in they must be selling a 100+ thousand of litres a day Apart from that there are no staff on site so it is card only