It probably comes as no suprise to discover that prices have been starting to rise since the beginning of this year, chiefly because of the various lifting of lockdown restrictions and a return to a form of “normality”
This was typified in February when most of the major energy companies announced above-inflation increases in gas, water and electric bills, blaming it on that mystical thing called “wholesale prices”.
Other utility companies followed suit, especially telecoms operators such as BT, Sky & Virgin Media, who announced stinging above-inflation increases for broadband and landline use.
Prices in supermarkets have also seen steady rises, especially clothes and some food items. Council tax bills went up by well above inflation levels, along with petrol at the pump, train fares, bus fares and a whole lot more,
But this flies in the face of a devastated economy, especially in the relatively unprotected private sector, where SMEs in particular, have been hit hard by the pandemic, with hundreds of businesses closing and thousands of jobs lost.
Inflation doubled to 1.5% in April, but the Bank of England is comfortable with this as it still falls below their projection of 2%. So that’s alright then, even though it still doesn’t explain how some of the companies listed above can get away with increases of well above the inflation rate.
Moreover, some so-called economic experts think that if inflation continues to rise then interest rates will have to rise also, which will hammer people & businesses with mortgages, credit cards and loans – both personal and commercial.
So even though the BoE doesn’t seem overly worried about these stats, ordinary people will be shit scared, especially when the Treasury end the furlough support schemes in August/September, followed by another round of austerity to pay for the £400bn it has cost the country to keep the economy afloat!
Recessions, unemployment and poverty only happen to other people – the poor, the working and lower middle classes. While at the same time the Great and the Good carry on as if nothing has happened. So that’s alright then!
Same old shit, different day
Nominated by: Technocunt
Are there really any “ordinary” people left? There is always cake!
Fuk off!
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Clipping coins when they were made out of silver was punishable by death. The reason being you were beggaring the currency. Printing billions or “quantitive easing “is the same thing but is government policy. Anyone over 50 who can remember 50p a pint., remember those millioaires, how rich they were. Actual assets ie bricks and mortar have soared because money is worth less and less.Have a look at the “basket” the bank of England uses to calculate inflation. Its a massaged joke of lies. Bidens insane trillions will lead to inflation there and here, not seen since the 1970s. Its all going up because the money is worth fuck all.
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In ancient Rome if a posh bugger wanted a swanky set of duds he’d have to fork over a one ounce gold coin, it’s the same deal today, strange that.
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Price rises!! Fuck me back in the 70s beer went up 2p regularly, doesn’t sound much until you see the price of 18p a pint. But did get a 14% pay rise one year…… bring back Wilson and Sunny Jim.
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My mate sent me a email of a Wimpy in Stockport back in the mid 70s.
I only went once, with my gran
A big treat!
Dead special.
Hardly the fuckin Ivy restaurant but a big deal as a kid
Mixed grill- 34p
Be about £7 now.
Rising prices are just one of those things you have to tut and shake your head at.
Part of being a old cunt isnt it?
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Your dad or Grandad in 1933 would recognise the prices of your great great great grandad. Its not the normal part of being an old cunt. With respect x
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Your probably right Smug.
Didnt consider that.👍👍
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MNC@ – Iremember my old Man taking me pillion to the local petrol station – 37p to fill his C90.
The UK in so much debt that anything but radical measures are useless.
Labour used to bankrupt us when they were in power – never thought I would see it under the tories.
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Remember going to the Wimpy in Exmouth late 70s as a little kid.
Best burger restaurant ever.
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🎶 It’s the same the whole world over
It’s the poor what gets the blame
It’s the rich what gets the pleasure
Ain’t it all a bleedin’ shame 🎶
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Wait for the crying, food banks can’t keep up with demand, the poor will face eviction, the families with litters of kids with nothing in the fridge.
The predicted rise in unemployment hasn’t been as bad as expected, hospitality complaining they can’t reopen fully because they can’t get the staff. An estimate of just under 5% which considering the last 12 months isn’t that bad, pre Covid it was around 3.5%
Inflation is inevitable, the government want us to spend, spend, spend the billions we have been hanging onto during Covid.
