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I am convinced some/many brands are making a LOT off extra cash in this. Profiteering.

Heinz baked beans. 80p (down from £1 !)
Sainsburys own brand. 21p.

Heinz ketchup. £3.80
Tesco own brand. £1.00

Cant tell the difference. But there is no way that the fundamental ingredients are 4 times higher for Heinz than whoever makes the own brands. (could well be them anyrate).

The branded stuff was always higher, obvs, but not 4 times higher.

Can absolutely tell the difference in ketchup. It's the one thing I refuse to go cheap on.

Aldi beans are better than Heinze but 50p seems a bit expensive for own brand beans, but they are nice.
 
Remind me who privatised all the British utility companies and transport and sold them to foreign companies?

Money leaving the country on a grand scale does nothing to help the British economy.

Please quote examples of 'money leaving the country on a grand scale' on mass... I bet you can't!

Global, UK based, utility companies are likely contributing to your retirement fund.

The hypocrisy on here confuses me... many posters on here are overwhelmingly in favour of the EU, and their core principles... the free movement of goods, services, people and capital... until that capital leaves! Said posters then return to type... protecsionism.

You can't have it both ways! You support globalisation... or you don't.
 
Please quote examples of 'money leaving the country on a grand scale' on mass... I bet you can't!

Global, UK based, utility companies are likely contributing to your retirement fund.

The hypocrisy on here confuses me... many posters on here are overwhelmingly in favour of the EU, and their core principles... the free movement of goods, services, people and capital... until that capital leaves! Said posters then return to type... protecsionism.

You can't have it both ways! You support globalisation... or you don't.

Indeed. Globalisation means that we compete, some you win, some you lose, but as a small country we are quite good at competing…..
 

"It is not unusual for government to borrow. Since 1970/71, the government has had a surplus (spent less than it received in revenues) in only five years. The last budget surplus was in 2000/01."

Oh right.
I burst into a bit of Tom Jones there, you have to use your imagination a little after the first line but it can work.
 

"It is not unusual for government to borrow. Since 1970/71, the government has had a surplus (spent less than it received in revenues) in only five years. The last budget surplus was in 2000/01."

Oh right.
Before the abandonment of the gold standard in 1972 and the subsequent adoption of free market economics, a metric known as balance of payments was published each month.
That went out of the window when big time borrowing became possible.
 
No it isn’t.

Profiteering fits the examples Roydo gave perfectly.

No, it doesn't!!! Comparing the the price of cheap ketchup v branded ketchup, and cheap baked beans v branded baked beans is not the same as not having access to life giving essentials such as water!

Honestly, when people are complaining that Tesco ketchup is £3.80 a bottle, but own-brand ketchup is only £1.00 a bottle... this isn't profiteering. This is freedom! This is choice!

Making big profits, in this case, is not because of profiteering... I didn't write the definition! It's because of laziness and ignorance.
 
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