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Inflation means continued cost-of-living hell for you; not so much for the Tories

Jeremy Hunt: he’s all right, Jack, because he has public money propping up his worthless hide. You aren’t so lucky.

Inflation figures for March 2023 have been released – and they foretell continued agony for struggling UK citizens who are trying to make ends meet in the face of Tory tomfoolery.

The baseline figure has – stubbornly, we are told, as if inflation is a sentient creature – remained above 10 per cent, falling from 10.4 in February just three-tenths of a percentage point to 10.1 per cent in March.

The reason wasn’t energy prices this time, though. No… it’s food.

The average price of food and non-alcoholic drinks has risen by a whopping 19.1 per cent in the year to March 2023 – the sharpest 12-month increase since August 1977.

This is partly because the availability of fruit, vegetables and sugar was hit by poor harvests in Europe and North Africa.

And importing those goods has become more expensive because the pound’s performance on the currency markets has been weak.

Furthermore, higher energy bills have meant increased transport costs and global supply chain disruption between March 2022 and January this year.

These energy bills, caused by the war in Ukraine, have forced producers to hike their prices.

Much of the above can be attributed to Brexit, which has added hundreds of pounds to the average UK household shopping bill due to increased transport and customs costs.

And the domestic apple-growing industry has suffered due to a lack of workers from the Continent, high energy costs, and low cash returns from supermarkets that buy the produce.

And prices are unlikely to fall:

Martin Deboo, consumer goods analyst at Jefferies, warned that the high prices are unlikely to fall, following the sharpest 12-month increase since August 1977.

He said: “Absolute pricing rarely falls very much.

“We expect consumers to be paying permanently more for products in 2023 onwards than they did in 2021.

This is particularly bad news for those of us on lower incomes, who are already struggling to make ends meet.

The Bank of England may decide that another interest rate increase is necessary, in which case many people with mortgages may be in danger of losing their homes.

In the midst of this, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has stepped in to claim – improbably – that “we can get through this”:

This Writer wonders who the “we” might be who can “get through this”. Is it just high-waged Tories?

I think Hunt’s words are a sop for people who are about to lose much of what they have spent their lives building – due to the ignorance and stupidity of the Conservative government in which he is a senior figure.

He just wants to keep us all tranquillised and quiet so we don’t end up protesting French-style.

But if anybody has an excuse to set their country on fire, it’s us.

The super-selfish Tories, with their Brexit and their privatisations, have deliberately harmed our quality of life. Saying “we can get through this” is no consolation at all.

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Coffey’s disinformation on water quality needs decoding

Amid mounting outrage at the state of the UK’s waterways and water supply, Therese Coffey has made a short video, outlining Tory government plans.

There’s only one problem with it: it’s nonsense.

Here’s Feargal Sharkey – but watch the video before you read his responses:

Economist Richard Murphy agrees:

Coffey has gone on to make more weird pronouncements:

Speaking at the launch of the government’s Plan for Water, Ms Coffey said the River Don in Yorkshire will never be given a high status without dismantling half of Sheffield.

“Achieving the gold standard for ecological status would mean taking us back to the natural state of our rivers from the year 1840,” Ms Coffey said.

“That’s neither practical nor indeed desirable in the circumstances. We’re not going to take London back to before the embankment was built or remove the Thames Barrier and, indeed, we’ll need another before the end of the century.

“And no one is contemplating dismantling half of Sheffield to let the River Don run free, but without that it will never be scored as being excellent, even though salmon have returned to that part of the River Don for the first time in two years.”

Feargal had a few things to say about that:

He said: “She’s conflating what was a government attempt to circumnavigate a legal deadline of 2027 and the natural state – which is a completely meaningless idea – with the idea that these rivers can’t achieve good ecological status, which they can.

“Even though it’s running through the centre of the city, there’s no reason to stop it from having a wide abundance of fish and flora and fauna, bugs and weeds can be a healthy ecosystem.”

And

Craig Bennett, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts, said: “No one is calling for the dismantling of towns and cities but we are demanding an end to the grotesque pollution entering our lakes, rivers and seas.

“Attempts to continue business as usual, allowing polluters to poison rivers and stripping back environmental protections, would be a disaster for nature and future generations.”

That’s the problem in a nutshell: the Tories have reversed the progress on water quality by allowing the privatised water firms to flood our waterways with sewage in the name of financial profit.

The solution isn’t hard. We don’t have to turn the clock back to 1840 – just to before the privatisation of the UK’s water providers.

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Gordon Brown is yesterday’s man – but he still has good points to make about the Budget

Gordon Brown: his heart is in the right place but his ideas are rooted in an ideology that doesn’t work.

Does anybody care that, according to Jeremy Hunt’s own projections, by 2026 his government will have made us all much worse-off than we were in 2019?

