Bulletguy Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 As fuel has hit, and passed, the £2 per litre mark, so food costs have continued to spiral out of control. The latest madness......1kg tub of Lurpak marked up a £9.35 8-) Yes we know there are cheaper makes of butter but thats totally missing the point of what people go to work for. With the crazy 54% gas/electric hikes, cost of living increases, fuel hikes and now food going through the roof, expect to see the start of some very serious wage increases. As Mick Lynch said, anything below 10% is a wage cut. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/cheapest-supermarket-buy-butter-lurpak-24395686 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Bulletguy - 2022-07-05 4:17 PM below 10% is a wage cut. I see an elephant in the room, blindingly obvious, but we can't mention it without the nasty brigade attacking us. - Brexit is crippling our exports - even though we are selling them cheaper with the Brexit crashed pound, The Government has borrowed and wasted at least £400 billion. Much of it given to fraudsters. The seriously rich, like the media owners supporting Johnson, are avoiding tax by being domiciled in HM tax havens So there is less money in the kitty. Stuff is more expensive to us because its priced in $, and we are paying in Brexit crashed pounds. Which means that, however they dress it up, one way or another, some of us are going to have to take pay cuts. With respect to those working in the public sector, some don't seem to understand that just because they deserve more money doesn't mean the money is there to pay them. People in the private sector has always had to live with that. You can work your socks off, and through no fault of your own the business just doesn't make enough money to pay you. If the public sector take a bigger slice of the smaller cake, someone else will have to get even less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Maybe the people who have lost the most are savers? People who have done the right and responsible thing, saving up for a home or whatever. They would need about 20% interest before tax, just to maintain the value of their savings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 John52 - 2022-07-05 6:30 PM Bulletguy - 2022-07-05 4:17 PM below 10% is a wage cut. I see an elephant in the room, blindingly obvious, but we can't mention it without the nasty brigade attacking us. - Brexit is crippling our exports..... Frank Goblin will be along soon to tell us we've never had it so good, the Brexit bounce is booming, and Dick will pop in to lick their boots and blame it on unions fighting to stop jobs being sacrificed to agency workers for shareholders and bosses to continue skimming off the profits. :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 They are calling it a cost of living crisis, but is it? Some people have far more than enough money. But (after another 12 years of Tory Government taking from the poor to give to the rich) many don't Seems to me its an ineqality crisis Which, with the possible exception of Sunak, candidates for the top job want to exacerbate by borrowing more to fund tax cuts for the better off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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