I bought 2 standard size pizzas and 4 beers at the CooP for a fiver today, shop around there are bargains out there 😂
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Too many people chasing too few goods = inflation. I think it is O level economics. We have so many fucking people in this country, which hasn’t grown organically, but has been through influxes of unskilled fuckers. Therefore, inflation is inevitable. However, there is also no growth as we are not improving the economy by importing low skilled people. Hence, we have “stagflation”. Interest rates will have to rise and the economy may re-balance. However, so many cunts (including companies) are over-leveraged and addicted to cheap debt, that it is hard to see how the silly cunts in Government will ever get out of this mess.
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I hope that interest rates do go up….I’ll get a better return on my savings.
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I think that’s unlikely – the levels of Government debt means they won’t want interest rates to go up any time soon. Far better to stuff the proles with inflation and devalued currency.
BTW the best low risk return on savings at the moment is Premium Bonds (you can maybe get the equivalent of 1% + there). [That’ll be because it helps prop up the Government 😁]
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One fucking percent.
CUNTS
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The shit will hit the fan in the USA soon with Biden printing money like there is no tomorrow. Hyperinflation , devaluation of the $, and soon it will look like Germany in the 20s. 1 billion Reich Mark’s for a sausage and bread. It was always going to happen after lockdown but sleepy joe is making it much worse. If the USA suffers so will everywhere else eventually.
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Oh I remember 2008 and questioning my chav ganja dealer why the price to size ratio of herb had increased. “It’s the credit crunch bruvs, innit”.
Same old story. The cunts at the top want to maintain their opulence in the face of rising prices for their own addictions, so they pass on costs to the consumer.
Economics. What is it? In the words of Tony Montana, “Gettin’ fock’d! Fock’n wasp whores!”
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Two at random really pissed me off
1. The ADB at Morrison’s has just been ‘relaunched’ and is a much reduced offer at the same £5.50. Farewell fried bread, a sausage, a slice of bacon ,one of the potato jobbies and decent spoonful of mushrooms and hello instead to a piece of toast and a fucking bleck pudding !!!
2. The Police & Crime Commissioner Precept. Every fucking year for the last four on the trot this has risen by ‘the maximum’ of 6%. SIX PERCENT!! To absolutely no discernible fucking benefit; cop shops closing; drugs and crims openly unfettered by inconvenient collar feeling….. yet plenty of time, money and effort wasted on LBGTQ+++ away days etc etc
Just two examples.
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Police and Crime Commissioner Precept- that fucker really gets my goat, double digit increases for a piss poor service. Grrrrr….l
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Things are going to spiral OUT of control.
Beer will always be cheap though, eh?
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Oddly enough this is a subject that I was thinking about this afternoon. Our TV/broadband/phone package has gone up around 20% in the last 2 months (fucking thieving Sky) and our 3 monthly treat at the chip shop has gone up in the last 6 months from about £13 to over £20. Bye bye treat. Strangely enough, our gas and electricity usage remains at the £70 per month we have been paying for 14 years, although we now don’t really get any refund at the end of the year like we used to.
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Bloody hell Moggie, part of my job is to give energy advice to my customers (I install smart meters) and I reckon you could give me some tips on how to save money.
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There’s no real trick to it, we’re just careful. We’ve always lived in a 3 bed semi yet my wife’s daughter and her husband pay around £150 a month for the same.
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I don’t have big energy bills either. My bill for January to April was £218 comprising of £129 for gas and £89 for electric.
1. I only boil enough water in the kettle for what I actually need at the time.
2. I only have sent my tumble drier if it’s pissing down. Weather forecast good guide for washing days just like my mum used to do.
3. I don’t leave lights on in rooms that I ain’t in nor leave loads of electrical shit on standby.
4. I turn down the hot water thermostat on my combi boiler to 40 degrees for everything except for doing the dishes or cleaning and hotter water is required
It used to boil my piss how my ex wife would run the bath half full with the thermostat at maximum and then have to cool it all down by putting the cold tap on for another quarter of the bath, sometimes more if the silly bint forgot the bath was running and it ended up 3/4 full of red hot water. She would then pull the plug out by the chain as it was so fucking hot and most would be drained away because it was too hot to put the plug back in once enough hot was drained out to make room for cold water.