Gordon Brown does – apparently. But the reaction he received from some people when he wrote about it in The Guardian suggests that they think he’s responsible.

Maybe it’s true that his New Labour governments didn’t make the changes that were necessary after 18 years of Thatcher and Major-style neoliberalism, and paved the way for a further 15 years in which the Tories have been able to destroy what was left of the way of life that had made the United Kingdom worth inhabiting.

But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have anything worthwhile to say.

His factual points are all worth taking in because they contribute to a State of the Nation-style snapshot of what the UK is today. And it is horrifying:

271,000 homeless people

400,000 children who sleep without a bed of their own

14 million condemned to damp or substandard housing

7.5m UK households in fuel poverty

Food prices in the shops have risen 18% in a year, with many basic items shooting up by twice as much – baked beans up 35%, ketchup up 39%, tomato soup up 73%

9.7 million adults already skipping or cutting back on meals

Six in 10 adults unable to afford other basic essentials

A record 2.1 million people are using food banks

There are 14.4 million living in poverty, including 4.2 million children, the vast majority of whom are in families where the breadwinner is on low pay

As Brown put it at the top of his piece,

Poverty will last until doomsday if this Conservative government is all that confronts it.

The so-called “budget for growth” [is] more accurately titled the “budget for growth in poverty”

The point of his piece was that cleanliness is the next thing the Tories have rationed, with hygiene poverty leading to the rise of so-called “beauty banks” to run alongside the already-infamous food banks.

He was calling on retailers and manufacturing companies to offer up surplus goods and to consider special production-line runs of unbranded toiletries to ease the crisis.

But this is just – as current Labour leader Keir Starmer would put it – “sticking-plaster politics”. It’s putting a plaster over the wound but not healing it.

Businesses can certainly do much more to ease the crisis that the Conservatives have deliberately created to distract the young and the poor from their strategy to divert public funds into the hands of the old and the rich.

They can provide better pay and conditions, and opportunities for career growth that make it worthwhile. These tactics will reap huge rewards for them as, freed from the stress of poor health due to bad nutrition and harmful work practices, and unburdened by the mental ill-health caused by continually having to find ways to make ends meet, employees’ productivity will soar.

That is the best way out of the hole Hunt has dug for us. Indeed, it is the only way, as his government is absolutely determined not to help.

Source: Jeremy Hunt has left the UK to rot in poverty. So we must take matters into our own hands | Gordon Brown | The Guardian

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Struggling to afford food? Work longer hours, says Tory Coffey. Does she work at all?

Let them eat overtime: this is because working people can’t have any fruit and veg under a Tory government.

Here is your regular reminder that Therese Coffey is rubbish.

It’s from last week but got lost among all the other rubbish the Environment Secretary threw at us then:

Here’s a video clip of her actually saying it:

Meanwhile, let’s have an update on the fruit and vegetable shortages her government has caused:

And how about a reminder that the Tory Brexiters were adamant that we wouldn’t suffer any shortages at all?

And what is her plan to end the food shortages?

Apparently, it is to choke on her own words:

If you noticed that Luke Pollard asked if Coffey wanted to go down as the Secretary of State for Sewage, you may welcome this update on the pollution of our rivers:

All the fish dead because the Tory government couldn’t be bothered to properly regulate the water and sewage firms it created by privatising a national utility and asset.

It should be a criminal offence and these people should be locked up – and forced to eat and drink the produce their incompetence has polluted.*

*I know that’s a death sentence but it will never be carried out, even though it would be poetic justice.

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Sunak is ‘grateful’ for food banks. Is he saying he’s glad his policies have made so many destitute?

Rishi Sunak: he likes food banks because they help him scrub his conscience clean. Right?

What did Rishi Sunak really mean when he said the following to the Commons Liaison Committee this week?

Let’s be honest: he probably meant he’s happy that, when he’s tucking into his no-doubt massive meal on Christmas Day, he won’t have to suffer any conscience pangs over starving NHS nurses, because he’ll be able to rely on what now seems a reliable mantra for Tory MPs…

“They can always go to a food bank.”

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As the cost of Christmas rockets, MPs are now claiming it from us on expenses

This year’s Christmas dinner will be 22 per cent more expensive than last years – that’s almost a quarter as much on top of last year’s.

And it’s full of plastic, because of pollution.

Meanwhile, MPs have just been cleared to claim the cost of their Christmas parties – from us – on expenses.

That includes food, soft drinks and even decorations.

And then they have the cheek to tell us there’s no cash to pay nurses the wage they used to get 12 years ago.

Shops like Aldi are trying to put a smile on our collective face – but it’s not working well, as Russell Howard demonstrates:

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How is the cost of living crisis affecting people near you? Now you can find out

Food: have you cut back on your supply because of the cost of living crisis?

