Inflation here is 6.7% Interest rates went up another quarter per cent today **** you starmer Or is it Brexit
6.7% obviously isn’t great but historically not atrocious. We’ll be looking at more than that once the things excluded from this number are included.
Question out of ignorance. Why would you exclude food from ‘core inflation’? Surely that, energy and fuel prices are the most important for most people?
It excludes things which are more volatile though food hasn’t been particularly volatile for a while- just constantly inflating. In theory you get a shock like Ukraine so things spike briefly then come down. In reality you’re of course correct.
Furthermore I guess the biggest expense for most people is their rent/mortgage. That’ll be stable for most people for a certain period of time but for anyone having to negotiate a new deal or coming to the end of a tenancy or on a variable rate is going to get ****ed hard and fast which is probably a bigger cost pressure than any of the above. Rates are only going one way with inflation above 2% and that’ll be happening for a long time.
We’ve got so many foreign criminals we’re building foreign prisons. please log in to view this image Simon Jones @SimonJonesNews · 17h 200 Albanian nationals jailed in England and Wales will be sent home for the rest of their sentences - amid concerns that UK prisons are nearing capacity. In exchange, the British taxpayer will contribute money to help Albania modernise its own prison system.
Maven Politic @MavenPolitic · 14h Net migration to the UK has hit a fresh high of 606,000 in 2022, with a gross figure of 1,200,000. Only 25% of migrants came to the UK on work visas. please log in to view this image 2 32 125 10.2K
please log in to view this image Burnside @BurnsideNotTosh The beauty of Brexit for remainers is they can blame everything tragic in their lives, their terrible faces, their inverted tadgers, the warm weather, their racism, their intolerance of non EU citizens on Brexit rather than challenge why they're such flagtards.
Just how unlucky do you have to be to be the 57 out of 1.2million arrivals. Quote Tweet please log in to view this image Home Office @ukhomeoffice · May 25 Today we removed 57 people with no right to be in the UK. This included people who arrived on small boats and other convicted criminals. please log in to view this image ALT 22 57 387 14.9K
Adam Brooks @EssexPR · 8h Brexit… please log in to view this image bbc.co.uk Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy Rising prices have dampened demand from households and businesses in Europe's largest economy
My god! Can you imagine? *British people* having to pick fruit!! Surely that's only a role fit only for those poor EU types? We must import a few truck-loads forthwith! Quote Tweet 4,107
The various bright minds of GB News have been taking great delight at our stunning 0% growth because of this. There’s a worrying number of people who would rather we marginally out-grow Germany at 0% than see our economy grow 10% if Germany’s is 11%.
Imagine the fury and outrage of the right wing media if the levels of immigration announced yesterday had happened pre-Brexit, or under a Labour government. Where is that outrage today?
Still quite a lot of outrage tbf. Misplaced, sensationalist outrage aimed at idiots but outrage nonetheless. If the immigration bogeyman wasn’t an effective strategy they wouldn’t do it.
