Current Affairs Cost of living…

[Tramps_mate]

Bought the mrs an advent calendar yesterday…. Nice Ferrero Rochet one….. £12 bloody quid … I nearly ferrero Roche’d my pants

I went in to Aldi this morning for the kids ones..

Malteser calendar reduce to £1.40.. Get in!!

Told the kids I'd left them at work and will grab them today! lol

 

[summerisle]

No thanks.

 

[Baines' left foot]

This is not a cost of living crisis. It's a permanent adjustment.

 

[Rita_Poon]

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

It's great the fans do, but it's outrageous they're needed. There's countries considered less wealthy than Britain without stuff like this happening because there's far less inequality.

 

[Rita_Poon]

It's great the fans do, but it's outrageous they're needed. There's countries considered less wealthy than Britain without stuff like this happening because there's far less inequality.

The ruling class here has always used starvation as one of it's primary methods of control. Force, it's all they know or understand. At the whistle it's 'over the top'...

 

[cronullasharks]

 

[JLW]

Sorry but i disagree with asking average joes to be supporting stuff like this when we live in a world full of absolute greed from individuals and corporations.

There is enough huge companies in the UK the likes of Sky BBC Virgin BP etc.... who could fund these foodbanks without even noticing in their profits and yet me and you are getting asked when most of us earn enough to just keep our head above water and have a normal standard of living.

Its absolutely inhumane and makes me sick that their are kids going hungry and the wrong people are getting asked to put their hands in their pockets.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Sorry but i disagree with asking average joes to be supporting stuff like this when we live in a world full of absolute greed from individuals and corporations.

There is enough huge companies in the UK the likes of Sky BBC Virgin BP etc.... who could fund these foodbanks without even noticing in their profits and yet me and you are getting asked when most of us earn enough to just keep our head above water and have a normal standard of living.

Its absolutely inhumane and makes me sick that their are kids going hungry and the wrong people are getting asked to put their hands in their pockets.

It's the coal face we are at, that the state is so desperate that those with the least are finding what we can to help those with nothing is a comment on the decency and care that underlines a majority in this country. I hasten to add, there's a forward at Man utd that held this governments feet to the fire over school meals for children. Not mother Teresa, not oxfam, or barnado's, some kid from a council estate made good that knew what it was to be a little un and hungry.

But they can take the cap off bankers bonuses though.

Death to the tories.

 

[JLW]

It's the coal face we are at, that the state is so desperate that those with the least are finding what we can to help those with nothing is a comment on the decency and care that underlines a majority in this country. I hasten to add, there's a forward at Man utd that held this governments feet to the fire over school meals for children. Not mother Teresa, not oxfam, or barnado's, some kid from a council estate made good that knew what it was to be a little un and hungry.

But they can take the cap off bankers bonuses though.

Death to the tories.

It makes me sick and angry mate, you see the likes of whats happening in Saudi now multi millionaire sportsmen going to Saudi so they become multi-multi millionaires. I know of lot of them do donate to charities and hospitals but the sheer greed in the world boils my piss.

Going back to foodbanks in the UK now there around the same amount of foodbanks (1400) as there is McDonalds (1417), thats insane.

Tories have broken this country beyond repair

 

[Rita_Poon]

It makes me sick and angry mate, you see the likes of whats happening in Saudi now multi millionaire sportsmen going to Saudi so they become multi-multi millionaires. I know of lot of them do donate to charities and hospitals but the sheer greed in the world boils my piss.

Going back to foodbanks in the UK now there around the same amount of foodbanks (1400) as there is McDonalds (1417), thats insane.

Tories have broken this country beyond repair

I try to avoid that place as well.
I don't like em because they had and possibly still have a policy of throwing bleach onto waste food at the end of the business day to prevent the homeless going through the bins to find food. Then there was the mop incident from a couple of days ago. And the ongoing sexual harassment of very young adults issue still isn't dealt with.

 

[Martin Alvito]

This is not a cost of living crisis. It's a permanent adjustment.

*nods* This is true. The short version of why runs like this. The labor force contraction due to COVID pushed wages up a great deal at the bottom of the pay scale. Trouble is, most of the jobs associated with domestic shipping are at that end, and shipping is a very labor-intensive process. Globalization didn't just depend upon exploiting the wage differential between developed and underdeveloped countries. It also depended upon people in the shipping industry being paid poorly because the jobs are mostly unskilled physical labor, with a little semi-skilled labor involved.

We went from localized food production, domestic manufacturing along rail routes and bricks-and-mortar to far-flung supply chains, industrialized food production in the highest-yield regions on the globe for a given crop, truck transport and warehouses/manufacturing in the hinterlands. Companies took advantage of cheap rural real estate, cheap oil and wage disparities between urban and rural. Together, those yielded cheap domestic shipping costs. Companies' supply chains are now built dead wrong for a world where oil prices have increased sharply, the cost of unskilled labor doubled and hybrid work is a thing, which means our real estate is also now built dead wrong, meaning long-term price increases in both.

No one planned for this. Companies figured they could keep dumping on unskilled, rural domestic labor forever, in much the same way that football clubs thought revenue would keep going up, up, up until COVID happened.

This will take years, if not decades, to fix. If unskilled labor wages remain high in the West for a prolonged period, the biggest beneficiaries of globalization in the Far East are in for a real bad time as globalization unwinds. It would lead to mass unemployment and the associated domestic political insecurity. Add in the big male-female gender gaps in India and China, and that's the most toxic concoction possible when it comes to predicting the likelihood of interstate conflict.

It would be great for the environment, assuming we don't end up with mushroom clouds. One big reason we're up a creek without a paddle on greenhouse gases is all the CO2 those long supply chains pump into the atmosphere, and all the deforestation resulting from foreign logging and agriculture.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

This is not a cost of living crisis. It's a permanent adjustment.

It is a permanent adjustment. Like with energy prices, it's the new normal. Fluctuations, but the new baseline prices won't drop.

Just as shrinkflation is par for the course now too.

 

[Walken]

This is not a cost of living crisis. It's a permanent adjustment.

Yep, if anyone thinks the gouging will come down without additional regulation they are kidding themselves

 

[Baines' left foot]

Yep, if anyone thinks the gouging will come down without additional regulation they are kidding themselves

I was chucking last night as I read this story. You just can’t make this stuff up any more.



An extract:

The company has said it will need another £2.5bn of investment in the coming years but that is contingent in part on the regulator, Ofwat, agreeing to household bills increasing by 40% on top of inflation by 2030.

Committee member Barry Gardiner said that amounted to Thames having the regulator "by the short and curlies" - suggesting that if Ofwat did not agree to the rise, it would essentially trigger a quasi-nationalisation that would cost the taxpayer billions.