I was having a look around the TUC (Trades Union Congress) website while I was putting together the article on key workers leaving public services due to low pay – and found this.

It’s a snapshot summary of how the cost of living crisis is affecting people – by UK constituency.

I live in Brecon and Radnorshire, where:

  • One in eight people have missed meals or gone without food.
  • Two in five people have cut back on food spending.
  • And a whopping half of the population have cut back on the amount of hot water, heating or electricity we use.

I can confirm that I myself have done one of the above; both I and Mrs Mike have taken advantage of the unseasonally warm (climate change?) autumn to leave the central heating off altogether – so far.

But never mind me; how about you?

Check the situation where you live by visiting the link directly below.

Source: HOW IS THE COST OF LIVING AFFECTING PEOPLE IN YOUR LOCAL AREA?

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The Pound has plummeted; now interest rates will skyrocket. Here’s how it harms YOU

The grinning Kwarteng: do you think he intended to cause the chaos he has inflicted on the United Kingdom, and was actually laughing to himself about it during the Queen’s funeral?

Up close and very personal.

If you’ve got a mortgage, the amount you pay towards it depends on interest rates.

If they are going through the roof, then you may suddenly find that you don’t have enough to pay for your home – and, shortly afterwards, that you don’t have a home to live in.

Remember, the lower Pound means food will cost a lot more than it does already; we import 40 per cent of our food from the EU.

Now watch this:

The keyword from this is: unsustainable.

The answer, if the grinning Kwasi Kwarteng is still determined to avoid a windfall tax on energy firms’ profits, is higher taxes or cuts to public services – and he has cut the 45 per cent tax bracket.

So you can expect the axe to fall on public services – probably before the end of the year. That will mark the end of the UK’s society as you know it. Bye, Britain, it was nice knowing you (back in the 1970s before the Thatcher rot set in)!

Unaffordable food, housing (and energy, let’s not forget); a savage attack on public services to come. Is this what you wanted?

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Milk, cheese and egg costs push food inflation to highest point in 14 years

Is this a good time to turn vegan?

The cost of milk, cheese and eggs is soaring – which strikes This Writer as odd. Doesn’t the UK produce plenty of these foodstuffs? Aren’t we now a major exporter of cheese, thanks to Liz Truss?

Yet there seems to be a shortage and it’s being blamed on the war in Ukraine. One has to query how that will play if the current situation there continues and Russia is pushed out of that country altogether.

Meanwhile, we’re being told that headline inflation has fallen because petrol and diesel prices have fallen.

But the UK’s situation remains precarious because all these elements are dependent on situations in foreign countries that cannot be controlled here.

It casts a long shadow over the globalism that Conservatives have pushed on us since the 1980s.

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FOOD drives double-digit inflation figure as Tory UK plummets into recession

Inflation has hit double figures for the first time in 40 years – and this time the driver is not energy bills but the cost of staple food products.

It has soared to 10.1 per cent due to a 12 per cent increase in the cost of what most people consider staples: bread, cereal, eggs, milk and cheese. The increase in these items’ prices was three times that of their nearest rival.

The UK is currently in a “calm before the storm” moment as we await a rise of around 80 per cent in the energy price cap in October.

A drought now sweeping Europe is expected to make matters even worse, affecting trade and crop yields to push food prices up even further.

Ultimately, inflation is expected to peak at 13 per cent or more, meaning people will no longer have money to spend in the economy because their earnings will not cover the amount they will be asked to spend on necessities: housing (mortgage or rent), food, water, and power.

Without that spending, the economy will contract, and a recession lasting more than a year is currently being predicted in which many people are likely to lose their jobs – compounding the crisis even further.

These are all outcomes that the UK’s Conservative government has created.

The rise in food prices is a consequence of Brexit and increased border controls that the Tories fuelled.

The energy crisis has happened because the Tories pandered to donors from the fossil fuel industry rather than investing in green energy, generated within this country. Energy is also a natural monopoly that should never have been privatised by Margaret Thatcher.

And the water crisis is a consequence of privatising that natural monopoly. Instead of investing in improving infrastructure, greedy executives have maximised their profits with large dividend payouts, bolstered by the sale of reservoirs to foreign firms.

Both the privatised energy and water systems are majority-owned by businesses based abroad, many of them wholly-owned by foreign governments.

Or so it seems to This Writer.

Worse is the fact that the Tories are determined to deny that they did anything wrong.

And they’re absolutely refusing to accept the urgent need to re-nationalise these privatised utilities that have failed us all so badly; they are cash cows for Tory donors and the party likes their cash.

Sadly, it’s a myopic, short-term view. The economy will collapse because of it.

Source: Double-digit inflation marks another grim milestone as recession looms

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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
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