Cost Of Living Crisis

[cyril evans awaydays]

I noticed the coffee I always purchase jumped 12.5% in price from a week earlier, it was also upped 8% last December.

Every price comparison article I read that compares the cost of a basket of the same items in four supermarkets - Aldi, Morrisons, Asda and Tesco - always has Tesco as the most expensive at around 10% higher than a virtual tie between Morrisons and Asda and 20% costlier than Aldi.

Are Tesco fans richer or dafter than shoppers who visit the others?

I think smart shoppers have an account at ASDA as it's the only supermarket chain that doesn't monitor the on line behaviour of their most loyal clients.

[Organ Morgan.]

I think smart shoppers have an account at ASDA as it's the only supermarket chain that doesn't monitor the on line behaviour of their most loyal clients.

As curmudgeonly as you often are, I really do hope your grub cupboards are groaning with goodies and you've had the foresight to have already bought Christmas gifts.

By then, you along with many of us may very well be reminiscing about life in the UK just six months earlier. We'll recall how food was plentiful and affordable, CPI inflation was a mere 9%, the streets were still teeming with vehicles, there were never power cuts, violence wasn't all around, most working age people had jobs, gangs of organised thugs never looted supermarkets and 8pm to 6am curfews were unheard of.

[cyril evans awaydays]

As curmudgeonly as you often are, I really do hope your grub cupboards are groaning with goodies and you've had the foresight to have already bought Christmas gifts.

By then, you along with many of us may very well be reminiscing about life in the UK just six months earlier. We'll recall how food was plentiful and affordable, CPI inflation was a mere 9%, the streets were still teeming with vehicles, there were never power cuts, violence wasn't all around, most working age people had jobs, gangs of organised thugs never looted supermarkets and 8pm to 6am curfews were unheard of.

Oh gwan. Post this weeks Asda delivery order so we can get a sense of your stocking up!

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As curmudgeonly as you often are, I really do hope your grub cupboards are groaning with goodies and you've had the foresight to have already bought Christmas gifts.

By then, you along with many of us may very well be reminiscing about life in the UK just six months earlier. We'll recall how food was plentiful and affordable, CPI inflation was a mere 9%, the streets were still teeming with vehicles, there were never power cuts, violence wasn't all around, most working age people had jobs, gangs of organised thugs never looted supermarkets and 8pm to 6am curfews were unheard of.

Don’t forget the coats

[Organ Morgan.]

Don’t forget the coats

It'll be everything. I think I remarked why pay X amount more for anything you know you will you will need six months hence and beyond when you can purchase the same today at a much lower cost.

Someone asked me earlier this week when grumbling about the increasing cost of living: "why are the government letting this happen?" My reply was: "they are making it happen."

He looked confused. "Another Teletubby," thought I.

[life on mars]

I noticed today town was heaving with £5.50 plus drinkers... they weren't the weathly folk , just ordinary fun loving middle earners , without a care in the world and no real cost of living worries.

[Eric Cartman]

I noticed today town was heaving with £5.50 plus drinkers... they weren't the weathly folk , just ordinary fun loving middle earners , without a care in the world and no real cost of living worries.

I mean they could...and bear with me because this is groundbreaking...not be the people who are going to suffer most during a cost of living crisis

Or maybe they loaded up in spoons at 2 quid a pint and bought one expensive one to look cool

[Organ Morgan.]

The secret to prepping successfully in one word, rotation.

Mitigating against hyperinflation is a tad more difficult.

[life on mars]

As curmudgeonly as you often are, I really do hope your grub cupboards are groaning with goodies and you've had the foresight to have already bought Christmas gifts.

By then, you along with many of us may very well be reminiscing about life in the UK just six months earlier. We'll recall how food was plentiful and affordable, CPI inflation was a mere 9%, the streets were still teeming with vehicles, there were never power cuts, violence wasn't all around, most working age people had jobs, gangs of organised thugs never looted supermarkets and 8pm to 6am curfews were unheard of.

