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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.
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.
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.
The secret to prepping successfully in one word, rotation.
Mitigating against hyperinflation is a tad more difficult.
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.
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.
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
The latest from Washington DC
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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.
The 'Putin Price Hike' narrative has run its course.
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.