When I was flagging the food price inflation tsunami months ago I recall various posters pooh-poohing it as 'prices in Waitrose are ok' or words to that effect
14.6% seems rather on the low end for a lot of things actually.
Milk, eggs etc seem to have increased by a third or more.
Of course! The previous market price was below cost...
In the Commons tea room, the mood is mutinous. Even newer MPs normally reluctant to stick their heads above the parapet are telling the whips she should go. Members of the Old Guard are in despair, not least at the calibre of the Cabinet. “There needs to be a total clear-out and the return of experienced, wiser, greyer heads,” said one.
Which month's figures are used for determining the rise in phone/broadband contract prices?
December.
Edit - sorry, misunderstood something.
Which means that next April unless we have a quite extraordinary turnaround in the next month people are going to struggle to afford their broadband contracts.
Per The Times: Hunt will postpone cap on Social Care costs.
For now maybe but if he hasn't capped social care costs by the next general election there will be hell to pay, especially in bluebell Home counties seats where voters will stay hole or go RefUK
At least the very worse off are getting a Brexit payrise, though.
Do you have the same chart for Greeks, Germans and other Europeans?
Its entirely possible that people are having both a Brexit payrise and a decline in real wages considering there is huge global inflation - but that the decline in real wages would have been much worse without their Brexit payrise to help cushion the blow.
Inflation is eroding real wages everywhere.
What I can't get my head around is that the median US worker is hardly paid more than thirty years ago, in real terms, despite economic growth over that period. It's worth noting that US growth per head has only been slightly higher than our own, over that period, but a bit more of our growth has filtered down to median workers than in the US.
Yet they will still be far better off than median UK workers for certain
The UK median is dragged down by the turnip eating cretins North of the border.
Probably not as Scottish per capita GDP is around the UK average and higher than in Wales, Northern Ireland and most regions of England outside London and the SE.
Well, if you'd actually bothered to spend some time on the site recently, I probably would have resisted the urge to tease you.
But no. You'd rather hang out in "real life".
Let me tell you this: real life sucks. Political Betting is so much better. The people are nicer. The conversation more intelligent. Nobody yells at you. Or at least, nobody yells at me, because I can always ban them.
Which month's figures are used for determining the rise in phone/broadband contract prices?
December.
Edit - sorry, misunderstood something.
Which means that next April unless we have a quite extraordinary turnaround in the next month people are going to struggle to afford their broadband contracts.
I'm sure I can afford £5.40 on my broadband/TV and £1.05 on my phone.
What people ought to do is let their phone contracts expire and go SIM-only.
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I am fucking incandescent this morning.
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Which means that next April unless we have a quite extraordinary turnaround in the next month people are going to struggle to afford their broadband contracts.
What people ought to do is let their phone contracts expire and go SIM-only.