You missed out on the relevance of real cost of living poverty :
No access to subscribed TV , broadband, mobile phones, car ownership, season tickets, socialising, device ownership.... ect etc ..

It's all bollocks this modern cost of living poverty criss we should rename it as cost of Iiving reality .

I do wonder how less emotional this would if a Labour Government were in power trying to deal with a cost of living crisis which is 90% driven by global influences.

[cyril evans awaydays]

You missed out on the relevance of real cost of living poverty :
No access to subscribed TV , broadband, mobile phones, car ownership, season tickets, socialising, device ownership.... ect etc ..

It's all bollocks this modern cost of living poverty criss we should rename it as cost of Iiving reality .

I do wonder how less emotional this would if a Labour Government were in power trying to deal with a cost of living crisis which is 90% driven by global influences.

Yeah Morg. How do you answer that?

[Organ Morgan.]

Yeah Morg. How do you answer that?

I presumed his second paragraph related to homeless people, a minuscule fraction of the population.

[cyril evans awaydays]

I presumed his second paragraph related to homeless people, a minuscule fraction of the population.

Your guess is as good as mine and I'm relatively sane!

[Eric Cartman]

The weird thing about all of this is that even the government haven't sunk as low as to say that the cost of living crisis isn't real or that nobody in the UK could possibly be in actual poverty, and really they just can't afford their superspeed broadband.

It begs the question, just how detached is LOM, when not even the most detached people in the UK (the current cabinet) are in the same ballpark.

[Organ Morgan.]

Cost of living: Food inflation to accelerate over summer and prices to stay high, Institute of Grocery Distribution warns.

- Food inflation is set to accelerate over the summer, an industry group has warned, with higher prices expected to stay until the middle of next year. - More: https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-l...warns-12634758

[Wales-Bales]

Cost of living: Food inflation to accelerate over summer and prices to stay high, Institute of Grocery Distribution warns.

- Food inflation is set to accelerate over the summer, an industry group has warned, with higher prices expected to stay until the middle of next year. - More: https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-l...warns-12634758

We need a reset, the greater the better.

[Organ Morgan.]

We need a reset, the greater the better.

What? Please say you're kidding! We have enough Teletubbies around here without you joining their ranks.

[Wales-Bales]

What? Please say you're kidding! We have enough Teletubbies around here without you joining their ranks.

The latest from Washington DC

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[cyril evans awaydays]

What? Please say you're kidding! We have enough Teletubbies around here without you joining their ranks.

Surely he is only vying for the Dipsy or La La roles?

[Organ Morgan.]

Surely he is only vying for the Dipsy or La La roles?

Fast forward to later this year.

If you're not familiar with that demented axe-wielding Jack Nicholson still from The Shining, here it is. https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images...shining460.gif

Instead of him, imagine a starving neighbour's face peering through a panel of your front door. He's realised you're the only one in the street who's not losing weight.

[Organ Morgan.]

The 'Putin Price Hike' narrative has run its course.

[Wales-Bales]

The 'Putin Price Hike' narrative has run its course.

A script has many parts, that's why timelines are more interesting than media narratives.

[cyril evans awaydays]

A script has many parts, that's why timelines are more useful than media narratives.

That pseudo drivel makes no sense whatsoever, La La

[Wales-Bales]

That pseudo drivel makes no sense whatsoever, La La

That makes sense coming from a soundbite person.

[cyril evans awaydays]

That makes sense coming from a soundbite person.

Isn't your response a soundbite or did I misunderstand, La La?

[Organ Morgan.]

Almost from one message to the next you seem to be drifiting between lucidity and senility.

I may be wrong about the latter; perhaps you are urgently sucking on a crack pipe there or rolling extra long spliffs.

Whatever, there's something awry at your end. There has to be for you to be The Great Reset's most ardent fan around here.