Don’t waste gas heating water hotter than you actually need it. You for you need to add cold water, you’ve wasted energy heating it too high.
Also, fuck smart meters. I don’t have one and I bet that having one would not decrease my bills. Any cunt wanting to track their usage can easily take daily meter readings from existing equipment and get price per kWh from their billing information. We know the real reasons the cunts are trying to force them on us and Boris can assure you I will be off grid using cylinders, firewood and a petrol electric generator before one of these cunts is forced on me. They want to meter my usage live, they can dig up the street and install it out there.
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I pay £49.00 a month for dual fuel, and I’m £800 in credit.
I’ve a big log burner with a boiler, I burn mainly hardwood, and buy bags of smokeless fuel, which costs around £80 per year.
I insulated my whole cottage, so I leave the burner on tick over, keeps my radiators warm and my water tank hot. Best thing I ever did, mainly because I’m a cunt.
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Inflation and devaluation of the currency – that’s the plan for dealing with “Covid expenditure” ☹️
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I went down my local beach on Hove seafront a couple of days ago. walked up to this beer stall and was promptly told to get in the queue, download their App , get told to sit in a designated spot and pay £7 for the privilege.
Me . you can stick it up your arse mate
Barman. Your not the first to say that today mate.
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Splendid effort Mr Fistula!
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That’s fucking mental.
The Covid shite is bollocks now. The vaccinations work (yes, they’re fucking real, sorry..not aimed at you personally btw).
No reason for lockdowns and bollocks like you’re experience anymore.
The government are just scared of too many dead Joe dakis and tea swigging piano movers. They’d rather lock us all down forever than risk being called racist. That’s my opinion anyway.
Btw, the so called ‘far right’ missed an open fucking goal with all this. Acting like fucking pakeees. Embarrassing.
Well done. Makes me wonder if certain people aren’t actually working for the secret services ffs.
They couldn’t have put more people off if they’d tried (ethonats, of which I was very, very close to becoming,). I still am in many ways, but fucked off with the anti vax echo chamber bullshit and four be twos control everything bollocks.
The ‘far right’ is a fucking joke and their grifting mouthpieces need to fuck off. Embarrassing.
Whites are being attacked and these pricks will never solve a thing.
Just keep donating though, right lol?
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I have my wheelbarrow ready and waiting. Guns and plenty of ammo will come in handy too. Things are going to get fucking desperate when the furlough shit ends and the true depths of unemployment and economic despair are finally faced up to (hence the nervousness shown by the Gove cunt yesterday). People will long for the good old days of lockdown and free money.
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Even though I’m fully stocked on assortment of booze I picked up a 12x taster pack of ale, dubonnet and rye last week
Especially since they are enforcing that 1 person per household measure in liquor stores. Now I’m good to go until the mutant strains start spreading or zombie apocalypse happens. Whichever comes first…
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Put them all up more.
I do like a proper economic slump.
Shitcan furlough and start gassing the feckless.
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It encourages the cheat, lie and steal mentality. I’ve never understood people who won’t fabricate details of employment on car insurance when it’s only social, domestic and pleasure. Fuck all to do with what job you do in my opinion. I’m sure someone will correct me and say it’s illegal, you know what, I couldn’t give a fuck. I’m self employed so whatever I choose my job is at the start of the insurance year, that’s the one I’m claiming to be.
Utter fucking scammers.
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Is there a ‘special’ insurance for taxi drivers, Anti social, non domesticated and gang rape pleasure?
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Insurance is a contract “uberrimae fidei” – see wiki, but from memory from past legal training it means if you have been untruthful EVEN ON SOMETHING IRRELEVENT you void the contract, even the slightest lie voids all, assuming they find out. Not a lot of people know that, said someone famous I think. Insurance is a cunts game, but they have some swing.
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